Essays & Short Works
Life's Enthusiasms
Read by Bill Boerst
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…
Theodore Roosevelt
Read by David Wales
Henry Cabot Lodge
A biographical encomium delivered on the occasion of Roosevelt's death. Theodore "T.R." Roosevelt, Jr. (1858 – 1919) was an Amer…
The Plain Speaker
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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…
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…
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
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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…
The Man in the Iron Mask
Read by John Van Stan
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…
Short Nonfiction Collection
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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
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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…
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
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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…
The Warren Report
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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…
The Logic of Vegetarianism
Read by Lee Smalley
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…
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…
Prejudices
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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…
Cobb's Anatomy
Read by Carl Vonnoh, III
Irvin S. Cobb
Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb was born on June 23, 1876. At seventeen years of age, he began writing for the Paducah Daily News, his hometown paper…
On Nothing & Kindred Subjects
Read by Ray Clare
Hilaire Belloc
“I knew a man once, Maurice, who was at Oxford for three years, and after that went down with no degree. At College, while his friends were …
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…
Insomnia Collection
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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…
Curiosities of Literature
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Isaac D'Israeli
This is a collection of short essays on literature. Various subjects are discussed, such as libraries, critics, the classics, and all sorts …