18 books like Awful disclosures of Maria Monk

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Meḿoires de guerre Charles de Gaulle · 1940 · 340p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Originally published in three separate volumes covering three distinct periods, this single edition encompasses all the personal writings by one of this century's most prominent generals and statesmen from the fall of France in 1940 to the aftermath of World War II in 1946. The first section, "The Call to Honor," recounts the confusion and despair triggered by Hitler's blitzkrieg invasion of… Shares: Récits personnels, Personal narratives, Biography & Memoir

English Register of Godstow Nunnery, near Oxford Andrew Clark · 2018 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate First published in 1905, these two volumes together reproduced the text of Rawlinson MS. B 408 from the Bodleian Library in two parts. They consist of a preface followed the full Middle English text with glosses. The initial section of the manuscript is slightly older and consists of prefixed liturgical pieces such as the Articles of Excommunication. This follows the common historical practice of… Shares: Convents, Sources

Homage to Catalonia George Orwell · 1938 · ★ 4.1 · 250p · ≈ 8h · Challenging [Homage to Catalonia][1] is [George Orwell][2]'s account of his experiences fighting in the 'Spanish Civil War'. Alongside many British workers, trades unionists, and socialists keen to help the Spanish defend their Republic from General Franco's Fascist forces. Orwell joined the [POUM][3] Militia in the Catalan region of Spain, was injured in the fighting and invalided back to England. After… Shares: Récits personnels, Personal narratives, Biography & Memoir

Assassini Thomas Gifford · 1924 · 643p · ≈ 21h · Challenging Mientras el Papa agoniza, se producen una serie de misteriosos asesinatos, un ex-jesuita y una monja averiguan estrategias políticas inconfesables, confabulaciones que desde tiempos de los Borgia se dan en la Iglesia Católica Shares: Nuns, Catholic Church

Recollections of an old soldier Capt. David Perry (b. 1741) · 1822 · 64p · ≈ 2h · Challenging As they were in those days, the full title of Capt David Perry's book is its own description: Recollections of an old soldier. The life of Captain David Perry, a soldier of the French and revolutionary wars, containing many extraordinary occurrences relating to his own private history, and an account of some interesting events in the history of the times in which he lived, no-where else… Shares: Personal narratives, Biography & Memoir

Apologia pro vita sua John Henry Newman · 1860 · ★ 4.1 · 340p · ≈ 11h · Challenging An influential Church of England vicar, John Henry Newman stunned the Anglican community in 1843, when he joined the Roman Catholic Church. Protestant clergyman Charles Kingsley launched the most scathing attacks against Newman and this was Newman's brilliant response. A spiritual autobiography, Apologia Pro Vita Sua explores the very depths and nature of Christianity. Shares: Controversial literature, Catholic Church, Biography & Memoir

The Rough Riders Theodore Roosevelt · 1894 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Challenging "The Rough Riders (1899) is the story of the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry, the regiment Roosevelt led to enduring fame in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Roosevelt recounts how the regiment was raised from an unusual mixture of hardened southwestern frontiersmen and privileged northeastern college graduates, and how it trained in Texas and then sailed "southward through the topic seas… Shares: Personal narratives, Biography & Memoir

Pensées Blaise Pascal · 1670 · ★ 4.0 · 297p · ≈ 9h · Demanding "Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation now rests. The Pensees is a collection of philosophical fragments, notes and essays in which he explores the contradictions of human nature in psychological, social, metaphysical and, above all,… Shares: Controversial literature, Catholic Church

Actes and monuments John Foxe · 1563 · ★ 4.3 · 597p · ≈ 19h · Demanding "Acts and monuments of matters most special and memorable, happening in the church with an universal history of the same. Wherein is set forth at large, the whole race and course of the church, from the primitive age to these later times of ours, with the bloody times, horrible troubled, and great persecutions against the true martyrs of Christ ... Whereunto are annexed certain additions of like… Shares: Controversial literature, Catholic Church, Biography & Memoir

Summa Theologica Thomas Aquinas · 1467 · ★ 4.1 · 212p · ≈ 7h · Demanding Thomas's magnum opus, comprising a systematic integration of Aristotelian philosophy with Christianity. Covers topics such as the nature and existence of God, human nature, law and morality and the relationship of God, world and humans. Shares: Controversial literature, Catholic Church

Army Life in a Black Regiment Thomas Wentworth Higginson · 1870 · ★ 3.9 · 232p · ≈ 7h · Challenging "Army Life in a Black Regiment has some claim to be the best written narrative to come from the Union [side] during the Civil War," wrote historian Henry Steele Commander. "Higginson's picture of the battle which was the origin of 'praise the Lord and pass the ammunition' and his reading of the Emancipation Proclamation to the black regiment are unsurpassed for eloquence." A Union colonel wrote… Shares: Personal narratives, Biography & Memoir

Gifted hands Ben Carson · 1990 · ★ 4.4 · 232p · ≈ 7h · Moderate In 1987, Dr. Benjamin Carson gained worldwide recognition for his part in the first successful separation of Siamese twins joined at the back of the head. The extremely complex and delicate operation, five months in the planning and twenty-two hours in the execution, involved a surgical plan that Carson helped initiate. Carson pioneered again in a rare procedure known as hemispherectomy, giving… Shares: Personal narratives, Biography & Memoir

Mo scéal féin Peadar Ó Laoghaire · 1910 · 219p · ≈ 7h · Challenging An autobiography (“My Own Story”). Shares: Catholic Church, Biography & Memoir

Persepolis 1-4 Marjane Satrapi · 2000 · ★ 4.3 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate From inside front cover: The story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a ... loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private and public life in a coutnry plagued by political upheaval; of her high school years in Vienna facing the trails of adolescence far from her family; of her homecoming -- both sweet and terrible; and,… Shares: Personal narratives, Biography & Memoir

Captivity and Restoration Mary White Rowlandson · 1682 · ★ 3.5 · 64p · ≈ 2h · Demanding In February 1676, during King Philip's War, the frontier village of Lancaster, Massachusetts, was attacked by a party of Nipmuck Indians and completely destroyed. As relief from Concord approached, the attackers withdrew, taking with them 24 captives, including Mrs. Mary Rowlandson and her three children. For almost three months the little family was forced to live with their captors and endure… Shares: Personal narratives, Biography & Memoir

Bābar-nāma Babur · 1844 · ★ 3.0 · 353p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Memoirs of Babur, Emperor of India. Shares: Sources, Biography & Memoir

How I Raised Myself From Failure to Success in Selling Frank Bettger · 1949 · ★ 4.9 · 276p · ≈ 9h · Challenging A business classic endorsed by Dale Carnegie, How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling is for anyone whose job it is to sell. Whether you are selling houses or mutual funds, advertisements or ideas—or anything else—this book is for you. When Frank Bettger was twenty-nine he was a failed insurance salesman. By the time he was forty he owned a country estate and could have retired.… Shares: Personal narratives, Biography & Memoir

The Library of American Biography Jared Sparks · 1846 · 402p · ≈ 13h · Challenging This book itself comprises and also is a collection of letters by varied political and social personalities in reference with the American Revolution. These letters are also concerned with the foreign relations of United States during the whole revolution. Also, it reflects the political framing in the United States. Shares: Biography & Memoir

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