Essays & Short Works
Hobbies
This is the 28th Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read stories or poems, fiction or non-fiction pieces of fifte…
Theological Essays
Charles Bradlaugh was an English political activist and atheist who founded the National Secular Society in 1866. In the 23 "Theologica…
Thrilling Stories of the Ocean
Authentic accounts of modern voyagers and travelers; designed for the entertainment and instruction of young people. - Summary by Marmaduke …
The National Geographic Magazine
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the June Number. It includes the following articles:* The Seine, the Meuse, and th…
Zorra Boys at Home and Abroad
By Zorra, in the following sketches, is meant a little district in Oxford county, Ontario, some ten miles square, composed of part of East a…
It Might Have Happened to You
This is a frank eyewitness description of the suffering, starvation in particular, that was widely experienced in Central and Eastern Europe…
The Spirit of Place
Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' S…
The Mob Violence and the American Negro
According to the author of the Preface, "Mr. Lester is also zealous to bring about a better relation and a better understanding between…
Traveling Sketches
In this small book, Anthony Trollope describes with his characteristic wit and satire the different types of travelers commonly encountered …
G.K. Chesterton
Four articles/essays written by G.K. Chesterton for "The British Review". These were published in 1913 and 1914. (Summary by Maria…
The Early Diary of Frances Burney
Vol. 1 of Diaries and letters of the young Fanny Burney. The diaries give a lively and accurate account of her experiences in the literary a…
Short Nonfiction Collection
Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. "Our constitution is color-blind... the law regards man as man and takes no accoun…
Out of the Dark
Out of the Dark: Essays, Lectures, and Addresses on Physical and Social Vision is a collection of Helen Keller's writings, compiled by the a…
Monthly supplement of the penny magazine
"Monthly supplement of the penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge" is an illustrated periodical misce…
Monthly supplement of the penny magazine
"Monthly supplement of the penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge" is an illustrated periodical misce…
The Penny Magazine
The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was published in competition to Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, which …
Monthly Supplement of the penny magazine
"Monthly supplement of the penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge" is an illustrated periodical misce…
The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was published in competition to Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, which …
The Penny Magazine
The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was published in competition to Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, which …
Monthly Supplement of the penny magazine
Monthly supplement of the penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge" is an illustrated periodical miscellany …