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The Conduct of Life
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
This is the best of Emerson's later works, qualifying his earlier popular essays, series one and two, with the heavier hand of experience. T…
Senator North
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Gertrude Atherton
"When, Mr. President, a man, however eminent in other pursuits and whatever claims he may have to public confidence, becomes a member o…
Write it Right
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Ambrose Bierce
Witty, opinionated alphabetical examples of what Bierce considered poor (American) English and advice on alternatives - entertaining, though…
Give All To Love
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Give All To Love by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This was the fortnightly poetry project for May 17th,…
Six lectures on literature
Read by Phil Benson
Charles Harold Herford
C. H. Herford was Professor of English Literature at the Victoria University of Manchester in era when public lectures were published in pam…
Alcibiades I
Read by Kevin Johnson
Plato
As Jowett relates in his brilliant introduction, 95% of Plato's writing is certain and his reputation rests soundly on this foundation. The …
Short Poetry Collection 102
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Henry David Thoreau and Robert Frost
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for November 2011.
Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy
Read by Gary Gilberd
George Santayana
Before the beginning of World War II, during the time of the Modernist movement in philosophy, George Santayana wrote these five descriptive…
The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton
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E. Phillips Oppenheim
Alfred Burton, a smooth-talking salesman, is having a perfectly ordinary day on the job when he stumbles across a strange plant in an old ho…
Bill Nye's Cordwood
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Bill Nye
From Galileo to Grover Cleveland, from wasps to cattle, from dinosaurs to the railroad, Bill Nye's wide ranging wit pokes gentle fun at ever…
Perkins of Portland
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Ellis Parker Butler
Amusing tales showing the effectiveness of advertising some rather questionable products. Perkins and the narrator partner in promotions dir…
On Union with God
Read by David Barnes
Blessed Albert The Great
Surely the most deeply-rooted need of the human soul, its purest aspiration, is for the closest possible union with God. As one turns over t…
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Volume 1
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Charles Mackay
The book chronicles and vilifies its targets in three parts: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philoso…
Henry David Thoreau Essential Excepts From Civil Disobedience (podcast)
Henry David Thoreau
"From what I see, there are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." Thoreau's advice on vo…
English Prose Style
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Herbert Read
Read's book describes the basic elements of composition and rhetoric: narrative form, eloquence, rhythm, and other important elements of wha…
Poems of Nature
Read by Larry Wilson
Henry David Thoreau
The fifty poems here brought together under the title ‘Poems of Nature’ are perhaps two-thirds of those which Thoreau preserved. Many of the…
Birches
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Robert Frost
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Birches by Robert Frost. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 21st, 2010.
Optimism, An Essay
Read by Michele Fry
Helen Keller
Though blind, deaf, and left-handed too, it seemed nothing could hold Helen Keller back. For her graduation from Radcliffe College in 1903, …
The Snow-Storm
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of The Snow-Storm by Ralph Waldo Emerson.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 2,…
Einstein and the Universe
Read by J. M. Smallheer
Charles Nordmann
"M. Nordmann has presented Einstein’s principle in words which lift the average reader over many of the difficulties he must encounter …