Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
131 books
Children's Fiction
1.1K
Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm - Grimms' Fairy Tales
A classic collection of oral German folklore, brought together for posterity by the scholarly brothers Grimm in the 1800s, this epitome of fairy tales includes many of the world’s best known stories. In these dark...
10 hours 32 minutes
True Crime
816
Sir John Barrow - Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty: Its Cause and Consequences
The mutiny on the Bounty occurred aboard a British Royal Navy ship on 28 April 1789. The mutiny was led by Fletcher Christian against the commanding officer, William Bligh. On 4 April 1789, after five months in...
10 hours 29 minutes
General Fiction
892
Henry Fielding - History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great
This novel is sometimes thought of as [Fielding's] first because he almost certainly began composing it before he wrote Shamela and Joseph Andrews. It is a satire of Walpole that draws a parallel between Walpole and...
10 hours 17 minutes
*Non-fiction
956
Charles Darwin - Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Part 1
A book on evolutionary theory by English naturalist Charles Darwin, first published in 1871. It was Darwin's second great book on evolutionary theory, following his 1859 work, On The Origin of Species. In The Descent...
10 hours 17 minutes
*Non-fiction
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Mary Wollstonecraft - Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in which she argued that women are not naturally inferior to men, but only appeared to be because they lacked education. She suggested...
9 hours 46 minutes
Erotica
857
John Cleland - Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1749) was the first widely-read English novel in the genre “Erotica.” It was written by John Cleland as he was serving hard time at a debtor’s prison in London. Over the...
9 hours 27 minutes
Epistolary Fiction
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Honoré de Balzac - Letters of Two Brides
Letters of Two Brides is an epistolary novel. The two brides are Louise de Chaulieu (Madame Gaston) and Renée de Maucombe (Madame l'Estorade). The women became friends during their education at a convent and upon...
9 hours 9 minutes
