Essays & Short Works

The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex

by Charles Darwin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Part 2 of 3 of a book on evolutionary theory by English naturalist Charles Darwin, first published in 1871. It was Darwin's second great boo…

American Psychology

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
This is the first of what is intended to be three projects featuring journal articles which chart the development of psychology as an academ…

Beyond Good and Evil

by Friedrich Nietzsche Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
First published in 1886 at Nietzsche’s own expense, the book was not initially considered important. In it, Nietzsche denounced what he cons…

Book of the Damned

by Charles Hoy Fort Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.6
The Book of the Damned was the first published nonfiction work of the author Charles Fort (first edition 1919). Dealing with various types o…

The Compleat Angler

by Izaak Walton Read by Nicole Lee 3.9
The Compleat Angler is a celebration of the art and spirit of fishing in prose and verse. Walton did not profess to be an expert with the fl…

El viajero y su sombra

by Friedrich Nietzsche Read by Epachuko 4.4
Primer volumen de recopilación de 408 opiniones y sentencias del célebre filósofo alemán en el que expone las pr…

On the Popular Judgment

by Immanuel Kant Read by D.E. Wittkower 4
This tripartite essay – published variously as “On the Popular Judgment” (J. Richardson trans.), “On the Old Saw” (E.B. Ashton trans.), or “…

Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei

by Friedrich Engels Read by Rainer 4.6
Karl Marx und Friedrich Engels schrieben ihr Manifest im Dezember 1847, als Leitfaden fuer die grundsaetzlichen Prinzipien und Praktiken des…

The Coming of the Fairies

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
After a number of deaths in his close family, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle turned to spiritualism in hope of finding proof of the afterlife. Being…

The Sunny Side

by A. A. Milne Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
The Sunny Side is a collection of short stories and essays by A. A. Milne. Though Milne is best known for his classic children's books, espe…

A Personal Anthology of Shakespeare

by William Shakespeare Read by Martin Clifton 4.4
This personal anthology is my choice of speeches from Shakespeare that I enjoy reading (that I would like to have had by heart years ago!) a…

Omens and Superstitions of Southern India

by Edgar Thurston Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
Omens and Superstitions of Southern India explores the rich tapestry of beliefs and practices that shape the psychical life of the people in…

The Book of Lies

by Aleister Crowley Read by P. J. Taylor 3.8
The Book of Lies, or Liber 333, is a holy book in the Western occult tradition of Thelema, consisting of 91 short chapters of poems, aphoris…

Principles of Economics

by Alfred Marshall Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Principles of Economics was a leading economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), first published in 1890. Marshall began writing the…

The Greek View of Life

by Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson Read by Martin Geeson 4.3
“With the Greek civilisation beauty perished from the world. Never again has it been possible for man to believe that harmony is in fact the…

Cocoa and Chocolate

by Arthur William Knapp Read by Allyson Hester 4.3
As that heavenly bit of chocolate melts in our mouths, we give little thought as to where it came from, the arduous work that went in to its…

Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution

by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Read by Christian Pecaut 3.5
In the heat of the failed 1905 revolution in Russia, Lenin here contrasts the precision of the Bolshevik political program and tactics with …

The Phenomenology of Mind

by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.3
Phänomenologie des Geistes (1807) is Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's most important and widely discussed philosophical work. Hegel's fi…

Zum ewigen Frieden

by Immanuel Kant Read by Christian Al-Kadi 4.6
In der Abhandlung „Zum ewigen Frieden" wendet Kant die Grundsätze seiner Moralphilosophie auf die Beziehungen zwischen Staaten an.…

Ancient Greek Philosopher-Scientists

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.7
The Pre-Socratic Greek philosophers, that is, the philosopher-scientists who lived before or contemporaneously to Socrates, were the first m…

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