Essays & Short Works

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…

Follies in Fiction

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Stephen Leacock


A pamphlet from the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto, containing selections from Further Foolishness and Frenzie…

Library Essays; Papers Related to the Work of Public Libraries

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Arthur Elmore Bostwick


This 1920 collection of essays gathers together 25 years of papers, articles, and presentations given by Arthur E. Bostwick. The ideas in ma…

LibriVox 15th Anniversary Collection

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Various


This year is the 15th anniversary of our beloved LibriVox. The readings in this collection celebrate that "bunch of volunteers" wh…

Selected Lead Articles from "THE DAWN"

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Louisa Lawson


Louisa Lawson, the mother of Australian writer Henry Lawson, was the founder, publisher and editor of an early feminist journal in Sydney na…

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…

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…

Páginas sevillanas

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Manuel Chaves Rey


Testimonio de glorias, compendio histórico y padrón de grandezas sevillanas…un precioso ramillete de recuerdos sevillanos anti…

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…

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,…

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…

The Crystal Pointers

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Frank W. Boreham


Frank W. Boreham was a Baptist preacher from England who spent many years in New Zealand and Australia, but also traveled extensively in the…

El porvenir de España

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Miguel De Unamuno


Intercambio de cartas entre dos pensadores españoles en plena época de crisis de identidad nacional, precursores de la Generac…

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