Essays & Short Works

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…

Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution

by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Read by Christian Pecaut 3.5
In the heat of the failed 1905 revolution in Russia, Lenin here contrasts the precision of the Bolshevik political program and tactics with …

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…

The Compleat Angler

by Izaak Walton Read by Nicole Lee 3.9
The Compleat Angler is a celebration of the art and spirit of fishing in prose and verse. Walton did not profess to be an expert with the fl…

The Interpretation of Dreams

by Sigmund Freud Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
A neat book on dream analysis by the founding father of psychoanalysis. This book is about the inner theater and the workings of the mind in…

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…

The Coming of the Fairies

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
After a number of deaths in his close family, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle turned to spiritualism in hope of finding proof of the afterlife. Being…

The Gentleman and Lady's Book of Politeness and Propriety of Deportment

by Élisabeth Celnart Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
The Gentleman and Lady's Book of Politeness and Propriety of Deportment by Élisabeth Celnart is a comprehensive guide to the social g…

A Personal Anthology of Shakespeare

by William Shakespeare Read by Martin Clifton 4.4
This personal anthology is my choice of speeches from Shakespeare that I enjoy reading (that I would like to have had by heart years ago!) a…

The Phenomenology of Mind

by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.5
Phänomenologie des Geistes (1807) is Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's most important and widely discussed philosophical work. Hegel's fi…

The Sunny Side

by A. A. Milne Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
The Sunny Side is a collection of short stories and essays by A. A. Milne. Though Milne is best known for his classic children's books, espe…

The Ego and His Own

by Max Stirner Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.4
In this book, his most famous, Max Stirner presents a philosophical case for a radical egoism that shuns the socially-oriented outlooks of b…

Omens and Superstitions of Southern India

by Edgar Thurston Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
Omens and Superstitions of Southern India explores the rich tapestry of beliefs and practices that shape the psychical life of the people in…

Hidden Treasures

by Harry A. Lewis Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Hidden Treasures offers a collection of inspiring mini-biographies that illuminate the journeys of notable figures who rose from humble begi…

The Book of Lies

by Aleister Crowley Read by P. J. Taylor 3.8
The Book of Lies, or Liber 333, is a holy book in the Western occult tradition of Thelema, consisting of 91 short chapters of poems, aphoris…

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…

The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

by Thomas Henry Huxley Read by J. M. Smallheer 4.5
Thomas H. Huxley, an English biologist and essayist, was an advocate of the theory of evolution and a self-proclaimed agnostic. A talented w…

Pathological Lying, Accusation, and Swindling

by William Healy Read by Mary Schneider 3.5
This work describes and analyzes several cases of pathological behavior. The interest comes not only from the cases themselves, but also fro…

Cocoa and Chocolate

by Arthur William Knapp Read by Allyson Hester 4.3
As that heavenly bit of chocolate melts in our mouths, we give little thought as to where it came from, the arduous work that went in to its…

Mathematical Problems

by David Hilbert Read by Prachi Pendse 4.3
Lecture delivered before the International Congress of Mathematicians at Paris in 1900 and subsequently published in the Bulletin of the Ame…

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