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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 052

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Essays & Short Works, Non-fiction
Chapter: 17 | Listen: 2

Seventeen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include Nature and Science–fall scenery, rose oil, large type books for low vision, the pulmotor, and the method of scientific investigation; Philosophy and Thought–Joseph Priestly, Kierkegaard, Rousseau, and A.C. Bradley on poetry; History and Travel–John Johnston founder of Sault St. Marie, eating in Berlin, and Sir John Mandeville’s travels; a Japanese folk tale; a defense of Lady Bryon by Harriet Beecher Stowe, and a Virginia slave narrative by Minnie Fulkes. (Summary by Sue Anderson) “Preparation for a Christian Life” was translated by Lee M. Hollander. [chương_files]

Rock Crystal (Version 2)

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Action & Adventure, Children's Fiction
Chapter: 7 | Listen: 2

Lovely story of two children who get lost in a hazardous winter crossing of an Alpine pass after visiting their grandparents in a neighboring village. Full of beautiful details about the lives of the hardy villagers, and their love for their families and their mountain home. – Summary by Carol Pelster [chương_files]

Doctor Dolittle’s Post Office (version 2) (dramatic reading)

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Action & Adventure, Animals & Nature, Dramatic Readings
Chapter: 16 | Listen: 3

While working in Africa, the eminent naturalist John Dolittle sets out to create the best post office on earth, using his bird friends to carry messages and packages anywhere in the world in record time. Along the way, he also manages to foil a slave trader, enrich a kingdom, save a ship, and meet the oldest living creature on earth! – Summary by Devorah Allen Cast: Doctor Dolittle: ToddHW Speedy the Swallow: TJ Burns Dab-Dab the Duck: Leanne Yau Jip the Dog: Rafe Ball Gub-Gub the Pig: Campbell Schelp The White Mouse: Devorah Allen Too-Too the Owl: Beth Thomas Cheapside the Sparrow: Son of the Exiles The Pushmi-Pullyu: Bill Mosley Quip the Carrier: Jasmin Salma Golden Jay Leader: Adrian Stephens Piffilosaurus: Algy Pug One Eye the Albatross: KevinS Bertha Bacon: Foon Canary: JennaEleni Seagull: Zoe Trang Thrush: JennaEleni Spoonbill: LikeManyWaters Squirrel: Foon Cormorant: Adrian Stephens Giant Snake: Christine Lehman Mudface the Turtle: KevinS King Ko-Ko: Bill Mosley Zuzana: Lola Janie Begwe: Bernd Ungerer The Captain: chuckconvr Executive Officer: Adrian Stephens The Master-At-Arms: Bill Mosley White Trader: Algy Pug Boatman: KevinS The Royal Meteorologist: Algy Pug Lighthouse Keeper: Lola Janie Nicholas Scroggins: Algy Pug Jack Wilkins: chuckconvr Chief Nyam-Nyam: chuckconvr The Emir of Ellebubu: Adrian Stephens General of Ellebubu: Lola Janie [chương_files]

Mystery of the Fires (version 2)

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Action & Adventure, Action & Adventure Fiction, Detective Fiction, Published 1900 onward
Chapter: 19 | Listen: 1

Mary Louise Gay decided to spend the summer holiday in her family’s cottage at Shady Nook. But an unknown arsonist has been setting the cottages on fire and it’s up to Mary Lou, her best friend Jane, and their loyal pup Silky, to find out who the culprit is and save the houses and their summer holiday. – Summary by Mary Escano [chương_files]

Tale of Turkey Proudfoot (version 2)

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Action & Adventure, Animals & Nature, Short Works
Chapter: 24 | Listen: 3

Another Slumbertown and Tuck-Me In Tale book by Arthur Scott Bailey, this time we meet Turkey Proudfoot at Farmer Greens farm in Pleasant Valley and his fellow yard mates who loved to mimic his beautiful tail. – Summary by Lynda Marie Neilson [chương_files]

Pirate Island: A Story of the South Pacific

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Action & Adventure
Chapter: 20 | Listen: 4

A story of sea-faring adventure including a shipwreck with a daring rescue, a ship fire and a close escape, pirates and enslavement, gold, danger, redemption and a desperate bid for freedom. There is excitement in every chapter in this harrowing tale of the crew and passengers of the Galatea as they voyage from England to Australia and back. (Summary by OliverBoliver) [chương_files]

Visions and Revisions

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Essays & Short Works, Literary Criticism
Chapter: 19 | Listen: 4

Powys presents a set of literary devotions of great figures in Literature who have obsessed him. He attempts not so much a reasoned critique or any attempt to categorise these figures but rather, as he describes in the Preface: “to give [himself] up, absolutely and completely, to the various visions and temperaments of these great dead artists.” Powys delivered popular lectures throughout the United States and was able to hold audiences in rapt attention for hours while speaking about great literature and writers, this book from the earlier part of his writing career gives us a little glimpse into what those lectures must have been like. – Summary by Keri Ford [chương_files]

Note-Books of Samuel Butler

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Essays & Short Works, Memoirs
Chapter: 33 | Listen: 1

Early in his life Samuel Butler began to carry a note-book and to write down in it anything he wanted to remember; it might be something he heard some one say, more commonly it was something he said himself. In one of these notes he gives a reason for making them: “One’s thoughts fly so fast that one must shoot them; it is no use trying to put salt on their tails.” So he bagged as many as he could hit and preserved them, re-written on loose sheets of paper which constituted a sort of museum stored with the wise, beautiful, and strange creatures that were continually winging their way across the field of his vision. As he became a more expert marksman his collection increased and his museum grew so crowded that he wanted a catalogue. In 1874 he started an index, and this led to his reconsidering the notes, destroying those that he remembered having used in his published books and re-writing the remainder. The re-writing shortened some but it lengthened others and suggested so many new ones that the index was soon of little use and there seemed to be no finality about it. In 1891 he attached the problem afresh and made it a rule to spend an hour every morning re-editing his notes and keeping his index up to date. At his death, in 1902, he left five bound volumes, with the contents dated and indexed, about 225 pages of closely written sermon paper to […]

Spirit of Place and Other Essays

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Essays & Short Works
Chapter: 17 | Listen:

Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers’ Suffrage League. She and her husband Wilfrid Meynell were active in publishing and editing literary works including helping to launch the first works of Francis Thompson, author of “Hound of Heaven.” This is a collection of her essays covering a wide range of topics from the opening essay on the “Spirit of Place” to a playful essay about the foot, and musing on topics such as rain, the horizon and the concluding essay, “Shadows.” – Summary by Larry Wilson [chương_files]

Red Runners

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Action & Adventure
Chapter: 32 | Listen: 2

This Is one of the Hawkins series and a right good one at that! Big boys and little boys, manly and “yellow”, all these figure in the adventures which are recounted and the reader is quite breathless by the time he has taken part even vicariously in the numerous pranks and serious experiences. Good wholesome lessons are taught also as when the bully of the group comes to realize some of the big things of life just before he is called to the larger life beyond this one A real boys book but girls will like It also. (Bookseller and Stationer 1923) Seckatary Hawkins, a fat boy with a cowlick hairdo, records daily minutes of the adventures of a remarkably organized group of boys. The group of ten or so boys (some boys rotated in and out of the club) have their own clubhouse on the river bank, complete with a stove for heat, a telephone, and even an organ for the required singing practice. While never the president of the club, Seckatary Hawkins is clearly the smartest member and the leader. He is regularly called upon by the books’ few adult characters and many of the youthful ones to solve various mysteries and to keep the river bank safe. (Adapted from Wikipedia) [chương_files]