Essays & Short Works

Principles of Economics

by Alfred Marshall Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Principles of Economics was a leading economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), first published in 1890. Marshall began writing the…

Second Thoughts Of An Idle Fellow

by Jerome K. Jerome Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Second Thoughts Of An Idle Fellow is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome, offering a witty and insightful look at the quirks…

Familiar Letters on Chemistry

by Justus Von Liebig Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
In Familiar Letters on Chemistry, Justus von Liebig, a pioneering German chemist, shares his insights on the vital role of chemistry in soci…

On the Future of our Educational Institutions

by Friedrich Nietzsche Read by Aaron Rivera 4.2
Nietzsche gives a series of lectures in Bale, Germany on the subject of German educational institutions, and what the best way forward. Sum…

The Truth About Jesus

by M. M. Mangasarian Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
The Truth About Jesus presents a thought-provoking examination of the historicity of Jesus, based on a series of studies delivered in 1909 t…

The Coming of the Fairies

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
After a number of deaths in his close family, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle turned to spiritualism in hope of finding proof of the afterlife. Being…

The Gettysburg Address

by Abraham Lincoln Read by John Greenman 4.7
Delivered during a pivotal moment in American history, The Gettysburg Address is President Abraham Lincoln's profound reflection on the prin…

Irish Wit and Humor

by Various Read by James E. Carson 3.7
Excerpted anecdotes from the biographies of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell, relating humorous snippets of politics in 18th and 19th ce…

The Philosophy of Style

by Herbert Spencer Read by Gary Gilberd 4
“The Philosophy of Style,” explored a growing trend of formalist approaches to writing. Highly focused on the proper placement and ordering …

The Sunny Side

by A. A. Milne Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
The Sunny Side is a collection of short stories and essays by A. A. Milne. Though Milne is best known for his classic children's books, espe…

An Introduction to Metaphysics

by Henri Bergson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
An Introduction to Metaphysics (Introduction a la Metaphysique) is a 1903 essay by Henri Bergson that explores the concept of reality. For B…

Selected House of Commons Speeches

by Winston S. Churchill Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874 – 1965) was a British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during W…

Sophisms of the Protectionists

by Frédéric Bastiat Read by Katie Riley 4.9
"To rob the public, it is necessary to deceive them," Bastiat said and believed. He reasoned, employing repetition to various appl…

Sketches Of The Fair Sex

by William James McGlothlin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Sketches of the fair sex, in all parts of the world. To which are added rules for determining the precise figure, the degree of beauty, the …

Book of the Damned

by Charles Hoy Fort Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.6
The Book of the Damned was the first published nonfiction work of the author Charles Fort (first edition 1919). Dealing with various types o…

Have We Been Played?

by John Berling Hardy Read by John Berling Hardy 4
THIS BOOK IS MOST LIKELY NOT FOR YOU! It will NOT guarantee success – Life holds no promises! It will NOT guarantee happiness – I…

From Dictatorship to Democracy

by Gene Sharp Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) 3.8
From Dictatorship to Democracy, A Conceptual Framework for Liberation is a book-length essay on the generic problem of how to destroy a dict…

Curious Myths of the Middle Ages

by Sabine Baring-Gould Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.5
Curious Myths of the Middle Ages invites listeners to explore the fascinating and often bizarre beliefs that shaped medieval thought. In thi…

How to Do Chemical Tricks

by A. T. Anderson Read by Kyle Van DeGlast 4.4
While a bit outdated in many of the more complex descriptions of several of the phenomena described, this book is nonetheless still fun and …

Sermons of a Buddhist Abbot

by Soyen Shaku Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Look! it's the science of sitting, No! it's the science of meditating, No! it's Zen. If you wanted to know anything regarding Zen Buddhism a…

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