Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 046: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 046, 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. 046 by Various. Read by LibriVox Volunteers Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include meteor showers, smallpox inoculation, telegraphy, fear of death, church bell change-ringing , painting as a pastime, prejudice against Jews from Mark Twain's perspective, the view from Braddock Heights, Maryland, philosophical reflections by Saint Bonaventure, Paracelsus, and Friedrich Jacobi, letters written by Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe, and eulogies to Alexander Hamilton and John Keats. The Degrees of Ascension to God by Saint Bonaventure was translated by Thomas Davidson

Recording facts

• Recording title: Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 046
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 20
• Listed recording duration: 6:47:24

Catalogue topics

• twain
• death
• Jews
• painting
• telegraphy
• meteors
• synteresis
• smallpox

Track guide

1. 01 - Change-Ringing — 19:30
2. 02 - Concerning the Jews — 46:40
3. 03 - The Death Of The Poet John Keats, 1821 — 29:29
4. 04 - Discourse Lamenting the Death of Alexander Hamilton — 53:55
5. 05 - The Earth Belongs To The Living, Part 1 — 17:27
6. 06 - The Earth Belongs To The Living, Part 2 — 10:26
7. 07 - Fear — 14:50
8. 08 - Fear of Death — 26:51
9. 09 - Guide to Ignorance — 24:58
10. 10 - The Honour of Your Country — 7:57
11. 11 - Inoculation for the Smallpox — 4:15
12. 12 - Letter to James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 28 October 1785 — 8:46
13. 13 - Marconi's Telegraphing Across the Ocean without Wires — 47:50
14. 14 - A Matchless Panorama--The View from Braddock Heights — 8:35
15. 15 - Meteoric Astronomy — 7:50
16. 16 - Of the Imagination — 6:48
17. 17 - On The Degrees of Ascension to God — 20:00
18. 18 - Painting as a Pastime, Part 1 — 24:14
19. 19 - Painting as a Pastime, Part 2 — 20:50
20. 20 - The Rule of Reason — 6:13

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