Essays & Short Works

Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 002

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Diese Sammlung umfasst verschiedene deutschsprachige Texte aller Genres, Fiktion, Non-Fiktion und Lyrik.Eine Liste weiterer kurzer Aufnahmen…

An Essay on Criticism (version 2)

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Alexander Pope


The title, An Essay on Criticism hardly indicates all that is included in the poem. It would have been impossible to give a full and exact i…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 057

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Various


Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Natural cataclysm is the subject of several readin…

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: First Series

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Lafcadio Hearn


Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan is a collection of essays by Lafcadio Hearn detailing his first impressions of the country he found so fascinat…

Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 033

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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm


Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres.!Ein Wettlauf" übersetzt von Margarete Jacobi"Die…

Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 030

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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm


Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres."Die Blumen der kleinen Ida" übersetzt von Paul A…

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 030

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Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include botany, dreams, farming, history, li…

The Pleasures of Ignorance

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Robert Lynd


From the pen of the Irish poet and essayist, Robert Lynd, comes a collection of humorous and satirical essays on topics as wide ranging as c…

Coffee Break Collection 023 - Mysteries, Riddles and Conundrums

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This is the twenty-third Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select English language public domain works of about 15 minutes …

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 019

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

Eureka: A Prose Poem

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Edgar Allan Poe


Eureka is Poe's attempt at explaining the universe, using his general proposition "Because Nothing was, therefore All Things are".…

The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 03

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National Geographic Society


National Geographic Magazine Volume 3, articles published in 1891 and 1892. South America: Annual Address by the President, Gardiner G. Hubb…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 035

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Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include how to swim, Navajo silversmithing…

Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence

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Alice Dunbar Nelson


It seems eminently fitting and proper in this year, the fiftieth anniversary of the Proclamation of Emancipation that the Negro should give …

Woman and War

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Olive Schreiner


Olive Schreiner was a South African writer born in 1855 to missionary parents in the Eastern Cape. She is credited with being the first Inte…

Coffee Break Collection 020 - Old Age

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The Librivox Coffee Break Collections are themed anthologies, selected and read by Librivox readers. Each short piece is fifteen minutes lon…

Essays on Art

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Essays on art, letters, thoughts, aphorisms - Goethe's thoughts were dealing with artworks of every branch of arts. He addressed many aspect…

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interview…

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Various


These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 013

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

Satires and Profanities

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George William Foote


"Believing as I do that James Thomson is, since Shelley, the most brilliant genius who has wielded a pen in the service of Freethought,…

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