Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 077: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 077, 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. 077 by Various. Read by LibriVox Volunteers Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. President Theodore Roosevelt, in a 1903 speech, declared that "The future welfare of our nation depends upon the way in which we can combine...decency and strength," and opined that being "loose and foul of tongue" was incompatible with good citizenship. Personal and public morality, ethical and religious questions figure in several vol. 077 recordings: (Negro Slavery in Wisconsin, Russo-Japanese Agreement Concerning Korea, Government by the Brewers, My Cases of Old Sermons, The Dilemma of Determinism, How Religion May be an Embodiment of Reason, The Epistle to Diognetus; Tetzel's Theses on Indulgences, and two selections on Kierkegaard). Serious students of literature will relish Literary History of the Arabs. Nature and travel enthusiasts will be informed by The Bittern in the Norfolk Broads, Montenegro: The Smallest Capital in Europe, Ten Types of Clouds, and Controlling Japanese Beetles. Finally, for pure pleasure, indulge in The Candy Box! (Summary by Sue Anderson)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 077
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 20
• Listed recording duration: 9:44:59

Catalogue topics

• Christianity
• Japan
• slavery
• sermon
• prohibition
• Reformation
• beer
• kierkegaard

Track guide

1. 01 - Alexander Vinet and Soren Kierkegaard's Individualism — 38:33
2. 02 - Biological Methods to Control Japanese Beetles — 22:09
3. 03 - The Bittern in the Norfolk Broads — 13:24
4. 04- The Bittern in the Norfolk Broads, Further Notes — 5:03
5. 05 - The Candy Box — 7:46
6. 06 - The Dilemma of Determinism — 1:14:21
7. 07 - The Epistle to Diognetus — 22:42
8. 08 - Government by the Brewers? — 31:59
9. 09 - How Religion May be an Embodiment of Reason — 19:47
10. 10- Kierkegaard as Subjective Thinker — 1:02:00
11. 11 - Literary History of the Arabs, Ch. 1, Saba and Himyar — 1:01:03
12. 12 - Literary History of the Arabs, Ch. 2, Pagan Arabs, Part 1 — 49:38
13. 13 - Literary History of the Arabs, Ch. 2, Pagan Arabs, Part 2 — 54:15
14. 14 - Montenegro: The Smallest Capital in Europe (1913) — 18:55
15. 15 - My Cases of Old Sermons — 23:58
16. 16 - Negro Slavery in Wisconsin — 10:26
17. 17 - Russo-Japanese Agreement Concerning Korea (1896) — 7:44
18. 18 - Strength and Decency — 7:13
19. 19 - Ten Types of Clouds — 17:30
20. 20 - Tetzel's Theses on Indulgences — 36:33

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