Essays & Short Works
Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 1 (1868-1890)
Read by Rob Marland
Oscar Wilde
This first collection of the correspondence of Oscar Wilde begins with the Irish playwright's earliest extant letter, thanking his mother fo…
The Fringes Of The Fleet
Read by David Wales
Rudyard Kipling
During the war (WWI), [Kipling] wrote a booklet The Fringes of the Fleet containing essays and poems on various nautical subjects of the war…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 043
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Various
Nineteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the role of "people of color&…
Essays on Art
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Essays on art, letters, thoughts, aphorisms - Goethe's thoughts were dealing with artworks of every branch of arts. He addressed many aspect…
Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence
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Alice Dunbar Nelson
It seems eminently fitting and proper in this year, the fiftieth anniversary of the Proclamation of Emancipation that the Negro should give …
Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy
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Stephen Leacock
Humorous, ironic, and sometimes cynical observations of life in 1915 from Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. (Summary by TriciaG)
Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 014
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Various
Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres."Die Nacht - Ein Traumgesicht" und "Coco" &u…
Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 024
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Various
Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres.
Rural Rides
Read by Nicole Lee
William Cobbett
William Cobbett: 1763-1835 English farmer, journalist and politician. His book Rural Rides collects together the articles published in his P…
Declaration of Rights
Read by Shurtagal
Stamp Act Congress
On June 8, 1765 James Otis, supported by the Massachusetts Assembly sent a letter to each colony calling for a general meeting of delegates.…
Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 015
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Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres."Vision" übersetzt von Georg von Ompteda (1863-1…
Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 016
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Various
Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres.
Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 025
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Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres.
Eureka: A Prose Poem
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Edgar Allan Poe
Eureka is Poe's attempt at explaining the universe, using his general proposition "Because Nothing was, therefore All Things are".…
A Room of One's Own
Read by Cori Samuel
Virginia Woolf
This feminist essay argues for both a literal and figural space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by patriarchy. First…
Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 002
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Various
Diese Sammlung umfasst verschiedene deutschsprachige Texte aller Genres, Fiktion, Non-Fiktion und Lyrik.Eine Liste weiterer kurzer Aufnahmen…
Woman and War
Read by NoelBadrian
Olive Schreiner
Olive Schreiner was a South African writer born in 1855 to missionary parents in the Eastern Cape. She is credited with being the first Inte…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 057
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Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Natural cataclysm is the subject of several readin…
Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 030
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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres."Die Blumen der kleinen Ida" übersetzt von Paul A…
The Book of This and That
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Robert Lynd
From the pen of the Irish poet and essayist, Robert Lynd, comes a collection of humorous and satirical essays on topics as wide ranging as s…