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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 045

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Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include ancient Greek thinkers--Parmenides, Demosthenes, Euclid; William Lloyd Garrison and the National Anti-Slavery Convention; 19th and 20th century philosophers, sociologists, theologians and essayists--Bertrand Russell, Walter Rauschenbusch, Kierkegaard, N.F.S. Brundtvig, Frederik Sibbern, Hans Lassen Martensen, Oscar Wilde; science and invention--sunspots, paper making, aviation; and the shipwreck adventures of Alexander Selkirk, the real Robinson Crusoe. (summary by Sue Anderson)

Learning to Fly by William James Jackman was co-authored by Thomas Herbert Russell and Octave Chanute.

Sibbern, Martensen, and Kierkegaard by Fredrika Bremer was translated by Mary Howitt.

The Seerest of Prevost, Frederica Hauffe, by Justinus Kerner was translated by Catherine Crowe. (5 hr 18 min)

Chapters

The Basis of Realism (1911)

12:44

Read by Landon D. C. Elkind

Children in Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life

27:34

Read by Rob Marland

Declaration of the National Anti-Slavery Convention (1833)

11:03

Read by Curt Walton

Grundtvig and Kierkegaard (1863)

11:56

Read by Craig Campbell

Learning to Fly

23:41

Read by Scott Danneker

Letter from Bertrand Russell (Journal of Philosophy 1915)

4:10

Read by Landon D. C. Elkind

Linen Rag Paper - Recycling Old Clothes in 1825

50:39

Read by Sue Anderson

On Nature (540-450? BCE)

13:37

Read by Landon D. C. Elkind

On the Nature of Sense-Data (1913)

20:14

Read by Landon D. C. Elkind

Oration in Favor of the Megalopolitans

25:30

Read by Craig Campbell

The Real Robinson Crusoe, Alexander Selkirk

16:16

Read by David Wales

Reading After Thirty

6:04

Read by David Wales

The Seerest of Prevost, Frederica Hauffe

26:11

Read by Craig Campbell

Sibbern, Martensen, and Kierkegaard

10:50

Read by Craig Campbell

Some Explanations in Reply to Mr. Bradley

20:32

Read by Landon D. C. Elkind

The Sun-Spots of August 1916

3:55

Read by Availle

The Teaching of Euclid

9:54

Read by Landon D. C. Elkind

Unto Me

23:57

Read by Craig Campbell