Essays & Short Works
Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson
Read by Martin Geeson
Robert Louis Stevenson
“Extreme busyness…is a symptom of deficient vitality; and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal …
Fishing with a Worm
Read by Betsie Bush
Bliss Perry
Fishing with a Worm by Bliss Perry includes the poignant and philosophical observations of a fly fisherman lured by the worm. Bliss Perry wa…
Coffee Break Collection 008 - Animals
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Henry David Thoreau
This is the eighth collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in len…
Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War: Some Perspectives
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United States Arms Control And Disarmament Agency
This is a concise yet thorough explanation of what might happen to our world in the aftermath of a nuclear war. The myriad of potential effe…
The Gettysburg Address 150th Anniversary
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Abraham Lincoln
On Thursday, November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln gave a brief address at the dedication of the Soldier's National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pen…
Eminent Victorians
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Giles Lytton Strachey
On Modern Library's list of 100 Best Non-Fiction books, "Eminent Victorians" marked an epoch in the art of biography; it also help…
The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
Read by Landon D. C. Elkind
Bertrand Russell
This book records Bertrand Russell's impressions of the new regime after a 1920 visit to Russia following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, inc…
Neighbors - Life Stories of the Other Half
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Jacob A. Riis
These stories have come to me from many sources—some from my own experience, others from settlement workers, still others from the records o…
Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People
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Charles Dickens
Sketches by Boz is a collection of short pieces published by Charles Dickens in 1836 accompanied by illustrations by George Cruikshank. It c…
Hidden Treasures
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Harry A. Lewis
"Some succeed while others fail. This is a recognized fact; yet history tells us that seven-tenths of our most successful men began lif…
Lincoln at Cooper Union
Read by Scott Henkel
Abraham Lincoln
On 27 February 1860, Abraham Lincoln gave this address at the Cooper Union in New York City. When he gave the speech, Lincoln was considered…
Insomnia Collection Vol. 002
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Various
Soporific dullness is in the ear of the listener, and what's tedium incarnate to one person will be another person's passion and delight. Ho…
Lord Kitchener
Read by Ray Clare
G. K. Chesterton
“The paradox of all this part of his life lies in this--that, destined as he was to be the greatest enemy of Mahomedanism, he was quite exce…
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 025
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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…
An Essay on Criticism
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Alexander Pope
An Essay on Criticism was the first major poem written by the English writer Alexander Pope (1688-1744). However, despite the title, the poe…
Robert Browning
Read by Ray Clare
G. K. Chesterton
There is an old anecdote, probably apocryphal, which describes how a feminine admirer wrote to Browning asking him for the meaning of one of…
Selected Essays of Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
This is a volume of selected essays by "the great master of reason" Samuel Johnson. The most famous exerpts from The Rambler, The …
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 004
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Various
A collection of eleven short nonfiction works in the public domain. The items included in this collection were independently selected by the…
The Birth of Propaganda
Read by Jabez L. Van Cleef
Jabez L. Van Cleef
"The Birth of Propaganda" is poetic adaptation of the essay "Propaganda in a Democratic Society," by Aldous Huxley, whic…
Shadowland: September, 1919
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Various
Shadowland was an American monthly magazine about art, dance, and film published from 1919 to 1923 before being absorbed by Motion Picture C…