Gesine
108 books
*Non-fiction
902
Thomas Babington Macaulay - History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 1, Chapter 04)
This chapter is a bit of a mixture. It begins with the death of Charles II and then goes on to James II. Judge Jeffries then makes an appearance in a riot of slapstick absurdity when viewed from so far away....
3 hours 11 minutes
*Non-fiction
948
Thomas Babington Macaulay - History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 1, Chapter 03)
This is the third chapter in Macaulay’s great History of England from the Accession of James II. In this chapter Macaulay looks at the state of the nation in 1685. He discusses the population, the revenue, the...
5 hours 17 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
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
