hefyd
52 books
Antiquity
487
Thomas D'Arcy McGee - Popular History of Ireland, Book 01
Thomas D'Arcy McGee was an Irish refugee and a father of the Canadian confederation. His work on Irish history is comprehensive, encompassing twelve books; Book 1 begins with the earliest modern settlement of Ireland...
2 hours 14 minutes
*Non-fiction
540
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
Historical Fiction
606
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Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol - Dead Souls
Dead Souls (Russian: Мёртвые души) by Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer, was first published in 1842, and is one of the most prominent works of 19th-century Russian literature. Gogol himself saw it as an «epic poem in...
14 hours 44 minutes
Antiquity
490
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
General Fiction
770
Thomas Hardy - Far from the Madding Crowd
Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) is Thomas Hardy's fourth novel and offers in ample measure the details of English rural life that Hardy so relished. Hardy's growing taste for tragedy is also evident in the novel. It...
14 hours 40 minutes