Category Archives: Essay/Short nonfiction

Audiobook: A Miscellany of Men

Gilbert Keith Chesterton was among the world’s most prolific writers who incorporated relentless logic, wonderful

Audiobook: An Essay on Criticism

An Essay on Criticism was the first major poem written by the English writer Alexander

Audiobook: Faces and Places

Faces and Places is a collection of articles on nineteenth century travel, events and personalities

Audiobook: The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52

Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe moved to California from Massachusetts during the Gold Rush of

Audiobook: Irish Impressions

“For the Irish Question has never been discussed in England. Men have discussed Home Rule;

Audiobook: Robert Browning

There is an old anecdote, probably apocryphal, which describes how a feminine admirer wrote to

Audiobook: Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People

“Sketches by “Boz,” Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People (commonly known as Sketches by

Audiobook: Miscellaneous Pieces

John Bunyan (November 28, 1628 – August 31, 1688), a Christian writer and preacher, was

Audiobook: Lord Kitchener

“The paradox of all this part of his life lies in this–that, destined as he

Audiobook: Devotions upon Emergent Occasions

Devotions upon Emergent Occasions is a 1624 prose work by the English writer John Donne.

Audiobook: Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain

This is a collection of newspaper articles written by Samuel Clemens, for various newspapers, between

Audiobook: על פרשת דרכים At the Crossroads (Selected Essays)

This recording is in Hebrew. Asher Zvi Hirsch Ginsberg (1856 – 1927), primarily known by

Audiobook: Sammlung kurzer Werke von Karl May

Sammlung von 19 kurzen Werken von Karl May:

Audiobook: British & American Periodical Articles 1852-1905

A dozen assorted articles from British and American periodicals, including The Atlantic Monthly, Punch, The

Audiobook: Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson

“Extreme busyness…is a symptom of deficient vitality; and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic

Audiobook: The Copyright Question

This is a letter to the Toronto Board of Trade regarding Canadian copyrights. Morang requested

Audiobook: Collection: Tales of the Cities

This is a collection of city stories, fiction or non-fiction, in English and published before

Audiobook: On Something

“Now that story is a symbol, and tells the truth. We see some one thing

Audiobook: Multilingual 1910 Collection

This is a compilation of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction first published in the year 1910,

Audiobook: What is Man? and Other Essays

“What Is Man?”, published by Mark Twain in 1906, is a dialogue between a young

Audiobook: On Nothing & Kindred Subjects

“I knew a man once, Maurice, who was at Oxford for three years, and after

Audiobook: This, That, and the Other

“When Fame comes upon a man well before death then must he most particularly beware

Audiobook: Americans and Others

A collection of sometimes biting, always clever commentaries on some of life’s foibles — as

Audiobook: Dark Moon

Mysterious, dark, out of the unknown deep comes a new satellite to lure three courageous

Audiobook: Nature Near Home and Other Papers

Nature Near Home is one of many books on natural history by John Burroughs. It

Audiobook: On Anything

“Long before I knew that the speech of men was misused by them and that

Audiobook: Self and Self-management: Essays about Existing

Bennett’s essays always provide food for thought and bring a wry smile to the lips.

Audiobook: Second Thoughts Of An Idle Fellow

A second volume of humorous essays on various subjects, following the success of Idle thoughts

Audiobook: Woman in the Nineteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition, and Duties of Women

Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) was an American feminist, writer, and intellectual associated with the Transcendentalist movement.

Audiobook: Wit and Wisdom of Chesterton

In this collection, Bevis Hillier has put together some of Chesterton’s essays in “The Defandant”,