Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 050: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 050, 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. 050 by Various Authors. Read by LibriVox Volunteers Seventeen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include science and natural history--the donkey, forestry, grape vines, astronomy, historian Agnes Mary Clerke, and Greek botanist Theophrastus ; philosophy-- Nicholas of Cusa and Emmanuel Kant; Sommerset Maugham's reminiscences of Spain; Joseph Conrad's sea stories; an encounter with a long-ago companion who has contracted leprosy (Joe of Lahaina); working in the dead-letter office; a dinner the painter Benjamin Hayden hosted for Wordsworth, Keats, and Charles Lamb; a portrait of Margaret Fuller by R.W. Emerson; a 19th century account of English character written for the Chinese; and celebrations of American ideals of freedom and self government--Makers of the Flag, An Oration on Thomas Paine, and Thomas Jefferson's 4th of July letter. - summary by Sue Anderson

Recording facts

• Recording title: Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 050
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 17
• Listed recording duration: 4:35:34

Catalogue topics

• sea stories
• Spain
• Wordsworth
• botany
• astronomy
• flag
• china
• Keats

Track guide

1. 01 - Agnes Mary Clerke — 13:05
2. 02 - Brief Account of the English Character — 10:12
3. 03 - By The Road, Parts I & II — 18:26
4. 04 - The Donkey — 4:51
5. 05 - Down Among the Dead Letters — 21:17
6. 06 - Effects of Situation, Climate, Tendance on Plants — 5:07
7. 07 - Grape Vines — 11:14
8. 08 - Immanuel Kant and John George Hamann — 13:05
9. 09 - The Immortal Dinner — 8:00
10. 10 - Joe of Lahaina — 25:47
11. 11 - Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Roger Weightman, June 24, 1826 — 4:26
12. 12 - Makers of the Flag — 4:35
13. 13 - Oration on the Life and Services of Thomas Paine — 51:45
14. 14 - Reminiscences of Margaret Fuller — 36:14
15. 15 - The Sea -- and Conrad — 25:28
16. 16 - That where the invisible is seene, the uncreated, is created — 7:24
17. 17 - Unprofessional Forestry — 14:38

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