Audiobooks *Non-fiction Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 044
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 044

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 044

by VARIOUS ( - )

Nineteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include wives, widows, and women scorned--the "Baby Doe Tabor" scandal, the trials of literary marriages, and colonial women; history--Wounded Knee, the Underground Railroad, Edward Bellamy's "nationalism," and English railroads; inspiring places--the Alhambra and Squaw Rock; invention--the marine chronometer; and essays on the Constitution, the natural equality of men, old age, the consolation of reading, and on the fantastic imagination. (Summary by Sue Anderson) The Art of Dying by August Strindberg was translated by Claud Field. The Natural Equality of Men to be Acknowledged by Samuel Pufendorf was translated by Andrew Tooke.


America

Augusta Tabor: Her Side of the Scandal

Consolation

God in the Constitution

Of Interpretation of Dreams

Poets as Landscape Painters

Remarks on a Pamphlet Lately Published Under the Authority of the Board of Longitude

The Alhambra

The Art of Dying

The Fantastic Imagination

The Iron Road Book and Railway Companion, or a Journey from London to Birmingham

The Legend of Dah-nol-yo, Squaw Rock

The Natural Equality of Men to be Acknowledged

The Progress of Nationalism in the United States

The Underground Railroad in McDonough County, Illinois

Trials of the Wife of a Literary Man

Two Centuries of American Women

William James, Gustav Fechner, Wilhelm Wundt, Soren Kierkegaard

Wounded Knee: A First Person Account by Dewey Beard