Essays & Short Works

Principles of Economics

by Alfred Marshall Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Principles of Economics was a leading economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), first published in 1890. Marshall began writing the…

Christmas Short Works Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Celebrate the spirit of the season with the Christmas Short Works Collection, a delightful anthology of public domain stories, essays, poems…

The Truth About Jesus

by M. M. Mangasarian Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
The Truth About Jesus presents a thought-provoking examination of the historicity of Jesus, based on a series of studies delivered in 1909 t…

Practical Talks by an Astronomer

by Harold Jacoby Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
The present volume has not been designed as a systematic treatise on astronomy. There are many excellent books of that kind, suitable for se…

Little Wars

by H. G. Wells Read by Mark F. Smith 4.2
A Game for Boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books…

Three Essays on Religion

by John Stuart Mill Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
In Three Essays on Religion, John Stuart Mill explores the intricate relationship between faith, reason, and the human experience. Composed …

A Dialogue Concerning Oratory

by Publius Cornelius Tacitus Read by Leni 4.8
The scene of the Dialogus de Oratoribus, as this work is commonly known, is laid in the sixth year of Vespasian, 75 a.D. The commentators ar…

Obesity and Diabetes

by Various 4.5
Obesity and diabetes are increasingly a burden in modern populations, and whilst the contributions of our lifestyles are well-known, other a…

Floor Games

by H. G. Wells Read by Mark F. Smith 4.5
H.G. Wells had so much fun playing with his children on the floor of their playroom, he decided to write a jovial little book to inspire oth…

American Psychology

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
This is the second of what is intended to be three projects featuring journal articles which chart the development of psychology as an acade…

Selected Aphorisms

by Friedrich Nietzsche Read by Edmund Bloxam 4.6
A collection of three of Nietzsche's writings concerning the music of Wagner. In particular, he relates Wagner's music as degenerate, unrefi…

Magna Carta Commemoration Essays

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
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. 20…

Not That It Matters

by A. A. Milne Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
More of the witty, wry, and deliciously wicked essays and articles written by Milne. Most people know him as the creator of Winnie The Pooh,…

The Kingdom of God Is Within You

by Leo Tolstoy Read by Leo Tolstoy 3.6
When Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace was published in 1869, his genius was immediately recognized by people all over the world. In the later par…

Essay on the Creative Imagination

by Théodule-Armand Ribot Read by J. M. Smallheer 4.9
"It is quite generally recognized that psychology has remained in the semi-mythological, semi-scholastic period longer than most attemp…

The Outline of Science

by J. Arthur Thomson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
The Outline of Science was written specifically with the man-on-the-street in mind as the target audience. Covering scientific subjects rang…

A Tale of a Tub

by Jonathan Swift Read by Edmund Bloxam 3.6
A Tale of a Tub was the first major work written by Jonathan Swift, composed between 1694 and 1697, that was eventually published in 1704. I…

The Complete Book of Cheese

by Bob Brown Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Bob Brown, after living thirty years in as many foreign lands and enjoying countless national cheeses at the source, returned to New York an…

Lord Kitchener

by G. K. Chesterton Read by Ray Clare 4.2
In this insightful essay, G. K. Chesterton explores the complex life and legacy of Lord Kitchener, a figure whose military prowess and polit…

Signs of Change

by William Morris Read by Deborah Brabyn 4.4
In the 1880s William Morris, the artist and poet famously associated with the Arts and Crafts movement, left the Liberal Party and threw him…

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