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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 015

A collection of 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, government,...

Bellona Times and 9 more 3 hours 50 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Short Stories

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Coffee Break Collection 003 - Nature

This is a collection of short (15 minute or less readings) works in English suitable for a coffee break at work or a short commuter ride. The theme for this collection is Nature in various genres — fiction and...

Mark F. Smith and 10 more 2 hours 18 minutes Coffee Break Collections

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Essays & Short Works

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Hilaire Belloc - On Nothing & Kindred Subjects

“I knew a man once, Maurice, who was at Oxford for three years, and after that went down with no degree. At College, while his friends were seeking for Truth in funny brown German Philosophies, Sham Religions,...

Ray Clare 6 hours 3 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 014

A collection of 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,...

Utek and 8 more 4 hours 30 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Essays & Short Works

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Hilaire Belloc - On Something

“Now that story is a symbol, and tells the truth. We see some one thing in this world, and suddenly it becomes particular and sacramental; a woman and a child, a man at evening, a troop of soldiers; we hear notes of...

Ray Clare 6 hours 38 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Walter Besant - Art of Fiction

A lecture on the art of fiction, given by the English critic Walter Besant on April 25, 1884, and an answer to the lecture by American writer Henry James in the same year. (Summary by Julie VW)

Julie VW 2 hours 24 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 013

A collection of sixteen 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,...

Caroline Shapiro and 9 more 5 hours 11 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Poetry

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Alexander Pope - Essay on Criticism

An Essay on Criticism was the first major poem written by the English writer Alexander Pope (1688-1744). However, despite the title, the poem is not as much an original analysis as it is a compilation of Pope's...

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Essays & Short Works

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Hilaire Belloc - First and Last

“When a man weighs anchor in a little ship or a large one he does a jolly thing! He cuts himself off and he starts for freedom and for the chance of things. He pulls the jib a-weather, he leans to her slowly pulling...

Ray Clare 7 hours 27 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Ralph Waldo Emerson - Essays, Second Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, philosopher, and poet, best remembered for leading the Transcendentalist movement of the mid 19th century. His teachings directly influenced the growing New Thought...

Bob Neufeld 6 hours 35 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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G. K. Chesterton - Irish Impressions

“For the Irish Question has never been discussed in England. Men have discussed Home Rule; but those who advocated it most warmly, and as I think wisely, did not even know what the Irish meant by Home. Men have...

Ray Clare 4 hours 17 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

450

1912: Short Works Collection

This is a collection of public domain works either published in 1912, or written in 1912 and published before 1923. The accent is on non-fiction but I will include short stories, poems, one-act plays, as well....

Bellona Times 5 hours 42 minutes

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