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Insomnia Collection Vol. 005

Various

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.

Genre(s): Essays & Short Works

Language: English

Section	Chapter	Author	Source	Reader	Time	Language
Play 01	Questions 1-500 of "One Thousand Literary Questions and Answers"	Mary Eleanor Kramer	Etext	Devorah Allen	01:12:27	en
Play 02	Excerpt from "The Best Moving Pictures of 1922-1923"	Robert E. Sherwood	Etext	Chuck Williamson	00:57:31	en
Play 03	Excerpt from "The Candy Maker’s Guide: A Collection of Choice Recipes for Sugar Boiling"	Fletcher Manufacturing Company	Etext	Cordelia Glende	00:55:01	en
Play 04	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	Garrett Chatfield Pier	Etext	Sonia	00:43:19	en
Play 05	Comparative Cataloguing Rules, Part 1	Theresa Hitchler	Etext	Maria Kasper	00:53:21	en
Play 06	Comparative Cataloguing Rules, Part 2	Theresa Hitchler	Etext	Maria Kasper	00:49:04	en
Play 07	Manufacture and Maintenance of Steam Engines, from "A Catechism of the Steam Engine"	John Bourne	Etext	Son of the Exiles	00:49:36	en
Play 08	Cat Show Department, from the Catalog Program of the Connecticut 1909 Fair	Unknown	Etext	MaryAnn	00:37:07	en
Play 09	Chapter 7 (excerpt) from "The Churchwardens’ Accounts – Book No: 1 From 1573 to 1699"	Charles Candler	Etext	Steve C	01:09:35	en
Play 10	Excerpt from "Description of the Process of Manufacturing Coal Gas, for the Lighting of Streets, Houses, and Public Buildings"	Frederick Accum	Etext	TriciaG	01:06:34
Play 11	"Historical Sketch of the Dynamical Theory of Heat" (portion)	Peter Guthrie Tait	Etext	TriciaG	01:11:34	en
Play 12	Federal Register, Vol. 28 Numbers 137-139		Etext	Verla Viera	00:36:50
Play 13	Fires and Firemen	Anonymous	Etext	Anita Hibbard	01:07:50	en
Play 14	Excerpt from "A Genealogical-Historical Visitation of Andover, Mass., in the Year 1863"	Alfred Poore	Etext	Colleen McMahon	00:47:23	en
Play 15	Part 4 of "Our Homes and Their Adornments"	Almon C. Varney	Etext	Devorah Allen	00:58:38	en
Play 16	"Knots" from Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th edition	Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Ed.	Etext	Freddy Phan	00:49:29	en
Play 17	Events of 1801 and 1802, from Norfolk Annals 1800-1850 Volume 1	Charles Mackie	Etext	Colleen McMahon	00:55:31	en
Play 18	Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed., 1917)	C. A. Toledano	Etext	Verla Viera	00:50:53	en
Play 19	Extract from "The Privy Purse Expences of King Henry the Eighth, from November MDXXIX, to December MDXXXII"	Nicholas Harris Nicolas	Etext	elibishop	01:03:32	en
Play 20	Selections from "Sewing; handicraft for girls; a graded course for city and rural schools"	Idabelle McGlauflin	Etext	Tindra	01:05:27	en
Play 21	Extract from Chapter 4 'Sleep' from "Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death"	Frederic William Henry Myers	Etext	Rachel May Ferriman	01:05:40	en

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