Essays & Short Works

Short Nonfiction Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
A collection of ten short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independ…

Perpetual Peace, A Philosophic Essay

by Immanuel Kant Read by D.E. Wittkower 4.8
This essay, written in 1795, puts forth a plan for a lasting peace between nations and peoples. Kant puts forth necessary means to any peace…

Signs of Change

by William Morris Read by Deborah Brabyn 4.4
In the 1880s William Morris, the artist and poet famously associated with the Arts and Crafts movement, left the Liberal Party and threw him…

Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule

by Mahatma Gandhi Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
First written in Gandhi's native language Gujarati, this booklet advocates for Indian non-violent self-rule during the struggle for Indian i…

Hidden Treasures

by Harry A. Lewis Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Hidden Treasures offers a collection of inspiring mini-biographies that illuminate the journeys of notable figures who rose from humble begi…

Principles of Economics

by Alfred Marshall Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Principles of Economics was a leading economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), first published in 1890. Marshall began writing the…

Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution

by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Read by Christian Pecaut 3.5
In the heat of the failed 1905 revolution in Russia, Lenin here contrasts the precision of the Bolshevik political program and tactics with …

The Interpretation of Dreams

by Sigmund Freud Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
A neat book on dream analysis by the founding father of psychoanalysis. This book is about the inner theater and the workings of the mind in…

Psychotherapy

by Hugo Münsterberg Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Talking about viewing the Ocean "If I take the attitude of appreciation, it would be absurd to say that this wave is composed of chemic…

A Different Point of View

by TD-0013 Read by TD-0013 4.2
Recently re-mastered with all around better quality sound and production!! Originally aired as a segment for Michael and Evo's Wingin' It! p…

Beyond Good and Evil

by Friedrich Nietzsche Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
First published in 1886 at Nietzsche’s own expense, the book was not initially considered important. In it, Nietzsche denounced what he cons…

The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

by Thomas Henry Huxley Read by J. M. Smallheer 4.5
Thomas H. Huxley, an English biologist and essayist, was an advocate of the theory of evolution and a self-proclaimed agnostic. A talented w…

The Gentleman and Lady's Book of Politeness and Propriety of Deportment

by Élisabeth Celnart Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
The Gentleman and Lady's Book of Politeness and Propriety of Deportment by Élisabeth Celnart is a comprehensive guide to the social g…

The Ego and His Own

by Max Stirner Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.4
In this book, his most famous, Max Stirner presents a philosophical case for a radical egoism that shuns the socially-oriented outlooks of b…

The Prophet

by Kahlil Gibran Read by Michele Fry 4.6
The Prophet is an inspirational book of 28 lyrical prose essays on life, love, children, religion, work, and more, - written in English by t…

Book of the Damned

by Charles Hoy Fort Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.6
The Book of the Damned was the first published nonfiction work of the author Charles Fort (first edition 1919). Dealing with various types o…

The Art of the Moving Picture

by Vachel Lindsay Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
"This 1922 book by poet and sometime cultural critic Vachel Lindsay might have been the first to treat the then-new medium of moving pi…

Vices are not Crimes

by Lysander Spooner Read by Annise 4.5
In Vices are not Crimes, Lysander Spooner presents a thought-provoking examination of the relationship between individual liberty and govern…

Neighbors

by Jacob A. Riis Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
These stories have come to me from many sources—some from my own experience, others from settlement workers, still others from the records o…

The Silence Dogood Letters

by Benjamin Franklin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
As a teenager, Benjamin Franklin apprenticed with his brother James at the shop where The New-England Courant was printed. Since James would…

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