Audiobook: Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 048
- Download Aphorisms 15-22 (1746) audio
- Download Emerson and Thoreau, November 10, 1838 audio
- Download Forty-Three Days in an Open Boat audio
- Download A Free Man's Worship audio
- Download Gettysburg Address audio
- Download The Instruction of Ptah-Hotep audio
- Download Little Nations (An Essay on the League of Nations) audio
- Download A Memoir of H. H. Munro audio
- Download On a Piece of Chalk, a Lecture to Working Men audio
- Download Petrarch's Secret (excerpt) audio
- Download Potatoes and War audio
- Download An 1880's Sojourn in Saltillo, Mexico audio
- Download Tabloid Drama (review of Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays audio
- Download Welfare and Immigration: Letter to Peter Collinson, May 9, 1753 audio
- Download Weymouth New Testament--James audio
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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](https://librivox.org/author/12714) Petrarch's Secret was translated by [William H. Draper](https://librivox.org/author/12715) The Instruction of Ptah-Hotep was translated by [Battiscombe G. Gunn](https://librivox.org/author/12664)
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