Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 045: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 045, 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. 045 by Various. Read by LibriVox Volunteers Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include ancient Greek thinkers--Parmenides, Demosthenes, Euclid; William Lloyd Garrison and the National Anti-Slavery Convention; 19th and 20th century philosophers, sociologists, theologians and essayists--Bertrand Russell, Walter Rauschenbusch, Kierkegaard, N.F.S. Brundtvig, Frederik Sibbern, Hans Lassen Martensen, Oscar Wilde; science and invention--sunspots, paper making, aviation; and the shipwreck adventures of Alexander Selkirk, the real Robinson Crusoe. (summary by Sue Anderson)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 045
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 18
• Listed recording duration: 5:18:47

Catalogue topics

• slavery
• Euclid
• crusoe
• realism
• prison
• recycling
• glider
• paper

Track guide

1. 01 - The Basis of Realism (1911) — 12:44
2. 02 - Children in Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life — 27:34
3. 03 - Declaration of the National Anti-Slavery Convention (1833) — 11:03
4. 04 - Grundtvig and Kierkegaard (1863) — 11:56
5. 05 - Learning to Fly — 23:41
6. 06 - Letter from Bertrand Russell (Journal of Philosophy 1915) — 4:10
7. 07 - Linen Rag Paper - Recycling Old Clothes in 1825 — 50:39
8. 08 - On Nature (540-450? BCE) — 13:37
9. 09 - On the Nature of Sense-Data (1913) — 20:14
10. 10 - Oration in Favor of the Megalopolitans — 25:30
11. 11 - The Real Robinson Crusoe, Alexander Selkirk — 16:16
12. 12 - Reading After Thirty — 6:04
13. 13 - The Seerest of Prevost, Frederica Hauffe — 26:11
14. 14 - Sibbern, Martensen, and Kierkegaard — 10:50
15. 15 - Some Explanations in Reply to Mr. Bradley — 20:32
16. 16 - The Sun-Spots of August 1916 — 3:55
17. 17 - The Teaching of Euclid — 9:54
18. 18 - Unto Me — 23:57

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