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ReadThe Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century
Charles Bastide
Charles Bastide’s work is a scholarly comparative‑literature study that examines the tangled cultural and…
ReadThe Englishman in China During the Victorian Era, Vol. 1 (of 2) As Illustrated in the Career of Sir Rutherford Alcock, K.C.B., D.C.L., Many Years Consul and Minister in China and Japan
Alexander Michie
The work is a biographical‑historical study of Sir Rutherford Alcock, the long‑serving British consul and…
ReadThe Land Beyond the Forest: Facts, Figures, and Fancies from Transylvania
E. Gerard
The work is a travel‑essay collection by Emily De Laszowska‑Gerard, assembled from a series of papers she…
Kościuszko A Biography
Monica M. Gardner
The work is a scholarly biography that presents the life and achievements of Tadeusz Kościuszko, the famed…
Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 1
Dawson Turner
This work is a travelogue that records three summer tours of Normandy in the years 1815, 1818 and 1819, with…
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "France" to "Francis Joseph I." Volume 10, Slice 8
Various
Encyclopaedia Britannica’s 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 8, is a scholarly reference work that surveys the…
History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 21
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle’s “History of Friedrich II of Prussia – Volume 21” is a sweeping, essay‑like study that treats…
ReadThe Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume III
Alexander Wheelock Thayer
The work is a scholarly biography of Ludwig van Beethoven by Alexander Wheelock Thayer, presented in a…
ReadMain Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 6. Young Germany
Georg Brandes
Georg Brandes’s Main Currents in Nineteenth‑Century Literature – 6.
ReadMemoirs of the Court of Louis XIV. and of the Regency — Complete
Orléans, Charlotte-Elisabeth, duchesse d'
The work is a sprawling memoir and correspondence collection that brings together the letters, anecdotes, and…
ReadQueens of the French Stage
H. Noel Williams
The work is a scholarly biography of the French actresses of the seventeenth‑century stage, focusing on the…
ReadSea-Wolves of the Mediterranean: The grand period of the Moslem corsairs
E. Hamilton Currey
Sea‑Wolves of the Mediterranean is a historical study that chronicles the rise and deeds of the Muslim…
The Conquest of Canada, Vol. 2
George Warburton
The work is a detailed historical narrative of the French and British struggle for control of North America…
ReadA Wanderer in Venice
E. V. Lucas
The book is a richly illustrated travel guide that blends historical overview with a personal itinerary…
ReadSpanish Explorers in the Southern United States, 1528-1543. The Narrative of Alvar Nunez Cabeca de Vaca. The Narrative of the Expedition of Hernando De Soto by the Gentleman of Elvas
Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, active 16th century; Castañeda de Nájera, Pedro de, active 16th century; Knight of Elvas
ReadLetters of John Calvin, Volume I Compiled from the Original Manuscripts and Edited with Historical Notes
Jean Calvin
This volume presents the first part of the collected letters of Jean Calvin, the eminent Reformer whose…
ReadFrench & English: A comparison
Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Philip Gilbert Hamerton’s work is a comparative essay that sets out to examine the national characteristics…
Legends of Florence: Collected from the People, First Series
Charles Godfrey Leland
Charles Godfrey Leland’s Legends of Florence is a folkloric anthology that gathers the city’s whispered tales…
East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan
Frederic Courtland Penfield
Frederic C. Penfield’s East of Suez is a travel‑essay collection that blends personal observation with a…
ReadHistory of merchant shipping and ancient commerce, Volume 2 (of 4)
W. S. Lindsay
The work is a sprawling historical survey of English merchant shipping and its commercial context from the…
ReadThe place of magic in the intellectual history of Europe
Lynn Thorndike
The work is a scholarly essay that traces how belief in magic, witchcraft and astrology permeated European…
ReadThe Kaiser's Memoirs
German Emperor William II
The Kaiser's Memoirs is an autobiographical account by William II, the German Emperor who ruled from 1888 to…
ReadThe River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan
Winston Churchill
The work is a nineteenth‑century historical narrative that treats the Sudanese campaigns of 1881‑1899 as a…
ReadHistory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5
Edward Gibbon
The work is the fifth volume of Edward Gibbon’s monumental survey of Rome’s waning power, extending the…