Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 108: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 108, 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

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 108 by Various. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. "There are few books which go with midnight, solitude, and a candle." H. M. Tomlinson's charming essay Bed-Books and Night-Lights is one of 15 reader-chosen recordings in vol. 108. Other easy listening pieces are My Neighbor and Myself and Animal Sketching. Social concerns are central to Composite Nation; A Study of Twentieth Century Success; Age and Eminence; The Case Against Socialism; and Speech to the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, Rhode Island. Science is highlighted in Jethro Tull (Dry Farming); Circumstances Affecting the Heat of the Sun's Rays; and Volcanic Eruption of Mount Tambora. History and memoir feature in Goodbird the Indian; Sergeant Mor; and Porphyrios the Whale. Summary by Sue Anderson.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 108
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 15
• Listed recording duration: 4:34:50

Catalogue topics

• scotland
• socialism
• Hebrew
• volcano
• whale
• sleep
• neighbor
• sun

Track guide

1. 01 - Age and Eminence (1905) — 17:15
2. 02 - Animal Sketching — 16:48
3. 03 - Bed-books and Night-Lights — 17:33
4. 04 - The Case Against Socialism (1913) — 48:49
5. 05 - Composite Nation (1867) — 51:38
6. 06 - Everybody Ought to be Rich: Interview with John J. Raskob (1929) — 22:45
7. 07 - The Gods, from Goodbird the Indian: His Story (1914) — 12:25
8. 08 - Circumstances Affecting the Heat of the Sun's Rays (1856) — 6:44
9. 09 - Hebrew Congregation Speech - George Washington, Newport, Rhode Island (1790) — 3:13
10. 10 - Jethro Tull (1674-1741) : Founder Of The Principles Of Dry-Farming — 19:45
11. 11 - My Neighbor and Myself — 10:15
12. 12 - Porphyrios, the Whale (6th Century AD) — 3:42
13. 13 - Sergeant Mor, from Character and Manners of the Highlanders — 4:49
14. 14 - A Study of Twentieth Century Success (1902) — 26:40
15. 15 - Description of the 1815 Volcanic Eruption of Mount Tambora in the Island of Sumbawa — 12:29

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