Martin Geeson
160 books
Anthologies
1.4K
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
Memoirs
813
Pierre Abélard - Story of My Misfortunes (or: Historia Calamitatum)
Autobiographies from remote historical periods can be especially fascinating. Modes of self-presentation vary greatly across the centuries, as of course does the very concept of Self. Peter Abelard, the...
2 hours 34 minutes
General Fiction
996
Joris-Karl Huysmans - Against The Grain, or Against Nature
“THE BOOK THAT DORIAN GRAY LOVED AND THAT INSPIRED OSCAR WILDE”. Such is the enticing epigraph of one early translation of Huysmans’ cult novel of 1884, which is also routinely called the Bible of Decadence. Accurate...
9 hours 14 minutes
*Non-fiction
931
Frank Harris - Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions
Consumers of biography are familiar with the division between memoirs of the living or recently dead written by those who «knew» the subject more or less intimately, and the more objective or scholarly accounts...
16 hours 11 minutes
Published 1800 -1900
1.1K
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Idiot (Part 01 and 02)
The extraordinary child-adult Prince Myshkin, confined for several years in a Swiss sanatorium suffering from severe epilepsy, returns to Russia to claim his inheritance and to find a place in healthy human society....
15 hours 42 minutes
