Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 059
Various
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Sixteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Volume 59 contains an eclectic mix of readings, ranging from a description of a Coney Island elephant colossus to meditations on mental telepathy and baseball. Philosophical essays by Leibniz, Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, Francis Bacon and William Blake touch on the topics of truth, prejudice, poetic genius, suicide, and preparation for a Christian life. An educator at a women's college in the early 1920's bemoans the decline in the way high school girls dress for school and recommends a "serge jumper dress, made with a washable under blouse." In the same span of years, a female reporter, going undercover to research conditions in the Detroit House of Corrections has herself arrested and is "stripped to the skin and searched for narcotics" and then made to don prison garb: "a faded gingham coverall, prison-made and drab." A medical doctor, writing in the 1870's, examines the connection between clean living and longevity, while a historian discusses how slave labor was employed in the salines of Southern Illinois. Native American Indian speech patterns are explored in an essay on the evolution of language, while a a chapter from a children's science book explains what happens "when the dew falls." Lastly, a spirited defense of the Bodleian as a research institution rather than a circulating library rounds out this volume of the nonfiction collection.
Preparation for a Christian Life III was translated by Lee M. Hollander. (5 hr 5 min)
Chapters
All Religions Are One | 2:29 | Read by Gerwin Kramer |
Appropriate Clothes for the High School Girl | 25:50 | Read by Colleen McMahon |
The Colossal Elephant of Coney Island | 8:55 | Read by J. M. Smallheer |
Fear and Trembling: Introduction and Preparation | 15:39 | Read by Craig Campbell |
Further Remarks On The Policy Of Lending Bodleian Printed Books And Manuscripts | 31:52 | Read by Donald Cummings |
How to Pitch to Babe Ruth | 4:52 | Read by Utek |
Human Longevity | 18:49 | Read by Lynne T |
I Have Been in Hell! Or, In Search of Prison Knowledge | 20:05 | Read by Colleen McMahon |
Leibniz's Critique of Locke's Essay on Human Understanding | 14:30 | Read by Craig Campbell |
Mental Telegraphy Again | 16:20 | Read by Thomas Rose |
Of Truth | 6:12 | Read by Gerwin Kramer |
On the Evolution of Language | 47:18 | Read by Availle |
On Suicide | 13:39 | Read by Gerwin Kramer |
Preparation For a Christian Life III | 5:58 | Read by Craig Campbell |
The Salines of Southern Illinois | 57:53 | Read by Sue Anderson |
When the Dew Falls | 15:28 | Read by Sue Anderson |
Reviews
beautiful story however
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the reader is awful