Essays Collection, Vol. 02: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Essays Collection, Vol. 02, 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 Essays Collection, Vol. 02 by Various. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. Here are 20 essays by various authors, covering all kinds of subjects. Some are famous, others are gems ferreted out from chapters or passages in books where they have lain hidden for decades. Britannica defines an essay as "an analytic, interpretive, or critical literary composition usually much shorter and less systematic and formal than a dissertation or thesis and usually dealing with its subjects from a limited and often personal point of view." In short, an essay is neither fiction nor a short story, but a composition designed to educate/persuade more than entertain or inform, though essays sometimes do both, or neither. (Summary by Michele Fry, BC/DPL)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Essays Collection, Vol. 02
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 20
• Listed recording duration: 8:13:17

Catalogue topics

• culture
• fiction
• religion
• american revolution
• superstition
• microphone
• consciousness
• foreigners

Track guide

1. 01 - Barrier Beaches of the Atlantic Coast, by Frederick J. H. Merrill — 26:32
2. 02 - The Belief in the Omnipotence of Thought, by Ludwig von Mises — 9:29
3. 03 - Can the Church Lead?, by Pearl S. Buck — 17:05
4. 04 - The Concept of a Perfect System of Government, by Ludwig von Mises — 18:49
5. 05 - The Divineness of Discontent, by Agnes Repplier — 35:16
6. 06 - Does Consciousness Exist?, by William James — 39:05
7. 07 - The Edison Carbon Telephone and Hughes' Microphone, by D. E. Hughes — 5:12
8. 08 - English Notions About Women, by Fanny Fern — 10:43
9. 09 - Foreigners, by Stephen Graham — 15:21
10. 10 - Hazards of the Past, by John Burroughs — 23:48
11. 11 - Mary The Mother Of Jesus, by Harriet Beecher Stowe — 42:45
12. 12 - Mary the Mythical Madonna, by Harriet Beecher Stowe — 21:10
13. 13 - Operas after the English Manner, by John Dennis — 41:59
14. 14 - Passing Under the Yoke, by W. Warde Fowler — 13:15
15. 15 - Physical Culture, by Margaret W. Morley — 33:53
16. 16 - Principles Fought for in the American Revolution, by Calvin Coolidge — 13:56
17. 17 - Success in Fiction, by James Payn — 28:46
18. 18 - Tobacco, by Stephen Graham — 8:01
19. 19 - To Rufus Choate Jones, Lawyer, Concerning The Duties and Dangers of his Profession, by Josiah Gilbert Holland — 23:06
20. 20 - Transylvanian Superstitions, by Emily Gerard — 1:05:06

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