Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 039

About this film

LibriVox recording of Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 039 by Various. Read by LibriVox Volunteers Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include literary figures--Alice Mangold Diehl, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Arthur Hugh Clough; philosophers--Hegel, Kierkegaard; religious thinkers--Martin Luther, Cotton Mather; political leaders--Thomas Jefferson, John F. Kennedy; important documents--the Constitution of Japan (1946), the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom; moments in history--the Battle of the Crater, the Dred Scott Decision; historical figures--the Pseudo Dionysius and Xenophon; and, lastly, shopper's tips for watermelons and cantaloupes.(Summary by Sue Anderson) Hegel's The Problem was translated by William T. Harris Xenophon's On Horsemanship was translated by Morris H. Morgan For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . M4B Audiobook (163MB)

Directors & creators

Various

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;history; eliot; ghosts; prisons; civil war; agriculture; kierkegaard; Stowe; religious freedom; Xenophon; hegel; clough; fruit; darwinism; anti-intellectualism; dionysius; mather; jefferson; houston; kennedy; church and state; battle of the crater; oldtown folks; horsemanship; typography; Durandi Rationale Divinorum Officiorum, John Faust

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