Politics

Twenty Years at Hull House

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Jane Addams



Jane Addams was the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In a long, complex career, she was a pioneer settlement worker…

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 001

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Various



A collection of ten short essays or other short nonfiction works in the public domain read by LibriVox volunteers.

Offences Against One's Self: Paederasty

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Jeremy Bentham



Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) was an English jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer. He was a political radical and a leading theor…

Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again

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Mark Twain



This satire on the U.S.A.'s myth of being the "Home of the Oppressed, where all men are free and equal", is unrelenting in its pur…

John Stuart Mill; His Life and Works

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Various



This biography is actually a series of essays by prominent personalities of the time that shed light on John Stuart Mill's life and areas of…

The Westminster Alice

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Saki



Published five years before John Kendrick Bangs had the same idea with Alice in Blunderland, Saki, in his 1902 series of satirical articles,…

Felix Holt, The Radical

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George Eliot



"Harold Transome is a landowner who goes against his family's political tradition (much to his mother's distress), while Felix Holt is …

A Yellow Journalist

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Miriam Michelson



Rhoda Massey is a young, sharp reporter for a daily newspaper in San Francisco. After proving herself an astute and fearless investigator on…

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