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The Pleasures of Ignorance

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Robert Lynd


From the pen of the Irish poet and essayist, Robert Lynd, comes a collection of humorous and satirical essays on topics as wide ranging as c…

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition, Volume 4

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Edgar Allan Poe


This, the fourth of 5 volumes containing Poe's works, contains 22 of his short stories. Warning: Section 7, "A Predicament," conta…

The Book of This and That

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Robert Lynd


From the pen of the Irish poet and essayist, Robert Lynd, comes a collection of humorous and satirical essays on topics as wide ranging as s…

The Abominations of Modern Society

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Thomas De Witt Talmage


The title gives an accurate description of the book! It is full of old and forgotten words and phrases, Amusing at times, but addressing the…

The Red Room

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August Strindberg


A young idealistic civil servant, Arvid Falk, leaves the drudgery of bureaucracy to become a journalist and author. As he explores various s…

Ingersoll on ABRAHAM LINCOLN, from the Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 3, …

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Robert G. Ingersoll


Col. Ingersoll begins his popular lecture series on famous persons as follows: "It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and …

J. M. Synge and the Ireland of His Time

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William Butler Yeats


William Butler Yeats recounts his experiences with friend and colleague, John Millington Synge. - Summary by Kyle James Maclean

God and my Neighbour

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Robert Blatchford


"I have been asked why I have opposed Christianity. I have several reasons, which shall appear in due course. At present I offer one. I…

Lost Leaders

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Andrew Lang


Andrew Lang, best beloved for his series of fairy books, has collected here essays on wide ranging topics from golf and shaving to Thackeray…

On A Shadow In A Glass

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Jonathan Swift


Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who …

Phineas Redux (Version 2)

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Anthony Trollope


Phineas Finn (hero from an earlier novel in this series) returns to London from Scotland and reenters the political scene. After some hurdl…

Reviews

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Oscar Wilde


Wilde’s literary reputation has survived so much that I think it proof against any exhumation of articles which he or his admirers would hav…

The Art of Letters

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Robert Lynd


From the pen of the Irish poet and essayist, Robert Lynd, comes a collection of humorous and satirical essay on the literary scene of his da…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 046

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Various


Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include meteor showers, smallpox inoculation…

Robert Browning (Version 2)

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G. K. Chesterton


This mystery of the unconscious man, far deeper than any mystery of the conscious one, existing as it does in all men, existed peculiarly in…

Short Poetry Collection 111

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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Jack London, Walt Whitman and Robert Frost


This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for August 2012.

Four Hundred Years of Freethought, Part 1

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Samuel Porter Putnam


This is Samuel Putnam's tour of European literature which began to appear once the globe was circumnavigated and the printing press made boo…

Modern Monologues

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Marjorie Benton Cooke


The monologue is a character study in little; the apotheosis of a chosen individuality. All the little studies in this book have stood the t…

Echoes of the Forest

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William Edgar Brown


Twenty-six stories of first nations' origin rendered in English in verse. The author's dedication claims the stories "help us to unders…

Black No More

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George Schuyler


Being an account of the strange and wonderful workings of science in the land of the free, A.D. 1933-1940. (Summary by author)

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