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