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08/06/2024
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National Geographic Magazine Vol. 01 No. 1

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Chapter: 10 | Listen: 2

National Geographic Magazine Volume 1 Number 1 published in 1889. Topics of articles are: Announcement by the National Geographic Society Introductory Address by the President Geographic Methods in Geologic Investigation Classification of Geographic Forms by Genesis The Great Storm of March 11 to 14, 1888 The Great Storm off the Atlantic Coast of the United States, March 11th to 14th, 1888 The Survey of the Coast The Survey and Map of Massachusetts (Summary by Guero)     [chương_files]  

08/06/2024
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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 023

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Chapter: 15 | Listen: 3

A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the readers, and the topics encompass history, politics, cooking, humor, medicine, theater, philosophy, memoirs. (summary by J. M. Smallheer)     [chương_files]  

08/06/2024
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Uncommercial Traveller

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Chapter: 37 | Listen: 4

The Uncommercial Traveller is a collection of literary sketches and reminiscences written by Charles Dickens. In 1859 Dickens founded a new journal called All the Year Round and the Uncommercial Traveller articles would be among his main contributions. He seems to have chosen the title and persona of the Uncommercial Traveller as a result of a speech he gave on the 22 December 1859 to the Commercial Travellers’ School London in his role as honorary chairman and treasurer. The persona sits well with a writer who liked to travel, not only as a tourist, but also to research and report what he found; visiting Europe, America and giving book readings throughout Britain. He does not seem content to rest late in his career when he had attained wealth and comfort and continued travelling locally, walking the streets of London in the mould of the flâneur, a ‘gentleman stroller of city streets’. He often suffered from insomnia and his night-time wanderings gave him an insight into some of the hidden aspects of Victorian London, details of which he also incorporated into his novels. (Summary by Wikipedia)     [chương_files]  

08/06/2024
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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 024

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Chapter: 15 | Listen: 4

A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the readers, and the topics encompass gardening, military history, humor, climate change, travel and religion. (summary by J. M. Smallheer)     [chương_files]  

07/06/2024
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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 022

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Chapter: 19 | Listen: 5

A collection of nineteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the readers, and the topics encompass history, politics, science, women’s rights, pirates, vampires, philosophy, and religion. (summary by J. M. Smallheer)     [chương_files]  

07/06/2024
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Neighbors – Life Stories of the Other Half

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Chapter: 20 | Listen: 6

These stories have come to me from many sources—some from my own experience, others from settlement workers, still others from the records of organized charity, that are never dry, as some think, but alive with vital human interest and with the faithful striving to help the brother so that it counts. They have this in common, that they are true. For good reasons, names and places are changed, but they all happened as told here. I could not have invented them had I tried; I should not have tried if I could. For it is as pictures from the life in which they and we, you and I, are partners, that I wish them to make their appeal to the neighbor who lives but around the corner and does not know it.(Summary from the Preface by Jacob A. Riis)     [chương_files]  

07/06/2024
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Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things

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Chapter: 45 | Listen: 7

The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things is a posthumous collection of essays by William Hazlitt, organized by his grandson, William Carew Hazlitt. The book contains some of Hazlitt’s more famous essays that couldn’t be found in book format. (Summary by Leni)     [chương_files]  

07/06/2024
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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 021

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Chapter: 16 | Listen: 4

A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the readers, and the topics encompass history, war, farming, slavery, education, philosophy, and nature. (summary by J. M. Smallheer)     [chương_files]  

07/06/2024
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Coffee Break Collection 006 – Food and Drink

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Chapter: 20 | Listen: 1

This is the sixth collection of our “coffee break” series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in length. These are great for work/study breaks, commutes, workouts, or any time you’d like to hear a whole story and only have a few minutes to devote to listening. The theme for Collection 006 is “Food and Drink”! [Summary by Rosie]     [chương_files]  

06/06/2024
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National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 – 04. April 1896

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Chapter: 8 | Listen: 3

The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the April Number. It includes the following articles: * Serilan, by W J McGee and Willard D. Johnson * The Olympic Country, by S. C. Gilman, C. E. * The Discovery of Glacier Bay, Alaska, by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore * Hydrography in the United States, by Frederick H. Newell * Recent Triangulation in the Cascades, by S. S. Gannett along with geographic literature and a few miscellaneous notes.     [chương_files]