Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 040


Leído por LibriVox Volunteers

(4 estrellas; 5 reseñas)

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)

Capítulos

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

Reseñas

short collection


(0.5 estrellas)

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