Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 040: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 040, 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. 040 by Various. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include a murder during the Yukon gold rush, a perpetual motion fraud, the dissection of a Tasmanian tiger's brain, phlogiston, Bertrand Russell on noting, the memoirs of Louis XIV, the novels of Marie Corelli, marriage, free love, and motherhood. Authors include Benjamin Franklin, Hamlin Garland, Ida Tarbel, Emma Goldman, Florence Nightingale, Robert Benchley, Heywood Broun, and the duc de Saint-Simon. "The Introduction to the Memoirs of Louis XIV" was translated by Bayle St. John.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 040
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 18
• Listed recording duration: 5:18:26

Catalogue topics

• logic
• Gardening
• Louis XIV
• pioneers
• Mounties
• nursing
• Yukon
• tiger

Track guide

1. 01 - The Brain of the Male Thylacine ( — 14:15
2. 02 - The Business Of Being A Woman — 28:23
3. 03 - Christian Henry Heinecken — 3:00
4. 04 - Fournier and LaBelle, a Yukon Murder Mystery — 21:33
5. 05 - Franklin's Way to Wealth or, 'Poor Richard Improved' — 19:52
6. 06 - Hammock Reading — 10:25
7. 07 - How to be a Spectator at Spring Planting — 8:09
8. 08 - Introduction to the Memoirs of Louis XIV — 8:51
9. 09 - Marriage and Love — 26:31
10. 10 - Miss Marie Corelli — 20:05
11. 11 - Notes on Nursing, What It Is, and What It Is Not — 11:53
12. 12 - Observations on the Doctrine of Phlogiston — 40:25
13. 13 - On Denoting — 50:09
14. 14 - Operation Orders — 3:46
15. 15 - Perpetual Motion — 11:33
16. 16 - A Pioneer Mother — 23:47
17. 17 - Two Divisions of Philosophic Minds — 3:06
18. 18 - Zephaniah, King James Bible — 12:43

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