Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 047
Author(s): Various
Genre(s): *non-fiction, Essays & Short Works
Narrators: Availle, Craig Campbell, Phil Schempf, Lynne T, Sue Anderson, David Wales, April6090
Number of Chapters: 18
Length: 04 hours and 59 minutes
Language: English
Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include philosophy and thought -- Plato, Aristotle, Leonhard Euler, Henri Amiel, and the French Rights of Man; adventure and mystery -- the ascent of Aconcagua and the mystery ship Mary Celeste; science -- a new comet and lichen dyes; portraits of the seasons by Lucy Maud Montgomery: biographies of Charles Dickens and Clara and Robert Schuman; a history of the Transcendental utopia Fruitlands by Louisa May Alcott, and an essay on reading by Isaac Disraeli. summary by Sue Anderson