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G. K. Chesterton - Heretics

The Author Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London, England on the 29th of May, 1874. Though he considered himself a mere «rollicking journalist,» he was actually a prolific and gifted writer in virtually every...

Ray Clare 7 hours 15 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Rudyard Kipling - American Notes

In American Notes, Rudyard Kipling, the Nobel Prize-winning author of the Jungle Book, visits the USA. As the travel-diary of an Anglo-Indian Imperialist visiting the USA, these American Notes offer an interesting...

Tim Bulkeley 2 hours 47 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

470

Jerome K. Jerome - Stage Land

A comic look at the curious habits and customs of the inhabitants of 'Stage Land'. Dedicated to 'that highly respectable but unnecessarily retiring individual, of whom we hear so much but see so little, «the earnest...

David Muncaster 1 hour 54 minutes

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Poetry

439

Local Color Collection Vol. 001

In this celebration of diversity, learn about the myriad histories and cultures behind our volunteers. (summary by Eric Ray)

Alan Davis Drake and 14 more 3 hours 19 minutes

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 004

A collection of eleven short nonfiction works in the public domain. The items included in this collection were independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass history, conservation, philosophy,...

ML Cohen and 6 more 3 hours 55 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 003

A collection of ten short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass history, politics...

Clarica and 4 more 2 hours 9 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 002

A collection of ten short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass history, politics,...

Robert Scott and 6 more 2 hours 44 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 001

A collection of ten short essays or other short nonfiction works in the public domain read by Librivox volunteers.

Leon Mire and 5 more 2 hours 57 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Miscellaneous Essays of Thomas de Quincey

Essays & Short Works

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Thomas de Quincey - Miscellaneous Essays of Thomas de Quincey

The Hunter Thompson of the 19th Century, de Quincey is best known for his Confessions of an English Opium Eater (an activity shared with his hero, Samuel Coleridge, much to Wordsworth’s dismay). However, de Quincey’s...

Richard Grove and 6 more 8 hours 12 minutes

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Ralph Waldo Emerson - Essays, First Series

“We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal ONE....

Linda Leu and 6 more 8 hours 28 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

540

Leon Trotsky - From October to Brest-Litovsk

This account by Trotsky is of the events in Russia from the October Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd, to his signing of the Brest-Litovsk treaty with Germany on 3rd March 1918 which took Russia out of the First World...

Rebecca Dittman 4 hours 1 minute

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Insomnia Collection Vol. 003

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 9 more 15 hours 48 minutes

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