Essays & Short Works

Curiosities of the Hymnal

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Carl F. Price


Carl F. Price, a pioneering hymnologist, historian, and author, says, "Every real hymn has its story, if only we could discover it.&quo…

Lost Leaders

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Andrew Lang


Andrew Lang, best beloved for his series of fairy books, has collected here essays on wide ranging topics from golf and shaving to Thackeray…

Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 060

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Various


Diese Sammlung umfasst 10 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres. (Inhaltswarnung: Einige dieser Texte thematisieren Gewalt oder …

The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 12 - Tributes

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Robert G. Ingersoll


Col. Ingersoll, a renowned trial lawyer and known as "the Great Agnostic", was one of the most sought after Toastmasters of his da…

Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 6, August 1906

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Various


Mother Earth was an American anarchist journal that described itself as "A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature&qu…

LibriVox 11th 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…

The Fringe of an Art: Appreciations in Music

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Vernon Blackburn


A collection of essays on things musical by Vernon Blackburn, including composers, music in different time periods, and modern music. (Summ…

The Powder of Sympathy

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Christopher Morley


Another collection of mostly short “soliloquys” from Christopher Morley, an American literary luminary, who introduces them thus: “… these p…

An Essay Upon Wind, with Curious Anecdotes of Eminent Peuters

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Charles James Fox


Purported to be written by noted British Parliamentarian Charles James Fox as a result of a wager, this important and engaging essay is a me…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 095

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Various


"A legendary island in the Atlantic Ocean, first mentioned by Plato", is how the 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica descr…

Editorials from The Dial magazine, Volume 66

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Martyn Johnson


Editorials published in Volume 66 of The Dial magazine, a fortnightly political and literary review. The source available to us features iss…

State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1946 - 1953)

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Harry S. Truman


The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress,…

Coffee Break Collection 037 - More Birds

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Various


This is the 37th Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read stories or poems, fiction or non-fiction pieces of fifte…

Seen on the Stage

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Clayton Hamilton


A fourth collection of essays on theatre by American critic Clayton Hamilton, intended as a suffix to his earlier works, The Theory of the T…

Death

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Maurice Maeterlinck


"The more we dread it, the more dreadful it becomes..." Death by Maurice Maeterlinck explores the cultural and societal fear of de…

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