Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the Faust Legend, Stephen Crane, Sundials and the Statue of Liberty. (Summary by Sue Anderson)
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The Faust Legend from Marlowe to Goethe
Episode 1 · 15:05
The Life of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Episode 2 · 44:13
Lines of Weakness in Cylinders
Episode 3 · 3:38
The Meaning of the War: Life & Matter in Conflict (1915)
Episode 4 · 32:09
A Murder Conspiracy
Episode 5 · 45:11
My Private Menagerie
Episode 6 · 1:13:18
Number Seven
Episode 7 · 16:05
Proclamation of Thanksgiving
Episode 8 · 4:27
The Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World
Episode 9 · 45:38
Sundials, Part 1
Episode 10 · 13:32
Sundials, Part 2
Episode 11 · 23:33
Technical Education and its Relation to Science and Literature
Episode 12 · 58:03
Uphill in Fog
Episode 13 · 5:24
When I Knew Stephen Crane
Episode 14 · 18:05
William Harvey and the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood