Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 063: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 063, 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. 063 by Various. Read in English by LibriVox volunteers. Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Volume 63 features essays on a variety of topics: the emotion of the multitude in drama (Yeats), audience (Encyclopedia Britannica), corpulence and diet (Banting), charity (Ambrose Bierce), the forgotten man (Sumner), murder (DeQuincey), suicide (Bierce), free masonry (Albert Pike), the poetic principle (Poe), and the evils of slavery (Othello). Excerpts from Kierkegaard explore his philosophy. Biographical sketches include Calamity Jane, Joseph Glidden, Lucy Bakewell Audubon, and J. M. W. Turner, while Joseph Conrad speaks to his own life in A Familiar Preface. Rounding out the volume is a fascinating 1674 meet-up with a miraculous sea-monster (probably a giant squid). Summary by Sue Anderson

Recording facts

• Recording title: Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 063
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 20
• Listed recording duration: 6:17:29

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• drama
• slavery
• murder
• suicide
• conrad
• kierkegaard
• charity

Track guide

1. 01 - Audience — 2:33
2. 02 - Joseph Glidden and Barb Wire Fencing — 20:42
3. 03 - Calamity Jane — 17:04
4. 04 - The Case Of The Forgotten Man Farther Considered (1883) — 30:01
5. 05 - Charity — 4:52
6. 06 - Emotion of Multitude — 4:12
7. 07 - Essay on Negro Slavery, No. 1 — 16:19
8. 08 - Essay on Negro Slavery, No. 2 — 18:30
9. 09 - A Familiar Preface — 22:27
10. 10 - Knight Kadosh — 28:47
11. 11 - The Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth — 14:26
12. 12 - Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public (3rd Edition) — 53:43
13. 13 - A Miraculous Sea-Monster (1694) — 9:13
14. 14 - Preparation For a Christian Life, The Pause (1) — 27:27
15. 15 - Preparation For a Christian Life, The Pause (2) — 16:34
16. 16 - The Poetic Principle — 37:33
17. 17 - The Present Moment (Introduction) — 6:26
18. 18 - Recollections of Audubon Park — 18:17
19. 19 - The Right to Take Oneself Off — 9:55
20. 20 - J. M. W. Turner's Sketchbooks, A Sampling — 18:27

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