Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 047: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 047 by Various: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 18 original MP3 tracks, 4:59:28 running time and a link to listen.
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 047, 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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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 047 by Various. Read by LibriVox Volunteers Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include philosophy and thought -- Plato, Aristotle, Leonhard Euler, Henri Amiel, and the French Rights of Man; adventure and mystery -- the ascent of Aconcagua and the mystery ship Mary Celeste; science -- a new comet and lichen dyes; portraits of the seasons by Lucy Maud Montgomery: biographies of Charles Dickens and Clara and Robert Schuman; a history of the Transcendental utopia Fruitlands by Louisa May Alcott, and an essay on reading by Isaac Disraeli. summary by Sue Anderson
Recording facts
- Recording title: Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 047
- Author credits: Various
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 18
- Listed recording duration: 4:59:28
Catalogue topics
- transcendentalism
- utopia
- comet
- dye
- aconcagua
- mary-celest
- fruitlands
- lichen
Track guide
- 01 - An Account of a new Comet, 1786 — 5:08
- 02 - Amiel's Journal 6-7 April 1851 — 14:18
- 03 - Aristotle — 6:31
- 04 - The Ascent of Anconcagua — 34:12
- 05 - Clara and Robert Schumann — 29:32
- 06 - The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen 1789, 1791 — 7:35
- 07 - Fruitlands, Bronson Alcott's Transcendental Utopia, 1843 — 48:32
- 08 - A Garden Of Old Delights — 27:15
- 09 - Influence of the Liberty of Spirits Upon Events — 8:21
- 10 - Lichen Dyes — 10:34
- 11 - The Mystery of Charles Dickens — 21:35
- 12 - A Mystery of the Sea: the Mary Celeste — 5:44
- 13 - On Reading — 14:10
- 14 - Scott v. Negro London by United States Supreme Court — 5:31
- 15 - Sisyphus, Or Upon Taking Counsel — 16:37
- 16 - Spring In The Woods — 16:05
- 17 - The Woods In Autumn — 15:02
- 18 - The Woods In Winter — 12:46
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