A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and reports included in this collection were independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass history, literature, philosophy, shoe-making, bathing, and cats.

Latest episodes of the podcast Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 8 by Various

• Cats
• The Celebration of Intellect
• A Few Parables
• The “House Divided Against Itself” Speech
• How to Make a Shoe
• A Meditation Upon A Broomstick
• Morals of Chess
• Night and Moonlight
• The Oath and Law of Hippocrates
• On the Pleasure of Taking Up One’s Pen
• On the Vice of Novel Reading
• Rules for Bathing
• Self-Denial Not the Essence of Virtue
• A Short Defence of Villains
• Some Reflections on the Loss of the Titanic