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In Our Convent Days - Agnes Repplier
In Our Convent Days - Agnes Repplier
- Author: Agnes Repplier
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Humor
With her usual wit and charm, Ms. Repplier recalls her days at Eden Hall, the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Torresdale, north of Philadelphia. She shares the highlights (and some of the low lights) of her time there. Perhaps this sharp eye,...
An Essay on Criticism (version 2) - Alexander Pope
An Essay on Criticism (version 2) - Alexander Pope
- Author: Alexander Pope
- Genre: Poetry / Essays & Short Works / Literary Criticism
The title, An Essay on Criticism hardly indicates all that is included in the poem. It would have been impossible to give a full and exact idea of the art of poetical criticism without entering into the consideration of the art of poetry....
The Gettysburg Address 150th Anniversary - Abraham Lincoln
The Gettysburg Address 150th Anniversary - Abraham Lincoln
- Author: Abraham Lincoln
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
On Thursday, November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln gave a brief address at the dedication of the Soldier's National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. This speech is now considered one of the greatest in American history and one of the finest...
In New England Fields and Woods - Rowland E. Robinson
In New England Fields and Woods - Rowland E. Robinson
- Author: Rowland E. Robinson
- Genre: Animals / Essays & Short Works / Nature
Born in rural Vermont in 1833, and nearly unknown to today's readers, Rowland Evans Robinson was once one of Vermont's best-known writers. A talented artist, he drew cartoons in New York City for the “funny papers" before returning to Vermont, where...
Prejudices, First Series - H. L. Mencken
Prejudices, First Series - H. L. Mencken
- Author: H. L. Mencken
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Essays & Short Works / Literary Criticism
Mencken sharpens his pen and in a collection of short essays delivers acerbic opinions on issues and persons of the time. Among his targets in this volume (the first of six) are critics, H.G. Wells Thorstein Veblen, Arnold Bennett, William Dean...
The Vocation of the Scholar - Johann Gottlieb Fichte
The Vocation of the Scholar - Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- Author: Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Modern
Johann Gottlieb Fichte (German: [ˈjoːhan ˈɡɔtliːp ˈfɪçtə]; May 19, 1762 – January 27, 1814) was a German philosopher. He was one of the founding figures of the philosophical movement known as German idealism, which developed from the theoretical and...
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 016 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 016 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the readers, and the topics encompass history, science, literature, sports, education, humor, philosophy, nature and...
On Something - Hilaire Belloc
On Something - Hilaire Belloc
- Author: Hilaire Belloc
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
“Now that story is a symbol, and tells the truth. We see some one thing in this world, and suddenly it becomes particular and sacramental; a woman and a child, a man at evening, a troop of soldiers; we hear notes of music, we smell the smell that...
Southern Horrors: Lynch Law In All Its Phases - Ida B. WELLS-BARNETT
Southern Horrors: Lynch Law In All Its Phases - Ida B. WELLS-BARNETT
- Author: Ida B. WELLS-BARNETT
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Modern (19th C)
Thoroughly appalled and sickened by the rising numbers of white-on-black murders in the South since the beginning of Reconstruction, and by the unwillingness of local, state and federal governments to prosecute those who were responsible, Ida Bell...
If I May - A. A. MILNE
If I May - A. A. MILNE
- Author: A. A. MILNE
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Humor
A. A. Milne (18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various poems. 'If I May' is a collection of short essays on desultory subjects that first appeared in The...
Walking - Henry David Thoreau
Walking - Henry David Thoreau
- Author: Henry David Thoreau
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Nature
This was originally a lecture given by Thoreau in 1851 at the Concord lyceum titled "The Wild" . He revised it before his death and it was included as part of the June 1862 edition of Atlantic Monthly. This essay appears, on the surface, to be...
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 - Isaac D'ISRAELI
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 - Isaac D'ISRAELI
- Author: Isaac D'ISRAELI
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
This is a collection of short essays on literature. Various subjects are discussed, such as libraries, critics, the classics, and all sorts of things which, in the opinion of Mr. Disraeli, a writer or a reader can do right or wrong. Any bibliophile...
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 025 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 025 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the readers, and the topics encompass history, science, humor, travel, philosophy, nature, slavery, the U. S. Civil...
