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Coffee Break Collection 020 - Old Age

The Librivox Coffee Break Collections are themed anthologies, selected and read by Librivox readers. Each short piece is fifteen minutes long, or less -- perfect for coffee breaks, commutes and work outs. Essays, prose, fiction, non-fiction, poetry -- who knows what gems will be uncovered? In this collection, we explore old age -- grandparents, retirement, wisdom, decline. It is an opportunity to reflect on mortality and depth of experience. - Summary by Lynne Thompson

Genres: Short Stories , Essays & Short Works

Running Time: 01 hour 47 minutes 30 seconds

#	Chapter Name
1	Autumn Leaves Ch 16 by Anne Wales Abbott ChadH94	10:47
2	The Decline of the Drama by Stephen Leacock MaryWindishar	14:18
3	Growing Old Gracefully by Robert Ingersoll Colleen McMahon	4:00
4	How to be Seventy by Mark Twain KevinS	3:41
5	To Madame Brilliant: The Ephemera an Emblem of Human Life by Benjamin Franklin Utek	6:54
6	Of Youth and Age by Francis Bacon Michele Fry	5:22
7	Old Age, author unknown KevinS	4:27
8	Old Age Insurance in Germany by Abraham Epstein Craig Campbell	7:36
9	Old Age Insurance in Russia by Abraham Epstein Craig Campbell	3:23
10	The Olde, Olde, Very Olde Man by Ralph Bergengren ChadH94	14:13
11	Our Oldest Two Inhabitants by Josh Billings KevinS	9:46
12	The Old Lovers by Kenneth Rand Stefan Von Blon	2:10
13	Old Timers by Carl Sandburg Cornel Nemes	2:47
14	Onset of Old Age from Some Medical Aspects of Old Age by Sir Humphrey Rolleston BettyB	7:46
15	The Raft-Builders by Lord Dunsany Michele Fry	2:36
16	Stimulants, Narcotics and Old Age 1883 by George Miller Beard Craig Campbell	7:44