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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

28 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 27 ratings
Leo 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 rating
Published 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 ago
This 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 ratings
The 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...

Foxe's Book of Martyrs, A History of the Lives by John Foxe

33 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 5 ratings
The Book of Martyrs, by John Foxe, is an English Protestant account of the persecutions of Protestants, many of whom had died for their beliefs within the decade immediately preceding its first pub...

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

34 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
Nearly 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...

Famous Men of Modern Times by John H. Haaren and A.B. Poland

34 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Famous 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...

Popular History of France from the Earliest Times by Francois Guizot

34 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 12 ratings
François 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 rating
Men 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 ratings
Eusebius 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 ratings
The 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 rating
On 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 ...

Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

40 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Inspired 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...

Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott

44 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 9 ratings
Medieval 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...

Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery

41 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 38 ratings
Anne 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 ratings
The 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...

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

45 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 38 ratings
Uncle 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 ...

Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

45 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Arguably, 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...

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

50 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★ - 54 ratings
Two 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 ago
Irwin 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 ratings
Spanning 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 ratings
Set 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 ago
The 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 ratings
As 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 ratings
The 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...

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

71 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 9 ratings
Victor Hugo's Les Misérables is a novel which tells the story of ex-convict Jean Valjean, his struggles and eventual redemption. It's hailed by many critics as not just Victor Hugo's finest work bu...

Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, Volumes 1 & 2 by Mark Twain

75 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Mark Twain’s work on Joan of Arc is titled in full “Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte.” De Conte is identified as Joan’s page and secretary. For those who’ve always...

Lorna Doone, a Romance of Exmoor by Richard D. Blackmore

76 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago
“If anybody cares to read a simple tale told simply” … thus opens Lorna Doone, one of the best love stories ever written. The novel has inspired at least ten movies and mini-series. “John (in West ...

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace

81 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
Ben-Hur is a story of two very different heroes. Judah Ben-Hur, a prince of Jerusalem, is involved in an accident to the Roman procurator which is taken to be intentional. He is seized and sent to ...