Humorous Fiction
521
Douglas William Jerrold - Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures
Douglas William Jerrold (1803-1857) was the son of an actor manager. After some time in the Navy and as an apprentice printer he became a playwright and later a journalist. He was a contemporary and friend of Charles...
4 hours 22 minutes
*Non-fiction
634
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius - Consolation of Philosophy
Consolation of Philosophy (Latin: Consolatio Philosophiae) is a philosophical work by Boethius written in about the year 524 AD. It has been described as the single most important and influential work in the West in...
5 hours 13 minutes
*Non-fiction
540
Mary Wollstonecraft - Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in which she argued that women are not naturally inferior to men, but only appeared to be because they lacked education. She suggested...
9 hours 46 minutes
Humorous Fiction
634
Charles Wayland Towne - Foolish Dictionary
«The Foolish Dictionary» was written by «Gideon Wurdz» (the pen name for Charles Wayland Towne) and was published in 1904. According to the beginning of the book, it is «An exhausting work of reference to un-certain...
1 hour 45 minutes
*Non-fiction
557
M. M. Mangasarian - Truth About Jesus. Is He a Myth?
The following work offers in book form the series of studies on the question of the historicity of Jesus, presented from time to time before the Independent Religious Society in Orchestra Hall, Chicago, 1909. No...
5 hours 40 minutes