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

Group: Short Nonfiction Collections

Section Chapter Author Source Reader Time Language
Play 01 An Account of the System of the World (described in Mr Newton's Mathematical Principles of Philosophy) Sir Isaac Newton Etext Availle
00:08:44 en
Play 02 Chocolate and Cocoa Recipes Maria Parloa Etext BettyB
00:03:43 en
Play 03 Concerning The Notion of Liberty and of Moral Agency Jonathan Edwards Etext Craig Campbell
00:11:33 en
Play 04 Cuban Folklore L. Roy Terwilliger Etext David Wales
00:37:10 en
Play 05 George Sand, a Biography Edward Dowden Etext VfkaBT
00:10:57 en
Play 06 Gravel Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Ed. Etext VfkaBT
00:09:05 en
Play 07 Henry Trengrouse and His Rocket Life-Saving Apparatus Sidney Lee Etext Son of the Exiles
00:06:27 en
Play 08 How To Ring A Church Bell Properly Meneely & Co. Etext Son of the Exiles
00:02:53 en
Play 09 A Modest Proposal Jonathan Swift Etext Celine Oon
00:18:46 en
Play 10 Mr. G.K. Chesterton and Mr. Hilaire Belloc Robert Lynd Etext 5pak
00:33:56 en
Play 11 Of Academical Freedom Johann Gottlieb Fichte Etext Craig Campbell
00:26:19 en
Play 12 Of Personal Identity Joseph Butler Etext Craig Campbell
00:17:35 en
Play 13 Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory Max Planck Etext Phil Schempf
00:34:49 en
Play 14 A Peccary Hunt on the Nueces Theodore Roosevelt Etext John Burlinson
00:23:40 en
Play 15 Plants of the Shore R. Cadwallader Smith Etext VfkaBT
00:09:11 en
Play 16 Signals in Use in the Port of Sydney, New South Wales Sydney Harbour Trust Commissioners Etext Son of the Exiles
00:03:05 en
Play 17 The Sorrows of Satan by Marie Corelli, A Review Anonymous Etext Newgatenovelist
00:03:36 en
Play 18 A Woman Who Went to Alaska May Kellogg Sullivan Etext BettyB
00:16:00 en