Julia Niedermaier
145 books
General Fiction
481
Frances Milton Trollope - Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw
The novel begins with the arrival of a family staking a claim in the black delta of the Deep South. Whitlaw is a brutish sort who bullies his cowering wife into working herself to death. Shortly after giving birth to...
17 hours 26 minutes
*Non-fiction
446
Elizabeth Louisa Gebhard - Life and Ventures of the Original John Jacob Astor
John Jacob Astor was pre-eminently the opener of new paths, a breaker of trails. From his first tramp alone through the Black Forest of Baden, at sixteen, his life never lost this typical touch. In America, both...
7 hours 30 minutes