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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 012

A collection of fifteen 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 humor, history,...

Bellona Times and 6 more 4 hours 37 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Poetry

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Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) - Ars Poetica and Carmen Saeculare

The Ars Poetica, by Horace, also known as Epistula ad Pisones, is a treatise on poetry written in the form of a letter, and published around 18 B.C. In it, Horace defines and exemplifies the nature, scope and correct...

Leni 1 hour 58 minutes

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G. K. Chesterton - What I Saw in America

“Let me begin my American impressions with two impressions I had before I went to America. One was an incident and the other an idea; and when taken together they illustrate the attitude I mean. The first principle...

Ray Clare 9 hours 55 minutes

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G. K. Chesterton - Crimes of England

«Second, when telling such lies as may seem necessary to your international standing, do not tell the lies to the people who know the truth. Do not tell the Eskimos that snow is bright green; nor tell the negroes in...

Ray Clare 3 hours 27 minutes

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G. K. Chesterton - Utopia of Usurers

“Now I have said again and again (and I shall continue to say again and again on all the most inappropriate occasions) that we must hit Capitalism, and hit it hard, for the plain and definite reason that it is...

Ray Clare 3 hours 40 minutes

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Edmund Gosse - Gossip in a Library

A collection of informal essays about books in his library. He combines commentary, translations, and humorous asides about authors and their subjects

musil 6 hours 28 minutes

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G. K. Chesterton - Tremendous Trifles

“None of us think enough of these things on which the eye rests. But don't let us let the eye rest. Why should the eye be so lazy? Let us exercise the eye until it learns to see startling facts that run across the...

Ray Clare 6 hours 15 minutes

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George Bernard Shaw - Quintessence of Ibsenism (Version 2)

InThis is an essay providing an extended analysis of the works of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen and of Ibsen's critical reception in England. Shaw uses this «exposition of Ibsenism» to illustrate the...

Gesine and 9 more 4 hours 17 minutes

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G. K. Chesterton - Superstition of Divorce

This short book was written in 1920, and in it Chesterton, with his usual wit and incisive logic, presents a series of articles defending marriage and indicating the weaknesses in divorce. He did this 16 years before...

Ray Clare 2 hours 36 minutes

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G. K. Chesterton - Eugenics and Other Evils

Most Eugenists are Euphemists. I mean merely that short words startle them, while long words soothe them. And they are utterly incapable of translating the one into the other, however obviously they mean the same...

Ray Clare 5 hours 17 minutes

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Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens

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G. K. Chesterton - Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens

“These papers were originally published as prefaces to the separate books of Dickens in one of the most extensive of those cheap libraries of the classics which are one of the real improvements of recent times. Thus...

Ray Clare 8 hours 27 minutes

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 010

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

Jerome Lawsen and 11 more 4 hours 33 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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