Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 072: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 072, 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. 072 by Various. Read iby LibriVox Volunteers Twenty short nonfiction works, individually chosen by the readers. "The ground rose and fell in successive furrows, like the ruffled waters of a lake, and I became bewildered in my ideas..." John James Audubon's vivid recollection of the 1812 New Madrid earthquake is one of several Vol. 072 selections with a scientific focus. Others include Luminous Plants; The Sunbeam and the Spectrascope; and biographies of two shipbuilders: Robert Fulton and Thomas Andrews. The emotive and rational sides of human nature are evinced in essays (The Game of Scandal; Bashful; Child Psychology and Nonsense); treatises (Theory and Practice in Government Reform; Plagiarizing Aristotle); and the records of two very different murder trials: John Kimber (1792); and James Sullivan (1851). Travel to foreign lands; their history and arts are well represented: Rambles About Rome (1907); The Mosaics of Ravenna, Italy; Travellers Before the Christian Era; Northern Europe to the Beginning of the Fourteenth Century. Literary and artistic concerns round out Vol. 072, with newspaper accounts of Oscar Wilde's visits to the U.S.; William Faulkner reminiscing about his youthful discovery of literature; and artist and teacher Arthur Guptill explaining how to render pencil sketches from photographs. Summary by Sue Anderson

Recording facts

• Recording title: Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 072
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 20
• Listed recording duration: 6:26:58

Catalogue topics

• rome
• slavery
• murder
• Titanic
• Fulton
• aristotle
• earthquake
• spectroscope

Track guide

1. 01 - Audubon's Account of the New Madrid Earthquake (1812) — 4:12
2. 02 - Bashful — 7:29
3. 03 - Child Psychology and Nonsense — 7:23
4. 04 - Composition and Drawing from Photographs — 26:11
5. 05 - The Game of Scandal — 9:30
6. 06 - Luminous Plants — 6:47
7. 07 - The Mosaics of Ravenna, Italy — 23:50
8. 08 - The Murder Trial of James Sullivan — 26:58
9. 09 - Northern Europe to the Beginning of the Fourteenth Century — 44:06
10. 10 - Oscar Wilde: The Aesthetic Apostle's First Appearance in New York Society 1882) — 12:42
11. 11 - Plagiarizing Aristotle — 19:52
12. 12 - Rambles About Rome (1907) — 12:20
13. 13 - Robert Fulton — 5:41
14. 14 - The Sunbeam and the Spectrascope (1863) — 27:55
15. 15 - Theory and Practice in Government Reform — 31:42
16. 16 - Thomas Andrews, Naval Architect of the Titanic — 34:23
17. 17 - Travellers before the Christian Era — 31:46
18. 18 - The Trial of Captain John Kimber for the Murder of Two Female Negro Slaves (1792) — 38:21
19. 19 - Verse Old and Nascent: A Pilgrimage — 8:03
20. 20 - Wilde in America (1895) — 7:47

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