Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 008: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 008, credited to Various, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 008. A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and reports included in this collection were independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass history, literature, philosophy, shoe-making, bathing, and cats. (Summary by Leon Mire)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 008
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 15
• Listed recording duration: 3:54:41

Catalogue topics

• audio book
• nonfiction
• short essay
• history
• philosophy
• Robert Lynd
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Arthur Schopenhauer

Track guide

1. Cats — 12:12
2. The Celebration of Intellect — 29:22
3. A Few Parables — 9:56
4. The House Divided Against Itself Speech — 6:49
5. How to Make a Shoe — 26:12
6. A Meditation Upon A Broomstick — 3:36
7. Morals of Chess — 9:46
8. Night and Moonlight — 21:03
9. The Oath and Law of Hippocrates — 8:26
10. On the Pleasure of Taking Up One's Pen — 7:53
11. On the Vice of Novel Reading — 37:22
12. Rules for Bathing — 4:59
13. Self-Denial Not the Essence of Virtue — 8:47
14. A Short Defence of Villains — 21:04
15. Some Reflections on the Loss of the Titanic — 27:21

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