Essays & Short Works

1945 Radio News

4.7
Experience the news from 1945 with this collection of radio broadcasts. This compilation includes various news segments and V-Discs from tha…

Other People's Money

by Louis D. Brandeis Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It is a collection of essays written by Louis Brandeis published as a book in 1914. The book at…

Common Sense

by Thomas Paine Read by Gary Gilberd 4.6
Common Sense, Paine's pro-independence monograph published anonymously on 10 January 1776, spread quickly among literate colonists. Within t…

The Subjection of Women

by John Stuart Mill Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
The Subjection of Women is the title of an essay written by John Stuart Mill in 1869, possibly jointly with his wife Harriet Taylor Mill, st…

The Early History of the Airplane

by Orville Wright Read by Availle 4.5
The Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air flight, on 17th December 1903. They…

A Short History of England

by G. K. Chesterton Read by Ray Clare 4.2
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was a prolific writer on many topics. His views of history were always from the standpoint of men and their interac…

The Philippics

by Marcus Tullius Cicero Read by ontheroad 4.4
A philippic is a fiery, damning speech delivered to condemn a particular political actor. The term originates with Demosthenes, who delivere…

The Fun of Getting Thin

by Samuel G. Blythe Read by Christine Lehman 4.5
In this short, amusing book, subtitled "How to Be Thin and Reduce The Waist Line," Samuel G. Blythe explains how he was able to lo…

The Science of Being Great

by Wallace D. Wattles Read by Diana Majlinger 4.7
The Science of Being Great by Wallace D. Wattles explores the profound connection between thought and personal greatness. In this insightful…

Essays

by Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary …

Essays in Radical Empiricism

by William James Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Essays in Radical Empiricism presents a thought-provoking exploration of the nature of experience and reality through the lens of William Ja…

The Defendant

by G. K. Chesterton Read by Ray Clare 4.5
A collection of reprinted articles on a wide-range of subjects, all in the unique style of G. K. Chesterton. Using wit, paradox, and good hu…

Give Me Liberty

by Patrick Henry Read by Mark F. Smith 4.8
This speech was given March 23, 1775, at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia, and is credited with having singlehandedly convinced the V…

Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection

by Charles Dickens Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
The Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection comprises short works previously unrecorded for LibriVox - fiction, essays, poetry, letters…

Totem and Taboo

by Sigmund Freud Read by Mary Schneider 4.6
Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics is a book by Sigmund Freud published in German in 1913 under…

The Everlasting Righteousness

by Horatius Bonar Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
... or How Shall Man Be Just with God?How does salvation work? How does a righteous God declare an unrighteous person to be righteous in His…

Declaration of Independence of the United States of America

by Thomas Jefferson Read by Jim Cadwell 4.5
Declaration of Independence of the United States of America is a foundational document that marked a pivotal moment in history. Authored by …

The Faith of Our Fathers

by James Gibbons Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
The Faith of Our Fathers: A Plain Exposition and Vindication of the Church Founded by Our Lord Jesus Christ is a book published in 1876 by a…

Anticipations

by H. G. Wells Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Wells considered this book one of his most important, a natural follow-up to such works as his Man of the Year Million and The Time Machine.…

Anarchism and Other Essays

by Emma Goldman Read by Expatriate 4.8
Emma Goldman, the most famous anarchist in American history, shows the whole range of her iconoclastic thought in this collection of essays.…

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