Essays & Short Works

Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

by Grenville Kleiser Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases by Grenville Kleiser is an extensive reference guide designed to enhance your vocabulary and improve your ex…

The Phenomenology of Mind

by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.3
Phänomenologie des Geistes (1807) is Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's most important and widely discussed philosophical work. Hegel's fi…

The Gentleman and Lady's Book of Politeness and Propriety of Deportment

by Élisabeth Celnart Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
The Gentleman and Lady's Book of Politeness and Propriety of Deportment by Élisabeth Celnart is a comprehensive guide to the social g…

El viajero y su sombra

by Friedrich Nietzsche Read by Epachuko 4.4
Primer volumen de recopilación de 408 opiniones y sentencias del célebre filósofo alemán en el que expone las pr…

Mathematical Problems

by David Hilbert Read by Prachi Pendse 4.3
Lecture delivered before the International Congress of Mathematicians at Paris in 1900 and subsequently published in the Bulletin of the Ame…

The Gettysburg Address

by Abraham Lincoln Read by John Greenman 4.7
Delivered during a pivotal moment in American history, The Gettysburg Address is President Abraham Lincoln's profound reflection on the prin…

The Interpretation of Dreams

by Sigmund Freud Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
A neat book on dream analysis by the founding father of psychoanalysis. This book is about the inner theater and the workings of the mind in…

How to Tell a Story

by Mark Twain Read by Claudia Salto 3.9
In his inimitable way, Mark Twain gives sound advice about how to tell a story, then lets us in on some curious incidents he experienced, an…

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…

For Every Music Lover

by Aubertine Woodward Moore Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
For Every Music Lover is a collection of insightful essays that delve into the rich tapestry of music and its appreciation. Authored by Aube…

Psychopathology of Everyday Life

by Sigmund Freud Read by Mary Schneider 4.3
Professor Freud developed his system of psychoanalysis while studying the so-called borderline cases of mental diseases, such as hysteria an…

Irish Wit and Humor

by Various Read by James E. Carson 3.8
Excerpted anecdotes from the biographies of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell, relating humorous snippets of politics in 18th and 19th ce…

The Riddle of the Universe

by Ernst Haeckel Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.2
The Riddle of the Universe is the philosophical work of Ernst Haeckel, eminent biologist, in which he explores the meaning of life, the natu…

Has a Frog a Soul?

by Thomas Henry Huxley Read by Carl Manchester 4
Thomas Huxley, known as “Darwin’s Bulldog” for his championing and development of Darwinism, was perhaps the most important Victorian biolog…

Der Wahrheitpfad

by Karl Eugen Neumann Read by Christian Al-Kadi 4.7
Das Dhammapada ist eine Anthologie von Aussprüchen des Buddha. Dabei sind die Verse so ausgewählt, dass sie den Kern der Lehre des…

Invention And Discovery

by Unknown Read by David Wales 3.9
"In this little volume are brought together a number of sketches and memoranda, illustrating the history of discovery, and the lives an…

Tact

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Tact by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 22, 2012.Ralph…

From Dictatorship to Democracy

by Gene Sharp Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) 3.8
From Dictatorship to Democracy, A Conceptual Framework for Liberation is a book-length essay on the generic problem of how to destroy a dict…

The World as Will and Idea

by Arthur Schopenhauer Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.6
The World as Will and Idea presents Arthur Schopenhauer's profound exploration of the nature of existence, where he posits that the driving …

Principles of Economics

by Alfred Marshall Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Principles of Economics was a leading economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), first published in 1890. Marshall began writing the…

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