Alan Brown

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Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus - Morals (Moralia), Book 2

The Moralia (loosely translatable as «Matters relating to customs») of the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea is an eclectic collection of 78 essays and transcribed speeches. They give an insight into...

Alan Brown and 14 more 18 hours 3 minutes

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Language learning

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Raphael Kühner - Elementary Greek Grammar

We have followed the Grammars of Kühner, known as his «Large» and «School» Grammars. [...] Omitting the learned dissertations and numerous details of the original, we have endeavored to furnish to the student, in a...

Rapunzelina and 8 more 10 hours 2 minutes

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Art, Design & Architecture

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John Ruskin - Stones of Venice, Volume 2

The Stones of Venice is a three-volume treatise on Venetian art and architecture by English art historian John Ruskin, first published from 1851 to 1853. Intending to prove how the architecture in Venice exemplified...

April Gonzales and 6 more 14 hours 37 minutes The Stones of Venice

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*Non-fiction

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James Boswell - Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. III

This is the third volume of the Biography of Samuel Johnson. Samuel Johnson's Life has been documented in great detail by his friends, this biography being originally published by James Boswell, and then edited...

Brendan Stallard and 11 more 25 hours 58 minutes The Life of Samuel Johnson

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Catiline Conspiracy and the Jugurthine War

Antiquity

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Gaius (Sallust) Sallustius Crispus - Catiline Conspiracy and the Jugurthine War

The Catiline Conspiracy and the Jugurthine War are the two separate surviving works of the historian commonly known as «Sallust». Nearly contemporary to the events he describes, he is supposed to have been a...

mwharr and 7 more 6 hours 43 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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George Gissing - New Grub Street

«The story deals with the literary world that Gissing himself had experienced. Its title refers to the London street, Grub Street, which in the 18th century became synomynous with hack literature; as an institution,...

Bridget Gaige and 10 more 19 hours 34 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Edmund Spenser - Faerie Queene Book 2

The Second Booke of the Faerie Queene contayning The Legende of Sir Guyon or of Tempaurance. The Faerie Queene was never completed, but it continues to be one of the most beautiful and important works of literature...

MorganScorpion and 4 more 6 hours 19 minutes The Faerie Queene

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Edmund Spenser - Faerie Queene Book 3

«The Third Book of the Faerie Queene contayning the Legende of Britomartis or of Chastitie.» The Faerie Queene was never completed, but it continues to be one of the most beautiful and important works of literature...

MorganScorpion and 3 more 6 hours 23 minutes The Faerie Queene

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Edmund Spenser - Faerie Queene Book 4

«The Fovrth Book of the Faerie Queene contayning the Legende of Cambel and Telamond or of Friendship.» The Faerie Queene was never completed, but it continues to be one of the most beautiful and important works of...

Annise and 4 more 5 hours 19 minutes The Faerie Queene

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Edmund Spenser - Faerie Queene Book 5

The Fifth Book of the Faerie Queene contayning the Legende of Artegall or of Ivstice.This masterpiece was never completed, but it continues to be one of the most beautiful and important works of literature ever...

Brian Keith Barnes and 4 more 5 hours 29 minutes The Faerie Queene

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Romance

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Anthony Trollope - Kept in the Dark

Kept in the Dark is a novel by the 19th century English novelist Anthony Trollope. It was published in eight monthly installments in 1882, and also in book form in the same year. Cecilia Holt ends her engagement to...

Neeru Iyer and 4 more 7 hours 39 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Émile Zola - L'Assommoir

Émile François Zola (French pronunciation: [emil zɔˈla]) (2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902) was an influential French writer, the most important exemplar of the literary school of naturalism. More than half of...

Martin Geeson and 4 more 16 hours 45 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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