Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 071: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 071, 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. 071 by Various. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. "Suffrage for women will not usher in a millennium of peace and leisure" was the editorial opinion of the Boston Cooking School Magazine in May, 1914. [Woman's Problems]. Disillusionment with easy answers is the theme of several Vol. 071 readings [On Thinking for Oneself; Limitations of Truth-Telling; On Demagogues]. Rebellion and war, heroics and aftermath, are treated in Alexander at Gordium; Before Grant Won His Stars; Draft Riots in Wisconsin; The Truth About Greece; and Sophie Treadwell Interviews Pancho Villa. Humor provides relief in a lighthearted look at home heating [The Furnace]; bicycling [A Despicable Trick; Healthy But Not Social], grammar [The Woman's Press Club] and The Beauty of Unpunctuality. Exploration then and now is contrasted in Tasman Explores Australia and A California Motor Tour. The arts--literature, drawing, and the cinema--are celebrated in Mary Pickford's Beginnings, Rendering Reflections in Window Glass, and On the Tomb of Keats. Lastly, a biography of British fossil finder Mary Anning (1795-1847) throws light not only on ichthyosaurs, but on the remarkable life of a self-taught woman scientist. - Summary by Sue Anderson

Recording facts

• Recording title: Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 071
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 20
• Listed recording duration: 5:53:31

Catalogue topics

• Reflection
• cinema
• greece
• bicycle
• suffrage
• grant
• drawing
• furnace

Track guide

1. 01 - Alexander at Gordium — 5:36
2. 02 - Before Grant Won His Stars — 36:09
3. 03 - A California Motor Tour (1909) — 13:01
4. 04 - A Despicable Trick — 1:29
5. 05 - Draft Riots in Wisconsin During the Civil War — 6:31
6. 06 - The Furnace — 10:10
7. 07 - Healthy But Not Social — 2:02
8. 08 - Limitations of Truth-Telling — 23:48
9. 09 - Mary Anning, the Fossil Finder — 20:38
10. 10 - On Demagogues, in The American Democrat (1838) — 13:40
11. 11 - On Thinking For Oneself (excerpt) — 28:31
12. 12 - Rendering Reflections in Window Glass — 19:23
13. 13 - Some Reflections on the Beauty of Unpunctuality — 11:22
14. 14 - Sophie Treadwell Interviews Pancho Villa (1921) — 1:13:25
15. 15 - Tasman Explores Australia — 17:40
16. 16 - The Tomb of Keats — 8:13
17. 17 - The True Story of Mary Pickford's Beginning — 20:57
18. 18 - The Truth About Greece (1917) — 35:02
19. 19 - Woman's Press Club — 2:14
20. 20 - Woman's Problems (1914) — 3:38

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