Essays & Short Works
Insomnia Collection Vol. 003
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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…
A Fleet In Being; Notes Of Two Trips With The Channel Squadron
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Rudyard Kipling
[Kipling] became involved in the debate over the British response to the rise in German naval power known as the Tirpitz Plan to build a fle…
Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 2
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Charles Dickens
This year is the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth. This is the second volume; the first volume of short works - fiction, essays, poetry a…
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 011
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Various
A collection of sixteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, articles, speeches and reports included in this collection…
Theodore Roosevelt; An Address Delivered Before The Congress Of The United Stat…
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Henry Cabot Lodge
A biographical encomium delivered on the occasion of Roosevelt's death. Theodore "T.R." Roosevelt, Jr. (1858 – 1919) was an Amer…
Life's Enthusiasms
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David Starr Jordan
The words in this essay on positive thought sing like those in Whitman's "Leaves of Grass." The author praises joyous living and r…
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 023
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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 rea…
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 2: The Man in the Iron Mask
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Alexandre Dumas
In the late 1600s a man was doubly-imprisoned: his body in an iron cell and his face in an iron mask. Who the “man in the iron mask” was, wh…
The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things
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William Hazlitt
The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things is a posthumous collection of essays by William Hazlitt, organized by his grandson, Wi…
Collection: Tales of the Cities
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Various
This is a collection of city stories, fiction or non-fiction, in English and published before 1923. Contributions have been chosen by the re…
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 027
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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…
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 014
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Various
A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independentl…
1891 Collection
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Various
A look at the year 1891 through literature and non-fiction essays first published that year, including works by Mary E Wilkins, Sir Arthur C…
Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 5
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Charles Dickens
2012 was the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth. This is the fifth and last volume; the first volume of short works - fiction, essays, poet…
Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy …
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The President'S Commission On The Assassination Of President Kennedy, President'S Commission On The Assassination Of Presiden and President'S Commission On The Assassination Of President Kennedy
The assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy on November 22, 1963, was a cruel and shocking act of violence directed against a man, a family…
Pipefuls
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Christopher Morley
A delightful collection of 48 essays on various topics of the human condition that caught his fancy. Witty, insightful and funny of course a…
Essays and Dialogues
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Giacomo Leopardi
"We would no more choose to feed the minds of our countrymen and women with the despairing utterances of the pessimist poet, than we wo…
The Logic of Vegetarianism
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Henry Salt
With clear logic and entertaining dialogues, the author presents many reasons for a vegetarian rather than a “flesh-eating” diet, and his ar…
Insect Stories
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Vernon Kellogg
These 13 essays explore the fascinating world of insects all around us. Vernon Kellogg, an eminent entomologist and natural story teller, an…
Prejudices, First Series
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H. L. Mencken
Mencken sharpens his pen and in a collection of short essays delivers acerbic opinions on issues and persons of the time. Among his targets…