Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 051

Author(s): Various

Narrators: VfkaBT, Availle, Sue Anderson, John N. Daily, Craig Campbell, Phil Schempf, Gerwin Kramer, Elizabeth P., Garth Burton, Andrea Kotzer

Number of Chapters: 17

Length: 03 hours and 35 minutes

Language: English

Seventeen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include philosophy--Bertrand Russell, Spinoza, and Epictetus; science and invention--the Wright brothers, Leibniz, arctic explorer Sir John Franklin, spider webs, and cylindrical silos; plays and cinema--Lillian Gish and Friedrich Schiller; satire--selections from Ambrose Bierce, Robert Benchley, and Seneca; biographies--Aaron Burr, and Sophia Packard of Spellman College; the murder of Archbishop Charles Seghers in Alaska in 1886; and a history of Torre Abbey in England.
Summary by Sue Anderson

Against the Epicurean and Academics was translated by T. W. Rolleston.

Against the Epicureans and Academics (VfkaBT)

Apocolocyntosis (or: The Pumpkinification of Claudius) (Availle)

The Circular Snare (Sue Anderson)

The Community Masque as a Substitute for War (VfkaBT)

The Cylindrical Silo (Sue Anderson)

Did We Eat One Another? (John N. Daily)

Excerpt from Theodicy (Craig Campbell)

The Fate of Sir John Franklin (Phil Schempf)

The Nature of the Human Mind (Gerwin Kramer)

A Noble Life-Work After Fifty-Seven: Sophia B. Packard (Craig Campbell)

The Official Account of the Death of Archbishop Seghers (Phil Schempf)

The Place of Science in a Liberal Education (Gerwin Kramer)

Preface to The Robbers (1781) (Craig Campbell)

The Story of a Daughter's Love (Elizabeth P.)

Torre Abbey (Garth Burton)

Way Down East (VfkaBT)

The Wright Brothers and Their Problem (Andrea Kotzer)

The audiobook Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 051 falls under the genres of *non-fiction. It is written by Various.

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