Jacquerie
50 books
Short Stories
441
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921
In 1918 the Society of Arts and Sciences established the O. Henry Memorial Awards to reward the very best short stories published during the previous year with cash prizes. 1921 was a particularly productive year with...
12 hours 53 minutes
*Non-fiction
639
Francis Parkman, Jr. - Jesuits in North America in the 17th Century
Parkman has been hailed as one of America's first great historians and as a master of narrative history. Numerous translations have spread the books around the world. The American writer and literary critic Edmund...
12 hours 1 minute
Early Modern
620
Francis Parkman, Jr. - Pioneers of France in the New World
Parkman has been hailed as one of America's first great historians and as a master of narrative history. Numerous translations have spread the books around the world. The American writer and literary critic Edmund...
10 hours 22 minutes
Modern (19th C)
661
Eliza P. Donner Houghton - Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate
The Donner Party was a group of California-bound American settlers caught up in the «westering fever» of the 1840s. After becoming snowbound in the Sierra Nevada in the winter of 1846–1847, some of the emigrants...
10 hours 11 minutes
