Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 104: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 104, credited to Various, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 104 by Various. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. "Grandmother and Stockhausen are of the opinion that Wagner will one day totally disappear. His music, they argue, is too unhealthy." Clara Schumann's grandson's diary entries for 1894-1896 are a delight for music lovers. Other artistic and literary selections, chosen by vol. 104 readers, include Boadicea; Of the Green Children; A Search for Robinhood; What is a Child?; the Book Collector; Memoirs of Claude Seurat and of painter Georges Seurat; Schumann as Mirrored in His Letters; and Replies by Teachers to Questions Respecting Mental Fatigue. Historical perspectives on a variety of issues include Our Present and Future Policy in the Holy Land; Application of Psychology in Government; The Chocolate Soldier; President Obama's Farewell Address; The Empty Sleeve; The Fate of the Beagle; Lone Bandit of the Pennsy; and War or Peace or Both. Finally, old-time manufacturing technology is the subject of Dolls' Lives Getting Longer Too and Steam Shovels and Steam Shovel Work. Summary by Sue Anderson

Recording facts

• Recording title: Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 104
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 20
• Listed recording duration: 8:02:42

Catalogue topics

• doll
• civil war
• missionary
• Palestine
• robin hood
• Holy Land
• beagle
• balfour

Track guide

1. 01 - Boadicea, Queen of the Iceni — 16:17
2. 02 - The Book Collector — 31:11
3. 03 - Brahms and Clara Schumann — 24:19
4. 04 - The Chocolate Soldier — 34:32
5. 05 - Dolls’ Lives Getting Longer Too (1926) — 7:34
6. 06 - The Empty Sleeve — 48:32
7. 07 - The Fate of the Beagle — 10:10
8. 08 - Georges Seurat — 23:51
9. 09 - Lone Bandit of the "Pennsy" (1909) — 22:20
10. 10 - Memoir of Claude Seurat, the Living Skeleton — 27:59
11. 11 - Of the Green Children (c. 1189) — 6:41
12. 12 - Our Present and Future Policy in the Holy Land (1924) — 31:43
13. 13 - Practical Applications of Psychology in Government (1923) — 19:18
14. 14 - President Obama's Farewell Address, January 10, 2017 — 33:24
15. 15 - Remarks on Replies by Teachers to Questions Respecting Mental Fatigue (1889) — 31:32
16. 16 - A Search for Robinhood — 30:54
17. 17 - Schumann as Mirrored in His Letters — 39:44
18. 18 - Steam Shovels and Steam Shovel Work (1894) — 26:03
19. 19 - War or Peace or Both (1927) — 11:52
20. 20 - What is a Child? — 4:46

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