History
300 books
Romance
530
Lyndon Orr - Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion
«Famous Affinities of History» is a book of passion-filled accounts of the most famous love affairs of history. The stories of Cleopatra, Victor Hugo, Honore de Balzac, Jonathan Swift, Charles Dickens, Karl Marx,...
14 hours 57 minutes
History
482
William Byron Forbush - Foxe's Book of Martyrs Vol 2, A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Early Christian and the Protestant Martyrs
The Book of Martyrs, by John Foxe, is an English Protestant account of the persecutions of Protestants, many of whom had died for their beliefs within the decade immediately preceding its first publication. It was...
9 hours 32 minutes
History
485
George Sutherland - History of Australia and New Zealand from 1696 to 1890
This work provides a history of the early political, social, and economic development of Australia and New Zealand. Since both British colonies became independent countries in the 1900s, this work does not relate...
10 hours 36 minutes
*Non-fiction
441
Robert Sterling Yard - Book of the National Parks
Robert Sterling Yard was an American writer, journalist, and wilderness activist. Born in Haverstraw, New York, Yard graduated from Princeton University and spent the first twenty years of his career in the editing...
10 hours 15 minutes
*Non-fiction
522
Giorgio Vasari - Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 1
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite delle più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori, as it was originally known in Italian, is a...
8 hours 42 minutes
History
486
William Clark - Journal of Lewis and Clarke (1840)
«The expedition of Messrs. Lewis and Clarke, for exploring the river Missouri, and the best communication from that to the Pacific Ocean, has had all the success which could be expected. They have traced the Missouri...
8 hours 51 minutes
*Non-fiction
462
M. M. Pattison Muir - Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry
A light journey through the history of chemistry, from its start in the obscure mysteries of alchemy to what was, for the author, the cutting edge of the development of modern atomic theory… and whose developing blind...
5 hours 11 minutes
History
480
Henry A. Beers - Brief History of English and American Literature
Henry Augustin Beers, native of Buffalo, NY and professor of English at Yale, with the help of John Fletcher Hurst (1834-1903), Methodist bishop and first Chancellor of American University, has written a sweeping...
14 hours 25 minutes
*Non-fiction
462
Charles Austin Beard - History of the United States, Vol. VI
Charles 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 from...
4 hours 37 minutes
