Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 063
Various
Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
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)
Kapitel
| Audience | 2:33 | Gelesen von Availle |
| Joseph Glidden and Barb Wire Fencing | 20:42 | Gelesen von Sue Anderson |
| Calamity Jane | 17:04 | Gelesen von Colleen McMahon |
| The Case Of The Forgotten Man Farther Considered (1883) | 30:01 | Gelesen von Craig Campbell |
| Charity | 4:52 | Gelesen von Dale Grothmann |
| Emotion of Multitude | 4:12 | Gelesen von Peter Thomlinson (1940-2022) |
| Essay on Negro Slavery, No. 1 | 16:20 | Gelesen von Wayne Cooke |
| Essay on Negro Slavery, No. 2 | 18:30 | Gelesen von Wayne Cooke |
| A Familiar Preface | 22:27 | Gelesen von Peter Thomlinson (1940-2022) |
| Knight Kadosh | 28:47 | Gelesen von Dale Grothmann |
| The Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth | 14:26 | Gelesen von Peter Thomlinson (1940-2022) |
| Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public (3rd Edition) | 53:43 | Gelesen von TriciaG |
| A Miraculous Sea-Monster (1694) | 9:13 | Gelesen von Timothy Ferguson |
| Preparation For a Christian Life, The Pause (1) | 27:27 | Gelesen von Craig Campbell |
| Preparation For a Christian Life, The Pause (2) | 16:34 | Gelesen von Craig Campbell |
| The Poetic Principle | 37:33 | Gelesen von Josh Kibbey |
| The Present Moment (Introduction) | 6:26 | Gelesen von Craig Campbell |
| Recollections of Audubon Park | 18:17 | Gelesen von Christopher Hoving |
| The Right to Take Oneself Off | 9:55 | Gelesen von Dale Grothmann |
| J. M. W. Turner's Sketchbooks, A Sampling | 18:27 | Gelesen von Sue Anderson |