Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 034

Genres: Essays & Short Works Non-fiction

Narrators:Garth Burton, Craig Campbell, progressingamerica, Peter Eastman, P. J. Taylor, Tip Brown, Availle, Joe Brenneman, Delmar H Dolbier

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1. Alfriston and Wilmington, Ch. 6 of Field Paths and Green Lanes
2. Bjornson's Beyond Human Power
3. Character Sketch - William Randolph Hearst
4. Darwin Among the Machines
5. Future of Journalism
6. Government By Journalism
7. Immediate Empiricism
8. The Issue Between Idealism and Immediate Empiricism
9. John Adams' Inaugural Address, March 4, 1797
10. Lord Kelvin on the Metric System
11. On Love of Truth
12. An Open Letter to Professor Dewey Concerning Immediate Empiricism
13. Philemon's The Highest Good
14. The Postulate of Immediate Empiricism
15. The Unknown Soldier
16. A Very Short Life of Kierkegaard
17. A Voyage to San Francisco
18. What Says the Fire Marshal?

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Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the English countryside; William Randolph Hearst and journalism; the philosophy of Soren Kierkegaard, John Dewey and others; General William T. Sherman's voyage to San Francisco; the metric system, and the future of the machine age. (Summary by Sue Anderson)

Bjornson's "Beyond Human Power" and Kierkegaard's "What Says the Fire Marshal?" were both translated by Lee Milton Hollander
The translators of Philemon's "The Highest Good" and Lessing's "On Love of Truth" are unknown.