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Walking
Read by Chris Masterson
Henry David Thoreau
This was originally a lecture given by Thoreau in 1851 at the Concord lyceum titled "The Wild" . He revised it before his death an…
Anarchism and Other Essays
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman (1869-1940) was an anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. She played a pivotal role in the developme…
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Read by Gord Mackenzie
Henry David Thoreau
Civil Disobedience is an essay by Henry David Thoreau. Published in 1849 under the title Resistance to Civil Government, it expressed Thorea…
Über die Weiber
Read by Gesine
Arthur Schopenhauer
In diesem vielzitierten Essay aus dem Jahre 1851 ist Schopenhauers generell herablassende Einstellung zu Frauen zusammengefaßt. Frauen…
Mathematical Problems
Read by Prachi Pendse
David Hilbert
Lecture delivered before the International Congress of Mathematicians at Paris in 1900 and subsequently published in the Bulletin of the Ame…
On the Nature of the Gods
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Marcus Tullius Cicero
De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods) outlines Stoic, Epicurean and Academic (Skeptical) views on religious questions. Problems discu…
Essays, Second Series
Read by Bob Neufeld
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, philosopher, and poet, best remembered for leading the Transcendentalist movement of the mid 1…
What I Saw in America
Read by Ray Clare
G. K. Chesterton
“Let me begin my American impressions with two impressions I had before I went to America. One was an incident and the other an idea; and wh…
Declaration of Independence of the United States of America
Read by Jim Cadwell
Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Independence is the document in which the Thirteen Colonies declared themselves independent of the Kingdom of Great Britain a…
Give Me Liberty
Read by Mark F. Smith
Patrick Henry
This speech was given March 23, 1775, at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia, and is credited with having singlehandedly convinced the V…
United States Historical Documents
Read by Michael Scherer
Various
The Articles of Confederation: On November 15th, 1777 The Articles of Confederation became the first constitution of the United States, thou…
The Road
Read by Barry Eads
Jack London
Jack London credited his skill of story-telling to the days he spent as a hobo learning to fabricate tales to get meals from sympathetic str…
The Superstition of Divorce
Read by Ray Clare
G. K. Chesterton
This short book was written in 1920, and in it Chesterton, with his usual wit and incisive logic, presents a series of articles defending ma…
A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind
Read by ej
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
This work presents Rousseau's belief in the profoundly transformational effects of the development of civilization on human nature, which Ro…
A Modest Proposal
Read by John Gonzalez
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift almost defines satire in this biting and brutal pamphlet in which he suggests that poor (Catholic) Irish families should fatt…
Essays, First Series
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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; the wise silence; the universal b…
Sadhana, The Realisation of Life, version 2
Read by Peter Yearsley
Rabindranath Tagore
A collection of essays on the Hindu/Buddhist view of humankind's place in the universe. As the author says in his introduction: "in the…
The Alhambra: A Series Of Tales And Sketches Of The Moors And Spaniards
Read by David Wales
Washington Irving
This is a collection of essays, verbal sketches, and stories by Washington Irving. Irving lived at the Alhambra Palace while writing some of…
Orthodoxy
Read by G.K. Chesterton
G. K. Chesterton
"Orthodoxy," a series of essays by Gilbert Keith Chesterton. First published in 1908. "The only possible excuse for this boo…
The Morals (Moralia), Book 1
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Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus
The Moralia (or The morals or Matters relating to customs and mores) is a work by the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea. It is…
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