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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 021 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 021 - 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, war, farming, slavery, education, philosophy, and nature. (summary by...
Monologues - Richard MIDDLETON
Monologues - Richard MIDDLETON
- Author: Richard MIDDLETON
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
This is a collection of 32 highly diverting essays of English author Richard Middleton. Although Middleton is now best remembered for his ghost stories, he was also an accomplished poet and essayist. The musings collected in this volume cover a...
First and Last - Hilaire Belloc
First and Last - Hilaire Belloc
- Author: Hilaire Belloc
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
“When a man weighs anchor in a little ship or a large one he does a jolly thing! He cuts himself off and he starts for freedom and for the chance of things. He pulls the jib a-weather, he leans to her slowly pulling round, he sees the wind getting...
An Essay on Criticism - Alexander Pope
An Essay on Criticism - Alexander Pope
- Author: Alexander Pope
- Genre: Poetry / Essays & Short Works
An Essay on Criticism was the first major poem written by the English writer Alexander Pope (1688-1744). However, despite the title, the poem is not as much an original analysis as it is a compilation of Pope's various literary opinions. A reading...
Life in the Sick-room: Essays by an Invalid - Harriet Martineau
Life in the Sick-room: Essays by an Invalid - Harriet Martineau
- Author: Harriet Martineau
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
Thinking she would be ill for the rest of her life, Harriet Martineau wrote these partly autobiographical essays about life in the sickroom. Considered ground breaking, it asserted that the sickroom is the sick person's place and not the doctor's....
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 037 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 037 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, blow-pipe weapons, Oriental china; impressions of America by Enrico Caruso, Oscar Wilde, and Charles W....
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 028 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 028 - 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, slavery, science, education, humor, philosophy, nature and baseball....
The Fourth Dimension Simply Explained - Henry Parker MANNING
The Fourth Dimension Simply Explained - Henry Parker MANNING
- Author: Henry Parker MANNING
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Mathematics
In January 1909 a friend of the Scientific American paid the sum of 500$ which was to be awarded as a prize for the best popular explanation of the Fourth Dimension. The object being to set forth in an essay not longer than 2500 words the meaning of...
London Impressions - Alice Meynell
London Impressions - Alice Meynell
- Author: Alice Meynell
- Genre: 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. 002 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 002 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Essays & Short Works
A collection of ten 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, religion, science and humor....
Hints to Pilgrims - Charles S. BROOKS
Hints to Pilgrims - Charles S. BROOKS
- Author: Charles S. BROOKS
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Essays & Short Works
In this collection of 17 short essays, Charles S. Brooks (1878-1934), with the usual panache and wit, which he also displays in his comedies, describes funny incidents that can happen to people on holidays or in everyday life. His two "frightful"...
Mark Twain's Journal Writings, Volume 1 - Mark Twain
Mark Twain's Journal Writings, Volume 1 - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Humor
Volume 1 contains these 12 essays: 1.) "Americans on a Visit to the Emperor of Russia." 2.) "The Austrian Edison keeping school again" 3.) "The Canvasser's tale." 4.) "The Czar's Soliloquy." 5.) "English as She is Taught." 6.) "Grasses in the...
Atlantic Classics - Various
Atlantic Classics - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
The Atlantic was a popular periodical with a wide range of essays and stories. In an effort to remain current, many strong and valid submissions ended up being pushed aside. The Atlantic Classic was an experimental publication, drawing on some...
The Children - Alice Meynell
The Children - Alice Meynell
- Author: Alice Meynell
- Genre: 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. 017 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 017 - 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, cooking, economics, education, humor, philosophy, nature and...
Alarms and Discursions - G. K. Chesterton
Alarms and Discursions - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Humor
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an influential English writer of the early 20th century. His prolific and diverse output included journalism, philosophy, poetry, biography, Christian apologetics, fantasy, and detective fiction. Chesterton has been...
Word Portraits of Famous Writers - Mabel E. WOTTON
Word Portraits of Famous Writers - Mabel E. WOTTON
- Author: Mabel E. WOTTON
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
Mabel Elizabeth Wotton, an author herself, moved in the literary circles of the late nineteenth century establishing many close friendships, She presents for us here, not literary criticism nor biographical sketches, but "word portraits," shore...
Figures of Several Centuries - Arthur SYMONS
Figures of Several Centuries - Arthur SYMONS
- Author: Arthur SYMONS
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Modern (19th C)
Arthur Symons talks through the histories and works of poets, playwrights, scholars and scribes. He provides both personal experience and critical wonder to the worlds of his subjects; Donne, Ibsen, Baudelaire and Emily Brontë among them. Summary by...
Life's Enthusiasms - David Starr JORDAN
Life's Enthusiasms - David Starr JORDAN
- Author: David Starr JORDAN
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Essays & Short Works / Philosophy
The words in this essay on positive thought sing like those in Whitman's "Leaves of Grass." The author praises joyous living and recommends certain routes to its attainment. He explores schooling (public secondary and the university), travel, and...
The Uncommercial Traveller - Charles Dickens
The Uncommercial Traveller - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
The Uncommercial Traveller is a collection of literary sketches and reminiscences written by Charles Dickens. In 1859 Dickens founded a new journal called All the Year Round and the Uncommercial Traveller articles would be among his main...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 052 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 052 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Essays & Short Works
Seventeen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include Nature and Science--fall scenery, rose oil, large type books for low vision, the pulmotor, and the method of scientific investigation;...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 040 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 040 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include a murder during the Yukon gold rush, a perpetual motion fraud, the dissection of a Tasmanian tiger's brain, phlogiston, Bertrand Russell on...
