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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Read by Gary Gilberd


Benjamin Franklin


Franklin wrote his autobiography in the form of an extended letter to his son. While recording the events of his life, he adds instructions …

Common Sense

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Thomas Paine


Common Sense, Paine's pro-independence monograph published anonymously on 10 January 1776, spread quickly among literate colonists. Within t…

The Philosophy of Style

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Herbert Spencer


“The Philosophy of Style,” explored a growing trend of formalist approaches to writing. Highly focused on the proper placement and ordering …

Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy

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John Stuart Mill


This is Mill’s first work on economics. It foreshadows his Political Economy which was the standard Anglo-American Economics textbook of the…

Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy

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George Santayana


Before the beginning of World War II, during the time of the Modernist movement in philosophy, George Santayana wrote these five descriptive…

Speech on capital punishment, 1868

In United Kingdom House of Commons Speeches Collection, volume 2

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John Stuart Mill


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

Chapter III

In The Children of the New Forest

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Frederick Marryat


The children of Colonel Beverley, a Cavalier officer killed at the Battle of Naseby are believed to have died in the flames when their house…

John DeWitt I

In The Anti-Federalist Papers

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Antifederalists and Patrick Henry


During the period of debate over the ratification of the Constitution, numerous independent local speeches and articles were published all a…

The School Mistress

In Short Story Collection Vol. 013

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Anton Chekhov


LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 013: a collection of 11 short fictional works in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members.

Letter VII - ANIMAL HEAT, its laws and influence on the Animal Functions

In Familiar Letters on Chemistry

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Justus Liebig and Justus Von Liebig


Justus von Liebig (1803-1873) was a German chemist who made major contributions to agricultural and biological chemistry and is known for hi…

Serpent and child

In Far Away and Long Ago

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W.H. Hudson and William Henry Hudson


William Henry Hudson was an author, naturalist and ornithologist. Hudson was born of U.S. parents living in the Quilmes Partido in Buenos Ai…

11 - Chapter 7 part 1, pp. 1-11

In National Gambling Impact Study Commission Final Report

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United States Government and National Gambling Impact Study Commission


The National Gambling Impact Study Commission was given the task of conducting a comprehensive legal and factual study on the social and eco…