Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 063


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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)

Chapitres

Audience 2:33 Lu par Availle
Joseph Glidden and Barb Wire Fencing 20:42 Lu par Sue Anderson
Calamity Jane 17:04 Lu par Colleen McMahon
The Case Of The Forgotten Man Farther Considered (1883) 30:01 Lu par Craig Campbell
Charity 4:52 Lu par Dale Grothmann
Emotion of Multitude 4:12 Lu par Peter Thomlinson (1940-2022)
Essay on Negro Slavery, No. 1 16:20 Lu par Wayne Cooke
Essay on Negro Slavery, No. 2 18:30 Lu par Wayne Cooke
A Familiar Preface 22:27 Lu par Peter Thomlinson (1940-2022)
Knight Kadosh 28:47 Lu par Dale Grothmann
The Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth 14:26 Lu par Peter Thomlinson (1940-2022)
Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public (3rd Edition) 53:43 Lu par TriciaG
A Miraculous Sea-Monster (1694) 9:13 Lu par Timothy Ferguson
Preparation For a Christian Life, The Pause (1) 27:27 Lu par Craig Campbell
Preparation For a Christian Life, The Pause (2) 16:34 Lu par Craig Campbell
The Poetic Principle 37:33 Lu par Josh Kibbey
The Present Moment (Introduction) 6:26 Lu par Craig Campbell
Recollections of Audubon Park 18:17 Lu par Christopher Hoving
The Right to Take Oneself Off 9:55 Lu par Dale Grothmann
J. M. W. Turner's Sketchbooks, A Sampling 18:27 Lu par Sue Anderson