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1912: Short Works Collection

by various authors

This is a collection of public domain works either published in 1912, or written in 1912 and published before 1923. The accent is on non-fiction but a few short stories are included. (Summary by Bellona Times)

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Total running time: 5:42:41
Read by Bellona Times

mp3 and ogg files

• 001 – Wild Plants Needing Protection by Elizabeth G. Britton (1858-1934) – 00:19:49
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• 002 – Flying Machines of the Future from Practical Aeronautics by Charles Brian Hayward (1876-?) – 00:10:08
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• 003 – Woman Suffrage by Bertha Rembaugh (?-?), from ‘Birth of the New Party, or Progressive Democracy’ by George Henry Payne (1876-1945) – 00:12:35
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• 004 – Chapter 1 – Autobiography of An Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) – 00:27:16
  Source: E-text
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• 005 – A Museum of Oriental Art by Lionel Gust (?-?), from The Burlington magazine, volume 20 – 00:11:07
  Source: E-text
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• 006 – An Analogy by Jane Addams (1860-1935) from A New Conscience and An Ancient Evil – 00:15:47
  Source: E-text
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• 007 – The Awakening of Spring by Sarah Barnwell Elliott (1848-1928), from The Drama magazine by the Drama League of America, 1912 – 00:07:52
  Source: E-text
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• 008 – The Birth of Tecumseh by Norman S. Gurd (1870-?) – 00:13:12
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• 009 – Appearance and Reality from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) – 00:21:44
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• 010 – The Workers and The Church by Charles Summer (?-?), from The Busy man’s magazine, Volume 2-3 – 00:06:33
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• 011 – Chapter 1 of Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) – 00:47:52
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• 012 – Four Classes That Constitute A Menace from Anti-Suffrage: 10 Good Reasons by Grace Duffield Goodwin (?-?) – 00:07:24
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• 013 – A Quartet of Potters from All Manner of Folk by Holbrook Jackson (1874-1948) – 00:16:24
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• 014 – Peace and War in the Balkans from Peace Theories and the Balkan War by Norman Angell (1872-1967) – 00:17:50
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• 015 – How To Mix The Mother Tongue by Anonymous, from The Siren, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – 00:08:55
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• 016 – A Woman’s Wrath by Isaac Lob Perez (1851-1915), translated by Helena Frank (?-?) from Yiddish Tales – 00:12:55
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• 017 – The Religious Difficulty Under Home Rule – The Noncomformist View by Rev. Samuel Prenter (?-?), from Against Home Rule (1912): The Case for the Union – 00:26:47
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• 018 – The Art of Denmark, An Epistolary Preface by Karl Madsen (1855-1938), Director of the Royal Gallery, Copenhagen, from Exhibition of Contemporary Scandinavian Art – 00:10:10
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• 019 – A Railway Journey from The Day Before Yesterday, by Richard Middleton (1882-1911) – 00:10:10
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• 020 – The Sinking of the Titanic Seen From A Lifeboat from The Loss of the S. S. Titanic: Its Story and Its Lessons, by Lawrence Beesley (1877-1967) – 00:38:11
  Source: E-text
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This audio book was produced by Bellona Times (reader and compiler), Betsie Bush and Tricia G (proof-listeners) and Anna Simon (MC).

Cataloged on June 13, 2009