Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 047

Various

Ngôn ngữ: English

Thể loại: Tiểu luận & Tác phẩm ngắn Phi hư cấu

Người đọc:Availle, Craig Campbell, Phil Schempf, Lynne T, Sue Anderson, David Wales, April6090

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1. An Account of a New Comet, 1786
2. Amiel's Journal 6-7 April 1851
3. Aristotle
4. The Ascent of Anconcagua
5. Clara and Robert Schumann
6. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen 1789, 1791
7. Fruitlands, Bronson Alcott's Transcendental Utopia, 1843
8. A Garden Of Old Delights
9. Influence of the Liberty of Spirits Upon Events
10. Lichen Dyes
11. The Mystery of Charles Dickens
12. A Mystery of the Sea: the Mary Celeste
13. On Reading
14. Scott v. Negro London by United States Supreme Court
15. Sisyphus, Or Upon Taking Counsel
16. Spring In The Woods
17. The Woods In Autumn
18. The Woods In Winter

Giới thiệu

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include philosophy and thought -- Plato, Aristotle, Leonhard Euler, Henri Amiel, and the French Rights of Man; adventure and mystery -- the ascent of Aconcagua and the mystery ship Mary Celeste; science -- a new comet and lichen dyes; portraits of the seasons by Lucy Maud Montgomery: biographies of Charles Dickens and Clara and Robert Schuman; a history of the Transcendental utopia Fruitlands by Louisa May Alcott, and an essay on reading by Isaac Disraeli. summary by Sue Anderson