Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 048
Various
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include philosophy and thought--Phtah-Hotep, Petrarch, Diderot, Bertrand Russell, and the Weymouth New Testament; adventure and travel--a survival story by Mark Twain and a woman's sojourn in Saltillo, Mexico; immigration and war--Benjamin Franklin on the assimilation of German speakers, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, the League of Nations, and an essay on potatoes and war; geology--on the origins of chalk; a critique of one-act plays, a biography of H.H. Munro (Saki), and Emerson's advice to Thoreau to clear his brain by writing poetry.
Aphorisms by Diderot was translated by Margaret Jourdain
Petrarch's Secret was translated by William H. Draper
The Instruction of Ptah-Hotep was translated by Battiscombe G. Gunn (5 hr 32 min)
Chapters
| Aphorisms 15-22 (1746) | 16:00 | Read by Craig Campbell |
| Emerson and Thoreau, November 10, 1838 | 4:24 | Read by Sue Anderson |
| Forty-Three Days in an Open Boat | 54:45 | Read by KHand |
| A Free Man's Worship | 24:48 | Read by Gerwin Kramer |
| Gettysburg Address | 2:07 | Read by Esther Kamas |
| The Instruction of Ptah-Hotep | 31:48 | Read by Arthur Krolman |
| Little Nations (An Essay on the League of Nations) | 13:32 | Read by Availle |
| A Memoir of H. H. Munro | 22:07 | Read by Phil Schempf |
| On a Piece of Chalk, a Lecture to Working Men | 49:04 | Read by J. M. Smallheer |
| Petrarch's Secret (excerpt) | 19:39 | Read by Craig Campbell |
| Potatoes and War | 3:06 | Read by VfkaBT |
| An 1880's Sojourn in Saltillo, Mexico | 48:13 | Read by Sue Anderson |
| Tabloid Drama (review of Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays | 5:29 | Read by VfkaBT |
| Welfare and Immigration: Letter to Peter Collinson, May 9, 1753 | 17:34 | Read by Michele Fry |
| Weymouth New Testament--James | 20:21 | Read by VfkaBT |