Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 104

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By Listen TheBook Posted on Nov 27, 2024

In Category - *Non-fiction

Authors: Various

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 104

Boadicea, Queen of the Iceni
The Book Collector
Brahms and Clara Schumann
The Chocolate Soldier
Dolls’ Lives Getting Longer Too (1926)
The Empty Sleeve
The Fate of the Beagle
Georges Seurat
Lone Bandit of the "Pennsy" (1909)
Memoir of Claude Seurat, the Living Skeleton
Of the Green Children (c. 1189)
Our Present and Future Policy in the Holy Land (1924)
Practical Applications of Psychology in Government (1923)
President Obama's Farewell Address, January 10, 2017
Remarks on Replies by Teachers to Questions Respecting Mental Fatigue (1889)
A Search for Robinhood
Schumann as Mirrored in His Letters
Steam Shovels and Steam Shovel Work (1894)
War or Peace or Both (1927)
What is a Child?

"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