Essays & Short Works

Creative Unity

by Rabindranath Tagore Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore talks of the many things he feels is necessary for creativity through joy of unity, he covers many topics like t…

The Tao Teh King

by Lao Tzu and Laozi 老子 Read by Eric S. Piotrowski 4.4
Lao-Tze's Tao Teh King illuminates The Tao: a guiding principle of the universe and all within it. By exploring the nature of dualities and …

My Path to Atheism

by Annie Besant Read by Kevin Green 3.9
My Path to Atheism is a remarkable document in many ways, not least that it was written by a woman in Victorian England, not the most open f…

Woman in the Nineteenth Century

by Margaret Fuller Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Margaret Fuller was an American feminist, writer, and intellectual associated with the Transcendentalist movement. Her book Woman in the Nin…

From Sunrise Land

by Amy Wilson Carmichael Read by Expatriate 4.6
One of the most renowned of all Protestant Christian missionaries, Amy Carmichael is remembered most for the fifty-five years she spent doin…

Memory

by William Walker Atkinson Read by Roger Melin 4.4
An in-depth series of chapters devoted to the use of our memory system; as the title suggests, how to develop our memory system, how to trai…

The Moral Equivalent of War

by William James Read by D.E. Wittkower 4.4
The Moral Equivalent of War, the last public utterance of William James, is significant as expressing the opinions of a practical psychologi…

The Art of Fiction

by Henry James Read by Julie VW 4.6
A lecture on the art of fiction, given by the English critic Walter Besant on April 25, 1884, and an answer to the lecture by American write…

As a Man Thinketh

by James Allen Read by Algy Pug 4.7
The burgeoning conflict between science and organized religion in the Nineteenth Century had many cultural offshoots, one of the most signif…

Tolstoy on Shakespeare

by Leo Tolstoy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
In this thought-provoking essay, Leo Tolstoy presents a critical examination of William Shakespeare's works, exploring the playwright's them…

Curiosities of the Sky

by Garrett P. Serviss Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Curiosities of the Sky invites listeners to explore the wonders of astronomy through the eyes of Garrett P. Serviss, a pioneer in popular sc…

The Age of Reason

by Thomas Paine Read by lukkystarr 4.4
The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology, a deistic treatise written by eighteenth-century British radical an…

The World’s Story

by Eva March Tappan Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
This is the first volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Ta…

The Power of Concentration

by William Walker Atkinson Read by Audio Andrea 4.5
The Power of Concentration offers a comprehensive guide to enhancing your ability to focus and harness your mental energy. Through a series …

Southern Horrors

by Ida B. Wells-Barnett Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Thoroughly appalled and sickened by the rising numbers of white-on-black murders in the South since the beginning of Reconstruction, and by …

The Sins of Hollywood

by Ed Roberts and Edward Roberts Read by Chuck Williamson 4.2
Exacerbated by several high-profile Hollywood scandals, a wave of anti-Hollywood rhetoric tried to paint the movie capital as a veritable ho…

American Psychology

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
This is the first of what is intended to be three projects featuring journal articles which chart the development of psychology as an academ…

The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex

by Charles Darwin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Part 2 of 3 of a book on evolutionary theory by English naturalist Charles Darwin, first published in 1871. It was Darwin's second great boo…

The Wound Dresser

by Walt Whitman Read by R. S. Steinberg 4.6
The Wound Dresser offers a poignant glimpse into the heart of the American Civil War through the eyes of Walt Whitman. This collection of le…

Short Nonfiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
A collection of ten short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independ…

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