Essays & Short Works

The Emancipation Proclamation

by Abraham Lincoln Read by John Greenman 4.6
On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, a pivotal document in American history that declared the…

Creative Chemistry

by Edwin E. Slosson Read by Adam Marcetich 4.5
Slosson reviews the transformation of alchemistry from an obscure and imprecise practice to the science of chemistry. Along the way, he expl…

Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic

by Benedetto Croce Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
One of the earliest works of this Italian philosopher and literary critic, Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic marks t…

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…

A Philosophical Enquiry

by Edmund Burke Read by ej 4.2
Burke's A Philosophical Enquiry is an important treatise in the history of philosophical aesthetics, putting forth a theory of two concepts …

The Romance of Modern Chemistry

by James C. Philip Read by J. M. Smallheer 4.4
A fascinating look back at the state of the art of chemistry 100 years ago, this book by James C. Philip, PhD, an assistant professor of che…

Stories I Told Myself

by Patrick E. McLean Read by Patrick E. McLean 4.5
Funny, moving and always exquisitely well-produced, this collection of short stories and essays from the award-winning Seanachai podcast is …

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…

A Problem in Modern Ethics

by John Addington Symonds Read by Martin Geeson 4.6
“Society lies under the spell of ancient terrorism and coagulated errors. Science is either wilfully hypocritical or radically misinformed.”…

The Kingdom of God Is Within You

by Leo Tolstoy Read by Leo Tolstoy 3.5
When Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace was published in 1869, his genius was immediately recognized by people all over the world. In the later par…

What Prohibition Has Done to America

by Fabian Franklin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
In What Prohibition Has Done to America, Fabian Franklin presents a concise but forceful argument against the Eighteenth Amendment of the U.…

Dream Psychology

by Sigmund Freud Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Not a few serious-minded students, [...], have been discouraged from attempting a study of Freud's dream psychology. The book in which he or…

Christmas Short Works Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Celebrate the spirit of the season with the Christmas Short Works Collection, a delightful anthology of public domain stories, essays, poems…

The American Crisis

by Thomas Paine Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
A 13 pamphlet series by 18th century Enlightenment philosopher/author Thomas Paine, published between 1776 to 1783 during and immediately fo…

The Communist Manifesto

by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx Read by Mark F. Smith 4.2
The Communist Manifesto was conceived as an outline of the basic beliefs of the Communist movement. The authors believed that the European P…

Obesity and Diabetes

by Various 4.5
Obesity and diabetes are increasingly a burden in modern populations, and whilst the contributions of our lifestyles are well-known, other a…

An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

by David Hume Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
David Hume, an eminent Scottish philosopher, historian, and essayist, explores the nature and foundation of Morals in this book, which was w…

A Dictionary of English Synonymes

by Richard Soule Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions, Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseolog…

Floor Games

by H. G. Wells Read by Mark F. Smith 4.5
H.G. Wells had so much fun playing with his children on the floor of their playroom, he decided to write a jovial little book to inspire oth…

The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book

by William F. Bigelow Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.7
A collection of articles from Good Housekeeping magazine, The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book focuses on the subject of marriage. With instr…

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