Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 040


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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)

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

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