Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 051 - Free Audiobook
Author(s): Various
Language: English
Genre(s): Non-fiction
1 / 17Against the Epicureans and Academics
- 1. Against the Epicureans and Academics
- 2. Apocolocyntosis (or: The Pumpkinification of Claudius)
- 3. The Circular Snare
- 4. The Community Masque as a Substitute for War
- 5. The Cylindrical Silo
- 6. Did We Eat One Another?
- 7. Excerpt from Theodicy
- 8. The Fate of Sir John Franklin
- 9. The Nature of the Human Mind
- 10. A Noble Life-Work After Fifty-Seven: Sophia B. Packard
- 11. The Official Account of the Death of Archbishop Seghers
- 12. The Place of Science in a Liberal Education
- 13. Preface to The Robbers (1781)
- 14. The Story of a Daughter's Love
- 15. Torre Abbey
- 16. Way Down East
- 17. The Wright Brothers and Their Problem
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Seventeen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include philosophy--Bertrand Russell, Spinoza, and Epictetus; science and invention--the Wright brothers, Leibniz, arctic explorer Sir John Franklin, spider webs, and cylindrical silos; plays and cinema--Lillian Gish and Friedrich Schiller; satire--selections from Ambrose Bierce, Robert Benchley, and Seneca; biographies--Aaron Burr, and Sophia Packard of Spellman College; the murder of Archbishop Charles Seghers in Alaska in 1886; and a history of Torre Abbey in England. Summary by Sue Anderson
Against the Epicurean and Academics was translated by T. W. Rolleston.
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