Literary Fiction
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Honoré de Balzac - Father Goriot (version 2)
Father Goriot (Le Père Goriot), published in 1835, is widely considered to be Balzac's finest and most popular novel. It is set in Paris in 1819, after Napoleon's defeat and the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy....
11 hours 27 minutes
Drama
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Hyakuzō Kurata - Priest and His Disciples (Shaw Translation)
At the age of twenty-six (at the height of the Great War in Europe), the religious pilgrim and maverick Kurata Hyakuzō wrote a profoundly philosophical play called «The Priest & His Disciples» («Shukke to sono...
5 hours 44 minutes
War & Military
786
Charles Homer Haskins - Normans in European History
Wherever their ships took them, the Normans (Northman) were ruthless conquerors but gifted governors. These eight lectures, given in Boston in 1915 by the eminent Harvard medievalist, Charles Homer Haskins, chronicle...
7 hours 5 minutes
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