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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 041

Various

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include a woman in Alaska, Cuban folklore, and hunting peccaries on the Nueces; Max Planck's Quantum Theory and Newton's world view; church bells and chocolate cake; naval flag signals, rocket life-saving apparatus, and seashore plants and pebbles; also many literary and philosophical figures including Jonathan Swift, Jonathan Edwards, Johann Fichte, Joseph Butler, George Sand, Marie Corelli, G. K. Chesterton, and Hilaire Belloc. (summary by Sue Anderson)

Genre(s): Essays & Short Works

Language: English

Keyword(s): folklore (75), plants (67), Alaska (43), chocolate (11), sydney (10), satan (9), Isaac Newton (6), bells (6), theory (5), new south wales (5) ... [Show full list]

Keyword(s): folklore (75), plants (67), Alaska (43), chocolate (11), sydney (10), satan (9), Isaac Newton (6), bells (6), theory (5), new south wales (5), signals (3), flags (2), rockets (2), seashore (2), peccary (1), nueces (1), academic freedom (1), brujo (1), gravel (1), wort (1), quantum (1), theordore roosevelt (1)

Group: Short Nonfiction Collections