Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 053

Author(s): Various

Genre(s): *non-fiction

Narrators: Melvin Lee, VfkaBT, Availle, Craig Campbell, Melanie T, Phil Schempf, Sue Anderson, Lynne T, William Allan Jones, Michele Fry

Number of Chapters: 20

Length: 06 hours and 04 minutes

Language: English

Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include History--Jocelyn de Brakelond's 13th century chronicle of the Bury St. Edmund monastery, Lorenzo de Medici's Florence, the voyage of the Mayflower, and Mark Twain's essay Stirring Times in Austria; Philosophy--Kierkegaard and Leibniz; Speeches, Sermons, and Diary Entries from Abraham Lincoln, Robert Ingersoll, and Queen Victoria; Literature--a tribute to George Meredith and a critique of Mencken's The American Language; and Nature and the Natural World--George Mallory outlining the route to the summit of Mt. Everest, Newton's proof of the elliptical orbits of planets, native bees, pear tree blight, fruit soups, and a description of a grain of wheat.

Panegyric on Abraham was translated by Lee M. Hollander. (Summary by Sue Anderson)