Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 091

Various

"Pneumatic tubes, instead of store wagons, will deliver packages and bundles." Store purchases by tube was one of John Watkins Jr's predictions for What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years, written in 1900. Man and womankind's achievements, and their failures, are central to many of the reader chosen nonfiction pieces in vol. 091 (Racial Geography, Airmail Pilots, The Skeleton in the Closet, On Noise, Progressive Party Platform, Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, Haroun Al-Raschid, Plea for Atheism, Cry of the Children, Address to Medical Students, The Brotherhood of the Kingdom, Fallacy of Success, and Carranza's Tragic Flight). Broadening the gaze are selections on science, poetry, myth, art, and imaginative writing (Evolution of the Stars, Solar Myths, Landscape Painting, Robert Burns, and Algeron Blackwood). Summary by Sue Anderson

Genre(s): *Non-fiction

Language: English

Group: Short Nonfiction Collections

Section Chapter Author Source Reader Time Language
Play 01 Algernon Blackwood - An Appreciation Grace Isabel Colbron Etext Ben Tucker
00:10:07 en
Play 02 The Brotherhood of the Kingdom (1892) Walter Rauschenbusch Etext progressingamerica
00:06:04 en
Play 03 Carranza's Tragic Flight to Death (1920) Sophie Anita Treadwell Etext Sue Anderson
00:35:22 en
Play 04 The Cry of the Children Bessie Van Vorst Etext Mary in Arkansas
00:37:36 en
Play 05 Doctors: An Address Delivered to Medical Students (1908) Rudyard Kipling Etext David Wales
00:08:55 en
Play 06 Evolution of the Stars and the Formation of the Earth, Part 1 (1914) William Wallace Campbell Etext Flavo Davo
00:54:59 en
Play 07 Evolution of the Stars and the Formation of the Earth, Part 2 (1914) William Wallace Campbell Etext Flavo Davo
00:37:53 en
Play 08 The Fallacy of Success (1909) G. K. Chesterton Etext Peter Thomlinson (1940-2022)
00:14:16 en
Play 09 The History of Haroun Al-Raschid Anonymous Etext Rapunzelina
00:29:08 en
Play 10 History of the Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson: Excerpt Edmund G. Ross Etext ktolber76
00:25:27 en
Play 11 Letters on Landscape Painting #5 Asher B. Durand Etext Sue Anderson
00:14:36 en
Play 12 On Noise Arthur Schopenhauer Etext Peter Thomlinson (1940-2022)
00:11:15 en
Play 13 A Plea for Atheism Charles Bradlaugh Etext Availle
01:08:00 en
Play 14 Racial Geography of Europe (1896) William Zebina Ripley Etext Flavo Davo
00:37:55 en
Play 15 Robert Burns Clarence Darrow Etext William Allan Jones
00:42:48 en
Play 16 The Skeleton in the Closet Clarence Darrow Etext William Allan Jones
00:33:51 en
Play 17 Solar Myths and Christian Festivals Edward Carpenter Etext Verla Viera
00:31:19 en
Play 18 Tales of the Airmail Pilots Burt Morton McConnell Etext ktolber76
00:43:06 en
Play 19 Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose Progressive Party Platform (1912) Progressive Party Etext progressingamerica
00:33:27 en
Play 20 What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years (1900) John Elfreth Watkins, Jr. Etext TriciaG
00:21:23 en