An Account of a New Comet, 1786

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 047

by VARIOUS ( - )

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

Listen next episodes of Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 047:
A Garden Of Old Delights , A Mystery of the Sea: the Mary Celeste , Amiel's Journal 6-7 April 1851 , Aristotle , Clara and Robert Schumann , Fruitlands, Bronson Alcott's Transcendental Utopia, 1843 , Influence of the Liberty of Spirits Upon Events , Lichen Dyes , On Reading , Scott v. Negro London by United States Supreme Court , Sisyphus, Or Upon Taking Counsel , Spring In The Woods , The Ascent of Anconcagua , The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen 1789, 1791 , The Mystery of Charles Dickens , The Woods In Autumn , The Woods In Winter