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Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists

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Elbert Hubbard - Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists

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...

Robin Cotter and 8 more 9 hours 39 minutes Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great

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Biography & Autobiography

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George Bruce Malleson - Life of Prince Metternich

Klemens von Metternich (1773-1859) first foreign minister, and then chancellor of the Austrian Empire was a great diplomat: crafty, manipulative, and single-minded in his determination to overthrow Napoleon and his...

Pamela Nagami 7 hours 29 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Thomas Hodgkin - Theodoric the Goth

Theodoric the Great (~454-526) was king of the Ostrogoths during the time of the terminal decline of the Western Roman Empire. After wandering with his people through the Balkans, at times allied with the Eastern...

Patrick Eaton 11 hours 36 minutes

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Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865

Biography & Autobiography

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Sarah Raymond Herndon - Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865

“We had spent almost all our money for toll, ferrying and other expenses on the road. It might be a serious matter to be in a strange place without money... There is nothing we can spare so well as Dick.... It would...

Sue Anderson 5 hours 36 minutes

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Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 3

Art, Design & Architecture

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Giorgio Vasari - Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 3

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 10 more 8 hours 46 minutes Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects by Giorgio Vasari, Volumes 1-7

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Life of Saint Columba Apostle of Scotland

Biography & Autobiography

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Frances Alice Forbes - Life of Saint Columba Apostle of Scotland

Saint Columba (521 – 597) was an Irish abbot and missionary credited with spreading Christianity in present-day Scotland. He founded the important abbey on Iona, which became a dominant religious and political...

MaryAnn and 2 more 2 hours 23 minutes

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Art, Design & Architecture

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Rainer Maria Rilke - Auguste Rodin

Rodin has pronounced Rilke's essay the supreme interpretation of his work. (From the translators’ Preface) Auguste Rodin, 1840-1917, was a French sculptor. Although Rodin is generally considered the progenitor of...

David Wales 1 hour 52 minutes

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Autobiography of Goethe Volume 2

A literary celebrity by the age of 25, Goethe was ennobled by the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Carl August in 1782 after first taking up residence there in November 1775 following the success of his first novel, The Sorrows...

Craig Campbell and 4 more 8 hours 41 minutes

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Life and Adventures of Frank and Jesse James

Biography & Autobiography

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Joseph. A. Dacus - Life and Adventures of Frank and Jesse James

Biographies of Frank and Jesse James, detailed accounts of all their significant escapades, and the final outcomes. — Summary by PJ Landau

PJ Landau 8 hours 58 minutes

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Frances Alice Forbes - Life of St. Teresa

Teresa of Ávila, also called Saint Teresa of Jesus, baptized as Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada (28 March 1515 – 4 October 1582), was a prominent Spanish mystic, Roman Catholic saint, Carmelite nun, an author of...

MariaS 2 hours 18 minutes

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Remarkable Rogues: The Careers of Some Notable Criminals of Europe and America

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Charles Kingston - Remarkable Rogues: The Careers of Some Notable Criminals of Europe and America

The title and subtitle pretty much say it all. Twenty biographical sketches of people you would not want your son or daughter to marry. (Summary by David Wales)

David Wales 8 hours 48 minutes

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Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book VI

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Diogenes Laertius - Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book VI

There are 10 divisions in this title. This project is a recording of book 6. There is a number of interesting anecdotes on the lives of Antisthenes, Diogenes of Sinope, Monimus, Onesicritus, Crates of Thebes,...

bala 1 hour 59 minutes

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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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