Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 048

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023
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  • Aphorisms 15-22 (1746)
  • Emerson and Thoreau, November 10, 1838
  • Forty-Three Days in an Open Boat
  • A Free Man's Worship
  • Gettysburg Address
  • The Instruction of Ptah-Hotep
  • Little Nations (An Essay on the League of Nations)
  • A Memoir of H. H. Munro
  • On a Piece of Chalk, a Lecture to Working Men
  • Petrarch's Secret (excerpt)
  • Potatoes and War
  • An 1880's Sojourn in Saltillo, Mexico
  • Tabloid Drama (review of Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays
  • Welfare and Immigration: Letter to Peter Collinson, May 9, 1753
  • Weymouth New Testament--James
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

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