Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 044 by Various

Nineteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include wives, widows, and women scorned--the "Baby Doe Tabor" scandal, the trials of literary marriages, and colonial women; history--Wounded Knee, the Underground Railroad, Edward Bellamy's "nationalism," and English railroads; inspiring places--the Alhambra and Squaw Rock; invention--the marine chronometer; and essays on the Constitution, the natural equality of men, old age, the consolation of reading, and on the fantastic imagination. (Summary by Sue Anderson)<br /><br /><i>The Art of Dying</i> by August Strindberg was translated by Claud Field.<br /><i>The Natural Equality of Men to be Acknowledged</i> by Samuel Pufendorf was translated by Andrew Tooke.