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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 048

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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