The Night Side of New York - Various
The Night Side of New York - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
This nonfiction collection of sketches, by "members of the New York press," takes the reader on a tour of 1866 New York City after dark, with stops along the way to vividly depict scenes ranging from the splendid to the squalid - but focusing...
Character Building - Booker T. Washington
Character Building - Booker T. Washington
- Author: Booker T. Washington
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Self-Help / Contemporary
Character Building is a compilation of speeches, given by Mr. Booker T. Washington, to the students and staff of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (now known as Tuskegee University). Booker T. Washington was one of the most prominent...
Vassar Studies - Julia Augusta Schwartz
Vassar Studies - Julia Augusta Schwartz
- Author: Julia Augusta Schwartz
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Family & Relationships
Published in 1899, Vassar Studies is a collection of twelve realistic glimpses into the character of attending students at Vassar College. It delves more with the inner workings of people rather than with dramatic incidents or what was studied in...
An Inquiry into the Effects of Ardent Spirits upon the Human Body and Mind, with an Account of the Means of Preventing, and of the Remedies for Curing Them - Dr. Benjamin Rush
An Inquiry into the Effects of Ardent Spirits upon the Human Body and Mind, with an Account of the Means of Preventing, and of the Remedies for Curing Them - Dr. Benjamin Rush
- Author: Dr. Benjamin Rush
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Medical / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Written when the United States extended only to the Mississippi River, by one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, this short work explores the physical, social, and mental effects of distilled liquors; the classes of people prone to...
Essays on Work and Culture - Hamilton Wright Mabie
Essays on Work and Culture - Hamilton Wright Mabie
- Author: Hamilton Wright Mabie
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
The author investigates the world of work against a backdrop of culture. Each of the 25 essays focuses on one aspect of the topic. For example, the first essay, "Tool or Man?" looks at two views of man. One is that of strength as the provider of...
Coffee Break Collection 032 - Wilderness - Various
Coffee Break Collection 032 - Wilderness - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories / Essays & Short Works
This is the 32nd 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...
Insomnia Collection Vol. 005 - Various
Insomnia Collection Vol. 005 - 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...
Frauds, Forgeries, and Fake News Collection - Various
Frauds, Forgeries, and Fake News Collection - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Essays & Short Works
This collection showcases fabricated documents and stories throughout history, and the diversity of purposes and contexts they were deployed in. The "Awful Disclosures of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal" is a fabricated anti-Catholic eye-witness...
LibriVox 16th Anniversary Collection - Various
LibriVox 16th Anniversary Collection - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry / Short Stories / Essays & Short Works
"LibriVox is a hope, an experiment, and a question: can the net harness a bunch of volunteers to bring books in the public domain to life..." Hugh McGuire, LibriVox's founder, August 9, 2005 In celebration of LibriVox's sixteenth anniversary, here...
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: First Series - Lafcadio HEARN
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: First Series - Lafcadio HEARN
- Author: Lafcadio HEARN
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Travel & Geography
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan is a collection of essays by Lafcadio Hearn detailing his first impressions of the country he found so fascinating he decided to stay there for the rest of his life. In these essays and recollections he expresses his...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 076 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 076 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Essays & Short Works
Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. "Our constitution is color-blind... the law regards man as man and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights...are involved." Justice Harlan's eloquent defense of...
Homogenic Love and Its Place in a Free Society - Edward CARPENTER
Homogenic Love and Its Place in a Free Society - Edward CARPENTER
- Author: Edward CARPENTER
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
This pamphlet by LGBT pioneer and philosopher Edward Carpenter was originally intended to form part of his work "Love's Coming of Age", but was removed following public discourse on the Oscar Wilde trials of 1895. It was subsequently published...
G.K. Chesterton in The British Review - G. K. Chesterton
G.K. Chesterton in The British Review - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
Four articles/essays written by G.K. Chesterton for "The British Review". These were published in 1913 and 1914. (Summary by Maria Therese)...
Hope Farm Notes - Herbert W. Collingwood
Hope Farm Notes - Herbert W. Collingwood
- Author: Herbert W. Collingwood
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
“Most of these notes were originally printed in the Rural New-Yorker from week to week and covering a period of about 20 years. . . . From the very first the object of these notes has been to picture simply and truthfully the brighter, cheerful side...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 079 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 079 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Essays & Short Works
"It was about the month of May...that I received information ...that two photographs of fairies had been taken in the North of England under circumstances which seemed to put fraud out of the question." (Arthur Conan Doyle 1920). Differing...
Moments With Mark Twain - Mark Twain
Moments With Mark Twain - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900 / Essays & Short Works
These selections from the works of Mark Twain are presented in chronological order. They include the memorable whitewashing of the fence in "Tom Sawyer", events preceding the Mississippi River raft journey in "Huckleberry Finn", a dark moment during...
On Everything - Hilaire Belloc
On Everything - Hilaire Belloc
- Author: Hilaire Belloc
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
Hillaire Belloc of French by birth, British by naturalization was a diverse and prolific writer of the early 20th century. His writing runs the range from poetry, political writings and children’s stories. He was a close friend, and sometimes...
Religio Journalistici - Christopher Morley
Religio Journalistici - Christopher Morley
- Author: Christopher Morley
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Memoirs
The great Canadian journalist and humorist ruminates and reflects upon his life and calling in this 1924 little gem. - Summary by david wales...
