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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 019

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A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the readers, and the topics encompass history, literature, travel, science, medicine, war, writing, education, philosophy, and religion. (summary by J. M. Smallheer)

Genre(s): Essays & Short Works

Language: English

Group: Short Nonfiction Collections

Section	Chapter	Author	Source	Reader	Time	Language
Play 01	Argument to Prove that the Abolishing of Christianity in England May, as Things Now Stand Today, be Attended with Some Inconveniences, and Perhaps not	Jonathan Swift	Etext	Gregg Margarite (1957-2012)	00:33:03	en
Play 02	Conjugal Precepts	Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus	Etext	TriciaG	00:45:40	en
Play 03	Dante and the Bowery from From History as Literature and Other Essays	Theodore Roosevelt	Etext	Guero	00:17:56	en
Play 04	Ekoniah Scrub: Among Florida Lakes	Louise Seymour Houghton	Etext	Bellona Times	00:50:57	en
Play 05	Elephant Hunt	Various	Etext	James Christopher	00:03:35	en
Play 06	General Washington and General Jackson, on Negro soldiers	Henry Carey Baird	Etext	Guero	00:18:53	en
Play 07	The King Follett Discourse	Joseph Smith, Jr.	Etext	Nicholas James Bridgewater	00:39:20	en
Play 08	Letter to Patrick Henry, March 27, 1779	Thomas Jefferson	Etext	Bellona Times	00:24:05	en
Play 09	McGuffey's Eclectic Primer, Revised Edition	William Holmes McGuffey	Etext	Bellona Times	00:38:02	en
Play 10	Methods of Wound Treatment, from Manual of Surgery, Vol 1	Alexis Thomson	Etext	Bellona Times	00:23:31	en
Play 11	On the Mexican War	Thomas Corwin	Etext	Guero	00:23:18	en
Play 12	On the Theory of Compound Colors	James Clerk Maxwell	Etext	Availle	00:08:18	en
Play 13	The Oriental Rose, or, The teachings of Abdul Baha, Chapter 2	Mary Hanford Ford	Etext	Nicholas James Bridgewater	00:24:19	en
Play 14	The Pathless Profession	Henry van Dyke	Etext	Bill Mosley	00:16:15	en
Play 15	The Voice and Spiritual Education (opening)	Hiram Corson	Etext	Martin Geeson	00:22:22	en

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