Memoirs
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Herman Charles Merivale - My Experiences in a Lunatic Asylum
Fully titled My Experiences in a Lunatic Asylum, by a Sane Patient, this memoir describes its author's, Herman Merivale's, experience in one of England's countryside asylums during the 1860's. The main subject — in...
3 hours 5 minutes
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Rudyard Kipling - France At War: On the Frontier of Civilization
In 1915, as the «Great War» (World War 1) entered its second year Rudyard Kipling made a journalistic tour of the front, visiting French armed forces. By then he was already winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature...
1 hour 42 minutes
Philosophy
863
Arthur Schopenhauer - World as Will and Idea, Vol. 2 of 3
In this work, Schopenhauer explains his fundamental idea that at the root of the reality we see around us is a Will that eternally, insatiably seeks to be satisfied. Each human Subject observes the Objects around her...
18 hours 52 minutes
Humorous Fiction
722
William Combe - Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque
“To bury these, to christen those, And marry such fond folks who chose To change the tenor of their life And risk the matrimonial strife.” This was the humdrum life of Dr. Syntax before he set out on his...
7 hours 23 minutes
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