Linda Dodge
17 books
Anthologies
576
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 1
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 34 minutes
Romance
530
Lyndon Orr - Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion
«Famous Affinities of History» is a book of passion-filled accounts of the most famous love affairs of history. The stories of Cleopatra, Victor Hugo, Honore de Balzac, Jonathan Swift, Charles Dickens, Karl Marx,...
14 hours 57 minutes
Early Modern
548
Saint Thomas Aquinas - Summa Theologica - 06 Pars Prima Secundae, On the Last End, On Human Acts
The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written between 1265–1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas, even though it was never finished. It was intended as a manual for beginners and...
12 hours 20 minutes
True Crime
515
Sir John Barrow - Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty: Its Cause and Consequences
The mutiny on the Bounty occurred aboard a British Royal Navy ship on 28 April 1789. The mutiny was led by Fletcher Christian against the commanding officer, William Bligh. On 4 April 1789, after five months in...
10 hours 29 minutes
*Non-fiction
521
Giorgio Vasari - Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 1
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite delle più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori, as it was originally known in Italian, is a...
8 hours 42 minutes