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Students’ Roman Empire part 1, A History of the Roman Empire from Its Foundation to the Death of Marcus Aurelius (27 B.C.-180 A.D.)

Antiquity

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John Bagnell Bury - Students’ Roman Empire part 1, A History of the Roman Empire from Its Foundation to the Death of Marcus Aurelius (27 B.C.-180 A.D.)

The writings of J. B. Bury, on subjects ranging from ancient Greece to the 19th-century papacy, are at once scholarly and accessible to the layman. This work covers the period from the beginning of the Roman Empire...

Mark Wilson and 8 more 13 hours 42 minutes

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Epics

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Virgil - Aeneid

The Aeneid is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. The first six of the poem’s...

Justin Brett and 9 more 13 hours 39 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Samuel Johnson - Selected Essays of Samuel Johnson

This is a volume of selected essays by «the great master of reason» Samuel Johnson. The most famous exerpts from The Rambler, The Adventurer and The Idler are included, covering a vast range of topics. — Summary by...

Barbara Baker and 10 more 13 hours 21 minutes

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Ancient

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Plato (Πλάτων) - Republic

The Republic is a Socratic dialogue by Plato, written in approximately 380 BC. It is one of the most influential works of philosophy and political theory, and arguably Plato's best known work. In it, Socrates and...

ontheroad and 13 more 13 hours 14 minutes

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General Fiction

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Voltairine de Cleyre - Selected Essays

Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912) was, according to Emma Goldman, «the most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced.» Today she is not widely known as a consequence of her short life. De Cleyre was...

Rhonda Federman and 8 more 12 hours 27 minutes

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Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 1

Epistolary Fiction

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Samuel Richardson - Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 1

Clarissa Harlowe, the tragic heroine of Clarissa, is a beautiful and virtuous young lady whose family has become very wealthy only in recent years and is now eager to become part of the aristocracy by acquiring...

Bob Gilham and 5 more 12 hours 14 minutes Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson, in 9 Volumes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Anthony Trollope - Life of Cicero, Vol. II

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43BC) was an orator, statesman, philosopher and prolific correspondent, who rose as a ‘new man’ in Rome in the turbulent last years of its republican government. Anthony Trollope, best known...

Philippa 11 hours 58 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Wilkie Collins - Basil

Basil, son of a father who values the family pedigree and who would not let him marry below his station, falls in love at first sight with a girl he sees on a bus. He stalks her and discovers she is Margaret Sherwin,...

CrowGirl and 8 more 11 hours 15 minutes

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History

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Thomas Carlyle - French Revolution Volume 1 the Bastille

The French Revolution: A History was written by the Scottish essayist, philosopher, and historian Thomas Carlyle. The three-volume work, first published in 1837 (with a revised edition in print by 1857), charts the...

shawnzhu and 19 more 11 hours 11 minutes

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Political Science

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John Locke - Two Treatises of Civil Government

The Two Treatises of Civil Government is a work of political philosophy published anonymously in 1689 by John Locke. The First Treatise is an extended attack on Sir Robert Filmer's Patriarcha , which argued for...

Philippa and 6 more 11 hours 4 minutes

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Antiquity

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Publius Cornelius Tacitus - Tacitus' Histories

The Histories was written between 110 and 100 B.C. It covered the Year of Four Emperors following the downfall of Nero, the rise of Vespasian, and the rule of the Flavian Dynasty up to the death of Domitian....

Andrew Coleman and 7 more 11 hours 2 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Anthony Trollope - Life of Cicero, Vol. I

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43BC) was an orator, statesman, philosopher and prolific correspondent, who rose as a ‘new man’ in Rome in the turbulent last years of its republican government. Anthony Trollope, best known...

Philippa 10 hours 57 minutes

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