Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 039: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 039, 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. 039 by Various. Read by LibriVox Volunteers Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include literary figures--Alice Mangold Diehl, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Arthur Hugh Clough; philosophers--Hegel, Kierkegaard; religious thinkers--Martin Luther, Cotton Mather; political leaders--Thomas Jefferson, John F. Kennedy; important documents--the Constitution of Japan (1946), the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom; moments in history--the Battle of the Crater, the Dred Scott Decision; historical figures--the Pseudo Dionysius and Xenophon; and, lastly, shopper's tips for watermelons and cantaloupes.(Summary by Sue Anderson) Hegel's The Problem was translated by William T. Harris Xenophon's On Horsemanship was translated by Morris H. Morgan

Recording facts

• Recording title: Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 039
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 18
• Listed recording duration: 6:00:10

Catalogue topics

• history
• eliot
• ghosts
• prisons
• civil war
• agriculture
• kierkegaard
• Stowe

Track guide

1. 01 - Address of Senator John F. Kennedy to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, September 12, 1960 — 10:54
2. 02 - The Anti-intellectualism of Kierkegaard — 5:55
3. 03 - Battle of the Crater and Experiences of Prison Life — 35:14
4. 04 - The Constitution of Japan, 1946 — 41:51
5. 05 - Darwinism Verified — 42:15
6. 06 - The Dred Scott Decision, A History — 41:54
7. 07 - John Faust or Fust — 3:01
8. 08 - Letter to C. E. Norton, Esq., Downing Street, June 23, 1858 — 2:17
9. 09 - Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe - Chapter 18 — 44:38
10. 10 - Miss Alice Mangold's Soiree Musicale — 1:48
11. 11 - Mystic Theology — 17:23
12. 12 - On Horsemanship - Xenophon — 54:06
13. 13 - Philosophy of Religion — 4:12
14. 14 - The Problem — 4:12
15. 15 - Shopper's Tips for Watermelons and Cantaloupes — 8:51
16. 16 - To a Stranger — 9:45
17. 17 - The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom — 6:23
18. 18 - Wonders of the Invisible World, IV and V — 25:30

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