Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include biographies of astronomer Fiammetta Wilson, naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, mountaineer Jacques Balmat, French Revolutionist Camille Desmoulins, and Buddha; a climb of Mt. Fuji by Lafcadio Hearn, reviews of 20th century poetry and of books by E. M. Delafield, Mrs. Gaskell, and Kierkegaard; marriage; motion pictures; color blindness; and an essay on optimism by Helen Keller. (Summary by Sue Anderson)
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Alexander von Humboldt, a Eulogy (1859)
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Colour-blindness
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The Drama of Self-Deception, a Review of E. M. Delafield's Novels
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Early 20th Century Poetry, a Review
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Fiammetta Wilson, Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society
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Fuji-no-Yama
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How To Cook Husbands
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Jacques Balmat, or The First Ascent of Mont Blanc
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The Life of Buddha and its Lessons
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Live Free Or Die (1788)
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Moving Pictures
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Mrs. Gaskell, A Novelist of Queen Victoria's Reign
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On the Education of the Recollection (1806)
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On Marriage
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On Reading
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Optimism
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Soren Kierkegaard: The Concept of Anxiety 1844 and Practice in Christianity 1850
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Soren Kierkegaard: Study on his Stadia Upon Life's Way (1845)
