Essays & Short Works
Een reiziger, die geen handel drijft
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Charles Dickens
Een serie journalistieke artikelen uit het tijdschrift 'All the Year round' geschreven in de periode 1860 - 1869. In deze artikelen worden v…
The Silver Shadow, and Other Day Dreams
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Frank W. Boreham
Frank Boreham was a well known preacher who served in England, Australia, and New Zealand. He published dozens of books and thousands of edi…
The Children
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Alice Meynell
Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' S…
Christmas Short Works Collection 2018
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Various
A delightful collection of stories and poems, with several interesting selections discussing various Christmas and holiday traditions, and a…
Studies in Stagecraft
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Clayton Hamilton
A companion piece to Hamilton's earlier work, The Theory of the Theatre. Where that volume dealt with the criticism of dramatic art in gener…
Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 056
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Various
Diese Sammlung umfasst 10 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres. - Summary by schrm
The Forgotten Man and Other Essays
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William Graham Sumner
Sumner's popular essays were to give him a wider audience to distribute his anti-imperialism, his advocacy of free markets and the gold stan…
The Evolutionist at Large
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Grant Allen
These Essays originally appeared in the columns of the 'St. James's Gazette,' and I have to thank the courtesy of the Editor for kind permis…
Letters to a Daughter
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Hubert Bland
Letters to a Daughter is a collection of essays proffering ‘fatherly advice’ in the form of a one-sided correspondence. Each of these takes …
Essays on Prohibition
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Various
A collection of essays regarding the pros and cons of prohibition of alcoholic beverages, principally in the United States. - Summary by Kev…
Ronald And I; Or Studies From Life
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Alfred Pretor
This is a collection of essays (1899) on English village life in the late nineteenth century. The essay “My Rector” was the focus of some co…
The Open Library
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Brewster Kahle
Text of the speech given by Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, at the launch of the Open Library in October 2005. LibriVox was…
Librivox Multilingual Short Works Collection 003
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Various
This is a collection of short pieces, poetry or prose, fiction and non-fiction, in several different languages. All chosen and recorded by L…
They Who Knock at Our Gates: A Complete Gospel of Immigration (Version 2)
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Mary Antin
In this extended essay, Mary Antin asks us to consider three questions:First: A question of principle: Have we any right to regulate immigra…
Women's Wild Oats: Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards
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Catherine Gasquoine Hartley
A resounding and, for the times, outrageous look at restructuring British society using the first world war as trigger for changing the plac…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 090
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Various
In his autobiographical essay "The Intellectuals and the Boston Mob," Booker T. Washington wrote: "It is not argument, nor cr…