Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 037


Lu par LibriVox Volunteers

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, blow-pipe weapons, Oriental china; impressions of America by Enrico Caruso, Oscar Wilde, and Charles W. Eliot; Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass; film directors Ernst Lubitsch and King Vidor; architect Louis Sullivan; Roe vs. Wade, women's rights; microphobia, the Boy Scouts, Kentucky's blue-grass region, and wintry weather. (Summary by Sue Anderson) (7 hr 7 min)

Chapitres

Blow-pipe Weapons 11:17 Lu par Garth Burton
The Blue-grass Region 45:42 Lu par Chris Pyle
Caruso and the Earthquake 6:51 Lu par Winston Tharp
Chats on Oriental China - Selections 1:10:34 Lu par MaryAnn
Christ Going Up to Heaven 8:59 Lu par Bellona Times
Educational Work of the Boy Scouts 25:57 Lu par Kangaroo
Ernst Lubitsch, German Movie Director (1922) 13:41 Lu par Bellona Times
Five American Contributions to Civilization 58:58 Lu par Will Levine
He Made His Own Luck- A Profile of King Vidor 3:35 Lu par Bellona Times
Impressions of America 17:12 Lu par Rob Marland
Second Inaugural Address 5:52 Lu par Winston Tharp
Should the Housewife Receive a Salary? 8:19 Lu par Availle
Statement on the 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade 1:49 Lu par Glenn O'Brien
The Story of a Microbophobiac 25:00 Lu par TriciaG
The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered 29:21 Lu par Sue Anderson
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? 1:07:18 Lu par progressingamerica
Wintry Weather 13:19 Lu par Garth Burton
A Woman's Rights Debate 14:01 Lu par Bellona Times