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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 044

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Nineteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include wives, widows, and women scorned--the "Baby Doe Tabor" scandal, the trials of literary marriages, and colonial women; history--Wounded Knee, the Underground Railroad, Edward Bellamy's "nationalism," and English railroads; inspiring places--the Alhambra and Squaw Rock; invention--the marine chronometer; and essays on the Constitution, the natural equality of men, old age, the consolation of reading, and on the fantastic imagination. (Summary by Sue Anderson)

The Art of Dying by August Strindberg was translated by Claud Field.
The Natural Equality of Men to be Acknowledged by Samuel Pufendorf was translated by Andrew Tooke. (6 hr 28 min)

Chapters

The Alhambra

13:09

Read by OCTL7

America

3:40

Read by Craig Campbell

The Art of Dying

4:23

Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)

Augusta Tabor: Her Side of the Scandal

33:26

Read by Lynne T

Consolation

1:06

Read by David Wales

The Fantastic Imagination

18:28

Read by Daniel Koehn

God in the Constitution

39:00

Read by Scott Danneker

The Iron Road Book and Railway Companion, or a Journey from London to Birmingham

31:49

Read by TriciaG

The Legend of Dah-nol-yo, Squaw Rock

6:27

Read by David Wales

The Natural Equality of Men to be Acknowledged

10:30

Read by Craig Campbell

Of Interpretation of Dreams

4:07

Read by Craig Campbell

Poets as Landscape Painters

8:46

Read by David Wales

The Progress of Nationalism in the United States

26:21

Read by progressingamerica

Remarks on a Pamphlet Lately Published Under the Authority of the Board of Long…

56:59

Read by Availle

Trials of the Wife of a Literary Man

20:06

Read by David Wales

Two Centuries of American Women

35:56

Read by David Wales

The Underground Railroad in McDonough County, Illinois

35:44

Read by Sue Anderson

William James, Gustav Fechner, Wilhelm Wundt, Soren Kierkegaard

7:51

Read by Craig Campbell

Wounded Knee: A First Person Account by Dewey Beard

30:46

Read by David Wales