Edmund Burke

Reflections on the Revolution in France


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Reflections on the Revolution in France is a 1790 book by Edmund Burke, one of the best-known intellectual attacks against the (then-infant)…

A Philosophical Enquiry


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Burke's A Philosophical Enquiry is an important treatise in the history of philosophical aesthetics, putting forth a theory of two concepts …

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 07


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The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…

United Kingdom House of Commons Speeches Collection, volume 1


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This collection comprises recordings of 17 historic speeches given to the UK House of Commons between 1628 and 1956. Readings are of speeche…

United Kingdom House of Commons Speeches Collection, volume 3


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This is the third LibriVox collection of speeches given in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The collection comprises recordings o…

Eighteenth Century Poetry and Prose


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A collection of prose and poetry written principally in the 18th Century. These works of world literature are written in the English languag…

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01


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Edmund Burke was an Irish statesman, economist, and philosopher. Born in Dublin, he moved to London in 1750 and later served as a member of …

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 086


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"The democracy of the future will sicken of a chronic and mortal boredom," was Aldous Huxley's prophecy for the United States in 1…

Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke


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There can be no hesitation in according to him a station among the most extraordinary men that ever appeared; and we think there is now but …