Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 037
Author(s): Various
Genre(s): Essays & Short Works
Narrators: Garth Burton, Chris Pyle, Winston Tharp, MaryAnn, Bellona Times, Kangaroo, Will Levine, Rob Marland, Availle, Glenn O'Brien, TriciaG, Sue Anderson, Progressingamerica
Number of Chapters: 18
Length: 07 hours and 07 minutes
Language: English
Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, blow-pipe weapons, Oriental china; impressions of America by Enrico Caruso, Oscar Wilde, and Charles W. Eliot; Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass; film directors Ernst Lubitsch and King Vidor; architect Louis Sullivan; Roe vs. Wade, women's rights; microphobia, the Boy Scouts, Kentucky's blue-grass region, and wintry weather. (Summary by Sue Anderson)