Alan Mapstone
17 books
Historical Fiction
1.7K
Eva March Tappan - World’s Story Volume V: Italy, France, Spain and Portugal
This is the fifth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art , edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature,...
18 hours 54 minutes
Historical Fiction
1.8K
Eva March Tappan - World’s Story Volume II: India, Persia, Mesopotamia and Palestine
This is the second volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art , edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature,...
17 hours 57 minutes
Historical Fiction
3.6K
Eva March Tappan - World’s Story Volume VII: Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland
This is the seventh volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art , edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature,...
17 hours 12 minutes
Historical Fiction
1.7K
Eva March Tappan - World’s Story Volume IV: Greece and Rome
This is the fourth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art , edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature,...
16 hours 43 minutes
Historical Fiction
2.9K
Eva March Tappan - World’s Story Volume VI: Russia, Austria-Hungary, the Balkan States and Turkey
This is the sixth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art , edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature,...
16 hours 37 minutes
Historical Fiction
1.6K
Eva March Tappan - World’s Story Volume III: Egypt, Africa and Arabia
This is the third volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art , edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature,...
16 hours 12 minutes
Anthologies
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Francis T. Palgrave - Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Pieces In the English Language
Palgrave's principal contribution to the development of literary taste was contained in his Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics (1861), an anthology of the best poetry in the language constructed upon a plan...
9 hours 50 minutes
Poetry
3K
Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England
This traditional, and, for the most part, unprinted literature,—cherished in remote villages, resisting everywhere the invasion of modern namby-pamby verse and jaunty melody, and possessing, in an historical point of...
8 hours 50 minutes
Exploration
671
Rustichello da Pisa - Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East, volume 1
«Books of the Marvels of the World» or «Description of the World» (Divisament dou monde), also nicknamed «Il Milione» («The Million») or «Oriente Poliano», but commonly called «The Travels of Marco Polo», is a...
6 hours 55 minutes
