Category Archives: Essay/Short nonfiction

Audiobook: Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 078

Twenty short nonfiction works, chosen by the readers. “That thing up there on the stand

Audiobook: Hope Farm Notes

“Most of these notes were originally printed in the Rural New-Yorker from week to week

Audiobook: Leo Tolstoy

Three men of letters give insightful essays on the work of Leo Tolstoy. (Summary by

Audiobook: Women, Children, Love and Marriage

This book contains a number of essays about various subjects pertaining to women, children love

Audiobook: Editorials from The Dial magazine, Volume 66

Editorials published in Volume 66 of The Dial magazine, a fortnightly political and literary review.

Audiobook: Coffee Break Collection 030 – Mythical Creatures

This is the 30th Coffee Break Collection, in which LibriVox readers select and read stories

Audiobook: Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting

An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting was a conduct book written by Jane

Audiobook: Coffee Break Collection 031 – Springtime

This is the 31st Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read 20

Audiobook: Selected Lead Articles from “THE DAWN”

Louisa Lawson, the mother of Australian writer Henry Lawson, was the founder, publisher and editor

Audiobook: G.K. Chesterton in The Century Illustrated Magazine

A collection of 5 articles/essays and 2 letters written by G.K. Chesterton in “The Century

Audiobook: G.K. Chesterton in America: A Catholic Review of the Week

A collection of 15 articles/essays written by G.K. Chesterton in “America: A Catholic Review of

Audiobook: Narratives of Colored Americans

Abigail Mott was a Quaker and abolitionist from New York who, along with fellow Quaker

Audiobook: Coffee Break Collection 032 – Wilderness

This is the 32nd Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read stories

Audiobook: G.K. Chesterton in The Open Road

A collection of 2 book reviews written by G.K. Chesterton in “The Open Road”, both

Audiobook: G.K. Chesterton in Vanity Fair Magazine

A collection of 12 articles/essays that G.K. Chesterton wrote for Vanity Fair magazine in 1920-1921,

Audiobook: Common Reader

A collection of essays by Virginia Woolf, some of which originally appeared in the Times

Audiobook: Creed of a Credulous Person

A series of five essays by G.K. Chesterton, published in “Black and White” magazine in

Audiobook: Dish of Orts: Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare

Readers of George MacDonald are used to his engaging story-telling, winsome characters, and simple theology

Audiobook: Holiday Round

Alan Alexander Milne, popularly known as A. A. Milne, is best known – perhaps to

Audiobook: G.K. Chesterton in The Bibliophile Magazine

Two essays/articles by G.K. Chesterton, published in ‘The Bibliophile’ magazine in 1908. (Summary by Maria

Audiobook: Sunny Side (Version 2)

A. A. Milne is best known for his creation of the perennially popular Winnie the

Audiobook: Essays in Idleness

Agnes Repplier was a popular and highly regarded essayist of the late 19th and early

Audiobook: Not That it Matters (Version 2)

A. A. MILNE: …was best known for the perennially popular Pooh (Winnie the), arguably one

Audiobook: G.K. Chesterton in The British Review

Four articles/essays written by G.K. Chesterton for “The British Review”. These were published in 1913

Audiobook: Christmas Miscellany 2021

Seven chapters involving Christmas from different books. Plus part 8 which is twelve verses about

Audiobook: Walking (Version 2)

This was originally titled “The Wild” and is a lecture given by Thoreau in 1851

Audiobook: Is Shakespeare Dead?

A short, semi-autobiographical work by American humorist Mark Twain. It explores the controversy over the

Audiobook: If I May (Version 2)

A. A. Milne, best known as the creator of Winnie the Pooh, was a prolific

Audiobook: Once A Week (Version 2)

Once A Week is a collection of short stories and slightly longer vignettes which were

Audiobook: Homogenic Love and Its Place in a Free Society

This pamphlet by LGBT pioneer and philosopher Edward Carpenter was originally intended to form part