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Oscar Wilde


Wilde’s literary reputation has survived so much that I think it proof against any exhumation of articles which he or his admirers would hav…

First and Last

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Hilaire Belloc


“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 c…

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 005

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Various


A collection of ten short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and reports included in this collection we…

Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 037

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Diese Sammlung umfasst 14 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres."Warum das Meerwaßer salzig ist" und "Osten…

Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 021

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Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres."Die Schrecken der deutschen Sprache" übersetzt v…

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 012

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A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were inde…

First Fifty Digits of Pi

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Scott Hemphill


56 flavors of Pi proudly produced by LibriVox volunteers to celebrate Pi Day, 2008. (3/14) Don't worry, you don't have to listen to an infin…

The Will and the Way Stories

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Jessie Benton Frémont


Simply put, this is a book of 9 short vignettes each of which describes a different scenario which demonstrates the age old adage: 'where th…

Exotics and Retrospectives

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Lafcadio Hearn


Lafcadio Hearn, born 1850 in Greece, went to Japan when he was 40 years old and became a Japanese citizen only 6 years later. His writings a…

Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 028

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Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres."Giftmischer" übersetzt von Margarete JacobiDie &…

On Anything

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Hilaire Belloc


Long before I knew that the speech of men was misused by them and that they lied in the hearing of the gods perpetually, in those early days…

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 020

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A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the re…

Is Mars Habitable?

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Alfred Russel Wallace


In 1907 Wallace wrote the short book Is Mars Habitable? to criticize the claims made by Percival Lowell that there were Martian canals built…

Visits To The Dead In The Catacombs Of Rome

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George Washington Greene


This essay of a cultured observer, for many years United States consul in Rome, appeared in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 10, issue 59,…

The Copyright Question

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George Morang


This is a letter to the Toronto Board of Trade regarding Canadian copyrights. Morang requested an appearance before the Toronto Board of Tra…

Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 009

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Diese Sammlung umfasst 10 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres.Eine Liste weiterer kurzer Aufnahmen (Erzählungen, Gedichte…

Bird Stories from Burroughs

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John Burroughs


What a better way to learn about birds than to read this delightful collection of interesting bird stories! John Burroughs was a nature essa…

Modern Essays

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Christopher Morley


Thirty three essays by more or less well-known authors of Britain, the United States, and Canada, each fronted by an introductory paragraph.…

Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 017

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Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres.

Appreciations, with an Essay on Style

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Walter Pater


Appreciations, with an Essay on Style, is a collection of Walter Pater's previously-published essays on literature. The collection was well …

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