Essays & Short Works
The Appetite of Tyranny
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G. K. Chesterton
“Unless we are all mad, there is at the back of the most bewildering business a story: and if we are all mad, there is no such thing as madn…
Stickeen
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John Muir
A great dog story, a well told tale--the naturalist and adventurer John Muir recounts how he and his companion, a dog named Stickeen, each, …
Squirrels and Other Fur-bearers
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John Burroughs
Squirrels and other Fur-Bearers, a collection of essays by American naturalist and essayist, John Burroughs, provides fascinating insight in…
Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass
These two articles were reproduced as an e-book by Project Gutenberg in 2008 to supplement "...several articles by Frederick Douglass,…
The Wound Dresser
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Walt Whitman
The Wound Dresser is a series of letters written from the hospitals in Washington by Walt Whitman during the War of the Rebellion to The New…
Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection
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Charles Dickens
The Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection comprises short works previously unrecorded for LibriVox - fiction, essays, poetry, letters…
Short Story Collection
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Various
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 004: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members.
African-American Collection
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Various
This collection recognizes Black History Month, February 2007. Two excellent resources for public domain African American writing are Africa…
Travel
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Various
This is the seventh collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in le…
Short Story Collection
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Various
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 002: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members.
Kokoro
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Lafcadio Hearn
In an introductory paragraph, Lafcadio Hearn declares his intention: "The papers composing this volume treat of the inner rather than …
Curiosities of Olden Times
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Sabine Baring-Gould
This book is a collection of 17 gems of random knowledge, such as what women are made of and the philosopher's stone, written in Baring-Goul…
An Address to Free Colored Americans
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An Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women
The first Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women met in New York City in May, 1837. Members at the Convention came from all walks of life…
The World’s Story
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Eva March Tappan
This is the first volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Ta…
Short Story Collection
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Various
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 008: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.
Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens
Read by Ray Clare
G. K. Chesterton
“These papers were originally published as prefaces to the separate books of Dickens in one of the most extensive of those cheap libraries o…
Revolution
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Jack London
A collection of 13 essays written between 1900 and 1908, published in 1910. The lead essay, "Revolution", outlines how and why Lon…
A Holy Life the Beauty of Christianity
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John Bunyan
Written in the late 1600s by John Bunyan, author of The Pilgrim's Progress, this treatise exhorts Christians to holy living. Bunyan takes as…