Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 063

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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

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1Audience

153

2Joseph Glidden and Barb Wire Fencing

1242

3Calamity Jane

1024

4The Case Of The Forgotten Man Farther Considered (1883)

1801

5Charity

292

6Emotion of Multitude

252

7Essay on Negro Slavery, No. 1

980

8Essay on Negro Slavery, No. 2

1110

9A Familiar Preface

1347

10Knight Kadosh

1727

11The Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth

866

12Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public (3rd Edition)

3223

13A Miraculous Sea-Monster (1694)

553

14Preparation For a Christian Life, The Pause (1)

1647

15Preparation For a Christian Life, The Pause (2)

994

16The Poetic Principle

2253

17The Present Moment (Introduction)

386

18Recollections of Audubon Park

1097

19The Right to Take Oneself Off

595

20J. M. W. Turner's Sketchbooks, A Sampling

1107

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