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Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 5

Art, Design & Architecture

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Giorgio Vasari - Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 5

The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori da Cimabue insino a' tempi nostri, as it was...

MorganScorpion and 8 more 8 hours 36 minutes Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects by Giorgio Vasari, Volumes 1-7

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Lives of the Presidents Told in Words of One Syllable

Biography & Autobiography

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Jean S. Remy - Lives of the Presidents Told in Words of One Syllable

Lives of the Presidents Told in Words of One Syllable is a halting account in presidential history — quite literally! From Washington to Jackson to Cleveland to McKinley, Jean S. Remy details the lives of the...

Mark Peterson and 5 more 2 hours 25 minutes

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Benjamin F. Hasson - Escape From The Confederacy

Benjamin F Hasson was a Union officer in the Civil War of the United States. After being captured by the Confederacy, he escaped from a prison train taking prisoners to the infamous Andersonville prison. The short...

David Wales 1 hour 34 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Constantine Panunzio - Soul of an Immigrant

Constantine Panunzio (1884-1964) begins his autobiography by describing his childhood in Molfetta, Italy. At age 13, he left home as a sailor, landing in Boston in 1902. His trials finding work, learning English, and...

Sue Anderson 8 hours 47 minutes

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Millicent Garrett Fawcett - Some Eminent Women of our Times

Written by Millicent Garrett, a noted British feminist, suffragist and intellectual writer, this volume is comprised of short biographical sketches of 23 influential women from Jane Austen and Elizabeth Barrett...

Pamela Nagami and 13 more 8 hours 47 minutes

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Alexandre Dumas - Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 3: Mary Stuart

The contents of these volumes of 'Celebrated Crimes', as well as the motives which led to their inception, are unique. They are a series of stories based upon historical records, from the pen of Alexandre Dumas, pere,...

clarinetcarrot and 5 more 7 hours 53 minutes

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Sherman’s Recollections of California, 1846-1848, 1855-1857, from his Memoirs

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William Tecumseh Sherman - Sherman’s Recollections of California, 1846-1848, 1855-1857, from his Memoirs

This librivox recording comprises three chapters from American Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Memoirs. The chapters deal with a posting to California in his pre-Civil War military career in the years...

David Wales 4 hours 7 minutes

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Sherman's March To The Sea, And The Burning Of Columbia, South Carolina, From His Memoirs

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William Tecumseh Sherman - Sherman's March To The Sea, And The Burning Of Columbia, South Carolina, From His Memoirs

This librivox recording comprises part of chapter 22 and all of chapter 23 (The March To The Sea – From Atlanta To Savannah – November And December 1864) of American Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman’s...

David Wales 3 hours 24 minutes

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John Morley - Walpole

Robert Walpole, 1st Duke of Orford (1676-1745), is generally regarded as the first prime minister of Great Britain. This is a short biography of this important and controversial statesman by the British historian and...

Pamela Nagami 8 hours 23 minutes

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Ward Hill Lamon - Life Of Abraham Lincoln

Ward Hill Lamon's work is a study of the life of the 16th President of the United States of America from his childhood to the day of his first inauguration. Lamon, who worked with Lincoln during his administration,...

Greg Giordano and 1 more 23 hours 40 minutes

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Little Masterpieces of Autobiography: Actors

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George Iles - Little Masterpieces of Autobiography: Actors

The playwright gives a play its plot, characters, dialog and form, but its sense of living reality is conveyed by the art of the actor. This fascinating collection of perspectives on acting is taken from biographies...

Lee Smalley 4 hours 34 minutes

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Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians

Biography & Autobiography

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Elbert Hubbard - Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians

Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings may have influenced them. These short essays are part biography and part...

John Burlinson and 9 more 7 hours 55 minutes Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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