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Charles William Chadwick Oman - England and the Hundred Years' War

This little book by the British military historian, Charles Oman, begins with the accession of the warrior king, Edward III, to the English throne in 1327 and ends with the downfall of Richard III at Bosworth Field in...

Pamela Nagami 5 hours 52 minutes

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George Brinton McClellan - McClellan's Own Story

Memoirs of General George Brinton McClellan, commanding general of the Army of the Potomac during the early years of the American Civil War. The work covers the time that McClellan commanded the Army of the Potomac,...

Mike Manolakes 25 hours 13 minutes

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Jane Austen and her Country-House Comedy

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William Henry Helm - Jane Austen and her Country-House Comedy

Written for the centenary of Jane Austen's death, W. H. Helm reflects poetically on the timelessness of her work: the must of age has not settled on her books. The lavender may lie between their pages, but it is...

deongines and 3 more 4 hours 50 minutes

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Alfred George Gardiner - Prophets, Priests, And Kings

These biographical essays of (mostly) British subjects were written in 1907-1908 for The Daily News newspaper and reflect their subjects as seen before the great cataclysm of World War I. Gardiner was a British...

David Wales 10 hours 52 minutes

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Lives of the Queens of England, Volume 8

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Agnes Strickland - Lives of the Queens of England, Volume 8

The Lives of the Queens of England is a multi-volumed work attributed to Agnes Strickland, though it was mostly researched and written by her sister Elisabeth. These volumes give biographies of the queens of England...

Ann Boulais 17 hours 43 minutes Lives of the Queens of England

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Phineas Pett - Autobiography of Phineas Pett

Phineas Pett was a Master Shipbuilder from one of England's greatest shipbuilding families of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and kept a journal of his experiences and thoughts at this important and turbulent...

Lynne T 9 hours 16 minutes

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War & Military

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Charles William Chadwick Oman - Warwick the Kingmaker

Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (1428-1471), wealthy and powerful peer of England, was one of the leaders of the Wars of the Roses (1455-1487). He joined Richard, Duke of York in opposing the ineffectual and...

Pamela Nagami 7 hours 8 minutes

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Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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William Godwin - Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

William Godwin writes a tell-all about his ex-wife one year after her death. Mary Wollstonecraft (mother of Mary Shelley) was an early proponent of women's rights and lived a lifestyle that was frowned upon during her...

Lady McIntyre and 3 more 3 hours

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Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers

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Samuel Smiles - Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers

Short Biographies of some of the most influential engineers who developed the modern manufacturing methods behind the Industrial Revolution. Engineers and designers tend to be fairly anonymous figures in history...

Clive Catterall 11 hours 22 minutes

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Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Part 3: Nisida

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Alexandre Dumas - Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Part 3: Nisida

This story details the many crimes (attempted rape, assault, filicide, etc.) surrounding a significant historical confrontation between a fisherman from the island of Nisida, named Gabriel, and the Italian Prince of...

John Van Stan 1 hour 29 minutes

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Ida Ashworth Taylor - Lady Jane Grey and Her Times

Lady Jane Grey was an English noblewoman, great-granddaughter of Henry VII. As her cousin, Edward VI, lay on his death-bed, he nominated her as his successor to the English crown ahead of his half-sisters Mary and...

Beth Thomas and 5 more 8 hours 14 minutes

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Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol 1

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Henry Richard Fox Bourne - Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol 1

Lord Cochrane was a Napoleonic-era sea captain, whose adventures were the source material for many popular series of naval fiction. He started to write a biography but passed away after completing only two volumes....

Timothy Ferguson 9 hours 7 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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