Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 012: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 012, 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

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Librivox recording of LibriVox Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 012 by Various. Read by LibriVox Volunteers. A collection of fifteen 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 humor, history, religion; finance; politics, medicine, science, medicine, nature and cooking. (summary by J. M. Smallheer) For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 012
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 15
• Listed recording duration: 4:37:31

Catalogue topics

• nonfiction
• Darwin
• Asa Gray
• Pasteur
• Dorothy Quigley
• Arthur Train
• Annie Besant
• James Allen

Track guide

1. Corsages Appropriate For Women With Unbeautifully Modelled Throats and Shoulders — 10:21
2. Darwin On the Origin of Species (A book review) — 36:08
3. A General View Of Theosophy — 8:34
4. The Germ Theory and its Application to Medicine and Surgery — 16:02
5. The History of Insects — 7:53
6. How Pain Leads to Knowledge and Power — 6:40
7. An Italian Dinner — 11:57
8. Lucy Keyes: A Story of Mount Wachusett — 17:34
9. The Meaning and Method of Spiritual Life — 32:20
10. Romance and Eyeglasses — 11:05
11. Spearing Fish In the Indian River — 3:56
12. A Study in Finance — 43:00
13. Ten Great Late 40's Films — 13:41
14. Trinity Atomic Test Site — 24:57
15. A World Religion — 33:31

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