Essays & Short Works
A Dictionary of English Synonymes, Vol. 01
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Richard Soule
A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions, Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseolog…
The Valley of the Moon
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Jack London
The novel Valley of the Moon is a story of a working-class couple, Billy and Saxon Roberts, struggling laborers in Oakland at the Turn-of-th…
Catholic and Anti-Catholic History
Read by Janet Baker
Various
G.K. Chesterton and James Walsh join Hilaire Belloc in an energetic rollout of the means by which history becomes propaganda, to the damage,…
Essays book 1
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Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary …
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Read by Michael Reuss
Edmund Burke
Reflections on the Revolution in France is a 1790 book by Edmund Burke, one of the best-known intellectual attacks against the (then-infant)…
The New Jerusalem
Read by Ray Clare
G. K. Chesterton
The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of anyone involved in the production of this book, and are not the views of LibriVox.Dale A…
In Ghostly Japan
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Lafcadio Hearn
This collection of 14 stories collected by Lafcadio Hearn, contains Japanese ghost stories, but also several non-fiction pieces. Hearn tries…
Short Story Collection Vol. 003
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Various
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 003: a collection of 20 short fictional works in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members.
Anarchy
Read by Anna Simon
Errico Malatesta
Anarchy explained by the anarchist Errico Malatesta. (Summary by Vineshen Pillay)
Curious Myths of the Middle Ages
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Sabine Baring-Gould
This volume is an example of Sabine Baring-Gould's extensive research into the middle ages. This volume of 12 curiosities was one of Baring-…
Sammlung kurzer Werke
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Karl May
Sammlung von 19 kurzen Werken von Karl May: • Die beiden Kulledschi. Eine Orienterzählung aus Ägypten. Veröffentlicht in: D…
Miscellaneous Essays of G. K. Chesterton
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G. K. Chesterton
These eleven files are miscellaneous short essays or stories from G.K. Chesterton. They were chosen for not only their brevity but also for …
The Gettysburg Address
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Abraham Lincoln
It was a cloudy November day in 1863 when thousands gathered to hear renowned orator Edward Everett dedicate a national cemetery at the site…
The Fourth Dimension Simply Explained
Read by Availle
Henry Parker Manning
In January 1909 a friend of the Scientific American paid the sum of 500$ which was to be awarded as a prize for the best popular explanation…
Ancient Greek Philosopher-Scientists
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Varioustranslated Bywilliam Ellery Leonard
The Pre-Socratic Greek philosophers, that is, the philosopher-scientists who lived before or contemporaneously to Socrates, were the first m…
Collected Works of Saint Patrick
Read by Sean McKinley
Saint Patrick
St. Patrick's Breastplate - This prayer is attributed to St. Patrick and his disciples. It is written with some Celtic pagan elements, but i…
Steep Trails
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John Muir
A collection of Muir's previously unpublished essays, released shortly after his death. "This volume will meet, in every way, the high …
The Awful German Language (version 2)
Read by Kirsten Wever
Mark Twain
This long essay is a work of mock philology, one of several appendices to Twain’s travel novel, A Tramp Abroad. In it, Twain explains, compl…
Magna Carta
Read by Jim Mowatt
Unknown
The original document is in Latin so this can only be a fairly rough approximation of the actual content. The text used is the first version…