Modern (19th C)
63 books
Essays & Short Works
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Arthur Symons - Figures of Several Centuries
Arthur Symons talks through the histories and works of poets, playwrights, scholars and scribes. He provides both personal experience and critical wonder to the worlds of his subjects; Donne, Ibsen, Baudelaire and...
8 hours 59 minutes
Modern (19th C)
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Owen Chase - Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex
Owen Chase (October 7, 1797 – March 7, 1869) was First Mate of the whale ship Essex, that was struck and sunk by a sperm whale on October 28, 1820. Chase wrote about the incident in Narrative of the Most Extraordinary...
2 hours 30 minutes
Modern (19th C)
920
Harry Brittain - Notes on The Broads and Rivers of Norfolk and Suffolk
The Broads area of Norfolk and Suffolk is in the East Anglian region of England. It is the location of Britain's third largest inland waterway system — a system that evolved gradually by natural flooding as a...
5 hours 3 minutes
War & Military
806
Edward Gilliat - Romance Of Modern Sieges; Describing The Personal Adventures, Resource And Daring of Besiegers and Besieged In All Parts Of The World
Lively narratives of some of the great siege battles of war. The book was written before World War I, in 1908. Some of the narratives contain language which was common in 19th and early twentieth century usage but...
10 hours 47 minutes
