Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 071 - Free Audiobook

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 071 - Free Audiobook

Author(s): Various,

Language: English
Genre(s): Non-fiction

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20 Chapter(s)
  • 1. Alexander at Gordium
  • 2. Before Grant Won His Stars
  • 3. A California Motor Tour (1909)
  • 4. A Despicable Trick
  • 5. Draft Riots in Wisconsin During the Civil War
  • 6. The Furnace
  • 7. Healthy But Not Social
  • 8. Limitations of Truth-Telling
  • 9. Mary Anning, the Fossil Finder
  • 10. On Demagogues, in The American Democrat (1838)
  • 11. On Thinking For Oneself (excerpt)
  • 12. Rendering Reflections in Window Glass
  • 13. Some Reflections on the Beauty of Unpunctuality
  • 14. Sophie Treadwell Interviews Pancho Villa (1921)
  • 15. Tasman Explores Australia
  • 16. The Tomb of Keats
  • 17. The True Story of Mary Pickford's Beginning
  • 18. The Truth About Greece (1917)
  • 19. Woman's Press Club
  • 20. Woman's Problems (1914)

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Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. "Suffrage for women will not usher in a millennium of peace and leisure" was the editorial opinion of the Boston Cooking School Magazine in May, 1914. [Woman's Problems]. Disillusionment with easy answers is the theme of several Vol. 071 readings [On Thinking for Oneself; Limitations of Truth-Telling; On Demagogues]. Rebellion and war, heroics and aftermath, are treated in Alexander at Gordium; Before Grant Won His Stars; Draft Riots in Wisconsin; The Truth About Greece; and Sophie Treadwell Interviews Pancho Villa. Humor provides relief in a lighthearted look at home heating [The Furnace]; bicycling [A Despicable Trick; Healthy But Not Social], grammar [The Woman's Press Club] and The Beauty of Unpunctuality. Exploration then and now is contrasted in Tasman Explores Australia and A California Motor Tour. The arts--literature, drawing, and the cinema--are celebrated in Mary Pickford's Beginnings, Rendering Reflections in Window Glass, and On the Tomb of Keats. Lastly, a biography of British fossil finder Mary Anning (1795-1847) throws light not only on ichthyosaurs, but on the remarkable life of a self-taught woman scientist. - Summary by Sue Anderson

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