Poetry
945
Elias Lönnrot - Kalevala: the Epic Poem of Finland (Crawford Translation)
This is the epic of Finland. It is the combined folk tales of the Finnish nation starting with the birth of the world from the egg of a seabird and continuing to the birth of the Kaleva District, the lands of...
15 hours 27 minutes
War & Military
825
Frances M. A. Roe - Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888
«There appeared from the bushes in front of me, and right in the path, two immense gray wolves... Rollo saw them and stopped instantly, giving deep sighs, preparing to snort, I knew... To give myself courage, I...
11 hours 36 minutes
Memoirs
733
Pierre Abélard - Story of My Misfortunes (or: Historia Calamitatum)
Autobiographies from remote historical periods can be especially fascinating. Modes of self-presentation vary greatly across the centuries, as of course does the very concept of Self. Peter Abelard, the...
2 hours 34 minutes
Antiquity
731
John Bagnell Bury - Students’ Roman Empire part 2, A History of the Roman Empire from Its Foundation to the Death of Marcus Aurelius (27 B.C.-180 A.D.)
The writings of J. B. Bury, on subjects ranging from ancient Greece to the 19th-century papacy, are at once scholarly and accessible to the layman. This work covers the period from the beginning of the Roman Empire...
13 hours 13 minutes
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