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War & Military

408

George Hooper - Wellington

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, (1769-1852), was born in Dublin, the younger son of an Irish Protestant aristocrat. He served with his brother in India and rose to prominence during the Napoleonic Wars in...

Pamela Nagami 7 hours 50 minutes

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Modern (19th C)

504

Frank Mundell - Stories of the Lifeboat

There's fury in the tempest, And there's madness in the waves; The lightning snake coils round the foam, The headlong thunder raves; Yet a boat is on the waters, Filled with Britain's daring sons, Who pull...

Steve C 3 hours 25 minutes

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Recollections of the Revolution and the Empire

Memoirs

443

Henriette Lucie Dillon, marquise de La Tour du Pin Gouvernet - Recollections of the Revolution and the Empire

An aristocratic Frenchwoman's personal record of the dazzling extravagance of the Ancien Régime, of the court of Marie Antoinette, of the Revolution, of her life in exile (partly in Upstate New York) and of the court...

Barbara Baker 12 hours 36 minutes

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Poems of American History, Volume 5, The Period of Expansion

Anthologies

436

Poems of American History, Volume 5, The Period of Expansion

The final section of Poems of American History covers The Reconstruction after the Civil War, the First Centennial, the continued expansion westward, the assasination of Garfield, The Spanish American War, and World...

Markalanhansen and 6 more 8 hours 3 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

511

Albert Keim - Louis Pasteur

Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) famously said, «In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.» Pasteur brought to the study of chemistry, microbiology, and applied immunology, a mind open, innovative,...

Pamela Nagami 4 hours 22 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

427

John Neihardt - Splendid Wayfaring

Quote: «In the following pages I have told the story of that body of adventurers who, from 1822 to 1829, opened the way for the expansion of our nation beyond the Missouri. I have made Jedediah Smith the central...

Phil Schempf 6 hours 45 minutes

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Art, Design & Architecture

523

Ferdinand de Lesseps - History of the Suez Canal

A lively picture of the origin and completion of the Suez Canal (built between 1859 and 1869) and his architect, Vicomte de Lesseps. This is the translation of a lecture given before the Societe de Gens Lettres in...

Availle 1 hour 37 minutes

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Humor

589

Mark Twain - Mark Twain's Speeches, Part 2

This collection of the 195 known, publicly-printed speeches of Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) was compiled by Paul Fatout and published by the University of Iowa Press. The speeches are in the Public Domain,...

John Greenman 20 hours 20 minutes

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Political Science

496

Fridtjof Nansen - Norway and the Union with Sweden

A History of the politics surrounding The Union of Norway with Sweden, from 1814-1905, from the Norwegian perspective — Summary by Ærik Bjørnsson

Ærik Bjørnsson 2 hours 58 minutes

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War & Military

453

Lloyd Charles Sanders - Life of Viscount Palmerston

This is a short life of Henry John Temple (1784-1865), Third Viscount Palmerston, Great Britain's affable, able, and always available Foreign Secretary, Home Secretary, and Prime Minister. Sanders writes that by 1841...

Pamela Nagami 8 hours 38 minutes

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Poems of American History, Volume 4, The Civil War

Poetry

411

Poems of American History, Volume 4, The Civil War

This volume is a fascinating reflection on the Civil War years from a perspective in 1908, when many Civil War veterans were still alive, when the wounds to North and South were still fresh, and when no event more...

Niki Myers and 9 more 10 hours 59 minutes

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War & Military

498

Justin McCarthy - Story of Gladstone's Life

William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), four times Prime Minister of Great Britain, dominated the Liberal Party for thirty years, but ultimately divided it over the issue of Irish Home Rule, which he unsuccessfully...

Pamela Nagami 10 hours 40 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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