Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 038

Author(s): Various

Genre(s): Essays & Short Works

Narrators: Newgatenovelist, David Wales, J. M. Smallheer, Bellona Times, Craig Campbell, Michele Fry, Catherine Russell, Availle, Kit Noussis

Number of Chapters: 18

Length: 04 hours and 21 minutes

Language: English

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include bedside books, South African cookery, Bryce canyon, Wilhelm Stekel's psychology, the Theologia Germanica, Paracelsus, John Donne, Cotton Mather, Julia Smith's translation of the Bible, Zen Buddhism, American immigrants, slavery, Joseph Crosby Lincoln, Oscar Wilde, Albert Einstein, and cats.

"Cats and Their Care" was edited by Liberty Hyde Bailey. "Looking Backward" was translated by Samuel Aaron Tannenbaum. "The Collector" was translated by Rosalie Gabler. "Thelogia Germanica" was translated by Susanna Winkworth. (summary by Sue Anderson)