Essays & Short Works

The Defendant

by G. K. Chesterton Read by Ray Clare 4.5
A collection of reprinted articles on a wide-range of subjects, all in the unique style of G. K. Chesterton. Using wit, paradox, and good hu…

Mark Twain's Journal Writings

by Mark Twain Read by John Greenman 4.8
This third volume of Mark Twain's journal writings continues on eclectic and varied path established by the first two volumes. Included in t…

The Philippics

by Marcus Tullius Cicero Read by ontheroad 4.4
A philippic is a fiery, damning speech delivered to condemn a particular political actor. The term originates with Demosthenes, who delivere…

From Sunrise Land

by Amy Wilson Carmichael Read by Expatriate 4.6
One of the most renowned of all Protestant Christian missionaries, Amy Carmichael is remembered most for the fifty-five years she spent doin…

Sermons on Several Occasions

by John Wesley Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
John Wesley, along with his brother Charles, are credited with founding the Methodist denomination. "The following Sermons contain the …

Anticipations

by H. G. Wells Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Wells considered this book one of his most important, a natural follow-up to such works as his Man of the Year Million and The Time Machine.…

An Essay on Criticism

by Alexander Pope Read by Aringguth 4.7
An Essay on Criticism is a foundational work of literary criticism by Alexander Pope, blending poetry and philosophical reflection. Written …

Scholia on the Incarnation of the Only-Begotten

by St. Cyril of Alexandria and Cyril Of Alexandria Read by A LibriVox Volunteer 4.6
Thirty-seven short articles discussing "What is Christ?" ( The Reader)

1945 Radio News

4.7
Experience the news from 1945 with this collection of radio broadcasts. This compilation includes various news segments and V-Discs from tha…

An Irishman's difficulties with the Dutch language

by Cuey-Na-Gael Read by Anna Simon 4.7
Jack O'Neill, an Irishman, has just returned from a month's holiday in The Netherlands. Before he left, he had boasted to his friends that h…

Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson

by Robert Louis Stevenson Read by Martin Geeson 4.5
“Extreme busyness…is a symptom of deficient vitality; and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal …

The War That Will End War

by H. G. Wells Read by Peter Thomlinson (1940-2022) 4.4
.About the First World War, and the author's conclusions. Whether or not you agree with these articles/essays, H G Wells does make many vali…

Essays

by Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary …

Radioactive Substances

by Marie Curie Read by Availle 4.9
Marie Curie, born in Warsaw in 1867, was a Polish-French physicist and chemist famous for her work on radioactivity. She was a pioneer in th…

The Art of Travel

by Sir Francis Galton Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
The Art of Travel is a handbook of practical advice for the adventure seeking Victorian. We hear how to organize all steps of a voyage, from…

Spiritual Maxims

by Brother Lawrence Read by Anonymous English Quaker 4.7
Those who have an experiential predisposition in their faith would do well to read The Conversations and Letters of Brother Lawrence… if the…

Woman in the Nineteenth Century

by Margaret Fuller Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Margaret Fuller was an American feminist, writer, and intellectual associated with the Transcendentalist movement. Her book Woman in the Nin…

Essay on the Trial by Jury

by Lysander Spooner Read by BethAnne 4.9
FOR more than six hundred years that is, since Magna Carta, in 1215 there has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutiona…

The Freedmen's Book

by Lydia Maria Child Read by Rhonda Federman 4.7
Lydia Maria Child, an American abolitionist, compiled this collection of short stories and poems by former slaves and noted activists as an …

God, the Invisible King

by H. G. Wells Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
In God, the Invisible King, H. G. Wells presents a thought-provoking exploration of his personal conception of God, distinct from traditiona…

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