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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 030

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Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include botany, dreams, farming, history, literature, nature, and religion. (summary by Sue Anderson)

Genre(s): Essays & Short Works

Language: English

Group: Short Nonfiction Collections

Section	Chapter	Author	Source	Reader	Time	Language
Play 01	Aequanimitas	Sir William Osler	Etext	Rachel Gatwood	00:16:56	en
Play 02	The Alcoran of Mohamet: Chapter 12 - The Chapter of Joseph	Alexander Ross	Etext	Nicholas James Bridgewater	00:27:04	en
Play 03	The Alcoran of Mohamet: Chapter 1 - The Preface	Alexander Ross	Etext	Nicholas James Bridgewater	00:01:48	en
Play 04	Chewing Gum	Anonymous	Etext	Bellona Times	00:08:27	en
Play 05	Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading	Charles Lamb	Etext	Amy Koenig	00:13:26	en
Play 06	Dickens the Foremost of Novelists	George Hamlin Fitch	Etext	Jeff Chesnut	00:11:42	en
Play 07	Farming with Dynamite	E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company	Etext	Joseph Finkberg	00:17:36	en
Play 08	Humanity's Gain from Unbelief	Charles Bradlaugh	Etext	Lee Smalley	00:33:17	en
Play 09	In Mammoth Cave, 1894	John Burroughs	Etext	Sue Anderson	00:21:21	en
Play 10	I Talk of Dreams	William Dean Howells	Etext	Lee Smalley	00:43:00	en
Play 11	Laying the corner stone of the Washington monument (1815)	John Horace Pratt	Etext	ToddHW	00:28:42	en
Play 12	Liquorice	Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Ed.	Etext	Bellona Times	00:02:57	en
Play 13	Little Journeys to the Homes of Prominent Amateurs - H.P. Lovecraft	Andrew Francis Lockhart	Etext	Piotr Nater	00:07:51	en
Play 14	Mendelian Properties in a Mixed Population	G. H. Hardy	Etext	Availle	00:07:16	en
Play 15	Of Gardens	Sir Francis Bacon	Etext	rookieblue	00:15:32	en
Play 16	On Filling an Inkwell	Christopher Morley	Etext	Lee Smalley	00:08:30	en
Play 17	The Problem of the Summer	William Cooper Howells	Etext	Lee Smalley	00:10:19	en
Play 18	Snowstorm in the Sahara	Anonymous	Etext	Bellona Times	00:22:36	en
Play 19	The Three Motives of Faith in God	Elwood Worcester	Etext	Craig Campbell	00:17:05	en
Play 20	What is Right With the World	G. K. Chesterton	Etext	Anna Simon	00:26:00	en

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