Essays & Short Works

1945 Radio News

4.7
Experience the news from 1945 with this collection of radio broadcasts. This compilation includes various news segments and V-Discs from tha…

Anarchism and Other Essays

by Emma Goldman Read by Expatriate 4.8
Emma Goldman, the most famous anarchist in American history, shows the whole range of her iconoclastic thought in this collection of essays.…

Essays

by Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary …

The Common Reader

by Virginia Woolf Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
A collection of essays by Virginia Woolf, some of which originally appeared in the Times Literary Supplement or the Dial, and others were or…

A Miscellany of Men

by G. K. Chesterton Read by Ray Clare 4.6
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was among the world's most prolific writers who incorporated relentless logic, wonderful humor, and a clear view of…

Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection

by Charles Dickens Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
The Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection comprises short works previously unrecorded for LibriVox - fiction, essays, poetry, letters…

On Liberty

by John Stuart Mill Read by John Stuart Mill 4.9
"On Liberty," a seminal work by philosopher John Stuart Mill. Mill felt there were no definite standards for defining what societ…

Essays

by Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary …

G.K. Chesterton's Newspaper Columns

by G. K. Chesterton Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
A collection of the newspaper columns/essays written by G.K. Chesterton for "The New Witness", under the heading "At the Sign…

Biographies in Sound

4.7
Biographies in Sound was an hour-long documentary radio program that was produced and broadcast in the 1950s. It's one of the best examples …

Eugenics and Other Evils

by G. K. Chesterton Read by David Grizzly Smith 4.6
I think G.K. Chesterton explains his book rather well in his introduction, but it might help to start with a sense of the time in question. …

Utopia of Usurers

by G. K. Chesterton Read by Ray Clare 4.5
In Utopia of Usurers, G. K. Chesterton presents a sharp critique of capitalism, challenging the prevailing narratives that support it. With …

Insomnia Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
Soporific dullness is in the ear of the listener, and what's tedium incarnate to one person will be another person's passion and delight. Ho…

The World’s Famous Orations

by William Jennings Bryan and Francis Whiting Halsey Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
In 1906, William Jennings Bryan, himself a famous American orator, and Francis Whiting Halsey compiled a series of the most famous orations …

A Dish of Orts

by George MacDonald Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
Readers of George MacDonald are used to his engaging story-telling, winsome characters, and simple theology of trust in God as Father. But t…

The Defendant

by G. K. Chesterton Read by David Grizzly Smith 4.7
A collection of essays by Gilbert Keith Chesterton, "Defences" of things at best less appreciated than they ought to be. "...…

Letter from China

by Peter James Froning Read by Peter James Froning 4.9
This is a poignant and irreverent diary of the author's yearlong (2001-2) experience of teaching English to college students in Beijing, Peo…

Self and Self-management

by Arnold Bennett Read by Ruth Golding 4.4
Bennett's essays always provide food for thought and bring a wry smile to the lips. Human nature, it appears, changes little over the ages, …

Writings of Clark Ashton Smith

by Clark Ashton Smith Read by Ben Tucker 4.8
Collected here are all of Clark Aston Smith's writings he submitted to The Fantasy Fan Magazine. The Fantasy Fan Magazine was a periodical d…

Varied Types

by G. K. Chesterton Read by Ray Clare 4.3
Another delightful and sharply pointed excursion into the topics of the day, and of our day as well, with Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Here he …

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