Essays & Short Works
The Greek View of Life
Read by Martin Geeson
Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
“With the Greek civilisation beauty perished from the world. Never again has it been possible for man to believe that harmony is in fact the…
Pragmatism
Read by Fredrik Karlsson
William James
'Pragmatism' contains a series of public lectures held by William James in Boston 1906–7. James provides a popularizing outline of his view …
Other People's Money
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Louis D. Brandeis
Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It is a collection of essays written by Louis Brandeis published as a book in 1914. The book at…
The Letters of a Post-Impressionist
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Vincent Van Gogh
“Being the Familiar Correspondence of Vincent Van Gogh ... [Van Gogh's] art was appreciated during his life only by a very few and it is but…
What is Man? and Other Essays
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
"What Is Man?", published by Mark Twain in 1906, is a dialogue between a young man and an older man jaded to the world. It involve…
A Room of One’s Own
Virginia Woolf
This feminist essay argues for both a literal and figural space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by patriarchy. First…
Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases
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Grenville Kleiser
A Practical Handbook of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, and Oratorical Terms, for the Embelli…
Walking
Read by Chris Masterson
Henry David Thoreau
This was originally a lecture given by Thoreau in 1851 at the Concord lyceum titled "The Wild" . He revised it before his death an…
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 02
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H. G. Wells
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 Three Great Virtues - Three Essays by Emerson
Read by Robert Scott
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith Hope and Charity ...... In the Language of Emerson these translate as: Self - Reliance, Love, and Friendship. (summary by Robert Scott…
Anarchism and Other Essays
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Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman (1869-1940) was an anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. She played a pivotal role in the developme…
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Read by Gord Mackenzie
Henry David Thoreau
Civil Disobedience is an essay by Henry David Thoreau. Published in 1849 under the title Resistance to Civil Government, it expressed Thorea…
Über die Weiber
Read by Gesine
Arthur Schopenhauer
In diesem vielzitierten Essay aus dem Jahre 1851 ist Schopenhauers generell herablassende Einstellung zu Frauen zusammengefaßt. Frauen…
Mathematical Problems
Read by Prachi Pendse
David Hilbert
Lecture delivered before the International Congress of Mathematicians at Paris in 1900 and subsequently published in the Bulletin of the Ame…
Essays, Second Series
Read by Bob Neufeld
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, philosopher, and poet, best remembered for leading the Transcendentalist movement of the mid 1…
On the Nature of the Gods
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Marcus Tullius Cicero
De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods) outlines Stoic, Epicurean and Academic (Skeptical) views on religious questions. Problems discu…
What I Saw in America
Read by Ray Clare
G. K. Chesterton
“Let me begin my American impressions with two impressions I had before I went to America. One was an incident and the other an idea; and wh…
Declaration of Independence of the United States of America
Read by Jim Cadwell
Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Independence is the document in which the Thirteen Colonies declared themselves independent of the Kingdom of Great Britain a…
Give Me Liberty
Read by Mark F. Smith
Patrick Henry
This speech was given March 23, 1775, at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia, and is credited with having singlehandedly convinced the V…
United States Historical Documents
Read by Michael Scherer
Various
The Articles of Confederation: On November 15th, 1777 The Articles of Confederation became the first constitution of the United States, thou…