Anna Simon
227 books
History
551
Thomas Carlyle - French Revolution Volume 1 the Bastille
The French Revolution: A History was written by the Scottish essayist, philosopher, and historian Thomas Carlyle. The three-volume work, first published in 1837 (with a revised edition in print by 1857), charts the...
11 hours 11 minutes
Exploration
553
Ida Laura Pfeiffer - Woman's Journey Round the World
Ida Laura Pfeiffer was an Austrian traveler and travel book author, one of the first female explorers, whose popular books were translated into several languages. «The Woman's Journey Around the World, from Vienna to...
19 hours 24 minutes
Humorous Fiction
508
Cuey-na-Gael - Irishman's difficulties with the Dutch language
Jack O'Neill, an Irishman, has just returned from a month's holiday in The Netherlands. Before he left, he had boasted to his friends that he would learn the Dutch language within a fortnight. On his return, he has to...
4 hours 59 minutes
*Non-fiction
467
Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne - Memoirs of Napoleon, Vol. 1
The author and Napoleon become boyhood friends when they are eight years old in Corsica. They separate when Napoleon is transferred from the Military College of Brienne to another college in Paris in 1784. Napoleon...
3 hours 31 minutes
