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The Federalist Papers

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Essay/Short nonfiction, Fiction, History, Non-fiction, Politics
Chapter: 85 | Listen: 5

In order to promote the ratification of the United States Constitution in the late 1780s, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Hay wrote a series of 85 articles and essays explaining their reasons to support the constitution. Most of these articles were published in The Independent Journal and The New York Packet and they later became known as “The Federalist Papers.” In reading the articles, one will encounter very interesting issues like Hamilton’s opposition to including the Bill of Rights in the Constitution and why he thinks a Union is better than a Confederation. He opposed the inclusion of the Bill of Rights in the Constitution because he thought that people would later interpret it as the only rights guaranteed to the people. He also supported the formation of the Union largely because of the economic benefit it would have to the states. “The Federalist Papers” aren’t just a series of articles that history students read. Their contents have been used as a reference in many US Supreme Court decisions which make this book still very influential today. [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 003

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Poetry
Chapter: 20 | Listen: 3

LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 003: a collection of 20 public-domain poems. [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 008

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Poetry
Chapter: 20 | Listen: 2

LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 008: a collection of 20 public-domain poems. [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 001

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Poetry
Chapter: 29 | Listen: 1

LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 001: a collection of 29 public-domain poems. [chương_files]

Short Poetry Collection 016

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Poetry
Chapter: 20 | Listen: 2

LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 016: a collection of 20 public-domain poems. [chương_files]

Goop Directory

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Poetry
Chapter: 1 | Listen: 5

In this DIRECTORY you’ll see just what you never ought to be; and so, it should direct your way to Good Behavior, every day. The children of whose faults I tell are known by other names, as well, so see that you aren’t in this group of Naughty Ones. Don’t be a Goop! (The author’s introduction) [chương_files]

History of a Literary Radical, and Other Essays

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Essays
Chapter: 16 | Listen: 4

A posthumous collection of Bourne’s writing from publications such as The Atlantic Monthly and early issues of The New Republic, with a long introduction by his friend and colleague Van Wyck Brooks. Includes the influential and perennially relevant essay “Trans-National America” as well as a fragment from the autobiographical novel on which Bourne was working at the time of his death. – Summary by Ben Adams [chương_files]

Celebrity

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Published 1800 - 1900, Satire
Chapter: 21 | Listen: 1

Satirizes the rise of a young novelist (thought to be Richard Harding Davis, but denied as such by Churchill). – Summary by Joseph Tabler [chương_files]

Elia; and The Last Essays of Elia

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Essays, Humor
Chapter: 58 | Listen: 9

Elia and The Last Essays of Elia are two collections of essays written by Charles Lamb. The essays first began appearing in The London Magazine in 1820 and continued to 1825. They were very popular and were printed in many subsequent editions throughout the nineteenth century. The personal and conversational tone of the essays has charmed many readers. Lamb himself is the Elia of the collection, and his sister Mary is “Cousin Bridget.” Lamb took the name of Elia from an old Italian clerk at the South-Sea House in Lamb’s time of employment there; that is, in 1791-1792. Many of these essays contain references to Lamb’s contemporaries or events of his day, which may not strike as strong a chord in the heart of the contemporary listener. – Summary by TriciaG [chương_files]

Selected Classics of Washington Irving

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Published 1800 - 1900
Chapter: 7 | Listen: 1

Washington Irving is one of early America’s most treasured writers. He is best known for his wit and satirical voice. Irving had the extraordinary ability to paint a picture in words on the canvas of the printed page. Irving spent time in England where he wrote some of his best work. This collection includes two of his most famous works: “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” In these two classics, set in New York, Irving brings the legends and daily goings on of the early settlers to life in vivid color and detail. Additionally, two of Irving’s essays about England, both rural and metropolitan, round out his Trans-Atlantic descriptions of life in a bygone era. (Greg Giordano) [chương_files]