Essays & Short Works

The Riddle of the Universe

by Ernst Haeckel Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.2
The Riddle of the Universe is the philosophical work of Ernst Haeckel, eminent biologist, in which he explores the meaning of life, the natu…

The Black Experience in America

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 2.9
This is not the copyrighted work by Norman Coombs currently on Project Gutenberg but a collection of non-fiction, fiction, poetry, drama, an…

Tact

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Tact by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 22, 2012.Ralph…

Coffee Break Collection

by Henry David Thoreau Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.4
This is the eighth collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in len…

The Gettysburg Address

by Abraham Lincoln Read by Jim Cadwell 4.4
The Gettysburg Address is the most famous speech of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and one of the most quoted speeches in United States hist…

The Conduct of Life

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.5
This is the best of Emerson's later works, qualifying his earlier popular essays, series one and two, with the heavier hand of experience. T…

The World as Will and Idea

by Arthur Schopenhauer Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.6
The World as Will and Idea presents Arthur Schopenhauer's profound exploration of the nature of existence, where he posits that the driving …

An Old Man's Thought of School

by Walt Whitman Read by LibriVox Volunteers
LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of An Old Man's Thought of School by Walt Whitman. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for F…

Invention And Discovery

by Unknown Read by David Wales 3.8
"In this little volume are brought together a number of sketches and memoranda, illustrating the history of discovery, and the lives an…

Has a Frog a Soul?

by Thomas Henry Huxley Read by Carl Manchester 4
Thomas Huxley, known as “Darwin’s Bulldog” for his championing and development of Darwinism, was perhaps the most important Victorian biolog…

The Little Tea Book

by Arthur Gray Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
After all, tea is the drink! Domestically and socially it is the beverage of the world. There may be those who will come forward with their …

The 9/11 Commission Report

by 9/11 Commission Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.3
The 9/11 Commission Report, formally known as the Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, provi…

Principles of Economics

by Alfred Marshall Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.6
Principles of Economics was a leading economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), first published in 1890. Marshall began writing the…

The Gettysburg Address

by Abraham Lincoln Read by Mark F. Smith 4.6
The Dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, in November, 1863, followed a few short months after the roiling, acrid clouds of gun…

Essays on Political Economy

by Frédéric Bastiat Read by Katie Riley 3.8
Bastiat asserted that the only purpose of government is to defend the right of an individual to life, liberty, and property. From this defin…

The Anatomy of Melancholy

by Robert Burton Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The Anatomy of Melancholy is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621. On its surface, the book is a medical textbook in which Burto…

Travel

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.7
This is the seventh collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in le…

The Discovery Of The Future

by H. G. Wells Read by David Wales 3.8
The Discovery of the Future is a 1902 philosophical lecture by H. G. Wells that argues for the knowability of the future. It was originally …

Days

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Days by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 10, 2012.As a lectur…

The Theory of Psychoanalysis

by Carl Gustav Jung Read by Jim Locke 3.7
Jung says the following in his introduction: "in these lectures I have attempted to reconcile my practical experiences in psychoanalysi…

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