History
300 books
*Non-fiction
586
Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - Thousand Miles up the Nile
Amelia B. Edwards wrote this historical, egyptological, and cultural study in in 1877, and it became an immediate best-seller, reprinted in 1888 at home in England and abroad. She travelled throughout Egypt at a time...
17 hours 1 minute
*Non-fiction
605
Charles Austin Beard - History of the United States, Vol. I
Charles Austin Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and interpretive studies in both history and political science. He graduated...
2 hours 44 minutes
*Non-fiction
500
Thomas Babington Macaulay - History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 3, Chapter 11)
In chapter 11 William and Mary have been crowned and settle down to the task of ruling England. An endless succession of British noblemen jockey for position and all feel frustration at Williams’ preference for his...
4 hours 14 minutes
*Non-fiction
434
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin - Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution
In the heat of the failed 1905 revolution in Russia, Lenin here contrasts the precision of the Bolshevik political program and tactics with various inconsistent and servile factions within the Russian...
6 hours 30 minutes
*Non-fiction
665
Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. III
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was written by the celebrated English historian Edward Gibbon. Volume I was published...
18 hours 8 minutes
*Non-fiction
539
Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. II
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was written by the celebrated English historian Edward Gibbon. Volume I was published...
21 hours 25 minutes
Humorous Fiction
530
Irwin Leslie Gordon - Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914 Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be
A short, humorous biography of famous people from 5000 BC to 1914. — S. McGaughey From the Introduction, «The editor begs leave to inform the public that only persons who can produce proper evidence of their...
3 hours 2 minutes
*Non-fiction
471
Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard - First Battle of Bull Run
General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard was one of the senior commanders of Southern forces during the Civil War. It was he who initiated the hostilities by opening fire on Ft. Sumter in Charleston harbor, in April,...
1 hour 42 minutes
*Non-fiction
591
Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy in America Vol. I
When Tocqueville visited America in the 1830s he found a thriving democracy of a kind he had not seen anywhere else. Many of his insightful observations American society and political system, found in the two volume...
17 hours 49 minutes