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 030 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 030 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include botany, dreams, farming, history, literature, nature, and religion. (summary by Sue Anderson)...
Areopagitica (Version 2) - John Milton
Areopagitica (Version 2) - John Milton
- Author: John Milton
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Political Science
The noblest and most extensive defense of freedom of the press in English. Although Milton was sufficiently practical to serve as a censor of books himself when his opposition to this practice was ignored by the government, he never lost his...
The Open Library - Brewster KAHLE
The Open Library - Brewster KAHLE
- Author: Brewster KAHLE
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
Text of the speech given by Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, at the launch of the Open Library in October 2005. LibriVox was invited to the launch, and produced audio recordings for "An International Episode," and "Old Christmas,"...
Ceres’ Runaway & Other Essays - Alice Meynell
Ceres’ Runaway & Other Essays - Alice Meynell
- Author: Alice Meynell
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Essays & Short Works
Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' Suffrage League, She and her husband Wilfrid Meynell were active in publishing and editing literary works...
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 014 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 014 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass history, politics, military history, humor, philosophy,...
What the White Race May Learn from the Indian - George Wharton JAMES
What the White Race May Learn from the Indian - George Wharton JAMES
- Author: George Wharton JAMES
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
People learn from other people, and races have forever learned from other races. Herein we are treated to an in-depth understanding of categorized social characteristics of the Native American peoples, primarily those of the western U.S. as they...
Gleanings in Buddha Fields - Lafcadio HEARN
Gleanings in Buddha Fields - Lafcadio HEARN
- Author: Lafcadio HEARN
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Essays & Short Works
Lafcadio Hearn was one of the first Westerners to live in Japan during the early Meiji era, and a prolific writer. Although chiefly known for his collections of Japanese ghost stories (in particular Kwaidan), he also wrote many non-fiction essays...
A Holy Life the Beauty of Christianity - John Bunyan
A Holy Life the Beauty of Christianity - John Bunyan
- Author: John Bunyan
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Christianity - Other
Written in the late 1600s by John Bunyan, author of The Pilgrim's Progress, this treatise exhorts Christians to holy living. Bunyan takes as his text Psalm 93:5, 'Holiness becometh thine house, O Lord, forever,' and from it he presents true holiness...
The Spirit of Christmas - Henry van Dyke
The Spirit of Christmas - Henry van Dyke
- Author: Henry van Dyke
- Genre: Short Stories / Essays & Short Works / Christianity - Other
A short Christmas book by American author, educator, and clergyman Henry Van Dyke, including a short story, two essays, and two prayers for the season. (summary by Jan MacGillivray)...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 067 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 067 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Essays & Short Works
Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. Two U.S. Presidents are remembered in "A Colored Man's Reminiscences of James Madison" and Washington's "Address to Congress on Resigning His Commission (1783)." Other topics in history and...
Insomnia Collection Vol. 002 - Various
Insomnia Collection Vol. 002 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
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. However, it is hoped that at least one from the range of topics here presented will lull the busy mind to a...
The Appetite of Tyranny - G. K. Chesterton
The Appetite of Tyranny - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
“Unless we are all mad, there is at the back of the most bewildering business a story: and if we are all mad, there is no such thing as madness. If I set a house on fire, it is quite true that I may illuminate many other people's weaknesses as well...
Varied Types - G. K. Chesterton
Varied Types - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
Another delightful and sharply pointed excursion into the topics of the day, and of our day as well, with Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Here he uses his wit and mastery of paradox to bring into focus a number of historical persons who in many ways...
Anarchism and Other Essays (Version 2) - Emma Goldman
Anarchism and Other Essays (Version 2) - Emma Goldman
- Author: Emma Goldman
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Political Science / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Emma Goldman, the most famous anarchist in American history, shows the whole range of her iconoclastic thought in this collection of essays. Drawing from a wealth of illustrative material, including the examples of fellow anarchists and radicals of...
From the Easy Chair Vol. 2 - George William CURTIS
From the Easy Chair Vol. 2 - George William CURTIS
- Author: George William CURTIS
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
The second volume of essays and observations From the Easy Chair of William Curtis, editor of Harper's Weekly and one of the founders of the American Republican party, and served Ulysses S. Grant; although he split from the party in the 1880s over...
