Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 040

by Various

18 chapters5h 18mEnglish0

About this book

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include a murder during the Yukon gold rush, a perpetual motion fraud, the dissection of a Tasmanian tiger's brain, phlogiston, Bertrand Russell on noting, the memoirs of Louis XIV, the novels of Marie Corelli, marriage, free love, and motherhood. Authors include Benjamin Franklin, Hamlin Garland, Ida Tarbel, Emma Goldman, Florence Nightingale, Robert Benchley, Heywood Broun, and the duc de Saint-Simon."The Introduction to the Memoirs of Louis XIV" was translated by Bayle St. John.

Chapters (18)

1The Brain of the Male Thylacine ("Tasmanian Tiger"),

855

2The Business Of Being A Woman

1703

3Christian Henry Heinecken

180

4Fournier and LaBelle, a Yukon Murder Mystery

1293

5Franklin's Way to Wealth or, 'Poor Richard Improved'

1192

6Hammock Reading

625

7How to be a Spectator at Spring Planting

489

8Introduction to the Memoirs of Louis XIV

531

9Marriage and Love

1591

10Miss Marie Corelli

1205

11Notes on Nursing, What It Is, and What It Is Not

713

12Observations on the Doctrine of Phlogiston

2425

13On Denoting

3009

14Operation Orders", from "Lectures on Land Warfare (1922)

226

15Perpetual Motion

693

16A Pioneer Mother

1427

17Two Divisions of Philosophic Minds

186

18Zephaniah

763

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 040

About this book

Chapters (18)

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