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The Last Essays of Elia - Charles Lamb
The Last Essays of Elia - Charles Lamb
- Author: Charles Lamb
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
Discursive ramblings of a generous mind, no-one would know from Lamb's conversational button-holing of you and telling you whatever is on his mind that his sister had killed their mother and he had spent his life looking after her; had collaborated...
Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 2, April 1906 - Undefined
Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 2, April 1906 - Undefined
- Author: Undefined
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Political Science
"Mother Earth was an American anarchist journal that described itself as "A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature". Founded in early 1906 and initially edited by Emma Goldman, an activist in the United States, it published...
Heroines of Fiction - William Dean Howells
Heroines of Fiction - William Dean Howells
- Author: William Dean Howells
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
This two-volume work includes heroines from the works of Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Harte, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, E. Bronte, Thackeray, and others. These studies of nineteenth-century literature were by a critical light of the...
Essays, Second Series - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essays, Second Series - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, philosopher, and poet, best remembered for leading the Transcendentalist movement of the mid 19th century. His teachings directly influenced the growing New Thought movement of the mid 1800s. (Summary...
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 018 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 018 - 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 law, history, science, travel, philosophy, nature and religion. (summary by J....
Revolution, and other Essays - Jack London
Revolution, and other Essays - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Political Science
A collection of 13 essays written between 1900 and 1908, published in 1910. The lead essay, "Revolution", outlines how and why London renounced capitalism as a failed social system and declared himself an active participant in the "socialist...
Further Foolishness - Stephen Leacock
Further Foolishness - Stephen Leacock
- Author: Stephen Leacock
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Essays & Short Works / Humor
Seventeen goofy stories and essays by Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. "Professor Leacock has made more people laugh with the written word than any other living author. One may say he is one of the greatest jesters, the greatest humorist of the...
Gossip in a Library - Edmund Gosse
Gossip in a Library - Edmund Gosse
- Author: Edmund Gosse
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
A collection of informal essays about books in his library. He combines commentary, translations, and humorous asides about authors and their subjects...
Selected Interviews with Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 2 - Robert G. Ingersoll
Selected Interviews with Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 2 - Robert G. Ingersoll
- Author: Robert G. Ingersoll
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
A controversial lecturer and famous orator of the mid 1800's, Ingersoll railed against the absurdities of the Bible and cruelties of orthodox Christianity, tirelessly supported the arts, education, science, women’s rights, abolition, home, family,...
The Works Of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 4 - Robert G. Ingersoll
The Works Of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 4 - Robert G. Ingersoll
- Author: Robert G. Ingersoll
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, one of the greatest orators of the mid-19th century, was a highly sought after lecturer/toastmaster who sold out every hall he engaged throughout America. He was an ardent abolitionist, agnostic, humanist, humanitarian,...
Magna Carta Commemoration Essays - Various
Magna Carta Commemoration Essays - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Law / Middle Ages/Middle History
On 15th June 1215 the Magna Carta was sealed under oath by King John at Runnymede, on the bank of the River Thames near Windsor, England. 2015 is the 800th anniversary of this charter, which led eventually to the rule of constitutional law in...
Visits To The Dead In The Catacombs Of Rome - George Washington GREENE
Visits To The Dead In The Catacombs Of Rome - George Washington GREENE
- Author: George Washington GREENE
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Travel & Geography
This essay of a cultured observer, for many years United States consul in Rome, appeared in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 10, issue 59, April, 1855, pp 577 - 600. (Summary by David Wales)...
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 001 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 001 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Essays & Short Works
A collection of ten short essays or other short nonfiction works in the public domain read by Librivox volunteers....
Untimely Papers - Randolph Silliman BOURNE
Untimely Papers - Randolph Silliman BOURNE
- Author: Randolph Silliman BOURNE
- Genre: War & Military / Essays & Short Works / Political Science
This is a posthumous collection of essays by Randolph Bourne. Many originally appeared in the journal "The Seven Arts," before the controversial end to its run. Also included is the unfinished manuscript of "The State," the book Bourne worked on...
The Colour of Life - Alice Meynell
The Colour of Life - Alice Meynell
- Author: Alice Meynell
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
This is a collection of essays by English poet and author Alice Meynell. The essays in this volume share a dream-like quality, as they explore in few words an idea or a phenomenon observed by the author. - Summary by Carolin...
Tolstoy on Shakespeare - Leo Tolstoy
Tolstoy on Shakespeare - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
This book contains a critical essay on Shakespeare by Leo Tolstoy. It is followed by another essay named "Shakespeare's attitude to the working classes" by Ernest Crosby and extracts of a letter by George Bernard Shaw. (Summary by enko)...
Essays, First Series - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essays, First Series - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
“We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we...
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 013 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 013 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Essays & Short Works
A collection of sixteen 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, medicine, nature and religion....
Local Color Collection Vol. 001 - Various
Local Color Collection Vol. 001 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry / Short Stories / Essays & Short Works
In this celebration of diversity, learn about the myriad histories and cultures behind our volunteers. (summary by Eric Ray)...
Self and Self-management: Essays about Existing - Arnold Bennett
Self and Self-management: Essays about Existing - Arnold Bennett
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- Genre: Satire / Essays & Short Works / Philosophy
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, and Bennett, as always, stands the test of time, though in the case of some of the essays in this eclectic...
