Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 044


Lu par LibriVox Volunteers

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)

Chapitres

The Alhambra 13:09 Lu par OCTL7
America 3:40 Lu par Craig Campbell
The Art of Dying 4:23 Lu par John Burlinson (1950-2024)
Augusta Tabor: Her Side of the Scandal 33:26 Lu par Lynne T
Consolation 1:06 Lu par David Wales
The Fantastic Imagination 18:28 Lu par Daniel Koehn
God in the Constitution 39:00 Lu par Scott Danneker
The Iron Road Book and Railway Companion, or a Journey from London to Birmingham 31:49 Lu par TriciaG
The Legend of Dah-nol-yo, Squaw Rock 6:27 Lu par David Wales
The Natural Equality of Men to be Acknowledged 10:30 Lu par Craig Campbell
Of Interpretation of Dreams 4:07 Lu par Craig Campbell
Poets as Landscape Painters 8:46 Lu par David Wales
The Progress of Nationalism in the United States 26:21 Lu par progressingamerica
Remarks on a Pamphlet Lately Published Under the Authority of the Board of Long… 56:59 Lu par Availle
Trials of the Wife of a Literary Man 20:06 Lu par David Wales
Two Centuries of American Women 35:56 Lu par David Wales
The Underground Railroad in McDonough County, Illinois 35:44 Lu par Sue Anderson
William James, Gustav Fechner, Wilhelm Wundt, Soren Kierkegaard 7:51 Lu par Craig Campbell
Wounded Knee: A First Person Account by Dewey Beard 30:46 Lu par David Wales