LIbriVox Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 044: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

LIbriVox Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 044, credited to Various Authors, 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 Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 044 by Various Authors. Read by LIbriVox Volunteers 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) The Art of Dying by August Strindberg was translated by Claud Field. The Natural Equality of Men to be Acknowledged by Samuel Pufendorf was translated by Andrew Tooke.

Recording facts

• Recording title: LIbriVox Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 044
• Author credits: Various Authors
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 19
• Listed recording duration: 6:28:34

Catalogue topics

• fantasy
• marriage
• Alhambra
• imagination
• underground railroad
• poet
• aging
• natural law

Track guide

1. 01 - The Alhambra — 13:09
2. 02 - America — 3:40
3. 03 - The Art of Dying — 4:23
4. 04 - Augusta Tabor: Her Side of the Scandal — 33:26
5. 05 - Consolation — 1:06
6. 06 - The Fantastic Imagination — 18:28
7. 07 - God in the Constitution — 39:00
8. 08 - The Iron Road Book and Railway Companion, or a Journey from London to Birmingham — 31:49
9. 09 - The Legend of Dah-nol-yo, Squaw Rock — 6:27
10. 10 - The Natural Equality of Men to be Acknowledged — 10:30
11. 11 - Of Interpretation of Dreams — 4:07
12. 12 - Poets as Landscape Painters — 8:46
13. 13 - The Progress of Nationalism in the United States — 26:21
14. 14 - Remarks on a Pamphlet Lately Published Under the Authority of the Board of Longitude — 56:59
15. 15 - Trials of the Wife of a Literary Man — 20:06
16. 16 - Two Centuries of American Women — 35:56
17. 17 - The Underground Railroad in McDonough County, Illinois — 35:44
18. 18 - William James, Gustav Fechner, Wilhelm Wundt, Soren Kierkegaard — 7:51
19. 19 - Wounded Knee: A First Person Account by Dewey Beard — 30:46

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