Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 046
Author(s): Various
Genre(s): Essays & Short Works
Narrators: Garth Burton, Michele Fry, David Wales, TriciaG, SK, Craig Campbell, Sue Anderson, Jan MacGillivray, Availle
Number of Chapters: 20
Length: 06 hours and 47 minutes
Language: English
Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include meteor showers, smallpox inoculation, telegraphy, fear of death, church bell change-ringing , painting as a pastime, prejudice against Jews from Mark Twain's perspective, the view from Braddock Heights, Maryland, philosophical reflections by Saint Bonaventure, Paracelsus, and Friedrich Jacobi, letters written by Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe, and eulogies to Alexander Hamilton and John Keats.
The Degrees of Ascension to God by Saint Bonaventure was translated by Thomas Davidson.