History
300 books
*Non-fiction
625
Frank R. Stockton - Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts
Buccaneers is non-fiction, a highly readable history of how piracy began and spread throughout the region in response to the plundering of Spanish colonialism. It is written with great flair for the dramatic by the...
7 hours 15 minutes
*Non-fiction
507
Thomas Babington Macaulay - History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 1, Chapter 04)
This chapter is a bit of a mixture. It begins with the death of Charles II and then goes on to James II. Judge Jeffries then makes an appearance in a riot of slapstick absurdity when viewed from so far away....
3 hours 11 minutes
*Non-fiction
505
Thomas Babington Macaulay - History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 1, Chapter 03)
This is the third chapter in Macaulay’s great History of England from the Accession of James II. In this chapter Macaulay looks at the state of the nation in 1685. He discusses the population, the revenue, the...
5 hours 17 minutes
*Non-fiction
500
Thomas Babington Macaulay - History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 1, Chapter 02)
This is the second chapter of Thomas Babington Macaulay’s History of England from the Succession of James II. In this chapter we see the restoration of the House of Stuart. The mood of the people sours toward...
4 hours 49 minutes
*Non-fiction
519
Thomas Babington Macaulay - History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 1, Chapter 01)
This is chapter 1 of volume 1 of a series of books written by the Baron Macaulay in the 19th century. It starts with a brief resume of the history of England up until the Stuart kings and then starts to delve into a...
5 hours 42 minutes
*Non-fiction
598
Thucydides (Θουκυδίδης) - History of the Peloponnesian War
The History of the Peloponnesian War is an account of the Peloponnesian War in Ancient Greece, fought between the Peloponnesian League (led by Sparta) and the Delian League (led by Athens) in the 5th Century BC. It...
20 hours 57 minutes
*Non-fiction
557
Thomas Babington Macaulay - History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 1, Chapter 05)
This chapter of Macaulay’s, History of England is concerned, for a large part, with insurrection against James II and his manoeuverings to suppress these. Argyle has been sheltering in Holland and returns to raise an...
4 hours 42 minutes