Essays & Short Works
Curious Myths of the Middle Ages
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Sabine Baring-Gould
This volume is an example of Sabine Baring-Gould's extensive research into the middle ages. This volume of 12 curiosities was one of Baring-…
Miscellaneous Essays of G. K. Chesterton
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G. K. Chesterton
These eleven files are miscellaneous short essays or stories from G.K. Chesterton. They were chosen for not only their brevity but also for …
The Gettysburg Address
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Abraham Lincoln
It was a cloudy November day in 1863 when thousands gathered to hear renowned orator Edward Everett dedicate a national cemetery at the site…
The Fourth Dimension Simply Explained
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Henry Parker Manning
In January 1909 a friend of the Scientific American paid the sum of 500$ which was to be awarded as a prize for the best popular explanation…
Ancient Greek Philosopher-Scientists
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Varioustranslated Bywilliam Ellery Leonard and Varioustranslated By William Ellery Leonard
The Pre-Socratic Greek philosophers, that is, the philosopher-scientists who lived before or contemporaneously to Socrates, were the first m…
Collected Works of Saint Patrick
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Saint Patrick
St. Patrick's Breastplate - This prayer is attributed to St. Patrick and his disciples. It is written with some Celtic pagan elements, but i…
Steep Trails
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John Muir
A collection of Muir's previously unpublished essays, released shortly after his death. "This volume will meet, in every way, the high …
Anarchism and Other Essays (Version 2)
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Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman, the most famous anarchist in American history, shows the whole range of her iconoclastic thought in this collection of essays.…
The Awful German Language (version 2)
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Mark Twain
This long essay is a work of mock philology, one of several appendices to Twain’s travel novel, A Tramp Abroad. In it, Twain explains, compl…
Magna Carta
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Unknown
The original document is in Latin so this can only be a fairly rough approximation of the actual content. The text used is the first version…
The Silence Dogood Letters
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Benjamin Franklin
As a teenager, Benjamin Franklin apprenticed with his brother James at the shop where The New-England Courant was printed. Since James would…
How to Do Chemical Tricks
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A. T. Anderson
While a bit outdated in many of the more complex descriptions of several of the phenomena described, this book is nonetheless still fun and …
Moral Letters, Vol. II
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
This is the second volume of the Letters, Epistles LXVI-XCII. Among the personalities of the early Roman Empire there are few who offer to t…
Anti-imperialist Writings
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Mark Twain
This audiobook is a collection of Mark Twain's anti-imperialist writings (newspaper articles, interviews, speeches, letters, essays and pamp…
A Problem in Modern Ethics
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John Addington Symonds
“Society lies under the spell of ancient terrorism and coagulated errors. Science is either wilfully hypocritical or radically misinformed.”…
De Profundis
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Oscar Wilde
This short work of Wilde's was written during his two year incarceration for "gross indecency". This work is a letter which sorts …
How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays
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Mark Twain
In his inimitable way, Mark Twain gives sound advice about how to tell a story, then lets us in on some curious incidents he experienced, an…
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 01 No. 1
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National Geographic Society
National Geographic Magazine Volume 1 Number 1 published in 1889. Topics of articles are:Announcement by the National Geographic SocietyIntr…
Revolution and Counter-Revolution, or: Germany in 1848
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Friedrich Engels
Revolution and Counter-Revolution is an account of what happened in Prussia, Austria and other German states during 1848, describing the imp…
The Essays of Francis Bacon
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Francis Bacon and Sir Francis Bacon
Voltaire was an atheist. Diderot was Enlightened. But trite titles seldom encompass completely the beliefs of any individual. And this one f…