Lucretia B.
117 books
Satire
737
Laurence Oliphant - Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography
Laurence Oliphant, author, international traveller, diplomatist and mystic, who spent a decade in later life under the influence of the spiritualist prophet Thomas Lake Harris, writes here under the amusing guise...
7 hours 54 minutes
Humorous Fiction
693
George William Foote - Satires and Profanities
«Believing as I do that James Thomson is, since Shelley, the most brilliant genius who has wielded a pen in the service of Freethought, I take a natural pride and pleasure in rescuing the following articles from...
7 hours 22 minutes
Historical Fiction
1.1K
Wilhelm Meinhold - Mary Schweidler, the Amber Witch
Wilhelm Meinhold, a Pomeranian priest working on the Island of Usedom, relates the story of Mary Schweidler, the Amber Witch. The author assures us that the story he has to tell is based on a manuscript he found in...
7 hours 3 minutes
History
833
Jean-Joseph Gaume - Sign of the Cross in the Nineteenth Century
A book that examines the sign of the Cross made by Christians since the primitive church up until the 19th century. It looks at stories of miracles and the writings of the father to impress upon the reader the need to...
6 hours 54 minutes