LibriVox Nonfiction Collection Vol. 002: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

LibriVox Nonfiction Collection Vol. 002, 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 LibriVox Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 002 Read by Librivox Volunteers A collection of ten short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass history, politics, religion, science and humor. Included in this collection are the "Oath of Hippocrates" and "The Funeral Oration of Pericles" along with Patrick Henry's "The Call to Arms," and Jack London's eyewitness account of the aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake in 1906. On the lighter side, we have Jerome K. Jerome's "Should Women Be Beautiful," a short address by Mark Twain to The Author's Club in NYC, and the anonymous "Miseries," a lighthearted lament on subjects such as the difficulties of eating a peach gracefully in public and finding a suitable length of twine when you need one. In this collection you will also find "A Free Man's Worship" by Bertram Russell, "Obstacle-Cause" from "Sophisms of the Protectionists" by Frédéric Bastiat, and an essay by T. H. Huxley on the science of palaeontology. (summary by J. M. Smallheer) For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org.

Recording facts

• Recording title: LibriVox Nonfiction Collection Vol. 002
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 10
• Listed recording duration: 2:44:14

Catalogue topics

• nonfiction
• essays
• speeches
• news
• history
• politics
• religion
• humor

Track guide

1. The Call to Arms — 11:18
2. A Free Man's Worship — 23:54
3. Funeral Oration of Pericles, from The History of the Peloponnesian War — 20:34
4. Miseries Nos. 1-4 from Autumn Leaves — 25:02
5. The Oath and Law of Hippocrates — 7:29
6. Obstacle--Cause from Sophisms of the Protectionists — 12:09
7. Our Children and Great Discoveries — 4:12
8. The Rise and Progress of Palaeontology — 31:52
9. Should Women Be Beautiful - from Idle Ideas in 1905 — 12:38
10. The Story Of An Eyewitness — 15:10

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