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47 books
Humorous Fiction
680
Jerome K. Jerome - Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) , published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. The book was intended initially to be a...
6 hours 38 minutes
*Non-fiction
610
Charles Darwin - Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species (publ. 1859) is a pivotal work in scientific literature and arguably the pivotal work in evolutionary biology. The book’s full title is On the Origin of Species by Means of...
24 hours 22 minutes
Romance
644
Daniel Defoe - Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
Defoe wrote this novel after his work as a journalist and pamphleteer. By 1722, Defoe had become recognized as a novelist, with the success of Robinson Crusoe in 1719. His political work was tapering off at this...
13 hours 32 minutes
*Non-fiction
493
Thomas Babington Macaulay - History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 1, Chapter 02)
This is the second chapter of Thomas Babington Macaulay’s History of England from the Succession of James II. In this chapter we see the restoration of the House of Stuart. The mood of the people sours toward...
4 hours 49 minutes