Essays & Short Works
Coffee Break Collection 016 - Crime
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Various
This is the sixteenth collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between about 3 and 15 minut…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 041
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Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include a woman in Alaska, Cuban folklore,…
Word Portraits of Famous Writers
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Mabel E. Wotton
Mabel Elizabeth Wotton, an author herself, moved in the literary circles of the late nineteenth century establishing many close friendships,…
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 017
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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. 018
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A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the rea…
Eighteenth Century Poetry and Prose
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A collection of prose and poetry written principally in the 18th Century. These works of world literature are written in the English languag…
1912: Short Works Collection
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This is a collection of public domain works either published in 1912, or written in 1912 and published before 1923. The accent is on non-fic…
Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii
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Mark Twain
By the time Mark Twain worked as a roving reporter for the Sacramento Union, he had held positions with other newspapers in Nevada and Calif…
My Discovery of England
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Stephen Leacock
"In the course of time a very considerable public feeling was aroused in the United States and Canada over this state of affairs. The l…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 039
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Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include literary figures--Alice Mangold Di…
Coffee Break Collection 021 - Fairy Tales, Tall Stories and Scams
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This is the twenty-first Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select English language public domain works of about 15 minutes …
Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 051
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Diese Sammlung umfasst 10 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres. "Im Gerichtssaal" übersetzt von Marie Franzos (1…
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XI, North Carolina Narratives, Part 2
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These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…
The Columbian Orator
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Caleb Bingham
The Columbian Orator, a collection of political essays, poems, and dialogues first published in 1797, was widely used in American schoolroom…
The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
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Mary Webb
Mary Webb was a novelist and poet and two of her novels "Gone to Earth" and "Precious Bane" have been successfully adapt…
The Spirit of American Literature
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John Albert Macy
THE SPIRIT OF AMERICAN LITERATURE is a collection of essays reviewing contemporary authors on the literary scene at the turn of the century …
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 042
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Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include biographies of astronomer Fiammett…
Shadowings
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Lafcadio Hearn
This is another of the popular books that Lafcadio Hearn wrote on various Japanese subjects. The first part "Stories From Strange Books…
Bashan And I
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Thomas Mann
Simple and unpretentious as a statement by Francis d’Assisi, yet full of a gentle modern sophistication and humour, this little work will br…