Insomnia Collection Vol. 005

Ngôn ngữ: English

Thể loại: Tiểu luận & Tác phẩm ngắn Phi hư cấu

Người đọc:Devorah Allen, Chuck Williamson, Cordelia Glende, Sonia, Maria Kasper, Son of the Exiles, MaryAnn, Steve C, TriciaG, Verla Viera, Anita Hibbard, Colleen McMahon, Freddy Phan, elibishop, Tindra, Rachel May Ferriman

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1. Questions 1-500 of "One Thousand Literary Questions and Answers"
2. Excerpt from "The Best Moving Pictures of 1922-1923"
3. Excerpt from "The Candy Maker’s Guide: A Collection of Choice Recipes for Sugar Boiling"
4. Items 1 to 100 from the Catalogue of the Collection of Pottery, Porcelaine and Faience from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Far East. China
5. Comparative Cataloguing Rules, Part 1
6. Comparative Cataloguing Rules, Part 2
7. Manufacture and Maintenance of Steam Engines, from "A Catechism of the Steam Engine"
8. Cat Show Department, from the Catalog Program of the Connecticut 1909 Fair
9. Chapter 7 (excerpt) from "The Churchwardens’ Accounts – Book No: 1 From 1573 to 1699"
10. Excerpt from "Description of the Process of Manufacturing Coal Gas, for the Lighting of Streets, Houses, and Public Buildings"
11. "Historical Sketch of the Dynamical Theory of Heat" (portion)
12. Federal Register, Vol. 28 Numbers 137-139
13. Fires and Firemen
14. Excerpt from "A Genealogical-Historical Visitation of Andover, Mass., in the Year 1863"
15. Part 4 of "Our Homes and Their Adornments"
16. "Knots" from Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th edition
17. Events of 1801 and 1802, from Norfolk Annals 1800-1850 Volume 1
18. Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed., 1917)
19. Extract from "The Privy Purse Expences of King Henry the Eighth, from November MDXXIX, to December MDXXXII"
20. Selections from "Sewing; handicraft for girls; a graded course for city and rural schools"
21. Extract from Chapter 4 'Sleep' from "Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death"

Giới thiệu

Soporific dullness is in the ear of the listener, and what's tedium incarnate to one person will be another person's passion and delight. However, it is hoped that at least one from the range of topics here presented will lull the busy mind to a state of sweet sleep.
Introduction by Cori Samuel.