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Wellington

Read by Pamela Nagami


George Hooper


Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, (1769-1852), was born in Dublin, the younger son of an Irish Protestant aristocrat. He served with…

The Political History of France, 1789-1910

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Muriel O. Davis


This little book opens on the eve of the French Revolution. The government is crippled by financial mismanagement, ruled by a King who, in t…

The Early Hanoverians

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Edward Ellis Morris


In this short book Edward Ellis Morris writes a vivid account of the reigns of the first two Georges. Scarcely had the fifty-four-year-old k…

Edward III

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William Parsons Warburton


Edward III reigned for fifty years, from 1327 to 1377. William Warburton writes that "the backbone of the story of his reign and times …

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin

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Elizabeth Robins Pennell


"Few women have worked so faithfully for the cause of humanity as Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin [1759-1797], and few have been the objects…

Hildebrand and his Times

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William Richard Ward Stephens


W.R.W. Stephens, the Anglican Dean of Winchester, writes a short, lively biography of the great church reformer, Hildebrand of Sovana (1015-…

Edward the First

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Thomas Frederick Tout


Edward I of England (1239-1307) will always be remembered as the "Hammer of the Scots" who condemned William Wallace (Braveheart) …

Maria Theresa

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James Franck Bright


By the time of his death in 1740, the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles VI, had done everything possible to secure the succession to the throne of…

Ch 13, Part 1 - The Earth

In The Science - History of the Universe Vol. 1: Astronomy

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Francis Rolt-Wheeler


Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The first volume is on Astronomy written by Waldemar Kaempffert. This book brie…

ADRIAN - A CHAPTER IN ACCLIMATIZATION

In The Chronicles of Clovis

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Saki


This is the third collection of short stories by Saki, following on from “Reginald” and “Reginald in Russia”. Although some of the stories h…

Fifth Day, Tale XLV

In The Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Volume 4

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Marguerite Of Navarre


THE HEPTAMERON (here Volume 4 of 5), first published posthumously in 1558, is divided into seven complete days containing 10 stories each, a…

Chapter 1

In My Travels, A Family Story

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Maria Hackett


This is not a family history. Family histories are invariably dull and of interest to only a few who have a belief in, and are proud of, th…

Achtes Kapitel

In Der Sohn der Hagar

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Paul Keller


Paul Keller war seinerzeit einer der bekanntesten deutschen Schriftsteller. Der Sohn der Hagar (1907) dreht sich um den jungen Musiker Rober…

Quand vous serez bien vieille

In Compilation de poèmes - 005

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Pierre de Ronsard


Cette compilation comprend une série de poèmes lus, en langue française, pour LibriVox. (Ezwa)

Ch. 1: Early Training. 1773-1806

In Life of Prince Metternich

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George Bruce Malleson


Klemens von Metternich (1773-1859) first foreign minister, and then chancellor of the Austrian Empire was a great diplomat: crafty, manipula…

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