Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 036: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 036, 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 Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 036 by Various. Read by LibriVox Volunteers Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the discovery of X-rays, earthquakes, Hegel, Sir William Osler, Charles William Eliot, Oscar Wilde, Charles Sumner, Monica Lewinsky, and Anita Loos; the Lincoln highway, joys of gardening, goldfish, skunk raising, and the cultivation of tobacco. "Earthquakes" was co-authored by Louis Pakiser. (summary by Sue Anderson)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 036
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 18
• Listed recording duration: 5:58:59

Catalogue topics

• oscar wilde
• earthquakes
• Gardening
• illinois
• hegel
• wilhelm conrad roentgen
• sir francis beaurepaire
• gentleman's magazine

Track guide

1. 01 - Bill Clinton's Apology to the Nation Regarding the Lewinsky Affair (1998) — 3:50
2. 02 - Daisy — 4:06
3. 03 - Driving the Lincoln Highway, Chicago to Rochelle, Illinois, in 1915 — 20:18
4. 04 - Earthquakes — 33:38
5. 05 - Five American Contributions to Civilization — 56:00
6. 06 - Goldfish — 7:13
7. 07 - The Handwriting on the Screen: An Interview with Anita Loos, Everybody's Magazine, 1917 — 8:14
8. 08 - An Interview with Anita Loos, Wireless Magazine, 1922 — 8:00
9. 09 - No Tax On Books, 1864 — 8:03
10. 10 - On Gardening — 14:54
11. 11 - On a New Kind of Rays — 23:21
12. 12 - Oscar Wilde: An Idler's Impression — 14:35
13. 13 - The Philosophy of Religion, excerpts — 30:07
14. 14 - Practical Skunk Raising — 21:32
15. 15 - The Questioning Mania — 4:25
16. 16 - A Swimmer's Status - Beaurepaire Ruled Not an Amateur — 1:37
17. 17 - A Treatise on the Culture of the Tobacco Plant — 59:44
18. 18 - A Way of Life — 39:22

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