Moral Letters, Vol. II - Lucius Annaeus SENECA
Moral Letters, Vol. II - Lucius Annaeus SENECA
- Author: Lucius Annaeus SENECA
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Ancient
This is the second volume of the Letters, Epistles LXVI-XCII. Among the personalities of the early Roman Empire there are few who offer to the readers of to-day such dramatic interest as does Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the author of the Epistles. These...
American Notes - Rudyard Kipling
American Notes - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Travel & Geography
In American Notes, Rudyard Kipling, the Nobel Prize-winning author of the Jungle Book, visits the USA. As the travel-diary of an Anglo-Indian Imperialist visiting the USA, these American Notes offer an interesting view of America in the 1880s....
Anton Tchekhov: and other essays - Lev SHESTOV
Anton Tchekhov: and other essays - Lev SHESTOV
- Author: Lev SHESTOV
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
This book was called Nachala i Kontzy when first published in 1908 in Russian and has been titled Anton Tchekhov and other essays as well as Penultimate Words in English when published in 1916. Lev Shestov, like Soren Kierkegaard before him, liked...
The Uses of Diversity - G. K. Chesterton
The Uses of Diversity - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
A collection of 35 essays by G.K. Chesterton originally published in his weekly columns in "The Illustrated London News" and the "New Witness". The subjects vary greatly from lamp posts to Jane Austen's Emma, from "On Pigs as Pets" to Mormonism and...
The Art of Fiction - Henry James
The Art of Fiction - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Literary Criticism
A lecture on the art of fiction, given by the English critic Walter Besant on April 25, 1884, and an answer to the lecture by American writer Henry James in the same year. (Summary by Julie VW)...
The Negro Problem - Various
The Negro Problem - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
This is a collection of essays, edited by Booker T. Washington, representative of what historians have characterized as "racial uplift ideology." These and other similar narratives of the time were a reaction to the gradual erosion of the...
The World’s Story Volume II: India, Persia, Mesopotamia and Palestine - Eva March Tappan
The World’s Story Volume II: India, Persia, Mesopotamia and Palestine - Eva March Tappan
- Author: Eva March Tappan
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Poetry / Essays & Short Works
This is the second 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...
Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia and Letter to a Friend - Thomas BROWNE
Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia and Letter to a Friend - Thomas BROWNE
- Author: Thomas BROWNE
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
Selections from the varied writings of a 17th century English doctor with a well-stocked mind, an interest in the new science of his age and a deep religious faith. His prose is famous for its Baroque complexity and its frequent eloquence. Sir...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 039 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 039 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Essays & Short Works
Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include literary figures--Alice Mangold Diehl, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Arthur Hugh Clough; philosophers--Hegel, Kierkegaard; religious...
Visions and Revisions - John Cowper POWYS
Visions and Revisions - John Cowper POWYS
- Author: John Cowper POWYS
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Literary Criticism
Powys presents a set of literary devotions of great figures in Literature who have obsessed him. He attempts not so much a reasoned critique or any attempt to categorise these figures but rather, as he describes in the Preface: "to give [himself]...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 057 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 057 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Essays & Short Works
Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Natural cataclysm is the subject of several readings: the 1899 Alaskan earthquake, which uplifted cliffs at Yakutat Bay 47 feet; a terrifying forest fire in...
The Superstition of Divorce - G. K. Chesterton
The Superstition of Divorce - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Family & Relationships
This short book was written in 1920, and in it Chesterton, with his usual wit and incisive logic, presents a series of articles defending marriage and indicating the weaknesses in divorce. He did this 16 years before the first Christian denomination...
Minstrel Weather - Marian STORM
Minstrel Weather - Marian STORM
- Author: Marian STORM
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Nature
A series of poetically written meditations on the seasons and other nature subjects. Or “ …Minstrel Weather, a series of open-air vignettes which circle the zodiac with the attentive eye of a naturalist and the enchanted ardor of a poet.” - Summary...
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 024 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 024 - 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 gardening, military history, humor, climate change, travel and religion....
From the Easy Chair Vol. 3 - George William CURTIS
From the Easy Chair Vol. 3 - George William CURTIS
- Author: George William CURTIS
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
The third 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...
The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast, Volume 1 - William Cowper BRANN
The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast, Volume 1 - William Cowper BRANN
- Author: William Cowper BRANN
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Modern (19th C)
William Cowper Brann earned the nickname “The Iconoclast” by fearlessly attacking established beliefs and institutions which he thought to be pompous and self-serving. He settled in the wild and wooly West Texas town of Waco in the late 1800s as a...
Twain and Howells On Each Other - Mark Twain
Twain and Howells On Each Other - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Essays & Short Works
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) and William Dean Howells were friends for 44 years. Their personal and professional relationship is considered by many to be one of the most important in American literature. Howells published his famous "My Mark Twain"...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 041 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 041 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include a woman in Alaska, Cuban folklore, and hunting peccaries on the Nueces; Max Planck's Quantum Theory and Newton's world view; church bells and...
Chinese Sketches - Herbert Allen GILES
Chinese Sketches - Herbert Allen GILES
- Author: Herbert Allen GILES
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
Herbert Giles was in the diplomatic service in China from 1867 to 1893. His frank observations on Chinese culture and people form the basis of these short essays, published in 1876. On his retirement, he returned to England and served as the Chair...
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 034 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 034 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the English countryside; William Randolph Hearst and journalism; the philosophy of Soren Kierkegaard, John Dewey and others; General William T....
