Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 104

Various

"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

Genre(s): *Non-fiction

Language: English

Keyword(s): civil war (143), missionary (30), Palestine (13), doll (12), robin hood (11), Holy Land (5), balfour (4), iq (3), brahms (3), beagle (2) ... [Show full list]

Group: Short Nonfiction Collections

Section Chapter Author Source Reader Time Language
Play 01 Boadicea, Queen of the Iceni Anna Brownell Jameson Etext Steve C
00:16:17 en
Play 02 The Book Collector Charles Nodier Etext Paul Hampton
00:31:11 en
Play 03 Brahms and Clara Schumann Ferdinand Schumann Etext mkirkpat
00:24:19 en
Play 04 The Chocolate Soldier Charles Thomas Studd Etext AletheiaCharis
00:34:32 en
Play 05 Dolls’ Lives Getting Longer Too (1926) Anonymous Etext Brian Fullen
00:07:34 en
Play 06 The Empty Sleeve Henry H. Meacham Etext John D. Parker
00:48:32 en
Play 07 The Fate of the Beagle Rev. V. Marshall Law Etext Availle
00:10:10 en
Play 08 Georges Seurat Roger Fry Etext Rapunzelina
00:23:51 en
Play 09 Lone Bandit of the "Pennsy" (1909) John P. Duxter Etext Brian Fullen
00:22:20 en
Play 10 Memoir of Claude Seurat, the Living Skeleton Anonymous Etext Rapunzelina
00:27:59 en
Play 11 Of the Green Children (c. 1189) William of Newburgh Etext Steve C
00:06:41 en
Play 12 Our Present and Future Policy in the Holy Land (1924) Alfred Perceval Graves Etext Claudia Caldi
00:31:43 en
Play 13 Practical Applications of Psychology in Government (1923) Harold Foote Gosnell Etext Leon Harvey
00:19:18 en
Play 14 President Obama's Farewell Address, January 10, 2017 Barack Obama Etext KevinS
00:33:24 en
Play 15 Remarks on Replies by Teachers to Questions Respecting Mental Fatigue (1889) Sir Francis Galton Etext Leon Harvey
00:31:32 en
Play 16 A Search for Robinhood Anonymous Etext Garth Burton
00:30:54 en
Play 17 Schumann as Mirrored in His Letters Henry Theophilus Finck Etext mkirkpat
00:39:44 en
Play 18 Steam Shovels and Steam Shovel Work (1894) Edward Adolph Hermann Etext Sue Anderson
00:26:03 en
Play 19 War or Peace or Both (1927) Nancy Astor Etext Brian Fullen
00:11:52 en
Play 20 What is a Child? George Bernard Shaw Etext Wren Hua
00:04:46 en