Essays & Short Works

Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field - Tales They Told to a Fellow Correspon…

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Henry William Fischer


This work brings new understanding of the life and work of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) while living and traveling abroad. Twain and fellow h…

The Open Library

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Brewster Kahle


Text of the speech given by Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, at the launch of the Open Library in October 2005. LibriVox was…

Librivox Multilingual Short Works Collection 003

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Various


This is a collection of short pieces, poetry or prose, fiction and non-fiction, in several different languages. All chosen and recorded by L…

Essays on Prohibition

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Various


A collection of essays regarding the pros and cons of prohibition of alcoholic beverages, principally in the United States. - Summary by Kev…

They Who Knock at Our Gates: A Complete Gospel of Immigration (Version 2)

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Mary Antin


In this extended essay, Mary Antin asks us to consider three questions:First: A question of principle: Have we any right to regulate immigra…

The Forgotten Man and Other Essays

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William Graham Sumner


Sumner's popular essays were to give him a wider audience to distribute his anti-imperialism, his advocacy of free markets and the gold stan…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 090

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Various


In his autobiographical essay "The Intellectuals and the Boston Mob," Booker T. Washington wrote: "It is not argument, nor cr…

Problems of the Playwright

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Clayton Hamilton


A third volume of essays by American critic Clayton Hamilton, published as a companion piece to The Theory of the Theatre & Studies in S…

Women's Wild Oats: Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards

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Catherine Gasquoine Hartley


A resounding and, for the times, outrageous look at restructuring British society using the first world war as trigger for changing the plac…

The Evolutionist at Large

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Grant Allen


These Essays originally appeared in the columns of the 'St. James's Gazette,' and I have to thank the courtesy of the Editor for kind permis…

Letters to a Daughter

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Hubert Bland


Letters to a Daughter is a collection of essays proffering ‘fatherly advice’ in the form of a one-sided correspondence. Each of these takes …

The Future in America: A Search After Realities

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H. G. Wells


A series of travel essays by one of the most well known antiquarian authors focused on America and its persistent social, economic and devel…

Mettray - Bathmen

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Jacobus Craandijk


Wandeling van Zutphen via het Nederlandse Mettray (een jeugdinrichting die tegenwoordig Rentray heet) naar Joppe en huize Dorth. In Bathmen …

Christmas Short Works Collection 2015

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Various


This year's Christmas collection of short stories, poems and non-fiction features readings in English, French, German and Romanian - Summary…

From the Easy Chair Vol. 3

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George William Curtis


The third volume of essays and observations From the Easy Chair of William Curtis, editor of Harper's Weekly and one of the founders of the …

LibriVox 16th Anniversary Collection

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Various


"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 li…

Clergymen of the Church of England (Version 2)

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Anthony Trollope


Anthony Trollope describes with his characteristic wit the different types of clergymen commonly found in 19th century Britain. - Summary by…

The Footpath Way: An Anthology for Walkers

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Hilaire Belloc


This 1911 anthology is a collection of musings on the pleasures, challenges, and experience of walking. It features some famous authors (Tho…

Goose-Quill Papers

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Louise Imogen Guiney


Louise Imogen Guiney, and American poet and essayist, here presents twenty essays with her characteristic wit and poetic flair and often a t…

Hearts of Controversy

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Alice Meynell


Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' S…

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