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Biography & Autobiography

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Mark Twain - In Defense of Harriet Shelley

Mark Twain pulls no punches while exposing the «real» Percy Shelley in this scathing condemnation of Edward Dowden's «Life of Shelley». Even though, as Twain writes, «Shelley's life has the one indelible blot upon it,...

John Greenman 1 hour 43 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 021

A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the readers, and the topics encompass history, war, farming, slavery, education,...

Winston Tharp and 12 more 6 hours 21 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort

Essays & Short Works

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Edith Wharton - Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort

American novelist Edith Wharton was living in Paris when World War I broke out in 1914. She obtained permission to visit sites behind the lines, including hospitals, ravaged villages, and trenches. Fighting France...

Elizabeth Klett 3 hours 20 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 017

A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the readers, and the topics encompass history, science, cooking, economics,...

Piper Hayes and 9 more 5 hours 30 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Essays & Short Works

501

Hilaire Belloc - This, That, and the Other

“When Fame comes upon a man well before death then must he most particularly beware of it, for is it then most dangerous. Neither must he, having achieved it, relax effort nor (a much greater peril) think he has done...

Ray Clare and 1 more 6 hours 30 minutes

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503

Louis D. Brandeis - Other People's Money

Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It is a collection of essays written by Louis Brandeis published as a book in 1914. The book attacked the use of investment funds to promote the consolidation of various...

Andy Minter and 4 more 5 hours 16 minutes

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Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences (Version 2)

Essays & Short Works

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Mark Twain - Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences (Version 2)

This is Mark Twain's vicious and amusing review of Fenimore Cooper's literary art. It is still read widely in academic circles. Twain's essay, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses (often spelled «Offences») (1895),...

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Essays & Short Works

511

Orville Wright - Early History of the Airplane

The Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air flight, on 17th December 1903. They were not the first to build and fly aircraft, but they invented the...

Availle 1 hour 33 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Kate M. Foley - Five Lectures on Blindness

The [five] lectures were written primarily to be delivered at the summer sessions of the University of California, at Berkeley and at Los Angeles, in the summer of 1918... they are the outgrowth of almost a quarter of...

Yazpistachio and 1 more 2 hours 39 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 016

A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the readers, and the topics encompass history, science, literature, sports,...

Gregg Margarite and 10 more 5 hours 30 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Coffee Break Collection 004 - Hodge Podge

Short Stories

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Coffee Break Collection 004 - Hodge Podge

This is a collection of short (15 minute or less readings) fiction or non-fiction works in English suitable for a coffee break at work or a short commuter ride. The theme for this collection is HodgePodge: humor,...

Bellona Times and 12 more 1 hour 43 minutes Coffee Break Collections

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Robert Louis Stevenson - Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson

“Extreme busyness…is a symptom of deficient vitality; and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.” What comforting words for the idle among us! Like many of the...

Martin Geeson 5 hours 32 minutes

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