Against the Epicureans and Academics

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 051

by VARIOUS ( - )

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.

Listen next episodes of Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 051:
A Noble Life-Work After Fifty-Seven: Sophia B. Packard , Apocolocyntosis (or: The Pumpkinification of Claudius) , Did We Eat One Another? , Excerpt from Theodicy , Preface to The Robbers (1781) , The Circular Snare , The Community Masque as a Substitute for War , The Cylindrical Silo , The Fate of Sir John Franklin , The Nature of the Human Mind , The Official Account of the Death of Archbishop Seghers , The Place of Science in a Liberal Education , The Story of a Daughter's Love , The Wright Brothers and Their Problem , Torre Abbey , Way Down East