Kristine Bekere
118 books
Anthologies
493
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 3
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern , is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offering «American households a mass of good reading», the editors drew from...
21 hours 30 minutes
Health & Fitness
465
Robert Burton - Anatomy of Melancholy Volume 2
The Anatomy of Melancholy is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621. On its surface, the book is a medical textbook in which Burton applies his large and varied learning in the scholastic manner to the...
12 hours 58 minutes
General Fiction
493
Jules Verne - Tribulations of a Chinaman in China
The rich and phlegmatic Kin-Fo loses his fortune and decides to die, but not before experiencing some strong emotions. He asks his friend Wang to kill him before a given date. Everything changes when Kin-Fo discovers...
6 hours 59 minutes
*Non-fiction
583
François Pierre Guillaume Guizot - Popular History of France from the Earliest Times vol 3
François Pierre Guillaume Guizot (October 4, 1787 -September 12, 1874) was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics prior to the Revolution of 1848, actively opposing...
13 hours 30 minutes
Antiquity
501
John Bagnell Bury - Students’ Roman Empire part 2, A History of the Roman Empire from Its Foundation to the Death of Marcus Aurelius (27 B.C.-180 A.D.)
The writings of J. B. Bury, on subjects ranging from ancient Greece to the 19th-century papacy, are at once scholarly and accessible to the layman. This work covers the period from the beginning of the Roman Empire...
13 hours 13 minutes
Health & Fitness
538
Robert Burton - Anatomy of Melancholy Volume 1
The Anatomy of Melancholy is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621. On its surface, the book is a medical textbook in which Burton applies his large and varied learning in the scholastic manner to the...
21 hours 51 minutes