Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 106

About this film

LibriVox recording of Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 106 by Various. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. "It is a foolish thing to speak on every kind of work, for he that disputeth thy words shall put them unto proof." Proverbs of Fair Speech, by Ptah-hotep an Egyptian vizier, is one of 15 reader-chosen recordings in vol. 106. Other reflective selections are The Appearance of Good Angels; Latin School Prize Declamation; The Persecutions of Beauty; Instructions of Kegemni; The Teaching of Amen-Em-Apt; Rights of Aliens in the United States; and The Triton Fountain. Science-focused articles include The Influence of Temperature on a Mendelian Character; The Effects of Temperature Upon Growing Mice; The Northern Lights; The Oroya Railroad of Peru; and Aerial Globe Trotting, an account of the first round-the-world flight. Summary by Sue Anderson For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit librivox.org . M4B Audiobook (133MB)

Directors & creators

Various

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;librivox; audiobooks; nonfiction; Latin; beauty; prophecy; civil rights; mice; spirituality; apparition; peru; deportation; angel; alien; aurora borealis; northern lights; temperature; mendelian character; declamation; ptahhotep; kegemni; calmet; john rand capron; seaplane; triton; fountain; oroya railroad

View on archive.org ↗