Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 045
Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include ancient Greek thinkers--Parmenides, Demosthenes, Euclid; William Lloyd Garrison and the National Anti-Slavery Convention; 19th and 20th century philosophers, sociologists, theologians and essayists--Bertrand Russell, Walter Rauschenbusch, Kierkegaard, N.F.S. Brundtvig, Frederik Sibbern, Hans Lassen Martensen, Oscar Wilde; science and invention--sunspots, paper making, aviation; and the shipwreck adventures of Alexander Selkirk, the real Robinson Crusoe. (summary by Sue Anderson) Learning to Fly by William James Jackman was co-authored by Thomas Herbert Russell and Octave Chanute . Sibbern, Martensen, and Kierkegaard by Fredrika Bremer was translated by Mary Howitt . The Seerest of Prevost, Frederica Hauffe , by Justinus Kerner was translated by Catherine Crowe .