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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 036 - Various
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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 036 - Various
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Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the discovery of X-rays, earthquakes, Hegel, Sir William Osler, Charles William Eliot, Oscar Wilde, Charles Sumner, Monica Lewinsky, and Anita...
Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) and Two Other Reminiscences - H. G. Wells
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Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) and Two Other Reminiscences - H. G. Wells
  • Author: H. G. Wells
  • Genre: Humorous Fiction / Published 1800 -1900 / Essays & Short Works
Select Conversations with an Uncle, published in 1895, was H.G. Wells's first literary publication in book form. It consists of reports of twelve conversations between a fictional witty uncle who has returned to London from South Africa with "a...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 069 - Various
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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 069 - Various
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"It seemed as if a total dissolution of nature was taking place" is the way 15-year old Alexander Hamilton described living through a hurricane ("The West Indian Hurricane of 1772"). Other natural and man-made disasters chronicled in vol. 069 are...
From October to Brest-Litovsk - Leon TROTSKY
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From October to Brest-Litovsk - Leon TROTSKY
This account by Trotsky is of the events in Russia from the October Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd, to his signing of the Brest-Litovsk treaty with Germany on 3rd March 1918 which took Russia out of the First World War. The treaty exacted heavy...
The Drama: A Quarterly Review - Various
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The Drama: A Quarterly Review - Various
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This is a collection of theatrical essays from the American quarterly The Drama, including six non-fiction works -- 3 profiles: Schnitzler, Andreyev, and O'Neill, and 3 articles: Characterization vs Situation, The Actor in England, & The...
Insomnia Collection Vol. 003 - Various
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Insomnia Collection Vol. 003 - Various
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  • 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...
Lincoln at Cooper Union - Abraham Lincoln
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Lincoln at Cooper Union - Abraham Lincoln
On 27 February 1860, Abraham Lincoln gave this address at the Cooper Union in New York City. When he gave the speech, Lincoln was considered by many to be just a country lawyer. After he gave the speech, he soon became his party's nominee for...
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 010 - Various
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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 010 - Various
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A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and reports included in this collection were independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass history, politics, philosophy, nature...
Essays on Prohibition - Various
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Essays on Prohibition - Various
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A collection of essays regarding the pros and cons of prohibition of alcoholic beverages, principally in the United States. - Summary by KevinS...
Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort - Edith Wharton
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Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort - Edith Wharton
  • Author: Edith Wharton
  • Genre: Essays & Short Works / Modern (20th C)
American novelist Edith Wharton was living in Paris when World War I broke out in 1914. She obtained permission to visit sites behind the lines, including hospitals, ravaged villages, and trenches. Fighting France records her travels along the front...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 054 - Various
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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 054 - Various
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  • Genre: *Non-fiction / Essays & Short Works
Sixteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include Science and Exploration--a tribute to Egyptologist Amelia Edwards, and discourses on gravitation and relativity by Georges-Louis Le Sage and...
Tremendous Trifles - G. K. Chesterton
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Tremendous Trifles - G. K. Chesterton
β€œNone of us think enough of these things on which the eye rests. But don't let us let the eye rest. Why should the eye be so lazy? Let us exercise the eye until it learns to see startling facts that run across the landscape as plain as a painted...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 046 - Various
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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 046 - Various
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Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include meteor showers, smallpox inoculation, telegraphy, fear of death, church bell change-ringing , painting as a pastime, prejudice against Jews from...
Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson - Robert Louis Stevenson
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Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson - Robert Louis Stevenson
β€œExtreme busyness…is a symptom of deficient vitality; and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.”What comforting words for the idle among us! Like many of the best essayists, Stevenson is very...
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler - Henry Festing JONES
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The Note-Books of Samuel Butler - Henry Festing JONES
Early in his life Samuel Butler began to carry a note-book and to write down in it anything he wanted to remember; it might be something he heard some one say, more commonly it was something he said himself. In one of these notes he gives a reason...
Americans and Others - Agnes Repplier
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Americans and Others - Agnes Repplier
A collection of sometimes biting, always clever commentaries on some of life's foibles -- as apt today as when Ms. Repplier wrote them in 1912. Though less know to modern readers, Repplier was in her prime ranked among the likes of Willa Cather....
The Logic of Vegetarianism - Henry SALT
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The Logic of Vegetarianism - Henry SALT
With clear logic and entertaining dialogues, the author presents many reasons for a vegetarian rather than a β€œflesh-eating” diet, and his arguments for not eating meat are as compelling today as when they were written. (Lee Smalley )...
Yet Again - Max BEERBOHM
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Yet Again - Max BEERBOHM
This is a diverse collection of essays by English writer Max Beerbohm, whose circle included such famous men as Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Ezra Pound, and Somerset Maugham. The essays vary considerably in character and subject. They include,...
And Even Now - Max BEERBOHM
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And Even Now - Max BEERBOHM
This is a diverse collection of essays by English writer Max Beerbohm, whose circle included such notables as Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Ezra Pound, and Somerset Maugham. Much of Beerbohm's work was humorous, including parodies of various...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 044 - Various
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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 044 - Various
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  • Genre: *Non-fiction / Essays & Short Works
Nineteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include wives, widows, and women scorned--the "Baby Doe Tabor" scandal, the trials of literary marriages, and colonial women; history--Wounded Knee,...
Essays and Literary Studies - Stephen Leacock
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Essays and Literary Studies - Stephen Leacock
  • Author: Stephen Leacock
  • Genre: Essays & Short Works / Humor / Literary Criticism
A collection of wry looks at literature, education, and other social phenomena by Canadian humourist and economics professor, Stephen Leacock. (Summary by TriciaG)...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 043 - Various
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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 043 - Various
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Nineteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the role of "people of color" in New Orleans and Louisiana history, the question of voting rights for Blacks after the Civil War; W.E.B.Du Bois...
Moral Letters, Vol. I - Lucius Annaeus SENECA
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Moral Letters, Vol. I - Lucius Annaeus SENECA
"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 which are translated in this volume. ... In these letters, it is...
The Inner Life - John Greenleaf Whittier
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The Inner Life - John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier was an influential American Quaker poet and ardent advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. He is usually listed as one of the Fireside Poets. Whittier was strongly influenced by the Scottish poet Robert...
From the Easy Chair Vol. 1 - George William CURTIS
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From the Easy Chair Vol. 1 - George William CURTIS
George William Curtis was a writer and public speaker. He was 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 choice of...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 038 - Various
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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 038 - Various
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Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include bedside books, South African cookery, Bryce canyon, Wilhelm Stekel's psychology, the Theologia Germanica, Paracelsus, John Donne, Cotton...
Trivia (1917) And More Trivia (1921) - Logan Pearsall SMITH
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Trivia (1917) And More Trivia (1921) - Logan Pearsall SMITH
Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946) was an American-born British essayist who was known for his epigrams and aphorisms, often humorous. This recording is of two of his collections of these bon mots. For example: β€œThese pieces of moral prose have been...
Idle Hours In A Library - William Henry HUDSON
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Idle Hours In A Library - William Henry HUDSON
β€œ[these essays on Shakespeare, Pepys, Restoration novels, and bohemianism]β€”the results of many hours of quiet but rather aimless browsing among books, and not of special investigations, undertaken with a view to definite scholastic ends. They are,...
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 008 - Various
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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 008 - Various
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A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and reports included in this collection were independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass history, politics, philosophy, nature...
Woman and War - Olive Schreiner
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Woman and War - Olive Schreiner
  • Author: Olive Schreiner
  • Genre: Essays & Short Works / Political Science / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Olive Schreiner was a South African writer born in 1855 to missionary parents in the Eastern Cape. She is credited with being the first Internationally famous South African Novelist. She was an extraordinary person and was one of the earliest...
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 019 - Various
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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 019 - Various
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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, literature, travel, science, medicine, war, writing, education,...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 066 - Various
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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 066 - Various
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  • Genre: *Non-fiction / Essays & Short Works
Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. "Why Women Should Vote" (Jane Addams, 1910) is one of several selections devoted to women's interests, as are Martha Foote Crow's "The Young Woman on the Farm" (1910), Alice Freeman Palmer's...
Plum Pudding: Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned - Christopher Morley
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Plum Pudding: Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned - Christopher Morley
Chrisopher Morley was an American literary luminary whose prolific writings included novels, essays, poetry, plays and great journalistic output. This collection of essays is wide ranging in topics, many with his characteristic wit. - Summary by...
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 033 - Various
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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 033 - Various
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Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include astronomy, religion, United States history, football, child raising, Tokyo firebombing, and more. (summary by Sue Anderson)...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 042 - Various
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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 042 - Various
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Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include biographies of astronomer Fiammetta Wilson, naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, mountaineer Jacques Balmat, French Revolutionist Camille...
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience - Henry David Thoreau
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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience - Henry David Thoreau
Civil Disobedience is an essay by Henry David Thoreau. Published in 1849 under the title Resistance to Civil Government, it expressed Thoreau’s belief that people should not allow governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that people...
The Columbian Orator - Caleb BINGHAM
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The Columbian Orator - Caleb BINGHAM
  • Author: Caleb BINGHAM
  • Genre: Essays & Short Works / Writing & Linguistics / Short non-fiction
The Columbian Orator, a collection of political essays, poems, and dialogues first published in 1797, was widely used in American schoolrooms in the first quarter of the 19th century to teach reading and speaking. Typical of many readers of that...
The I.W.W. - Its History, Structure, and Method - Vincent ST. JOHN
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The I.W.W. - Its History, Structure, and Method - Vincent ST. JOHN
β€œWe must inscribe on our banner the revolutionary watchword, β€˜Abolition of the wage system’” The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), members of which are commonly termed "Wobblies," is an international labor union that was founded in 1905. The...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 059 - Various
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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 059 - Various
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  • Genre: *Non-fiction / Essays & Short Works
Sixteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Volume 59 contains an eclectic mix of readings, ranging from a description of a Coney Island elephant colossus to meditations on mental telepathy and baseball....
Insomnia Collection Vol. 004 - Various
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Insomnia Collection Vol. 004 - Various
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  • 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...
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