Essays & Short Works
Fathers of Biology
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Charles Mcrae
An account given of the lives of five great naturalists (Hippocrates, Aristotle, Galen, Vesalius and Harvey) will not be found devoid of int…
Christmas Short Works Collection 2007
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Various
LibriVox’s 2007 Christmas Short Works Collection containing public domain short stories, essays, poems, and scripture passages recorded by a…
The Early History of the Airplane
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Orville Wright
The Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air flight, on 17th December 1903. They…
The Sunny Side
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A. A. Milne
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…
Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
This is a collection of newspaper articles written by Samuel Clemens, for various newspapers, between 1862 and 1881. After Feb 3rd 1863, he …
Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort
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Edith Wharton
American novelist Edith Wharton was living in Paris when World War I broke out in 1914. She obtained permission to visit sites behind the li…
Kepler
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Walter W. Bryant
This biography of Johannes Kepler begins with an account of what the world of astronomy was like before his time, then proceeds to a look at…
Not That It Matters
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A. A. Milne
More of the witty, wry, and deliciously wicked essays and articles written by Milne. Most people know him as the creator of Winnie The Pooh,…
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 01 No. 2
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National Geographic Society
National Geographic Magazine Volume 1 Number 2 published in 1889. Topics of articles are:Africa, its Past and FutureReports on:Geography of …
The Freedmen's Book
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Lydia Maria Child
Lydia Maria Child, an American abolitionist, compiled this collection of short stories and poems by former slaves and noted activists as an …
The Golden Age
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Kenneth Grahame
The Golden Age is a collection of reminiscences of childhood, written by Kenneth Grahame and originally published in book form in 1895, in L…
Industrial Conspiracies
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
Clarence Darrow
Publisher's Note.—This address was delivered shortly after Mr. Darrow's triumphant acquittal on a charge growing out of his defense of the M…
The Treaty with China
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Mark Twain
"A good candidate for 'the most under-appreciated work by Mark Twain' would be 'The Treaty With China,' which he published in the New Y…
The Jumping Frog
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Mark Twain
"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is an 1865 short story by Mark Twain. It was also published as "The Notorio…
Tolstoy on Shakespeare
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Leo Tolstoy
This book contains a critical essay on Shakespeare by Leo Tolstoy. It is followed by another essay named "Shakespeare's attitude to the…
Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll, Volume 2
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Robert G. Ingersoll
A second volume of lectures by the most famous orator of the 19th century. Ingersoll was a tireless crusader for the dignity of humanity, an…
American Notes
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Rudyard Kipling
In American Notes, Rudyard Kipling, the Nobel Prize-winning author of the Jungle Book, visits the USA. As the travel-diary of an Anglo-India…
Irish Impressions
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G. K. Chesterton
“For the Irish Question has never been discussed in England. Men have discussed Home Rule; but those who advocated it most warmly, and as I …
The Compleat Angler
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Izaak Walton
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…