Essays & Short Works
Stage Land
Read by David Muncaster
Jerome K. Jerome
A comic look at the curious habits and customs of the inhabitants of 'Stage Land'. Dedicated to 'that highly respectable but unnecessarily r…
Food and Drink
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Various
This is the sixth collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in leng…
Short Nonfiction Collection
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Various
A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and reports included in these collecti…
Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa
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Various
Diese Sammlung umfasst 10 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres.
In Our Convent Days
Read by Mary Schneider
Agnes Repplier
With her usual wit and charm, Ms. Repplier recalls her days at Eden Hall, the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Torresdale, north of Philadelph…
Historical Newspaper Articles
Read by Lee Ann Howlett
Various
This collection of 20 public domain newspaper articles comprises volume 2 of Historic Newspaper Articles in the LibriVox collection. Both U.…
Miscellaneous Essays
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Thomas De Quincey
The Hunter Thompson of the 19th Century, de Quincey is best known for his Confessions of an English Opium Eater (an activity shared with his…
Short Nonfiction Collection
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Various
A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were inde…
Short Nonfiction Collection
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Various
A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and reports included in this collectio…
Leo Tolstoy
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G. K. Chesterton
Three men of letters give insightful essays on the work of Leo Tolstoy. (Summary by Larry Wilson)
Historical Newspaper Articles
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Various
Public Domain newspaper articles in the US span a period of nearly two and a half centuries. Subjects, styles, period, publisher, and length…
This, That, and the Other
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Hilaire Belloc
“When Fame comes upon a man well before death then must he most particularly beware of it, for is it then most dangerous. Neither must he, h…
The National Geographic Magazine
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National Geographic Society
National Geographic Magazine Volume 1 Number 4 published in 1889. Topics of articles are:Irrigation in CaliforniaRound about AshevilleA Trip…
Short Nonfiction Collection
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Various and Plato
A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the rea…
The Night Side of New York
Read by Grant Hurlock
Various
This nonfiction collection of sketches, by "members of the New York press," takes the reader on a tour of 1866 New York City after…
The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing
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Joseph Trienens and Joseph Triemens
Written in 1910, this "cyclopedia" is full of information that was quite useful at the time. A hundred years later, its text is mo…
On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery
Read by Martin Clifton
Joseph Lister
Joseph Lister was born near London in 1827. He studied medicine at the University of London and pursued a career as a surgeon in Scotland. H…
First Fifty Digits of Pi
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Scott Hemphill
56 flavors of Pi proudly produced by LibriVox volunteers to celebrate Pi Day, 2008. (3/14) Don't worry, you don't have to listen to an infin…
Gleanings in Buddha Fields
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Lafcadio Hearn
Lafcadio Hearn was one of the first Westerners to live in Japan during the early Meiji era, and a prolific writer. Although chiefly known fo…