Seventeen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include philosophy--Bertrand Russell, Spinoza, and Epictetus; science and invention--the Wright brothers, Leibniz, arctic explorer Sir John Franklin, spider webs, and cylindrical silos; plays and cinema--Lillian Gish and Friedrich Schiller; satire--selections from Ambrose Bierce, Robert Benchley, and Seneca; biographies--Aaron Burr, and Sophia Packard of Spellman College; the murder of Archbishop Charles Seghers in Alaska in 1886; and a history of Torre Abbey in England. Summary by Sue Anderson
Against the Epicurean and Academics was translated by T. W. Rolleston.
Against the Epicureans and AcademicsApocolocyntosis (or: The Pumpkinification of Claudius)The Circular SnareThe Community Masque as a Substitute for WarThe Cylindrical SiloDid We Eat One Another?Excerpt from TheodicyThe Fate of Sir John FranklinThe Nature of the Human MindA Noble Life-Work After Fifty-Seven: Sophia B. PackardThe Official Account of the Death of Archbishop SeghersThe Place of Science in a Liberal EducationPreface to The Robbers (1781)The Story of a Daughter's LoveTorre AbbeyWay Down EastThe Wright Brothers and Their Problem
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