“Few books make history and fewer still become the foundational texts for the movements and struggles of an entire people....” One such great work was...
"The Fair Rewards" by Thomas Beer is a really distiguished novel. The writing is far above the average: it has style and sophistication and personalit...
The entire book is presented as a dream sequence narrated by an omniscient narrator. The allegory's protagonist, Christian, is an everyman character,...
Schopenhauer is considered to be one of the most influential philosophers of all times. Many of his ideas and quotes have been quoted largely and have...
"Good Sense" is a thought-provoking and insightful book written by Paul Eldridge. Published in the early 20th century, this classic work explores the...
The Souls of Black Folk is a well-known work of African-American literature by activist W.E.B. Du Bois. The book, published in 1903, contains several...
When Tocqueville visited America in the 1830s he found a thriving democracy of a kind he had not seen anywhere else. Many of his insightful observatio...
The Machine Stops is a short science fiction story. It describes a world in which almost all humans have lost the ability to live on the surface of th...
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 different recordings of The Road Builders, by Voltairine de Cleyre. This was the weekly poetry project for the week o...
Chesterton and Shaw were famous friends and enjoyed their arguments and discussions. Although rarely in agreement, they both maintained good-will towa...
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of The Plough by Richard Henry Horne, published in "The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900" in 1919. T...
Le Discours sur les sciences et les arts est un texte de Jean-Jacques Rousseau écrit dans le cadre du concours de l’Académe de Dijon de 1750. Lauréat...
In "Coming People," Charles F. Dole argues that the "survival of the fittest" is not the only driving force of evolution. He believes that kindness, g...
The Education of Henry Adams, published posthumously in 1918, is a deeply personal and intellectually stimulating memoir by Henry Adams. It chronicles...
The Life of Reason, a five-volume work by George Santayana, is a comprehensive examination of human progress and the role of reason in shaping our liv...
Inventions of the Idiot is a humorous tale about an eccentric inventor who sets out to improve the lot of civilized man through his inventions. The Id...
''Helden des Dampfes'' (Heroes of Steam) is a collection of three essays by Karl May, originally published in the journal ''Schacht und Hütte'' (Shaft...
Siamo nel 1903 e due uomini, grazie alla scoperta di un principio attivo di una strana pianta esotica che sospende le funzioni vitali, riescono a viag...
A Crystal Age explores a utopian future where humanity has achieved a state of perfect harmony with nature. The story follows the journey of a young...
The Life of Reason is a five-volume work by the Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana. Published between 1905 and 1906, it is considered one o...
I Malavoglia è un romanzo di Giovanni Verga che racconta la storia di una famiglia di pescatori siciliani, i Malavoglia, e la loro lotta per sopravviv...
The Martyrdom of Man, written by William Winwood Reade in 1872, is a comprehensive and expansive work exploring the history of humanity from a secular...
Pieter Harting, writing under the pseudonym Dr. Dioscorides, published 'Anno 2065' in 1865, filled with predictions about technological advancements i...
