Essays & Short Works

Declaration of Rights

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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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Various



Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres."Vision" übersetzt von Georg von Ompteda (1863-1…

Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 025

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Various



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".…

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…

Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 016

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Various



Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres.

Woman and War

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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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Various



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…

A Room of One's Own

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Virginia Woolf



This feminist essay argues for both a literal and figural space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by patriarchy. First…

A Handy Guide for Beggars, Especially Those of the Poetic Fraternity

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Nicholas Vachel Lindsay



"Being sundry explorations, made while afoot and penniless in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, New Jersey, and Pe…

An Essay on Criticism (version 2)

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Alexander Pope



The title, An Essay on Criticism hardly indicates all that is included in the poem. It would have been impossible to give a full and exact i…

The Pleasures of Ignorance

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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 c…

Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 033

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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm



Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres.!Ein Wettlauf" übersetzt von Margarete Jacobi"Die…

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 030

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Various



Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include botany, dreams, farming, history, li…

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 019

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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. 035

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Various



Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include how to swim, Navajo silversmithing…

Coffee Break Collection 020 - Old Age

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Various



The Librivox Coffee Break Collections are themed anthologies, selected and read by Librivox readers. Each short piece is fifteen minutes lon…

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 028

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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…

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