Jim Gallagher
37 books
True Crime
1.1K
Arthur L. Hayward - Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences
«If there be a haunted spot in London it must surely be a few square yards that lie a little west of the Marble Arch, for in the long course of some six centuries over fifty thousand felons, traitors and martyrs...
12 hours 51 minutes
Essays & Short Works
2.2K
William Cowper Brann - Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast, Volume 1
William Cowper Brann earned the nickname “The Iconoclast” by fearlessly attacking established beliefs and institutions which he thought to be pompous and self-serving. He settled in the wild and wooly West Texas town...
12 hours 37 minutes
Poetry
3K
Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England
This traditional, and, for the most part, unprinted literature,—cherished in remote villages, resisting everywhere the invasion of modern namby-pamby verse and jaunty melody, and possessing, in an historical point of...
8 hours 50 minutes
Political Science
1.7K
William Jennings Bryan - World’s Famous Orations, Vol. V: Great Britain - III
In 1906, William Jennings Bryan, himself a famous American orator, and Francis Whiting Halsey published a series of the most famous orations of all time. They are ordered by both geographic area and time period,...
7 hours 27 minutes
Essays & Short Works
1.5K
Christopher Morley - Plum Pudding: Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned
Chrisopher Morley was an American literary luminary whose prolific writings included novels, essays, poetry, plays and great journalistic output. This collection of essays is wide ranging in topics, many with his...
6 hours 49 minutes
Single author
2.2K
Madison Cawein - Poems of Madison Cawein Vol 4
This is Volume 4: Poems of Mystery and of Myth and Romance of the collected works of Madison Julius Cawein, an American poet from Kentucky. It falls into three sections: Poems of Mystery, Poems of Myth and Romance,...
6 hours 48 minutes
Animals & Nature
714
Clarence Hawkes - Little Foresters; A Story of Field and Woods
Drawing on childhood days spent at his grandparents' New England farm, the author tells of a community of animals who gather around the old trysting tree, led by Nimrod, the old crow, with Cock-Robin, Bob the Rabbit,...
3 hours 6 minutes
