Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 050
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- Agnes Mary Clerke
- Brief Account of the English Character
- By The Road, Parts I & II
- The Donkey
- Down Among the Dead Letters
- Effects of Situation, Climate, Tendance on Plants
- Grape Vines
- Immanuel Kant and John George Hamann
- The Immortal Dinner
- Joe of Lahaina
- Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Roger Weightman, June 24, 1826
- Makers of the Flag
- Oration on the Life and Services of Thomas Paine
- Reminiscences of Margaret Fuller
- The Sea -- and Conrad
- That where the invisible is seene, the uncreated, is created
- Unprofessional Forestry
Seventeen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include science and natural history--the donkey, forestry, grape vines, astronomy, historian Agnes Mary Clerke, and Greek botanist Theophrastus ; philosophy-- Nicholas of Cusa and Emmanuel Kant; Sommerset Maugham's reminiscences of Spain; Joseph Conrad's sea stories; an encounter with a long-ago companion who has contracted leprosy (Joe of Lahaina); working in the dead-letter office; a dinner the painter Benjamin Hayden hosted for Wordsworth, Keats, and Charles Lamb; a portrait of Margaret Fuller by R.W. Emerson; a 19th century account of English character written for the Chinese; and celebrations of American ideals of freedom and self government--Makers of the Flag, An Oration on Thomas Paine, and Thomas Jefferson's 4th of July letter. - summary by Sue Anderson
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