Essays & Short Works

The Market For Liberty

by Linda Tannehill Read by Linda Tannehill 4
Well over a quarter century old, Morris and Linda Tannehill’s iconoclastic "The Market for Liberty" is one of the most important b…

A Handy Guide for Beggars

by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay Read by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay 4
"Being sundry explorations, made while afoot and penniless in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, New Jersey, and Pe…

Writing Wrongly

by Thomas Corfield Read by Thomas Corfield 4.1
When the worst writer in history self-publishes his books, the world of literature is decimated overnight. Illiteracy becomes something to a…

The Romance Of The Commonplace

by Frank Gelett Burgess Read by David Wales 3
Thirty four whimsical, tongue-in-cheek, and entertaining essays about not much in particular, published in 1902, by one of the most popular …

The Book of This and That

by Robert Lynd Read by LibriVox Volunteers 2.8
From the pen of the Irish poet and essayist, Robert Lynd, comes a collection of humorous and satirical essays on topics as wide ranging as s…

The National Geographic Magazine

by National Geographic Society Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.5
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the January Number. It includes the Introductory by the editor, John Hyde, and the…

An Inquiry into the Effects of Ardent Spirits upon the Human Body and Mind

by Dr. Benjamin Rush Read by TriciaG 3
Written when the United States extended only to the Mississippi River, by one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, this short …

Live, From Milwaukee, It's Tuesday Night

by Billie Pagliolo-Olmon Read by Billie Pagliolo-Olmon 5
"Live, From Milwaukee, It's Tuesday Night," is an eclectic collection of essays and short stories, some of them humorous, some of…

Supernatural Horror in Literature

by H. P. Lovecraft 3.3
“Supernatural Horror in Literature” is a long essay surveying the field of horror fiction. It was written between November 1925 and May 1927…

The ID Files

by Jason Rennie Read by Jason Rennie 3
The ID Files is a compilation of interviews about the recent Intelligent Design Controversy taken from The Sci Phi Show (http://thesciphisho…

The World of Unicellular

by Oleg Seriy and MaRiCaBo Read by Oleg Seriy and MaRiCaBo 0.5
It is the next book of an author of apocalyptic books. It may be said that this book is an adapted version of “Book of Rescue from the Dooms…

Message to the World's Religious Leaders

by Universal House of Justice 4.1
"TO THE WORLD’S RELIGIOUS LEADERS "The enduring legacy of the twentieth century is that it compelled the peoples of the world to b…

How to Avoid Positive Stinking

by Vic Zarley Read by Vic Zarley 2.7
13 short vignettes to help the Christian take a deeper walk with the Lord as well as help the curious understand how Christianity is really …

Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft

by Sir Walter Scott Read by Deon Gines 2
A series of letters written by Scott on the history of witchcraft and other supernatural events in England and other locations. He documents…

The Gettysburg Address

by Abraham Lincoln Read by Shurtagal 3.6
It was a cloudy November day in 1863 when thousands gathered to hear renowned orator Edward Everett dedicate a national cemetery at the site…

Mary Lee Taylor

4
The Mary Lee Taylor Program is the longest running Old Time Radio cooking show, debuting on CBS Radio on November 7, 1933, and concluding on…

Understanding Television

by MIT OpenCourseWare
The subtitle of this course for the spring 2003 term is "American Television: A Cultural History." The class takes a cultural appr…

The Difficult Task of Loving Atheists

by Vic Zarley Read by Vic Zarley 1.5
In 2006, the author found the newly released Richard Dawkins’ book, The God Delusion at the library. Shaking his head in disbelief that anyo…

Is the Bible Worth Reading

by Lemuel Kelley Washburn Read by LibriVox Volunteers 1.9
These are more than 100 short essays on all things atheism and freethought penned by Lemuel K. Washburn, an American freethought writer and …

OWI Mileage Rationing Program

4.3
This special syndicated OWI program promoted gas rationing during a critical time in history. It features performances by notable stars incl…

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