History
Richard II, Makers of History
Read by Cate Barratt
Jacob Abbott
Chronicles the life of Richard II, born in 1367 in Bordeaux, France, who later wore the crown of King of England. (Summary by Cathy Barratt)
A Thousand Miles up the Nile
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Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards
Amelia B. Edwards wrote this historical, egyptological, and cultural study in in 1877, and it became an immediate best-seller, reprinted in …
Manifeste du Parti communiste
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Karl & ENGELS, Friedrich Marx
Publié en 1848, en pleine Révolution industrielle, le Manifeste du Parti communiste est à la fois une critique acerbe d…
A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln
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John George Nicolay
John G. Nicolay was Abraham Lincoln’s private White House secretary. With assistant secretary, John Hay, he wrote the two volume definitive …
The Discovery of New Worlds
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M. B. Synge
This is the second volume in the series, The Story of the World, which covers the period of history from the rise of Rome to the Conquest of…
The Journey of Coronado
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Pedro De Castañeda
In 1540, Francisco Vásquez de Coronado led an army from Mexico is search of the fabled golden cities of Cíbola. The Spaniards …
The Female Quixote Vol. 1
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Charlotte Lennox
The novel formally inverts Don Quixote: as the don mistakes himself for the knightly hero of a Romance, so Arabella mistakes herself for the…
Secret Chambers and Hiding Places
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Allan Fea
“Secret Chambers and Hiding Places” is a collection of concealments and their uses, almost all within England, although a very few passages …
With Clive in India
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G. A. Henty
With Clive in India gives a vivid picture of the wonderful events of the ten years, which at their commencement saw Madras in the hands of t…
Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865
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Carlton Mccarthy
The author, who fought as a private in the Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War, describes the Confederate soldier’s daily struggl…
Third Class in Indian Railways
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Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869 – 1948) was the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement…
Letters of Mrs. Adams, the Wife of John Adams, Vol. 1
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Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams lived the American Revolution as the wife of one of its central figures--John Adams. Her family correspondence, published alon…
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times vol 1
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François Pierre Guillaume Guizot
François Pierre Guillaume Guizot was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics prior…
The Trail of the Hawk: a Comedy of the Seriousness of Life
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Sinclair Lewis
Trail of the Hawk, narrated by Mike Vendetti aka Miketheauctioneer, is Sinclair Lewis’ second novel published under his own name. It was not…
The Lure of the Labrador Wild
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Dillon Wallace
The Lure Of The Labrador Wild is a account of a expedition by Leonidas Hubbard, an adventurer and journalist to canoe the system Naskaupi Ri…
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 1
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Giorgio Vasari
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite delle più eccellen…
Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888
Read by Sue Anderson
Frances M. A. Roe
"There appeared from the bushes in front of me, and right in the path, two immense gray wolves . . . Rollo saw them and stopped instan…
Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave
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Henry Bibb
Henry Walton Bibb was born a slave. His father was white although his identity was not positively known. Bibb was separated from his mother …
Bible Defence of Slavery
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Josiah Priest
The full title of this book is Bible Defense of Slavery; and Origin, Fortunes, and History of the Negro Race, by Rev. Josiah Priest, A. M. 5…
Queen Victoria
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Giles Lytton Strachey
Lytton Strachey’s first great success, and his most famous achievement, was "Eminent Victorians" (1918), a collection of four shor…