The Touchstone by Edith WHARTON (1862 - 1937) Genre(s): General Fiction, Romance Read by: Elizabeth Klett in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 01 - 01 - Chapter 01 00:10:34 - 02 - 02 - Chapter 02 00:27:57 - 03 - 03 - Chapter 03 00:35:35 - 04 - 04 - Chapter 04 00:51:41 - 05 - 05 - Chapter 05 01:03:02 - 06 - 06 - Chapter 06 01:18:06 - 07 - 07 - Chapter 07 01:30:12 - 08 - 08 - Chapter 08 01:44:17 - 09 - 09 - Chapter 09 01:51:16 - 10 - 10 - Chapter 10 02:01:13 - 11 - 11 - Chapter 11 02:05:39 - 12 - 12 - Chapter 12 02:17:12 - 13 - 13 - Chapter 13 02:31:40 - 14 - 14 - Chapter 14 Stephen Glennard's career is falling apart and he desperately needs money so that he may marry his beautiful fiancee. He happens upon an advertisement in a London magazine promising the prospect of financial gain. Glennard was once pursued by Margaret Aubyn, a famous and recently deceased author, and he still has her passionate love letters to him. Glennard removes his name from the letters and sells them, making him a fortune and building a marriage based on the betrayal of another. (Summary by Wikipedia) More information: http://librivox.org/the-touchstone-by-edith-wharton/

The Theory and Practice of Brewing by Michael COMBRUNE ( - 1773) Genre(s): Crafts & Hobbies, Cooking Read by: BettyB, Gren, Peter Musgrove, Christina M Clark, Foon, ToddHW, bpgower98, Adam Santoni, Pete McElveen, Valentina Vocelli, markevogt, Jennifer Stearns, Monika M. C., Ariphron, Lynda Marie Neilson, Lucretia B., Elsie Selwyn, Availle, Matthew Newell, Brian James, Chris Gray, Kathleen Moore in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 01 - An Explanation of the Technical Terms 00:18:51 - 02 - Of Fire 00:27:33 - 03 - Of Air 00:34:27 - 04 - Of Water 00:52:18 - 05 - Of Earth 00:53:43 - 06 - Of Menstruums or Dissolvents 01:02:16 - 07 - Of the Thermometer 01:15:00 - 08 - Of the Vine, its Fruits, and Juices 01:37:00 - 09 - Of Fermentation in General 01:56:16 - 10 - Of Artificial Fermentation 02:08:05 - 11 - Of the Nature of Barley 02:15:36 - 12 - Of Malting 02:41:24 - 13 - Of the Different Properties of Malt, and of the Number of its Fermentable Parts 03:11:00 - 14 - Observations on Defective Malts 03:21:34 - 15 - The Practice of Brewing 03:29:18 - 16 - Of the Heat of the Air 03:46:10 - 17 - Of Grinding 03:50:13 - 18 - Of Extraction, part 1 04:17:21 - 19 - Of Extraction, part 2 04:59:26 - 20 - Of the Nature and Properties of Hops 05:33:12 - 21 - Of the Lengths Necessary to Form Malt-Liquors of the Several Denominations 05:37:30 - 22 - Method of Calculating the Height in the Copper at which Worts Are to Go out 05:49:17 - 23 - Of Boiling 05:57:21 - 24 - Of the Quantity of Water wasted; and of the Application of the preceding Rules to two different processes of Brewing 06:03:16 - 25 - Of the Division of the Water for the respective Worts and Mashes, and of the Heat adequate to each of these 06:31:41 - 26 - An enquiry into the Volume of Malt, in order to reduce the Grist to liquid Measure This is an elaborate treatise on how to brew beer. That art is as noble today as it was in 1761, when this book was first published, and Mr. Combrune was a master of his art. After reading his work on this topic, a glass of beer can be enjoyed on quite a different level. - Summary by Carolin More information: https://librivox.org/the-theory-and-practice-of-brewing-by-michael-combrune/ LibriVox - free public domain audiobooks (https://librivox.org/)