Essays & Short Works

No Doorway Wide Enough

Read by Bill Schmalfeldt


Bill Schmalfeldt


It was just about three weeks after his 45th birthday in 2000 when Bill Schmalfeldt was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. In 2007 while wo…

Shadowings

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Lafcadio Hearn


This is another of the popular books that Lafcadio Hearn wrote on various Japanese subjects. The first part "Stories From Strange Books…

Why is the Negro Lynched?

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Frederick Douglass


We have felt that the most fitting tribute that we, of the Anti-Caste movement, can pay to the memory of this noble and faithful life is to …

Bashan And I

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Thomas Mann


Simple and unpretentious as a statement by Francis d’Assisi, yet full of a gentle modern sophistication and humour, this little work will br…

Europe and Elsewhere

Read by John Greenman


Mark Twain


This collection of articles came from Mark Twain's travels and experiences abroad. While many had been previously published, there also were…

Essays on Work and Culture

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Hamilton Wright Mabie


The author investigates the world of work against a backdrop of culture. Each of the 25 essays focuses on one aspect of the topic. For examp…

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 016

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Various


A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the re…

Shandygaff

Read by David Wales


Christopher Morley


A number of most agreeable Inquirendoes upon Life & Letters, interspersed with Short Stories & Skits, the whole most Diverting to th…

Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 024

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Various


Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres.

The Fringes Of The Fleet

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Rudyard Kipling


During the war (WWI), [Kipling] wrote a booklet The Fringes of the Fleet containing essays and poems on various nautical subjects of the war…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 043

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Various


Nineteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the role of "people of color&…

Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 014

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Various


Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres."Die Nacht - Ein Traumgesicht" und "Coco" &u…

Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 016

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Various


Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres.

Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 025

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Various


Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres.

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 029

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Various


Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include architecture, education, philosophy,…

Rural Rides

Read by Nicole Lee


William Cobbett


William Cobbett: 1763-1835 English farmer, journalist and politician. His book Rural Rides collects together the articles published in his P…

And Even Now

Read by Kirsten Wever


Max Beerbohm


This is a diverse collection of essays by English writer Max Beerbohm, whose circle included such notables as Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Sh…

Heroines of Fiction

Read by Jim Locke


William Dean Howells


This two-volume work includes heroines from the works of Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Harte, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, E. Bro…

Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii

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Mark Twain


By the time Mark Twain worked as a roving reporter for the Sacramento Union, he had held positions with other newspapers in Nevada and Calif…

Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy

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Stephen Leacock


Humorous, ironic, and sometimes cynical observations of life in 1915 from Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. (Summary by TriciaG)

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