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ReadOrígenes de la novela, Tomo II
Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo
El tomo II de Orígenes de la novela es una obra de estudio y recopilación dirigida por Marcelino Menéndez y…
Béarn and the Pyrenees: A legendary tour to the country of Henri Quatre
Louisa Stuart Costello
Louisa Stuart Costello’s work is a sprawling travelogue that blends personal observation with a catalogue of…
ReadCatalonia & the Balearic Islands: An Historical and Desciptive Account
Albert Frederick Calvert
Albert Frederick Calvert’s work is a sweeping historical‑geographical study that treats Catalonia and the…
The Balkans: A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey
Forbes, Nevill; Hogarth, D. G. (David George); Mitrany, David; Toynbee, Arnold
The volume is a multi‑author survey of Balkan history, assembled in the midst of World War I.
John Redmond's Last Years
Stephen Lucius Gwynn
Stephen L. Gwynn’s work is a scholarly memoir that draws on the private papers of John Redmond, made…
ReadThe massacre of St. Bartholomew: Preceded by a history of the religious wars in the reign of Charles IX
Henry White
The work is a scholarly history that traces the turbulent religious conflicts in France from the early reign…
ReadMemoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Volume 3 (of 3) Illustrating the Arms, Arts, and Literature of Italy, from 1440 To 1630
James Dennistoun
ReadMassacres of the South (1551-1815) Celebrated Crimes
Alexandre Dumas
The work is a sprawling chronicle of religious conflict in the French south, tracing the turbulent years from…
ReadMemoirs of the Duchesse De Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1841-1850
Dino, Dorothée, duchesse de
The work is a diary‑like memoir of Dorothée Dino, duchesse de Dino (later duchesse de…
ReadThe Visigothic code: (Forum Judicum)
The work is a scholarly exposition of the Visigothic Code, presented as a three‑fold analysis, historical,…
ReadBohemia, from the earliest times to the fall of national independence in 1620 With a short summary of later events
C. Edmund Maurice
The work is a scholarly survey of Bohemian history from its earliest Slavic roots through the loss of…
ReadThe ascendancy of France, 1598-1715
Henry Offley Wakeman
The work is a scholarly survey of seventeenth‑century Europe that deliberately narrows its focus to the…
ReadNapoleon's Russian Campaign of 1812
Edward Foord
Edward A. Foord’s work is a scholarly survey of the 1812 Russian campaign, drawing on a wealth of official…
ReadA Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners
Charlotte Biggs
The work is a collection of letters written by an English lady who lived in France during the turbulent years…
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4
François Guizot
This volume is the fourth installment of François Guizot’s sweeping “Popular History of France,” a…
ReadThe Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts.
Pöllnitz, Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von
The work is a travel memoir presented as a series of letters from Charles‑Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, to an…
France and England in North America, Part I: Pioneers of France in the New World
Francis Parkman
Francis Parkman’s “France and England in North America, Part I: Pioneers of France in the New World” is a…
ReadThe chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Vol. 09 [of 13]: containing an account of the cruel civil wars between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy, of the possession of Paris and Normandy by the English, their expulsion thence, and of other memorable events that happened in the kingdom of France, as well as in other countries
Enguerrand de Monstrelet
The ninth volume of Enguerrand de Monstrelet’s Chronicles is a dense, year‑by‑year account of the later…
ReadMemoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Complete
Lewis Goldsmith
The work is a collection of clandestine letters penned by a French gentleman for a British nobleman, offering…
Napoleon the Little
Victor Hugo
ReadThe Industrial Arts in Spain
Juan F. Riaño
The work is a scholarly catalogue of Spanish decorative arts, assembled by Juan F.
ReadSocialism and Democracy in Europe
Samuel Peter Orth
Samuel P. Orth’s Socialism and Democracy in Europe is a scholarly survey of the socialist movement as it…
ReadThe Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04
Richard Hakluyt
The fourth volume of Richard Hakluyt’s Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the…
ReadHistory of Julius Cæsar, Vol. 2 of 2
Emperor of the French Napoleon III
The work is a scholarly continuation of Julius Caesar’s Gallic Wars, presented as Volume II of a two‑part…