Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 030

Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include botany, dreams, farming, history, literature, nature, and religion. (summary by Sue Anderson)

Rachel Gatwood and 13 more 5 hours 41 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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William Cobbett - Rural Rides

William Cobbett: 1763-1835 English farmer, journalist and politician. His book Rural Rides collects together the articles published in his Political Register between 1822 and 1826, reflecting conditions of farmers and...

Nicole Lee 23 hours 53 minutes

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Insomnia Collection Vol. 004

Soporific dullness is in the ear of the listener, and what's tedium incarnate to one person will be another person's passion and delight. However, it is hoped that at least one from the range of topics here presented...

TriciaG and 16 more 17 hours 12 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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1891 Collection

A look at the year 1891 through literature and non-fiction essays first published that year, including works by Mary E Wilkins, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sara Orne Jewett, and Oscar Wilde. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

Bellona Times 5 hours 51 minutes

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Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together With Death's Duel

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John Donne - Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together With Death's Duel

Devotions upon Emergent Occasions is a 1624 prose work by the English theologian and writer John Donne, Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. It is a series of reflections that were written as Donne recovered from a...

David Wales 9 hours 11 minutes

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 029

Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include architecture, education, philosophy, religion, health, humor, history, and literature. (Summary by Sue Anderson)

Craig Campbell and 17 more 5 hours 49 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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John Milton - Areopagitica (Version 2)

The noblest and most extensive defense of freedom of the press in English. Although Milton was sufficiently practical to serve as a censor of books himself when his opposition to this practice was ignored by the...

Thomas A. Copeland 2 hours 47 minutes

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Jack London - Valley of the Moon

The novel Valley of the Moon is a story of a working-class couple, Billy and Saxon Roberts, struggling laborers in Oakland at the Turn-of-the-Century, who left the city life behind and searched Central and Northern...

Richard Kilmer 19 hours 8 minutes

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G.K. Chesterton's Newspaper Columns: The New Witness - November 1919 to April 1920

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G. K. Chesterton - G.K. Chesterton's Newspaper Columns: The New Witness - November 1919 to April 1920

A collection of the newspaper columns/essays written by G.K. Chesterton for «The New Witness», under the heading «At the Sign of the World's End». This project compiles the articles included in the issues between...

J F Parks and 7 more 1 hour 55 minutes

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Matthew Arnold - Culture and Anarchy

Culture and Anarchy is a series of periodical essays by Matthew Arnold, first published in Cornhill Magazine 1867-68 and collected as a book in 1869. The preface was added in 1875. Arnold's famous piece of writing on...

Nicole Lee 6 hours 1 minute

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Booker T. Washington - Character Building

Character Building is a compilation of speeches, given by Mr. Booker T. Washington, to the students and staff of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (now known as Tuskegee University). Booker T....

Luke Sartor 6 hours 38 minutes

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Mark Twain - Mark Twain's Journal Writings, Volume 1

Volume 1 contains these 12 essays: 1.) «Americans on a Visit to the Emperor of Russia.» 2.) «The Austrian Edison keeping school again» 3.) «The Canvasser's tale.» 4.) «The Czar's Soliloquy.» 5.) «English as She is...

John Greenman 2 hours 31 minutes

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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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