Political Science
212 books
*Non-fiction
440
Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne - Memoirs of Napoleon, Vol. 1
The author and Napoleon become boyhood friends when they are eight years old in Corsica. They separate when Napoleon is transferred from the Military College of Brienne to another college in Paris in 1784. Napoleon...
3 hours 31 minutes
*Non-fiction
442
Benedict de Spinoza - Theologico-Political Treatise
Written by the Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza, the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus or Theologico-Political Treatise was one of the most controversial texts of the early modern period. It was a preemptive defense of...
9 hours 59 minutes
*Non-fiction
448
Friedrich Engels - Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844
This is Engels' first book (since considered a classic account of England's working class in the industrial age), which argues that workers paid a heavy price for the industrial revolution that swept the country....
12 hours
*Non-fiction
415
Charles C. Nott - Mystery of the Pinckney Draught
Charles Pinckney, member of the South Carolina legislature, Confederation Congress, U.S. Congress, and notably the Constitutional Convention of 1787, may have been regarded by some as perhaps the true author of the...
7 hours 23 minutes
General Fiction
441
Mark Twain - Gilded Age, A Tale of Today (version 2)
Originally published in 1873, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is the only novel Twain co-wrote (C.D. Warner was a good friend and neighbor of the Clemens family in Hartford, and the collaboration sprang from their...
16 hours 9 minutes
*Non-fiction
427
Jane Addams - Spirit of Youth and the City Streets
Much of the material in the following pages has appeared in current publications. It is here presented in book form in the hope that it may prove of value to those groups of people who in many cities are making a...
2 hours 49 minutes
