Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 040


Lu par LibriVox Volunteers

(4 étoiles; 5 critiques)

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include a murder during the Yukon gold rush, a perpetual motion fraud, the dissection of a Tasmanian tiger's brain, phlogiston, Bertrand Russell on noting, the memoirs of Louis XIV, the novels of Marie Corelli, marriage, free love, and motherhood. Authors include Benjamin Franklin, Hamlin Garland, Ida Tarbel, Emma Goldman, Florence Nightingale, Robert Benchley, Heywood Broun, and the duc de Saint-Simon.

"The Introduction to the Memoirs of Louis XIV" was translated by Bayle St. John. (5 hr 18 min)

Chapitres

The Brain of the Male Thylacine ("Tasmanian Tiger"), 14:15 Lu par Son of the Exiles
The Business Of Being A Woman 28:23 Lu par Michele Fry
Christian Henry Heinecken 3:00 Lu par Craig Campbell
Fournier and LaBelle, a Yukon Murder Mystery 21:33 Lu par Phil Schempf
Franklin's Way to Wealth or, 'Poor Richard Improved' 19:52 Lu par Michele Fry
Hammock Reading 10:25 Lu par VfkaBT
How to be a Spectator at Spring Planting 8:09 Lu par VfkaBT
Introduction to the Memoirs of Louis XIV 8:51 Lu par Craig Campbell
Marriage and Love 26:31 Lu par Vaughan McCarthy
Miss Marie Corelli 20:05 Lu par Newgatenovelist
Notes on Nursing, What It Is, and What It Is Not 11:53 Lu par Michele Fry
Observations on the Doctrine of Phlogiston 40:25 Lu par Son of the Exiles
On Denoting 50:09 Lu par Landon D. C. Elkind
Operation Orders", from "Lectures on Land Warfare (1922) 3:46 Lu par Son of the Exiles
Perpetual Motion 11:33 Lu par Availle
A Pioneer Mother 23:47 Lu par MaryAnn
Two Divisions of Philosophic Minds 3:06 Lu par Craig Campbell
Zephaniah 12:43 Lu par VfkaBT

Critiques

short collection


(0.5 étoiles)

dull useless droll. a book about nothing. Good volunteers wasting time.