Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 063
Various
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Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Volume 63 features essays on a variety of topics: the emotion of the multitude in drama (Yeats), audience (Encyclopedia Britannica), corpulence and diet (Banting), charity (Ambrose Bierce), the forgotten man (Sumner), murder (DeQuincey), suicide (Bierce), free masonry (Albert Pike), the poetic principle (Poe), and the evils of slavery (Othello). Excerpts from Kierkegaard explore his philosophy. Biographical sketches include Calamity Jane, Joseph Glidden, Lucy Bakewell Audubon, and J. M. W. Turner, while Joseph Conrad speaks to his own life in A Familiar Preface. Rounding out the volume is a fascinating 1674 meet-up with a miraculous sea-monster (probably a giant squid). Summary by Sue Anderson
(6 hr 17 min)
Chapters
| Audience | 2:33 | Read by Availle |
| Joseph Glidden and Barb Wire Fencing | 20:42 | Read by Sue Anderson |
| Calamity Jane | 17:04 | Read by Colleen McMahon |
| The Case Of The Forgotten Man Farther Considered (1883) | 30:01 | Read by Craig Campbell |
| Charity | 4:52 | Read by Dale Grothmann |
| Emotion of Multitude | 4:12 | Read by Peter Thomlinson (1940-2022) |
| Essay on Negro Slavery, No. 1 | 16:20 | Read by Wayne Cooke |
| Essay on Negro Slavery, No. 2 | 18:30 | Read by Wayne Cooke |
| A Familiar Preface | 22:27 | Read by Peter Thomlinson (1940-2022) |
| Knight Kadosh | 28:47 | Read by Dale Grothmann |
| The Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth | 14:26 | Read by Peter Thomlinson (1940-2022) |
| Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public (3rd Edition) | 53:43 | Read by TriciaG |
| A Miraculous Sea-Monster (1694) | 9:13 | Read by Timothy Ferguson |
| Preparation For a Christian Life, The Pause (1) | 27:27 | Read by Craig Campbell |
| Preparation For a Christian Life, The Pause (2) | 16:34 | Read by Craig Campbell |
| The Poetic Principle | 37:33 | Read by Josh Kibbey |
| The Present Moment (Introduction) | 6:26 | Read by Craig Campbell |
| Recollections of Audubon Park | 18:17 | Read by Christopher Hoving |
| The Right to Take Oneself Off | 9:55 | Read by Dale Grothmann |
| J. M. W. Turner's Sketchbooks, A Sampling | 18:27 | Read by Sue Anderson |