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Once A Week (Version 2) - A. A. MILNE


Once A Week (Version 2) - A. A. MILNE
- Author: A. A. MILNE
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Single Author Collections / Essays & Short Works
Once A Week is a collection of short stories and slightly longer vignettes which were written for Milne's solid British Audience, including regular readers of Punch -- between1903, when he graduated from Cambridge and 1906, when he began also to...
Smoke Bellew - Jack London


Smoke Bellew - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Essays & Short Works
Smoke Bellew, or really Jack London, leaves his less than satisfying writing job in San Francisco for the opportunity to search for gold in the Klondike region while writing about his adventures there. Smoke Bellew is the collection of the resulting...
Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) - George William FOOTE


Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) - George William FOOTE
- Author: George William FOOTE
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Atheism & Agnosticism
The Freethinker, founded in 1881 was one of the first secular humanist magazines, and also one of the oldest surviving one, moving online only in 2014. It was founded by G. W. Foote, who was its chief editor for 34 years and stated the magazine's...
The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism - Bertrand Russell


The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism - Bertrand Russell
- Author: Bertrand Russell
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Political Science / Modern
This book records Bertrand Russell's impressions of the new regime after a 1920 visit to Russia following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, including his meetings with Lenin, Trostky, and Gorky. It includes a chapter that was authored by Dora Black,...
Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 2 (1890-1895) - Oscar Wilde


Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 2 (1890-1895) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
This second collection of the correspondence of Oscar Wilde includes letters written when the Irish playwright was at the height of his success. Wilde defends several of his works from criticism and even censorship, and writes "prose poems" to his...
Essays on Art - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Essays on Art - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Genre: Plays / Art / Design & Architecture / Essays & Short Works
Essays on art, letters, thoughts, aphorisms - Goethe's thoughts were dealing with artworks of every branch of arts. He addressed many aspects of the artistic process and described his impressions of works of arts - and even dilettantism - in his...
Women's Wild Oats: Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards - Catherine Gasquoine Hartley


Women's Wild Oats: Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards - Catherine Gasquoine Hartley
- Author: Catherine Gasquoine Hartley
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
A resounding and, for the times, outrageous look at restructuring British society using the first world war as trigger for changing the place of women in the workplace and their homes, right down to their relations with their children. These essays...
Coffee Break Collection 031 - Springtime - Various


Coffee Break Collection 031 - Springtime - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories / Essays & Short Works
This is the 31st Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read 20 stories or poems of their choice, fiction or non-fiction pieces of fifteen minutes' duration or less, suitable for short commutes and coffee breaks. The subject...
The Mob Violence and the American Negro: My Experience in the Sunny South - Velley Lester


The Mob Violence and the American Negro: My Experience in the Sunny South - Velley Lester
- Author: Velley Lester
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Family & Relationships / Law
According to the author of the Preface, "Mr. Lester is also zealous to bring about a better relation and a better understanding between the white and black races. His denunciation against mob violence is bitter, but pleads for just treatment and a...
Coffee Break Collection 025 - Water - Various


Coffee Break Collection 025 - Water - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories / Essays & Short Works
This is the twenty-fifth Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select English language public domain works of about 15 minutes or less in duration -- perfect to listen to during commutes, workouts or coffee breaks. The topic for this...
G.K. Chesterton's Newspaper Columns: The New Witness - November 1919 to April 1920 - G. K. Chesterton


G.K. Chesterton's Newspaper Columns: The New Witness - November 1919 to April 1920 - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
A collection of the newspaper columns/essays written by G.K. Chesterton for "The New Witness", under the heading "At the Sign of the World's End". This project compiles the articles included in the issues between November 21, 1919 to April 30, 1920....
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 085 - Various


Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 085 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Essays & Short Works
"A regard for decency, even at the cost of success, is but the regard for one's own dignity" was novelist Joseph Conrad's take on fame, a quote from the preface to his autobiography A Personal Record (1912). Other lives chosen by readers to examine...
Coffee Break Collection 028 - Hobbies - Various


Coffee Break Collection 028 - Hobbies - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories / Essays & Short Works
This is the 28th Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read stories or poems, fiction or non-fiction pieces of fifteen minutes' duration or less, suitable for short commutes and coffee breaks. The subject for this collection...
The Common Reader - Virginia Woolf


The Common Reader - Virginia Woolf
- Author: Virginia Woolf
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
A collection of essays by Virginia Woolf, some of which originally appeared in the Times Literary Supplement or the Dial, and others were originally published for the first time in this volume. "Anything that Virginia Woolf may have to say about...
Editorials from The Dial magazine, Volume 66 - Martyn Johnson


Editorials from The Dial magazine, Volume 66 - Martyn Johnson
- Author: Martyn Johnson
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
Editorials published in Volume 66 of The Dial magazine, a fortnightly political and literary review. The source available to us features issues from January 11 to June 28, 1919. This volume illustrates the pacifist and socialist viewpoint of Martyn...
Coffee Break Collection 029 - Dogs - Various


Coffee Break Collection 029 - Dogs - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories / Essays & Short Works
This is the 29th Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read stories or poems, fiction or non-fiction pieces of fifteen minutes' duration or less, suitable for short commutes and coffee breaks. The subject for this collection...
Flowers of Freethought (First Series) - George William FOOTE


Flowers of Freethought (First Series) - George William FOOTE
- Author: George William FOOTE
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Atheism & Agnosticism
A collection of 51 short essays by George William Foote, who in May 1881 founded the magazine "The Freethinker", which is still published (online) today. In the first issue, Foote writes: The Freethinker is an anti-Christian organ, and must...
G.K. Chesterton in America: A Catholic Review of the Week - G. K. Chesterton


G.K. Chesterton in America: A Catholic Review of the Week - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
A collection of 15 articles/essays written by G.K. Chesterton in "America: A Catholic Review of the Week". The publication dates range from 1915-1917. (Summary by Maria Therese)...
Is the Bible Worth Reading and Other Essays - Lemuel Kelley Washburn


Is the Bible Worth Reading and Other Essays - Lemuel Kelley Washburn
- Author: Lemuel Kelley Washburn
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Atheism & Agnosticism
These are more than 100 short essays on all things atheism and freethought penned by Lemuel K. Washburn, an American freethought writer and editor for the Boston Investigator. He talks about a wide range of topics, for example about women and the...
G.K. Chesterton's Newspaper Columns: The New Witness - 1922 - G. K. Chesterton


G.K. Chesterton's Newspaper Columns: The New Witness - 1922 - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
A collection of the newspaper columns/essays written by G.K. Chesterton for "The New Witness", under the heading "At the Sign of the World's End". This project compiles articles from 1922. (Summary by Maria Therese)...