Curiosities of Olden Times - Sabine Baring-Gould
Curiosities of Olden Times - Sabine Baring-Gould
- Author: Sabine Baring-Gould
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
This book is a collection of 17 gems of random knowledge, such as what women are made of and the philosopher's stone, written in Baring-Gould's own style. (Summary by Carolin)...
Coffee Break Collection 003 - Nature - Various
Coffee Break Collection 003 - Nature - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories / Essays & Short Works
This is a collection of short (15 minute or less readings) works in English suitable for a coffee break at work or a short commuter ride. The theme for this collection is Nature in various genres -- fiction and non-fiction. Botany, geology, biology,...
Collected Prose - James Elroy FLECKER
Collected Prose - James Elroy FLECKER
- Author: James Elroy FLECKER
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Literary Criticism
Best remembered for his poetry, James Elroy Flecker was also a playwright, novelist and prose writer. This collection of his idiosyncratic prose writings includes The Last Generation (a short science fiction story), short sketches, a dialogue, and...
Pagan Papers - Kenneth Grahame
Pagan Papers - Kenneth Grahame
- Author: Kenneth Grahame
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Humor
We join our thoughtful author on a dreamy stroll at dusk through the English countryside, and listen to his nonchalant, slightly scattered musings on the human condition...everything from loafing about and old book collecting, to heavier topics like...
Miscellaneous Essays of Thomas de Quincey - Thomas de QUINCEY
Miscellaneous Essays of Thomas de Quincey - Thomas de QUINCEY
- Author: Thomas de QUINCEY
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
The Hunter Thompson of the 19th Century, de Quincey is best known for his Confessions of an English Opium Eater (an activity shared with his hero, Samuel Coleridge, much to Wordsworth’s dismay). However, de Quincey’s literary genius is best captured...
The World’s Story Volume I: China, Japan and the Islands of the Pacific - Eva March Tappan
The World’s Story Volume I: China, Japan and the Islands of the Pacific - Eva March Tappan
- Author: Eva March Tappan
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Poetry / Essays & Short Works
This is the first volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature, poetry and pictures and offers a...
Miscellaneous Essays of G. K. Chesterton - G. K. Chesterton
Miscellaneous Essays of G. K. Chesterton - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Humor
These eleven files are miscellaneous short essays or stories from G.K. Chesterton. They were chosen for not only their brevity but also for being shining exemplars of Chesterton's wit and whimsy. A fun but powerful introduction into the mind of the...
Certain Personal Matters - H. G. Wells
Certain Personal Matters - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
Although best known for his works of science fiction, social commentary and history, H.G. Wells here gives us humorous and light-hearted pieces on a wide variety of intriguing topics from chess to death. Each essay is a gem of wit and delight. -...
Rural Rides - William COBBETT
Rural Rides - William COBBETT
- Author: William COBBETT
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
William Cobbett: 1763-1835 English farmer, journalist and politician. His book Rural Rides collects together the articles published in his Political Register between 1822 and 1826, reflecting conditions of farmers and labourers in the English...
Theodore Roosevelt; An Address Delivered Before The Congress Of The United States - Henry Cabot LODGE
Theodore Roosevelt; An Address Delivered Before The Congress Of The United States - Henry Cabot LODGE
- Author: Henry Cabot LODGE
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Essays & Short Works / Political Science
A biographical encomium delivered on the occasion of Roosevelt's death. Theodore "T.R." Roosevelt, Jr. (1858 – 1919) was an American author, naturalist, explorer, historian, and politician who served as the 26th President of the United States. He...
Eugenics and Other Evils - G. K. Chesterton
Eugenics and Other Evils - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
Most Eugenists are Euphemists. I mean merely that short words startle them, while long words soothe them. And they are utterly incapable of translating the one into the other, however obviously they mean the same thing. Say to them "The persuasive...
Essay on the Trial by Jury - Lysander Spooner
Essay on the Trial by Jury - Lysander Spooner
- Author: Lysander Spooner
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / History / Political Science
FOR more than six hundred years that is, since Magna Carta, in 1215 there has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law, than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the right and duty of juries to judge what are the facts,...
