Anna Simon
227 books
Published 1800 -1900
1.1K
Guy de Maupassant - Mont Oriol: or A Romance of Auvergne
Young bride Christiane arrives in Auvergne to «take the waters» with her husband, described as «a sickly flower, or a sucking pig with its hair shaved off.» But rather than the relaxing family vacation she expects,...
9 hours 42 minutes
Published 1800 -1900
1.1K
Francis Marion Crawford - American Politician
In 1880’s Boston, Mass. the good life is lead according to all the Victorian era societal rules of the New World. Political ambitions and the business of making money go hand in hand. A Senate seat suddenly opens up...
9 hours 28 minutes
Poetry
995
Titus Lucretius Carus - On the Nature of Things (Watson translation)
Written in the first century b.C., On the Nature of Things (in Latin, De Rerum Natura ) is a poem in six books that aims at explaining the Epicurean philosophy to the Roman audience. Among digressions about the...
9 hours 20 minutes
