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Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy
Read by Gary Gilberd
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…
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
Read by Gary Gilberd
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
Read by Gary Gilberd
Herbert Spencer
“The Philosophy of Style,” explored a growing trend of formalist approaches to writing. Highly focused on the proper placement and ordering …
Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy
Read by Gary Gilberd
George Santayana
Before the beginning of World War II, during the time of the Modernist movement in philosophy, George Santayana wrote these five descriptive…
John DeWitt I
In
The Anti-Federalist Papers
Read by Gary Gilberd
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
Read by Gary Gilberd
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.
Chapter III
In
The Children of the New Forest
Read by Gary Gilberd
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…
Speech on capital punishment, 1868
In
United Kingdom House of Commons Speeches Collection, volume 2
Read by Gary Gilberd
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 …
Letter VII - ANIMAL HEAT, its laws and influence on the Animal Functions
In
Familiar Letters on Chemistry
Read by Gary Gilberd
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
Read by Gary Gilberd
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…