Andrew Coleman

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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Volume 1

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Charles Mackay - Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Volume 1

The book chronicles and vilifies its targets in three parts: «National Delusions», «Peculiar Follies», and «Philosophical Delusions». The subjects of Mackay's debunking include alchemy, beards (influence of politics...

J. M. Smallheer and 12 more 14 hours 19 minutes

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General Fiction

558

James Boswell - Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. I

Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson is widely considered to be the greatest English-language biography ever written. It was revolutionary in its efforts to represent Johnson as he was, celebrating his flaws as well as...

Denny Sayers and 16 more 14 hours The Life of Samuel Johnson

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Antiquity

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Publius Cornelius Tacitus - Tacitus' Histories

The Histories was written between 110 and 100 B.C. It covered the Year of Four Emperors following the downfall of Nero, the rise of Vespasian, and the rule of the Flavian Dynasty up to the death of Domitian....

Andrew Coleman and 7 more 11 hours 2 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Pliny the Younger - Letters of Pliny

The largest surviving body of Pliny's work is his Epistulae (Letters), a series of personal missives directed to his friends, associates and the Emperor Trajan. These letters are a unique testimony of Roman...

Andrew Coleman 10 hours 36 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

520

Thomas Bulfinch - Age of Chivalry

Thomas Bulfinch explains the his work is «an attempt to tell the stories of mythology in such a manner as to make them a source of amusement. We have endeavored to tell them correctly, according to the ancient...

Marlim and 14 more 10 hours 32 minutes

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Foxe's Book of Martyrs Vol 1, A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Early Christian and the Protestant Martyrs

Christianity - Biographies

432

William Byron Forbush - Foxe's Book of Martyrs Vol 1, A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Early Christian and the Protestant Martyrs

The Book of Martyrs, by John Foxe, is an English Protestant account of the persecutions of Protestants, many of whom had died for their beliefs within the decade immediately preceding its first publication. It was...

Fr. Richard Zeile of Detroit and 9 more 10 hours 29 minutes

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Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Vol 1

Memoirs

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Benvenuto Cellini - Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Vol 1

Cellini's autobiographical memoirs, which he began writing in Florence in 1558, give a detailed account of his singular career, as well as his loves, hatreds, passions, and delights, written in an energetic, direct,...

Kristine Bekere and 7 more 10 hours 14 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Winston S. Churchill - Selected House of Commons Speeches

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874 – 1965) was a British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II. He served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to...

musil and 13 more 9 hours 19 minutes UK Parliamentary Speeches

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War & Military

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Xenophon - Anabasis

Xenophon the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was a pupil of Socrates. He marched with the Spartans, and was exiled from Athens. Sparta gave him land and property in Scillus, where he lived for many years before having...

Graham Redman and 5 more 9 hours 5 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

526

Gaius Petronius Arbiter - Satyricon

Satyricon (or Satyrica) is a Latin work of fiction in a mixture of prose and poetry. It is believed to have been written by Gaius Petronius, though the manuscript tradition identifies the author as a certain Titus...

Ann Boulais and 5 more 7 hours 56 minutes

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Antiquity

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Publius Cornelius Tacitus - Annals Vol 3

The Annals was Tacitus' final work, covering the period from the death of Augustus Caesar in the year 14. He wrote at least 16 books, but books 7-10 and parts of books 5, 6, 11 and 16 are missing. Book 6 ends with...

Claude Banta and 6 more 7 hours 52 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

473

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 035

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include how to swim, Navajo silversmithing, the sun, begonias and ferns, Martin Luther, U.S. Presidents Eisenhower and...

Glenn O'Brien and 12 more 7 hours 28 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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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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