Essays & Short Works

The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

by Thomas Henry Huxley Read by J. M. Smallheer 4.5
Thomas H. Huxley, an English biologist and essayist, was an advocate of the theory of evolution and a self-proclaimed agnostic. A talented w…

Magna Carta Commemoration Essays

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
On 15th June 1215 the Magna Carta was sealed under oath by King John at Runnymede, on the bank of the River Thames near Windsor, England. 20…

Political Ideals

by Bertrand Russell Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
This is a book by the famous 20th century British philosopher Bertrand Russell on Political Ideals. It was written during the course of Worl…

Industrial Conspiracies

by Clarence Darrow Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.5
Industrial Conspiracies is a powerful address by renowned lawyer Clarence Darrow, delivered shortly after his notable acquittal in the McNam…

The Life of Reason

by George Santayana Read by Fredrik Karlsson 4
The Life of Reason, subtitled "the Phases of Human Progress", is a book published in five volumes from 1905 to 1906, by Spanish-bo…

Perpetual Peace, A Philosophic Essay

by Immanuel Kant Read by D.E. Wittkower 4.8
This essay, written in 1795, puts forth a plan for a lasting peace between nations and peoples. Kant puts forth necessary means to any peace…

Religio Medici and Hydriotaphia

by Thomas Browne Read by Nicole Lee 4.4
Religio Medici (The Religion of a Doctor) sets out Sir Thomas Browne's spiritual testament as well as being an early psychological self-port…

Through the Magic Door

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, nor how lowly the room which it adorns. Close the door of that room behind you, shut off with i…

The Age of Reason

by Thomas Paine Read by lukkystarr 4.4
The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology, a deistic treatise written by eighteenth-century British radical an…

American Psychology

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
This is the first of what is intended to be three projects featuring journal articles which chart the development of psychology as an academ…

The Power of Concentration

by William Walker Atkinson Read by Audio Andrea 4.5
The Power of Concentration offers a comprehensive guide to enhancing your ability to focus and harness your mental energy. Through a series …

Short Nonfiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
A collection of ten short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independ…

Music Notation and Terminology

by Karl Wilson Gehrkens Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Until relatively recently, music students at all levels of study—from the conservatories to public schools—had few resources available for t…

Southern Horrors

by Ida B. Wells-Barnett Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Thoroughly appalled and sickened by the rising numbers of white-on-black murders in the South since the beginning of Reconstruction, and by …

Art and Morality

by Stuart Mason Read by Martin Geeson 4.9
“Who can help laughing when an ordinary journalist seriously proposes to limit the subject-matter at the disposal of the artist?”“We are dom…

A Personal Anthology of Shakespeare

by William Shakespeare Read by Martin Clifton 4.4
This personal anthology is my choice of speeches from Shakespeare that I enjoy reading (that I would like to have had by heart years ago!) a…

The Outline of Science

by J. Arthur Thomson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The Outline of Science, Volume 1 was written specifically with theman-on-the-street in mind as the target audience. Coveringscientific subje…

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…

Conceptions of Divine Love

by St. Teresa of Avila Read by Ann Boulais 4.4
Conceptions of Divine Love offers a profound exploration of the nature of divine affection as articulated by St. Teresa of Avila. Written in…

Sermons on Several Occasions

by John Wesley Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
John Wesley, along with his brother Charles, are credited with founding the Methodist denomination. "The following Sermons contain the …

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