Essays & Short Works
The Book of This and That
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Robert Lynd
From the pen of the Irish poet and essayist, Robert Lynd, comes a collection of humorous and satirical essays on topics as wide ranging as s…
A Handy Guide for Beggars, Especially Those of the Poetic Fraternity
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Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
"Being sundry explorations, made while afoot and penniless in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, New Jersey, and Pe…
An Essay on Criticism (version 2)
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Alexander Pope
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 i…
The Pleasures of Ignorance
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Robert Lynd
From the pen of the Irish poet and essayist, Robert Lynd, comes a collection of humorous and satirical essays on topics as wide ranging as c…
A Room of One's Own
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Virginia Woolf
This feminist essay argues for both a literal and figural space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by patriarchy. First…
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 030
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Various
Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include botany, dreams, farming, history, li…
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 019
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Various
A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the re…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 035
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Various
Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include how to swim, Navajo silversmithing…
Coffee Break Collection 020 - Old Age
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Various
The Librivox Coffee Break Collections are themed anthologies, selected and read by Librivox readers. Each short piece is fifteen minutes lon…
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 028
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Various
A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the re…
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 02 No. 1-2
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National Geographic Society
National Geographic Magazine Volume 2 Number 1 April 1890.: * On the Telegraphic Determinations of Longitude by the Bureau of Navigation* Re…
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 013
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Various
A collection of sixteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were inde…
Some Articles About Mark Twain
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Sarah Knowles Bolton, Charles Hopkins Clark, William M. Clemens and Edmund Yates
"Samuel Langhorne Clemens", "Mark Twain At Home", "Youth of Mark Twain" & "Mark Twain Gossip"Pub…
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 03
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National Geographic Society
National Geographic Magazine Volume 3, articles published in 1891 and 1892. South America: Annual Address by the President, Gardiner G. Hubb…
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 021
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Various
A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the re…
1903 Collection
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Various
This is what people were reading in 1903, short stories, poetry, and non-fiction articles. (Summary by BellonaTimes)
Satires and Profanities
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George William Foote
"Believing as I do that James Thomson is, since Shelley, the most brilliant genius who has wielded a pen in the service of Freethought,…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 036
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Various
Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the discovery of X-rays, earthquak…
The Holiday Round
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A. A. Milne
Alan Alexander Milne, popularly known as A. A. Milne, is best known – perhaps to most people only known – for his children’s book, Winnie th…
Three Essays by James Freeman Clarke
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James Freeman Clarke
Three diverse essays on souls in animals, a comparison of Buddhism and Christianity, and individualism in religion. Born in Hanover, New Ham…