Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 104 - Бесплатная аудиокнига

"Grandmother and Stockhausen are of the opinion that Wagner will one day totally disappear. His music, they argue, is too unhealthy." Clara Schumann's grandson's diary entries for 1894-1896 are a delight for music lovers. Other artistic and literary selections, chosen by vol. 104 readers, include Boadicea; Of the Green Children; A Search for Robinhood; What is a Child?; the Book Collector; Memoirs of Claude Seurat and of painter Georges Seurat; Schumann as Mirrored in His Letters; and Replies by Teachers to Questions Respecting Mental Fatigue. Historical perspectives on a variety of issues include Our Present and Future Policy in the Holy Land; Application of Psychology in Government; The Chocolate Soldier; President Obama's Farewell Address; The Empty Sleeve; The Fate of the Beagle; Lone Bandit of the Pennsy; and War or Peace or Both. Finally, old-time manufacturing technology is the subject of Dolls' Lives Getting Longer Too and Steam Shovels and Steam Shovel Work. Summary by Sue Anderson