chevron_left Browse LibriVox Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 080 home Home
Cover of LibriVox Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 080

LibriVox Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 080

Various

dog; logic; atheism; painting

LibriVox recording of Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 080 by Various. Read by LibriVox Volunteers Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. "Not one of us actually thinks for himself, or in any orderly and scientific manner. The pressure of environment, of mass ideas, of the socialized intelligence... is too enormous to be withstood." (H. L. Mencken, 1919) The individual and society were central to several vol. 080 reads: The Genealogy of Etiquette; A Lounge on the Lawn; Alexander Pushkin; Princess Zizianoff; The Hanseatic League; and The Limits of Atheism. Science and the inventive mind were covered in "On the Science of Experiments; Coffey's Science of Logic; Medicine and It's Subjects; How a Fast Train is Run; and The Telephone. Travel and customs were explored in Rupert Brooke & Skyros; Lundy Island; and An Unfamiliar Naples. Nature studies included Wildflowers of the Farm; Birds in the Calendar; Trees in Landscape Painting, and A Tame Rook. Finally, a dog's life received favorable comparison with our own in The Superior Animal. Summary by Sue Anderson The authorship of Lundy Island, originally ascribed to Anonymous has been determined through genealogical research to be Amelia Ann Heaven, a member of the family which owned the island from 1834 to 1918. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lundy Roger Bacon's On the Science of Experiments was translated by Andrew George Little (1863-1945) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit librivox.org. M4B Audiobook (194MB)

queue_music Chapters

CAPTIONS
Loading...