Essays & Short Works

The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 01 No. 3

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National Geographic Society


National Geographic Magazine Volume 1 Number 3 published in 1889. Topics of articles are:The Rivers and Valleys of PennsylvaniaTopographic M…

Coleção de Autoras em Português

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Various


Nesta coleção, os voluntários do Librivox reuniram várias obras de autoras que escreveram em Língua Portu…

Verteidigung des Unsinns, der Demut, des Schundromans und anderer mißachteter D…

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G. K. Chesterton


Verschiedene Essays, in denen Dinge wie Schundromane, Planeten, Posse, Demut und unüberlegte Gelübde verteidigt werden. Ein hochve…

Fishing with a Worm

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Bliss Perry


Fishing with a Worm by Bliss Perry includes the poignant and philosophical observations of a fly fisherman lured by the worm. Bliss Perry wa…

Insomnia Collection Vol. 001

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Various


Soporific dullness is in the ear of the listener, and what's tedium incarnate to one person will be another person's passion and delight. Ho…

Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson

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Robert Louis Stevenson


“Extreme busyness…is a symptom of deficient vitality; and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal …

Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War: Some Perspectives

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United States Arms Control And Disarmament Agency


This is a concise yet thorough explanation of what might happen to our world in the aftermath of a nuclear war. The myriad of potential effe…

The Gettysburg Address 150th Anniversary

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Abraham Lincoln


On Thursday, November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln gave a brief address at the dedication of the Soldier's National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pen…

Coffee Break Collection 008 - Animals

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Henry David Thoreau


This is the eighth collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in len…

Eminent Victorians

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Giles Lytton Strachey


On Modern Library's list of 100 Best Non-Fiction books, "Eminent Victorians" marked an epoch in the art of biography; it also help…

Neighbors - Life Stories of the Other Half

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Jacob A. Riis


These stories have come to me from many sources—some from my own experience, others from settlement workers, still others from the records o…

Hidden Treasures

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Harry A. Lewis


"Some succeed while others fail. This is a recognized fact; yet history tells us that seven-tenths of our most successful men began lif…

Lincoln at Cooper Union

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Abraham Lincoln


On 27 February 1860, Abraham Lincoln gave this address at the Cooper Union in New York City. When he gave the speech, Lincoln was considered…

Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 039

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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm


Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres.Der Luftballon übersetzt von Marie Franzos (1870 - 1941)Die…

Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People

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Charles Dickens


Sketches by Boz is a collection of short pieces published by Charles Dickens in 1836 accompanied by illustrations by George Cruikshank. It c…

热风 (Hot Wind)

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Xun Lu


《热风》是鲁迅的第一本杂文集，收录了41篇他于1918－1924年间发表的短文。这些文章长短不一，题材广泛，灵活多变，风格辛辣尖锐，大大发展重塑了杂文这一文学体裁，在新文化运动中起了重要作用。This is the first collection of short essays…

Lord Kitchener

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G. K. Chesterton


“The paradox of all this part of his life lies in this--that, destined as he was to be the greatest enemy of Mahomedanism, he was quite exce…

The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism

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Bertrand Russell


This book records Bertrand Russell's impressions of the new regime after a 1920 visit to Russia following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, inc…

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