Essays & Short Works

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Max Baginski - Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 2, April 1906

«Mother Earth was an American anarchist journal that described itself as „A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature“. Founded in early 1906 and initially edited by Emma Goldman, an activist in the...

Larry Wilson and 7 more 2 hours 27 minutes

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Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast, Volume 1

Essays & Short Works

688

William Cowper Brann - Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast, Volume 1

William Cowper Brann earned the nickname “The Iconoclast” by fearlessly attacking established beliefs and institutions which he thought to be pompous and self-serving. He settled in the wild and wooly West Texas town...

William Allan Jones and 13 more 12 hours 37 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

662

William Dean Howells - Twain and Howells On Each Other

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) and William Dean Howells were friends for 44 years. Their personal and professional relationship is considered by many to be one of the most important in American literature. Howells...

John Greenman 3 hours 30 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

634

Bertrand Russell - Practice and Theory of Bolshevism

This book records Bertrand Russell's impressions of the new regime after a 1920 visit to Russia following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, including his meetings with Lenin, Trostky, and Gorky. It includes a chapter...

Landon D. C. Elkind 4 hours 39 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

591

G. K. Chesterton - Uses of Diversity

A collection of 35 essays by G.K. Chesterton originally published in his weekly columns in «The Illustrated London News» and the «New Witness». The subjects vary greatly from lamp posts to Jane Austen's Emma, from «On...

thestorygirl and 14 more 5 hours 37 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

571

Charles S. Brooks - Hints to Pilgrims

In this collection of 17 short essays, Charles S. Brooks (1878-1934), with the usual panache and wit, which he also displays in his comedies, describes funny incidents that can happen to people on holidays or in...

Bob Dunlop and 8 more 4 hours 44 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

542

G. K. Chesterton - Fancies Versus Fads

A Collection of 31 essays from G.K. Chesterton. “I have strung these things together on a slight enough thread; but as the things themselves are slight, it is possible that the thread (and the metaphor) may...

Larry Wilson and 15 more 7 hours 33 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Marcus Tullius Cicero - Treatises On Friendship And Old Age

Friendship. Old Age. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC — 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, orator, lawyer, and philosopher. He is considered one of Rome’s greatest orators and prose stylists. One commentator has written, “The...

David Wales 3 hours 11 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

528

Frank Gelett Burgess - Romance Of The Commonplace

Thirty four whimsical, tongue-in-cheek, and entertaining essays about not much in particular, published in 1902, by one of the most popular writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The American...

David Wales 4 hours 48 minutes

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Plum Pudding: Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned

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Christopher Morley - Plum Pudding: Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned

Chrisopher Morley was an American literary luminary whose prolific writings included novels, essays, poetry, plays and great journalistic output. This collection of essays is wide ranging in topics, many with his...

Larry Wilson and 13 more 6 hours 49 minutes

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Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) and Two Other Reminiscences

Humorous Fiction

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H. G. Wells - Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) and Two Other Reminiscences

Select Conversations with an Uncle, published in 1895, was H.G. Wells's first literary publication in book form. It consists of reports of twelve conversations between a fictional witty uncle who has returned to...

Graham Scott and 5 more 2 hours 14 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 059

Sixteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Volume 59 contains an eclectic mix of readings, ranging from a description of a Coney Island elephant colossus to meditations...

Gerwin Kramer and 9 more 5 hours 5 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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