Mayah
32 books
*Non-fiction
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François Fénelon - Lives of the Ancient Philosophers
François Fénelon became a priest in 1675, Archbishop of Paris in 1679, was spiritual advisor to Madame Guyon, and was appointed tutor to Louis, Duke of Burgundy (1682-1712) by Louis XIV in 1689. He wrote Dialogues of...
8 hours 34 minutes
Antiquity
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William Jennings Bryan - World’s Famous Orations, Vol. II: Rome
In 1906, William Jennings Bryan, himself a famous American orator, and Francis Whiting Halsey compiled a series of the most famous orations of all time. They are ordered by both geographic area and time period,...
7 hours 31 minutes
Political Science
1.6K
William Jennings Bryan - World’s Famous Orations, Vol. III: Great Britain - I
In 1906, William Jennings Bryan, himself a famous American orator, and Francis Whiting Halsey published a series of the most famous orations of all time. They are ordered by both geographic area and time period,...
6 hours 28 minutes
Political Science
2.5K
Niccolò Machiavelli - Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, Book 3
In «Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius», posthumous work by the author of The Prince, Machiavelli discusses the useful lessons that could be learnt from the past for the present. As the title mentions, the...
5 hours 47 minutes
Humorous Fiction
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Caroline Ticknor - Hypocritical Romance, and Other Stories
This is a collection of twelve original and entertaining little romances. Literature is an important anchor that helps us understand society in the American Gilded Age in the late ninteenth century, and these stories...
5 hours 10 minutes
