Coffee Break Collection 023 - Mysteries, Riddles and Conundrums


Leído por LibriVox Volunteers

(4.4 stars; 7 reviews)

This is the twenty-third Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select English language public domain works of about 15 minutes or less in duration -- perfect to listen to during commutes, workouts or coffee breaks. The topic for this collection is Mysteries, Riddles and Conundrums. Short mystery fiction, puzzles that have baffled generations, whether solved or unsolved and anything our forefathers have struggled to explain. Fiction, non-fiction, poetry, prose, essays...who knows what you will discover? (1 hr 56 min)

Capítulos

Advice From A Caterpillar, Chapter 5 of Alice's Adventures In Wonderland Lewis … 14:39 Leído por Michele Fry
AD 1048 And the Case of Diabolical Sorcery in Rome by Roger of Wendover 3:47 Leído por Craig Campbell
Cleopatra—How did She Die? By John Elfreth Watkins 7:05 Leído por Andrea Kotzer
The Conclave of the Universe by Stanton A. Coblentz 2:42 Leído por Anita Sloma-Martinez
Conscious by Wilfred Owen 1:14 Leído por ChadH94
The Disappearance of Dorothy Arnold by John Elfreth Watkins 7:06 Leído por Andrea Kotzer
A Fable by Mark Twain 6:15 Leído por William Allan Jones
How Rome Fell to the Visigoths by Procopius 9:35 Leído por Craig Campbell
Jack the Ripper by John Elfreth Watkins 7:01 Leído por Andrea Kotzer
Madness by Rainer Maria Rilke 1:26 Leído por ChadH94
A Mad Tea-Party, Chapter VII from Alice In Wonderland By Lewis Carroll 15:21 Leído por Michele Fry
Mr. Bloke's Item by Mark Twain 8:14 Leído por Anita Sloma-Martinez
The Mysterious Origins of Fires by James Scott 8:22 Leído por Garth Burton
1619 And The Negro in Virginia by C. Braxton Bryan 5:55 Leído por Craig Campbell
On Teaching by Kalil Gibran 1:42 Leído por ChadH94
The Smart Mystery by Anonymous 3:05 Leído por Colleen McMahon
The Strange Escape of the King's Jester: The Mysterious Rope by Henry Ernest Du… 3:48 Leído por KevinS
Solution to The Strange Escape of the King's Jester: The Mysterious Ropebby Hen… 1:37 Leído por KevinS
The Squires Christmas Puzzle Party -- Three Teacups by Ernest Dudeney 4:39 Leído por KevinS
Solution to the Squires Christmas Puzzle Party -- Three Teacups by Ernest Duden… 3:04 Leído por KevinS

Reseñas

Mysteries? What mysteries?


(3 stars)

Nicely read. Collection seems almost entirely random. Wisdom from Khalil Gibran, a bit about the fall of Rome, the history of “The Negro in Virginia”, what sounds like a newspaper clipping about a possibly commonplace disappearance... If you’re hoping to puzzle your mind and test your brain, you won’t get much of that here. Only the last few sections offer a chance to ‘solve the mystery’ and even those are rather unsatisfactory, as the solutions are guessed at. The mystery that haunts me is: why were these bits collected together at all?