Essay - Audio Books

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William James

The Moral Equivalent of War, the last public utterance of William James, is significant as expressing the o...

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G. K. Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton was a prolific writer on many topics. His views of history were always from the st...

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Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma

The Author sings the praises of Chocolate. “By the wise and Moderate use whereof, Health is preserved, Sick...

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Various

This collection of 20 public domain newspaper articles comprises volume 2 of Historic Newspaper Articles in...

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Oscar Wilde

Wilde’s literary reputation has survived so much that I think it proof against any exhumation of articles w...

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Various

Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres.

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Mrs. Isabella Beeton

"Mrs. Beeton's" is a guide to all aspects of running a household in Victorian Britain. Published in 1861, i...

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Various

A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and r...

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Various

LibriVox’s 2007 Christmas Short Works Colletion containing public domain short stories, essays, poems, and ...

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Various

A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports inclu...

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John Burroughs

Squirrels and other Fur-Bearers, a collection of essays by American naturalist and essayist, John Burroughs...

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Various

A collection of ten short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and repor...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; ...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Faith, Hope, and Charity …… In the Language of Emerson these translate as: Self - Reliance, Love, and Frien...

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W.E.B. Du Bois

The Souls of Black Folk is a well-known work of African-American literature by activist W.E.B. Du Bois. The...

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Hilaire Belloc

"When Fame comes upon a man well before death then must he most particularly beware of it, for is it then m...

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Various

18 works—two non-fic articles & one short fiction or poetry each—from issues March, April, May, June, J...

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Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson

“With the Greek civilisation beauty perished from the world. Never again has it been possible for man to be...

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Orville Wright

The Brothers Orville (1871 - 1948) and Wilbur (1867 - 1912) Wright made the first controlled, powered and s...

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Frédéric Bastiat

Bastiat asserted that the only purpose of government is to defend the right of an individual to life, liber...

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Various

A dozen assorted articles from British and American periodicals, including The Atlantic Monthly, Punch, The...

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Mark Twain

This is Mark Twain's vicious and amusing review of Fenimore Cooper's literary art. It is still read widely ...

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John Muir

A collection of Muir's previously unpublished essays, released shortly after his death. "This volume will m...

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Edmund Gosse

A collection of informal essays about books in his library. He combines commentary, translations, and humor...