Audiobook: Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 055

Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include Philosophy and Psychology: selections from Kierkegaard’s “Preparation for a Christian Life” and Jung’s “The Hymn of Creation,” and an exploration of Hegel’s psychology; Arts and the Avant-garde: critiques of Kreymborg by Lola Ridge and of Pablo Picasso by Marius de Zayas, the rationale behind “1001 Afternoons in Chicago” by Ben Hecht, and notes on the 15th century inventors of moveable type; Science: “Voyager I Encounters Saturn” by NASA and microscopic investigation of protozoa; Equal Rights: comments by Charles Sumner and Lucy Parsons; Evocations of the Seasons: January days in New England and Monarch butterflies overwintering in Bolinas, California; as well as praise for American cheese, and an essay by Henry Ford, expounding “What I Learned About Business.”

Georg Hegel’s Psychology was translated by Granville Stanley Hall
Gustav Jung’s The Hymn of Creation was translated by Beatrice M Hinkle