Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 050 - Free Audiobook
Author(s): Various,
1 / 17Agnes Mary Clerke
- 1. Agnes Mary Clerke
- 2. Brief Account of the English Character
- 3. By The Road, Parts I & II
- 4. The Donkey
- 5. Down Among the Dead Letters
- 6. Effects of Situation, Climate, Tendance on Plants
- 7. Grape Vines
- 8. Immanuel Kant and John George Hamann
- 9. The Immortal Dinner
- 10. Joe of Lahaina
- 11. Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Roger Weightman, June 24, 1826
- 12. Makers of the Flag
- 13. Oration on the Life and Services of Thomas Paine
- 14. Reminiscences of Margaret Fuller
- 15. The Sea -- and Conrad
- 16. That where the invisible is seene, the uncreated, is created
- 17. Unprofessional Forestry
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Seventeen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include science and natural history--the donkey, forestry, grape vines, astronomy, historian Agnes Mary Clerke, and Greek botanist Theophrastus ; philosophy-- Nicholas of Cusa and Emmanuel Kant; Sommerset Maugham's reminiscences of Spain; Joseph Conrad's sea stories; an encounter with a long-ago companion who has contracted leprosy (Joe of Lahaina); working in the dead-letter office; a dinner the painter Benjamin Hayden hosted for Wordsworth, Keats, and Charles Lamb; a portrait of Margaret Fuller by R.W. Emerson; a 19th century account of English character written for the Chinese; and celebrations of American ideals of freedom and self government--Makers of the Flag, An Oration on Thomas Paine, and Thomas Jefferson's 4th of July letter. - summary by Sue Anderson
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