Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 048
Various
Lu par 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)
Chapitres
| Aphorisms 15-22 (1746) | 16:00 | Lu par Craig Campbell |
| Emerson and Thoreau, November 10, 1838 | 4:24 | Lu par Sue Anderson |
| Forty-Three Days in an Open Boat | 54:45 | Lu par KHand |
| A Free Man's Worship | 24:48 | Lu par Gerwin Kramer |
| Gettysburg Address | 2:07 | Lu par Esther Kamas |
| The Instruction of Ptah-Hotep | 31:48 | Lu par Arthur Krolman |
| Little Nations (An Essay on the League of Nations) | 13:32 | Lu par Availle |
| A Memoir of H. H. Munro | 22:07 | Lu par Phil Schempf |
| On a Piece of Chalk, a Lecture to Working Men | 49:04 | Lu par J. M. Smallheer |
| Petrarch's Secret (excerpt) | 19:39 | Lu par Craig Campbell |
| Potatoes and War | 3:06 | Lu par VfkaBT |
| An 1880's Sojourn in Saltillo, Mexico | 48:13 | Lu par Sue Anderson |
| Tabloid Drama (review of Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays | 5:29 | Lu par VfkaBT |
| Welfare and Immigration: Letter to Peter Collinson, May 9, 1753 | 17:34 | Lu par Michele Fry |
| Weymouth New Testament--James | 20:21 | Lu par VfkaBT |