Essays & Short Works
124 books
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...
2 hours 27 minutes
Essays & Short Works
2.2K
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...
12 hours 37 minutes
Essays & Short Works
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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...
4 hours 39 minutes
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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...
5 hours 37 minutes
Essays & Short Works
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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...
4 hours 48 minutes
Essays & Short Works
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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...
6 hours 49 minutes
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...
2 hours 14 minutes
