Anna Simon
227 books
Exploration
485
Jules Verne - Celebrated Travels and Travellers, vol. 1
The famous writer of great adventure stories Jules Verne wrote also several lesser known, but good non-fiction works. «Celebrated travels and travellers» tells the story of geographical discovery in the same well...
18 hours 23 minutes
Law
471
William Blackstone - Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765)
The Commentaries on the Laws of England are an influential 18th century treatise on the common law of England by Sir William Blackstone, originally published by the Clarendon Press at Oxford, 1765-1769. The...
17 hours 54 minutes
*Non-fiction
572
Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy in America Vol. I
When Tocqueville visited America in the 1830s he found a thriving democracy of a kind he had not seen anywhere else. Many of his insightful observations American society and political system, found in the two volume...
17 hours 49 minutes
General Fiction
469
Frances Milton Trollope - Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw
The novel begins with the arrival of a family staking a claim in the black delta of the Deep South. Whitlaw is a brutish sort who bullies his cowering wife into working herself to death. Shortly after giving birth to...
17 hours 26 minutes
Exploration
524
Henry Morton Stanley - How I Found Livingstone
Sir Henry Morton Stanley is famously quoted for saying «Dr Livingstone, i Presume?». Born in Wales, he migrated over to the United States at the age of 18, he eventually became an overseas correspondent for the New...
16 hours 58 minutes
