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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 045

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 045

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Number of Chapters: 18

Length: 05 hours and 18 minutes

Language: English

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include ancient Greek thinkers--Parmenides, Demosthenes, Euclid; William Lloyd Garrison and the National Anti-Slavery Convention; 19th and 20th century philosophers, sociologists, theologians and essayists--Bertrand Russell, Walter Rauschenbusch, Kierkegaard, N.F.S. Brundtvig, Frederik Sibbern, Hans Lassen Martensen, Oscar Wilde; science and invention--sunspots, paper making, aviation; and the shipwreck adventures of Alexander Selkirk, the real Robinson Crusoe. (summary by Sue Anderson)

Learning to Fly by William James Jackman was co-authored by Thomas Herbert Russell and Octave Chanute.

Sibbern, Martensen, and Kierkegaard by Fredrika Bremer was translated by Mary Howitt.

The Seerest of Prevost, Frederica Hauffe, by Justinus Kerner was translated by Catherine Crowe.

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The Basis of Realism (1911) (Landon D. C. Elkind)
Children in Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life (Rob Marland)
Declaration of the National Anti-Slavery Convention (1833) (Curt Walton)
Grundtvig and Kierkegaard (1863) (Craig Campbell)
Learning to Fly (Scott Danneker)
Letter from Bertrand Russell (Journal of Philosophy 1915) (Landon D. C. Elkind)
Linen Rag Paper - Recycling Old Clothes in 1825 (Sue Anderson)
On Nature (540-450? BCE) (Landon D. C. Elkind)
On the Nature of Sense-Data (1913) (Landon D. C. Elkind)
Oration in Favor of the Megalopolitans (Craig Campbell)
The Real Robinson Crusoe, Alexander Selkirk (David Wales)
Reading After Thirty (David Wales)
The Seerest of Prevost, Frederica Hauffe (Craig Campbell)
Sibbern, Martensen, and Kierkegaard (Craig Campbell)
Some Explanations in Reply to Mr. Bradley (Landon D. C. Elkind)
The Sun-Spots of August 1916 (Availle)
The Teaching of Euclid (Landon D. C. Elkind)
Unto Me (Craig Campbell)
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