Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 063
Various
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Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Volume 63 features essays on a variety of topics: the emotion of the multitude in drama (Yeats), audience (Encyclopedia Britannica), corpulence and diet (Banting), charity (Ambrose Bierce), the forgotten man (Sumner), murder (DeQuincey), suicide (Bierce), free masonry (Albert Pike), the poetic principle (Poe), and the evils of slavery (Othello). Excerpts from Kierkegaard explore his philosophy. Biographical sketches include Calamity Jane, Joseph Glidden, Lucy Bakewell Audubon, and J. M. W. Turner, while Joseph Conrad speaks to his own life in A Familiar Preface. Rounding out the volume is a fascinating 1674 meet-up with a miraculous sea-monster (probably a giant squid). Summary by Sue Anderson
(6 hr 17 min)
Capítulos
| Audience | 2:33 | Leído por Availle |
| Joseph Glidden and Barb Wire Fencing | 20:42 | Leído por Sue Anderson |
| Calamity Jane | 17:04 | Leído por Colleen McMahon |
| The Case Of The Forgotten Man Farther Considered (1883) | 30:01 | Leído por Craig Campbell |
| Charity | 4:52 | Leído por Dale Grothmann |
| Emotion of Multitude | 4:12 | Leído por Peter Thomlinson (1940-2022) |
| Essay on Negro Slavery, No. 1 | 16:20 | Leído por Wayne Cooke |
| Essay on Negro Slavery, No. 2 | 18:30 | Leído por Wayne Cooke |
| A Familiar Preface | 22:27 | Leído por Peter Thomlinson (1940-2022) |
| Knight Kadosh | 28:47 | Leído por Dale Grothmann |
| The Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth | 14:26 | Leído por Peter Thomlinson (1940-2022) |
| Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public (3rd Edition) | 53:43 | Leído por TriciaG |
| A Miraculous Sea-Monster (1694) | 9:13 | Leído por Timothy Ferguson |
| Preparation For a Christian Life, The Pause (1) | 27:27 | Leído por Craig Campbell |
| Preparation For a Christian Life, The Pause (2) | 16:34 | Leído por Craig Campbell |
| The Poetic Principle | 37:33 | Leído por Josh Kibbey |
| The Present Moment (Introduction) | 6:26 | Leído por Craig Campbell |
| Recollections of Audubon Park | 18:17 | Leído por Christopher Hoving |
| The Right to Take Oneself Off | 9:55 | Leído por Dale Grothmann |
| J. M. W. Turner's Sketchbooks, A Sampling | 18:27 | Leído por Sue Anderson |