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