Essays & Short Works

Short Nonfiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Explore a diverse array of ideas and insights in this collection of fifteen short nonfiction works, each carefully chosen by dedicated Libri…

Some Articles About Mark Twain

by Sarah Knowles Bolton, Charles Hopkins Clark, William M. Clemens and Edmund Yates Read by John Greenman 4.6
"Samuel Langhorne Clemens", "Mark Twain At Home", "Youth of Mark Twain" & "Mark Twain Gossip"Pub…

The Vocation of the Scholar

by Johann Gottlieb Fichte Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
The Vocation of the Scholar presents a series of profound lectures by Johann Gottlieb Fichte, a pivotal figure in German idealism. Delivered…

Stories I Told Myself

by Patrick E. McLean Read by Patrick E. McLean 4.5
Funny, moving and always exquisitely well-produced, this collection of short stories and essays from the award-winning Seanachai podcast is …

Short Nonfiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
A collection of ten short essays or other short nonfiction works in the public domain read by LibriVox volunteers.

The Emancipation Proclamation

by Abraham Lincoln Read by John Greenman 4.6
On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, a pivotal document in American history that declared the…

Areopagitica

by John Milton Read by Thomas A. Copeland 4.6
The noblest and most extensive defense of freedom of the press in English. Although Milton was sufficiently practical to serve as a censor o…

Selected Essays

by Voltairine De Cleyre Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912) was, according to Emma Goldman, "the most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced.&…

Faces and Places

by Sir Henry W. Lucy Read by Ruth Golding 4.5
Faces and Places is a collection of articles on nineteenth century travel, events and personalities by the British journalist Henry Lucy, wh…

The Fireside Chats

by Franklin D. Roosevelt Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt thirty radio addresses made throughout his terms as President of the United States between 1933 and 1944…

Collection

by Various Read by Bellona Times 4.2
Step back in time to 1891, a pivotal year in literature, through a curated collection of essays and short works that capture the essence of …

Studies in the Fairy Mythology

by Lucy Allen Paton Read by Sonia 4.9
In this doctoral dissertation, author Lucy Allen Paton (1865-1951), an alumna of Radcliffe College, takes a scholarly look at the role of Mo…

The Crimes of England

by G. K. Chesterton Read by Ray Clare 4.2
"Second, when telling such lies as may seem necessary to your international standing, do not tell the lies to the people who know the t…

Essays and Dialogues

by Giacomo Leopardi Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
"We would no more choose to feed the minds of our countrymen and women with the despairing utterances of the pessimist poet, than we wo…

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. "...…

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…

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…

Revolution and Counter-Revolution

by Friedrich Engels Read by Cate Barratt 4.4
Revolution and Counter-Revolution is an account of what happened in Prussia, Austria and other German states during 1848, describing the imp…

Insomnia Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
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…

Culture and Anarchy

by Matthew Arnold Read by Nicole Lee 4.6
Culture and Anarchy is a series of periodical essays by Matthew Arnold, first published in Cornhill Magazine 1867-68 and collected as a book…

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