Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol 001

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A collection of ten short essays or other short nonfiction works in the public domain read by volunteers.

By : Various

01 - An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment? - Immanuel Kant


02 - Deity and Design - Chapman Cohen


03 - Escape - Arthur Christopher Benson


04 - The Future of Astronomy - Edward C. Pickering


05 - Hints Towards An Essay on Conversation - Jonathan Swift


06 - The Hypocrisy of Puritanism - Emma Goldman


07 - On English Composition and Other Matters - Samuel Butler


08 - The Somnambulists - Jack London


09 - Taxation - Appendix / An Essay on the Trial by Jury - Lysander Spooner


10 - Why are All Men Gamblers? - Arthur Brisbane

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