Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 082: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 082, 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. 082 by Various. Read by LibriVox Volunteers "Is sin a necessary stage in the development of humanity, or a yawning chasm in the very structure of the universe?” Theologian J. Gresham Machen's exploration of "eternal ideas" is joined, in vol. 082, by readings in philosophy and psychology by Immanuel Kant, Henri Bergson, and Samuel Johnson. Insights from forestry, geography, astronomy, and zoology expand the view (Save the Redwoods; We Are Going to be Inspected; Along the Florida Coast; The Red Fox; and The World as Known to the Ancients). Human resiliency, inventiveness and heroism are exemplified in A Heroine of the Black Hole; The Great Yorkshire Llama; The Terry Touch Alphabet; The Man O'War's 'Er 'Usband'; and a biography of pioneering physician Elizabeth Blackwell. James Hazen Hyde's Costume Ball showcases hubris. On a lighter note, are Robert Benchley's Bicycling the New Craze, and Call for Mr. Kenworthy; and Oscar Wilde's An American Invasion. Summary by Sue Anderson

Recording facts

• Recording title: Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 082
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 20
• Listed recording duration: 6:27:56

Catalogue topics

• wilde
• sin
• medicine
• bicycle
• Vénus
• kant
• blind
• Florida

Track guide

1. 01 - Along the Florida Coast — 19:10
2. 02 - An American Invasion — 10:35
3. 03 - Answer To The Question, What Is Enlightening? Version 2 — 23:08
4. 04 - Bicycling, the New Craze (1925) — 8:49
5. 05 - Call for Mr. Kenworthy — 14:07
6. 06 - Dreams — 1:08:05
7. 07 - Elizabeth Blackwell — 9:30
8. 08 - The Great Yorkshire Llama — 17:50
9. 09 - A Heroine of the Black Hole — 3:41
10. 10 - History and Faith — 31:05
11. 11 - James Hazen Hyde's Costume Ball — 22:00
12. 12 - The Man-O'War's 'Er 'Usband — 19:39
13. 13 - The Rambler No, 148, The Cruelty of Parental Tyranny — 11:44
14. 14 - The Rambler No. 207, The Folly of Continuing Too Long Upon the Stage — 11:53
15. 15 - The Red Fox — 13:57
16. 16 - Save the Redwoods — 10:49
17. 17 - We Are Going to be Inspected (1905) — 4:08
18. 18 - What Means, to Orient Oneself in Thinking? — 46:22
19. 19 - The William Terry Touch Alphabet (for Use By the Deaf and the Deaf-and-Blind) — 17:24
20. 20 - The World as Known to the Ancients — 24:00

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