LibriVox Nonfiction Collection Vol. 003

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A collection of ten short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass history, politics science and religion. Included in this collection are Martin Luther\u2019s \u201cNinety-five Theses,\u201d Jefferson Davis\u2019 speech before the United States Senate in 1861 \u201cOn Withdrawing from the Union,\u201d William E. Gladstone\u2019s address delivered in the House of Commons in 1893 on \u201cIrish Home Rule\u201d and Wendell Phillips speech in 1837 in Fanuiel Hall in Boston regarding \u201cThe Murder of Lovejoy.\u201d You will also find here an epistolary essay by François Marie Arouet de Voltaire \u201cOn Lord Bacon,\u201d a letter from Samuel Clemens commenting on the inclusion of Jesus in the list of \u201cOne Hundred Greatest Men,\u201d \u201cOn Applauding Preachers\u201d by Saint John Chrysostom, an essay by Alice Meynell on \u201cSolitude,\u201d and the entry on Captain Edward Teach (aka Blackbeard) from \u201cThe Pirates Who\u2019s Who\u201d by Philip Gosse. (summary by J. M. Smallheer)

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