Nicole Lee
38 books
Health & Fitness
524
Robert Burton - Anatomy of Melancholy Volume 3
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...
24 hours 21 minutes
Memoirs
455
François-René de Chateaubriand - Memoirs of Chateaubriand 1768 to 1800
This is the first volume of Chateaubriand's Memoires d'Outre Tombe, in a Victorian translation. It covers the period from his birth, including the extraordinarily evocative childhood years and his travels in America,...
16 hours 18 minutes
Memoirs
518
François-René de Chateaubriand - Memoirs of Chateaubriand Volume V
The memoirs of Chateaubriand continue in Volume 5, with the author, now a grand hommes des lettres, still in the thick of political events, telling his story with his trademark acerbity and melancholy, interspersed...
14 hours 30 minutes
*Non-fiction
493
William Law - Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life
This is one of the greatest devotional books of the Christian faith, inspiring thousands to a closer walk with their Lord. John Wesley was a close associate of Mr. Law and was influenced by this very book to some of...
14 hours 18 minutes
Literary Fiction
483
Sir Philip Sidney - Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
Arcadia is a prose work by Sir Philip Sidney, a classic of the Renaissance pastoral and a work of high romance, a fleeting vision of a lost world of gallantry and adventure, representing an escape from the realities...
12 hours 12 minutes