Coffee Break Collection 20 -- Old Age: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Coffee Break Collection 20 -- Old Age, credited to Various, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Coffee Break Collection 20 -- Old Age by Various. Read in English by ChadH94; MaryWindishar; Colleen McMahon; KevinS; Utek; Michele Fry; Craig Campbell; Stefan Von Blon; Cornel Nemes; BettyB The Librivox Coffee Break Collections are themed anthologies, selected and read by Librivox readers. Each short piece is fifteen minutes long, or less -- perfect for coffee breaks, commutes and work outs. Essays, prose, fiction, non-fiction, poetry -- who knows what gems will be uncovered? In this collection, we explore old age -- grandparents, retirement, wisdom, decline. It is an opportunity to reflect on mortality and depth of experience. - Summary by Lynne Thompson

Recording facts

• Recording title: Coffee Break Collection 20 -- Old Age
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 16
• Listed recording duration: 1:47:30

Track guide

1. 01 - Autumn Leaves Ch 16 by Anne Wales Abbott — 10:47
2. 02 - The Decline of the Drama by Stephen Leacock — 14:18
3. 03 - Growing Old Gracefully by Robert Ingersoll — 4:00
4. 04 - How to be Seventy by Mark Twain — 3:41
5. 05 - To Madame Brilliant: The Ephemera an Emblem of Human Life by Benjamin Franklin — 6:54
6. 06 - Of Youth and Age by Francis Bacon — 5:22
7. 07 - Old Age, author unknown — 4:27
8. 08 - Old Age Insurance in Germany by Abraham Epstein — 7:36
9. 09 - Old Age Insurance in Russia by Abraham Epstein — 3:23
10. 10 - The Olde, Olde, Very Olde Man by Ralph Bergengren — 14:13
11. 11 - Our Oldest Two Inhabitants by Josh Billings — 9:46
12. 12 - The Old Lovers by Kenneth Rand — 2:10
13. 13 - Old Timers by Carl Sandburg — 2:47
14. 14 - Onset of Old Age from Some Medical Aspects of Old Age by Sir Humphrey Rolleston — 7:46
15. 15 - The Raft-Builders by Lord Dunsany — 2:36
16. 16 - Stimulants, Narcotics and Old Age 1883 by George Miller Beard — 7:43

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