Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 041: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 041, 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. 041 by Various. Read in English by BettyB; Craig Campbell; David Wales; VfkaBT; Son of the Exiles; Celine Oon; 5pak; Phil Schempf; John Burlinson; Newgatenovelist Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include a woman in Alaska, Cuban folklore, and hunting peccaries on the Nueces; Max Planck's Quantum Theory and Newton's world view; church bells and chocolate cake; naval flag signals, rocket life-saving apparatus, and seashore plants and pebbles; also many literary and philosophical figures including Jonathan Swift, Jonathan Edwards, Johann Fichte, Joseph Butler, George Sand, Marie Corelli, G. K. Chesterton, and Hilaire Belloc. (summary by Sue Anderson)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 041
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 18
• Listed recording duration: 4:37:29

Catalogue topics

• theory
• plants
• Alaska
• folklore
• Isaac Newton
• bells
• chocolate
• satan

Track guide

1. 01 - An Account of the System of the World (described in Mr Newton's Mathematicall Principles of Philosophy) — 8:44
2. 02 - Chocolate and Cocoa Recipes — 3:43
3. 03 - Concerning The Notion of Liberty and of Moral Agency — 11:33
4. 04 - Cuban Folklore — 37:10
5. 05 - George Sand, a Biography — 10:57
6. 06 - Gravel — 9:05
7. 07 - Henry Trengrouse and His Rocket Life-Saving Apparatus — 6:27
8. 08 - How To Ring A Church Bell Properly — 2:53
9. 09 - A Modest Proposal — 18:46
10. 10 - Mr. G.K. Chesterton and Mr. Hilaire Belloc — 33:56
11. 11 - Of Academical Freedom — 26:19
12. 12 - Of Personal Identity — 17:35
13. 13 - Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory — 34:49
14. 14 - A Peccary Hunt on the Nueces — 23:40
15. 15 - Plants of the Shore — 9:11
16. 16 - Signals in Use in the Port of Sydney, New South Wales — 3:05
17. 17 - The Sorrows of Satan by Marie Corelli, A Review — 3:36
18. 18 - A Woman Who Went to Alaska — 16:00

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