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Historical Fiction
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Henry Fielding - History of Tom Jones, A Foundling
Tom Jones is considered one of the first prose works describable as a novel. The novel is divided into 18 smaller books. Tom Jones is a foundling discovered on the property of a very kind, wealthy landowner, Squire...
36 hours 5 minutes
*Non-fiction
947
Richard Francis Burton - Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-madinah and Meccah
Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 – 1890) was an English explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, ethnologist, linguist, poet, hypnotist, fencer and diplomat. He was known for his travels and explorations...
31 hours 49 minutes
*Non-fiction
996
William H. Prescott - History of the Conquest of Mexico
(Note: This project had some missing and duplicate sections. This has been corrected as of July 9, 2010. The affected sections were 12, 13, 27, 28, 33, & 34.) Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold, And...
24 hours 35 minutes
Health & Fitness
844
Robert Burton - Anatomy of Melancholy Volume 1
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...
21 hours 51 minutes
*Non-fiction
906
Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. II
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was written by the celebrated English historian Edward Gibbon. Volume I was published...
21 hours 25 minutes
Antiquity
835
John Bagnell Bury - History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great, Vol I
J.B. Bury wrote his “History of Greece” before World War I, but it was such a good overview of classical Greek history that the third edition was still being used as a college textbook in the late 1960′s. In the...
20 hours 51 minutes
