Bruce Pirie
47 books
Literary Fiction
448
Honoré de Balzac - Father Goriot (version 2)
Father Goriot (Le Père Goriot), published in 1835, is widely considered to be Balzac's finest and most popular novel. It is set in Paris in 1819, after Napoleon's defeat and the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy....
11 hours 27 minutes
Anthologies
485
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 7
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offering «American households a mass of good reading», the editors drew from...
17 hours 59 minutes
Anthologies
573
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 6
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offering «American households a mass of good reading», the editors drew from...
19 hours 18 minutes
Modern (19th C)
504
Oscar D. Skelton - Chronicles of Canada Volume 30 - The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier: A Chronicle of Our Own Time
In conformity with its title, this volume, save for the earlier chapters, is history rather than biography, is of the day , more than of the man. The aim has been to review the more significant events and tendencies...
6 hours 47 minutes
Short Stories
472
Francis J. Reynolds - International Short Stories Volume 3: French Stories
The third book of a three volume anthology of international short stories, we now turn to French stories. Authors include Honoré de Balzac, Voltaire, Guy de Maupassant, Victor Hugo and more. Compiled and translated by...
13 hours 28 minutes
Anthologies
553
Francis T. Palgrave - Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Pieces In the English Language
Palgrave's principal contribution to the development of literary taste was contained in his Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics (1861), an anthology of the best poetry in the language constructed upon a plan...
9 hours 50 minutes
