Early Modern
The Story of the Barbary Corsairs
Read by James K. White
Stanley Lane-Poole
A history of the pirating activities along and around the "Barbary coast" between the 15th and 19th centuries, from the time of th…
Young Folks' History of the American Revolution
Read by Gary Bohannon
Everett T. Tomlinson
This work has grown out of the desire frequently expressed to the writer when he has been lecturing on the American Revolution, that in some…
A Popular History of Ireland
Read by Sibella Denton
Thomas D'Arcy McGee
Thomas D'Arcy McGee was an Irish refugee and a father of the Canadian confederation. His work on Irish history is comprehensive, encompassin…
Philosophical Rudiments Concerning Government and Society
Read by Jeffrey Church
Thomas Hobbes
De Cive ("On the citizen") is one of Thomas Hobbes's major works. "The book was published originally in Latin from Paris in 1…
Primera epistola del Almirante don Cristóbal Colón
Read by Epachuko
Christopher Columbus
Uno de los primeros textos que escribió Cristóbal Colón en 1493 para informar y dar a conocer en Europa del éxit…
Summa Theologica
Read by M.S.C. Lambert, LC
Saint Thomas Aquinas
The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written 1265–1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–127…
Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution
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Agnes Arber
Eminent British botanist Agnes Arber provides an authoritative history of printed Herbals -- books widely used in early modern Europe to cat…
A Popular History of Ireland
Read by Sibella Denton
Thomas D'Arcy McGee
Thomas D'Arcy McGee was an Irish refugee and a father of the Canadian confederation. His work on Irish history is comprehensive, encompassin…
Summa Theologica
Read by M.S.C. Lambert, LC
Saint Thomas Aquinas
The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written 1265–1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–127…
A History of the Four Georges
Read by Pamela Nagami
Justin Mccarthy
Justin McCarthy (1830-1912), liberal member of Parliament and historian. He brings the great 18th Century personalities to life: Walpole and…
History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century
Read by Christopher Smith
Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné
The History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century, by Jean-Henri Merle d’Aubigné, is a classic work on the great events that re…
A Popular History of Ireland
Read by Sibella Denton
Thomas D'Arcy McGee
Thomas D'Arcy McGee was an Irish refugee and a father of the Canadian confederation. His work on Irish history is comprehensive, encompassin…
The Reign of Queen Anne
Read by Pamela Nagami
Justin Mccarthy
Anne Stuart (1665-1714), Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland, succeeded William III to the throne in 1702. She was the daughter of the d…
A Popular History of Ireland
Read by Sibella Denton
Thomas D'Arcy McGee
Thomas D'Arcy McGee was an Irish refugee and a father of the Canadian confederation. His work on Irish history is comprehensive, encompassin…
The 'Adventurers of England' on Hudson Bay
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Agnes C. Laut
The fur hunters were explorers who had blazed a trail across a continent and penetrated to the uttermost reaches of a northern empire the si…
Sätze aus der höhern Welt- und Menschenkunde
Read by redaer
François Vi. De La Rochefoucauld
Sätze aus der höhern Welt- und Menschenkunde (Maximes) von La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680), veröffentlicht 1678; übersetz…
A History of the Four Georges
Read by Pamela Nagami
Justin Mccarthy
Justin McCarthy (1830-1912), liberal member of Parliament and historian. He brings the great 18th Century personalities to life: Walpole and…
Joan of Naples
Read by John Van Stan
Alexandre Dumas
The celebrated crimes committed during the life of Joan (Joanna I) of Naples span from personal misdeeds (adulteries and mariticide) to regi…
Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds
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Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle
This book is a popular science book written in the late 1600s. It is written as a series of conversations between a gallant philosopher and …
History of Farming in Ontario
Read by Esther
C. C. James
This is a paper on the history of farming in Ontario. It take the reader through the early settlement from 1783 to the modern period of 1888…