Essays & Short Works

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Hilaire Belloc


“When Fame comes upon a man well before death then must he most particularly beware of it, for is it then most dangerous. Neither must he, h…

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 006

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Various


A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were inde…

Miscellaneous Essays of Thomas de Quincey

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Thomas De Quincey


The Hunter Thompson of the 19th Century, de Quincey is best known for his Confessions of an English Opium Eater (an activity shared with his…

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 008

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Various


A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and reports included in this collectio…

The Common Reader

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Virginia Woolf


A collection of essays by Virginia Woolf, some of which originally appeared in the Times Literary Supplement or the Dial, and others were or…

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 024

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Various and Plato


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

On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery

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Joseph Lister


Joseph Lister was born near London in 1827. He studied medicine at the University of London and pursued a career as a surgeon in Scotland. H…

The Uses of Diversity

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G. K. Chesterton


A collection of 35 essays by G.K. Chesterton originally published in his weekly columns in "The Illustrated London News" and the &…

Gleanings in Buddha Fields

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Lafcadio Hearn


Lafcadio Hearn was one of the first Westerners to live in Japan during the early Meiji era, and a prolific writer. Although chiefly known fo…

The Night Side of New York

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Various


This nonfiction collection of sketches, by "members of the New York press," takes the reader on a tour of 1866 New York City after…

Historical Newspaper Articles, Volume 1

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Various


Public Domain newspaper articles in the US span a period of nearly two and a half centuries. Subjects, styles, period, publisher, and length…

Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 045

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Various


Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres.

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Oscar Wilde


Wilde’s literary reputation has survived so much that I think it proof against any exhumation of articles which he or his admirers would hav…

The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing

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Joseph Trienens and Joseph Triemens


Written in 1910, this "cyclopedia" is full of information that was quite useful at the time. A hundred years later, its text is mo…

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 005

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Various


A collection of ten short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and reports included in this collection we…

First and Last

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Hilaire Belloc


“When a man weighs anchor in a little ship or a large one he does a jolly thing! He cuts himself off and he starts for freedom and for the c…

Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 021

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Various


Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres."Die Schrecken der deutschen Sprache" übersetzt v…

Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 037

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Various


Diese Sammlung umfasst 14 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres."Warum das Meerwaßer salzig ist" und "Osten…

First Fifty Digits of Pi

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Scott Hemphill


56 flavors of Pi proudly produced by LibriVox volunteers to celebrate Pi Day, 2008. (3/14) Don't worry, you don't have to listen to an infin…

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 012

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Various


A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were inde…

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