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Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas
90 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsFirst serialized from January to August, 1845, Twenty Years After is the second book in The D’Artagnan Romances, and follows the gallant adventures of the musketeers, as they are once again summone...
God's Country—And the Woman by James Oliver Curwood
27 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years agoJames Curwood wrote many adventures of the far north. By 1909 he had saved enough money to travel to the Canadian northwest, a trip that provided the inspiration for his wilderness adventure storie...
Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
27 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDead Souls 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 prose”,...
From October to Brest-Litovsk by Leon Trotsky
27 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThis account by Trotsky is of the events in Russia from the October Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd, to his signing of the Brest-Litovsk treaty with Germany on 3rd March 1918 which took Russia out ...
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
28 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 27 ratingsLeo Tolstoy's War and Peace chronicles the lives of five Russian aristocratic families during Napoleon's invasion of Russia. Many considered this book to be the best Russian work of literature of a...
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
30 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 1 ratingPublished in 1913, O Pioneers! is the first novel in Cather’s Great Plains trilogy and follows the life of its young heroine, Alexandra Bergson, as she fulfills her father’s dying wish to take care...
30 American Poems by Various
30 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years agoThis is a sequel of sorts to 37 American Poems, one of my first solos. Concentration here is on late 19th to early 20th Century works by US poets.
The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott
32 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 2 ratingsThe Talisman is a gripping tale set near the end of the Third Crusade. King Richard the Lionheart is grievously ill, and all around him the leaders from allied countries plot and scheme to gain per...
Famous Men of Modern Times by John H. Haaren and A.B. Poland
34 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsFamous Men of Modern Times is a series of biographical sketches written for the purpose of making the study of history lively and interesting by giving insight into the men who lived during this ti...
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
34 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsNearly 160 years after it was first published, Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass continues to inspire, enthrall and educate generations of readers. This collection of poems serves as a vehicle for Whi...
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
34 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years agoPopular History of France from the Earliest Times by Francois Guizot
34 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 12 ratingsFrançois Pierre Guillaume Guizot (1787-1874) was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics prior to the Revolution of 1848, actively opposing as a l...
Men of Iron by Howard Pyle
35 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMen of Iron by Howard Pyle is historical fiction that transports us back to the 1400’s, a time of knighthood and chivalry. Myles Falworth is eight years old when news comes they must flee their hom...
Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
36 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings“He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad!” The wonderful opening lines of this 1921 novel set the tone for the rest of this delightful story of an adventurer and roma...
Eusebius' History of the Christian Church by Eusebius of Caesarea
37 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsEusebius presents the history of the Church from the apostles to his own time, with special regard to the following points:1. the successions of bishops in the principal sees2. the history of Chris...
History of Holland by George Edmundson
37 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe title, “History of Holland,” given to this volume is fully justified by the predominant part which the great maritime province of Holland took in the War of Independence and throughout the whol...
Ten Books on Architecture by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
39 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingOn Architecture is a treatise on architecture written by the Roman architect Vitruvius and dedicated to his patron, the emperor Caesar Augustus as a guide for building projects. The work is one of ...
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
44 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 9 ratingsMedieval England in the 12th century. The evil Prince John rules England in place of his brother, the noble Richard the Lionheart, who is being held in an Austrian prison by Duke Leopold of Austria...
Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
40 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsInspired by a true life story, Lady Audley's Secret is the story of a woman's overwhelming ambition and passion for social success. When the first book came out in 1862, Victorian readers were shoc...
Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery
41 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 38 ratingsAnne of the Island is the third book in the Anne of Green Gables series following the adventures of its heroine Anne Shirley as she leaves for Redmond College in the busy city of Kingsport to study...
History of the Christian church by Samuel Cheetham
44 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★ - 9 ratingsThe intention of this work is to provide a sketch of the History of the Church in the first six centuries of its existence, resting throughout on original authorities, and also giving references to...
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
45 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsArguably, one of the most influential and insightful pieces of work concerned with American political life, Democracy in America directs itself towards American politics and society, and is consid...
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
45 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 38 ratingsUncle Tom’s Cabin is one of the most controversial novels of the last century, with it’s sentimental portrayal of the anti-slavery movement in the USA. Written in 1852, the novel instantly rose to ...
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
50 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★ - 54 ratingsTwo sisters, one practical and full of commonsense, the other a passionate and emotional creature, an uncaring brother and his avaricious wife, a handsome rake and a faithful gentleman – these are ...
Europe Revised by Irwin S. Cobb
51 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years agoIrwin Cobb’s humorous Europe Revised is a travelogue and comedy almost in the style of Mark Twain. The dedication says it best, “To My Small DaughterWho bade me shed a tear at the tomb of Napoleon,...
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
52 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 38 ratingsSpanning a period of nearly 1500 years, this monumental work of history tracks the orbit of one of the greatest Empires of all time. The sheer scale and sweep of the narrative is breathtaking in it...
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
53 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsSet in the first half of the 19th century, the classic novel presents the story of young orphan Oliver Twist, who endures tumultuous events in a society burdened by poverty, crime and malice. After...
Last Days of Pompeii by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
56 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years agoThe Last Days of Pompeii, a novel by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton tells the love story of the Greeks Glaucus and Ione who were living in Pompeii when Mt. Vesuvius erupted and destroyed the city. Bu...
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
68 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 6 ratingsAs the last published novel of a writer whose career spanned over a dozen novels, innumerable short stories, plays and nonfiction, Our Mutual Friend is indeed a great composition by Charles Dickens...
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
69 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 19 ratingsThe Three Musketeers follows the adventures of the young Gascon nobleman, D’Artagnan and his three trusted friends who served as musketeers in the king’s regiment – Athos, Porthos & Aramis. Written...
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