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Simon Dubnow - History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume II, From the Death of Alexander I until the Death of Alexander III (1825 - 1894)
Simon Dubnow was born in 1860 to a poor Jewish family in Belarussian town of Mstsislaw and later became an authority of Jewish history and an activist. Due to his Jewish origin, he had to move to St. Petersburg,...
15 hours 39 minutes
Detective Fiction
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Joel Chandler Harris - Kidnapping of President Lincoln, and Other War Detective Stories
While detective work always makes for exciting stories, the circumstances under which the detective works play a huge role in the thrill. The stories in this collection follow detectives as they unravel mysteries in...
5 hours 55 minutes
Humorous Fiction
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Caroline Ticknor - Hypocritical Romance, and Other Stories
This is a collection of twelve original and entertaining little romances. Literature is an important anchor that helps us understand society in the American Gilded Age in the late ninteenth century, and these stories...
5 hours 10 minutes
Political Science
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Niccolò Machiavelli - Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, Book 2
In «Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius», posthumous work by the author of The Prince, Machiavelli discusses the useful lessons that could be learnt from the past for the present. As the title mentions, the...
4 hours 39 minutes
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