Essays & Short Works

Essays in Radical Empiricism

by William James Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Essays in Radical Empiricism presents a thought-provoking exploration of the nature of experience and reality through the lens of William Ja…

The Servile State

by Hilaire Belloc Read by Ray Clare 4.9
In The Servile State, Hilaire Belloc explores the stark divide between servile and non-servile labor, presenting a thought-provoking analysi…

The Ballad of Reading Gaol

by Oscar Wilde Read by John Gonzalez 4.7
Wilde’s meditation on capital punishment, the Ballad of Reading Gaol comes after he was convicted and imprisoned under charges of gross inde…

The Proper Distinction Between Law and Gospel

by C. F. W. Walther Read by Jonathan Lange 4.9
From September 12, 1884 through November 6, 1885, C.F.W. Walther delivered a series of 39 Friday evening lectures to his students at Concord…

The Age of Reason

by Thomas Paine Read by JoeD 4.7
The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology is a pamphlet, written by a British and American revolutionary Thoma…

Mark Twain's Journal Writings

by Mark Twain Read by John Greenman 4.5
In this engaging collection, Mark Twain offers a series of essays that reflect his sharp wit and keen observations of society. Volume 1 feat…

Stickeen

by John Muir Read by Sue Anderson 4.7
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, …

Memoirs of a Revolutionist

by Peter Kropotkin Read by Elin 4.9
Peter Kropotkin was a Russian anarcho-communist and scientist. This is his autobiography, and he writes not only about his own life, but als…

Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology

by Carl Gustav Jung Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
A collection of classical writings of Swiss psychologist Carl G. Jung, an influential thinker and the founder of analytical psychology. Writ…

On Liberty

by John Stuart Mill Read by John Stuart Mill 4.9
"On Liberty," a seminal work by philosopher John Stuart Mill. Mill felt there were no definite standards for defining what societ…

Anarchism and Other Essays

by Emma Goldman Read by Expatriate 4.8
Emma Goldman, the most famous anarchist in American history, shows the whole range of her iconoclastic thought in this collection of essays.…

The Fourth Dimension Simply Explained

by Henry Parker Manning Read by Availle 4.5
In January 1909 a friend of the Scientific American paid the sum of 500$ which was to be awarded as a prize for the best popular explanation…

Catholic and Anti-Catholic History

by Various Read by Janet Baker 4.5
Catholic and Anti-Catholic History presents a thought-provoking exploration of how historical narratives can be shaped into tools of propaga…

1941 Radio News

by P. G. Wodehouse 5
Explore the news from 1941 in this fascinating audio collection. This compilation offers a glimpse into the events and stories that shaped t…

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

by Mary Wollstonecraft Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in which she argued that women are not naturally inferior…

Letters of Travel

by Rudyard Kipling Read by Tim Bulkeley (1948-2019) 4.2
Three books of travel writing (between them covering the USA, Canada, Japan and Egypt) by the Nobel Prize winning author of the Just So Stor…

Faces and Places

by Sir Henry W. Lucy Read by Ruth Golding 4.5
Faces and Places is a collection of articles on nineteenth century travel, events and personalities by the British journalist Henry Lucy, wh…

Eugenics and Other Evils

by G. K. Chesterton Read by David Grizzly Smith 4.6
I think G.K. Chesterton explains his book rather well in his introduction, but it might help to start with a sense of the time in question. …

Institutes of the Christian Religion

by John Calvin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Institutes of the Christian Religion is John Calvin's seminal work on Protestant systematic theology. Highly influential in the Western worl…

An Inquiry into the Human Mind

by Thomas Reid Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
An Inquiry into the Human Mind by Thomas Reid is a foundational text in the philosophy of perception, challenging the prevailing views of hi…

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