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T. Forester - Lives of the Twelve Caesars

The Twelve Caesars is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire. The work was written in 121 during the reign of the emperor Hadrian, while Suetonius was Hadrian's...

Graham Redman and 10 more 16 hours 2 minutes

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G. K. Chesterton - George Bernard Shaw

Chesterton and Shaw were famous friends and enjoyed their arguments and discussions. Although rarely in agreement, they both maintained good-will towards and respect for each other. However, in his writing,...

Ray Clare 5 hours 46 minutes

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Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 2

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Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus - Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 2

Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving lives contain twenty-three pairs of...

Leni and 5 more 8 hours 55 minutes Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans by Plutarch

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Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon - Autobiography of Madame Guyon

Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de la Motte-Guyon (commonly known as Madame Guyon) (April 13, 1648 — June 9, 1717) was a French mystic and one of the key advocates of Quietism. Quietism was considered heretical by the Roman...

peaceuntoyou 15 hours 24 minutes

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Mozart: The Man and the Artist as Revealed in His Own Words

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Friedrich Kerst - Mozart: The Man and the Artist as Revealed in His Own Words

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. His name is one of the most recognizable names in history and one of the most enduring of composers. At age 5, this “wunderkinder” took to the stage and began his life as a prolific and...

Aaron Elliott and 4 more 3 hours 57 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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M. B. Synge - Great Englishwomen

Great Englishwomen is a collection of biographies of some of the greatest women in England's history. Women who were leaders of their country in troubled times, women who were reformers in prison conditions, and...

Laura Caldwell 3 hours 31 minutes

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Giles Lytton Strachey - Queen Victoria

Lytton Strachey’s first great success, and his most famous achievement, was «Eminent Victorians» (1918), a collection of four short biographies of Victorian heroes. With a dry wit, he exposed the human failings of his...

R. S. Steinberg 10 hours 20 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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James Baldwin - Four Great Americans

Written for children, James Baldwin's history of Washington, Franklin, Webster, and Lincoln brings these men to life in a way that will be interesting for adults as well. The stories touch on the little humanities of...

Sibella Denton 3 hours 39 minutes

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General

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Mary Agnes Hamilton - Story of Abraham Lincoln

In this biography for young adults, Mary A. Hamilton gives a British person’s perspective on the 16th President of the United States. A glowing tribute to “Honest Abe”, the author traces Lincoln’s ancestral roots and...

John Lieder 2 hours 36 minutes

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Anthony Trollope - Life of Cicero, Vol. I

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43BC) was an orator, statesman, philosopher and prolific correspondent, who rose as a ‘new man’ in Rome in the turbulent last years of its republican government. Anthony Trollope, best known...

Philippa 10 hours 57 minutes

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Eva March Tappan - Heroes of the Middle Ages

«The object of this book is to bring together stories of the most important movements in the history of Europe during the Middle Ages, and to make familiar the names of the most important figures in those scenes. I...

Kristine Bekere 5 hours 5 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Jacob Abbott - Cleopatra

A biography of the famous Cleopatra of Egypt, written in a manner, equally interesting to children and to adults.

Alana Jordan and 8 more 6 hours 28 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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