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The Shaver's new sermon for the fast day Pasquin Shaveblock · 1795 · 23p · ≈ 46m · Demanding Shares: English Sermons, Christianity, Early works to 1800, History

Gorin no sho Miyamoto Musashi · 1963 · ★ 3.8 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate A psychological guide to strategy applicable to business, philosophy, or martial arts, written by sixteenth-century warrior Miyamoto Musashi as a means of explaining his success as a practitioner of Japanese swordfighting, or Kendo. Shares: Obras anteriores a 1800, Early works to 1800, History

Patrologiae cursus completus J.-P Migne · 1800 · 221p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Shares: Christian literature, Early works to 1800, History

Du contrat social Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1762 · ★ 4.2 · 184p · ≈ 6h · Demanding The Social Contract, originally published as On the Social Contract; or, Principles of Political Right (French: Du contrat social; ou, Principes du droit politique), is a 1762 French-language book by the Genevan philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The book theorizes about the best way to establish a political community in the face of the problems of commercial society, which Rousseau had already… Shares: Obras anteriores a 1800, Early works to 1800

Legenda aurea Jacobus de Voragine · 1476 · 957p · ≈ 31h · Demanding "Among the books which afford us an insight into the popular religious thought of the middle ages, none holds a more important place than the Legenda Aurea or Golden Legend. The book was compiled and put into form about the year 1275 by Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa, who laid under contribution for his purpose the Lives of the Fathers by S. Jerome, the Ecclesiastical History of… Shares: Christian literature, Early works to 1800, History

Physico-theology William Derham · 1713 · 444p · ≈ 14h · Demanding With centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world. Who are we? We're Cairn Press. Our background is in design, publishing, typography, and technology. These skills fuel our mission to create the highest quality Public Domain eBooks available online, at an affordable price. We… Shares: English Sermons, Early works to 1800

Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine William Carew Hazlitt · 1886 · 136p · ≈ 4h · Challenging These few paragraphs distill the contents and gives you a short overview and insight of this work and the author's style: In the poorer districts, in Normandy as well as in Brittany, Duke William would probably find very little alteration in the mode of preparing victuals from that which was in use in his day, eight hundred years ago, if (like another Arthur) he should return among his ancient… Shares: Bibliography, History

When you lose a loved one Charles Livingstone Allen · 1959 · 120p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Uplifting prose and comforting poetry weave a message of hope and eternal life for those mourning the loss of a loved one. Shares: Christianity, Death

Ab urbe condita Titus Livius · 1481 · ★ 4.0 · 237p · ≈ 7h · Demanding "Romulus and Remus, the rape of Lucretia, Horatius at the bridge, the saga of Coriolanus, Cincinnatus called from his farm to save the state - these and many more stories immortalized by Livy in his history of Rome have become part of our cultural heritage." "The historian's huge work consisted of 142 books which trace Rome's history from its foundation in 753 BC to events in Livy's own lifetime… Shares: Bibliography, Early works to 1800, History

Histoire de Charles XII Voltaire · 1731 · 293p · ≈ 9h · Demanding Extrait : "La Suède et la Finlande composent un royaume large d'environ deux cents de nos lieues, et long de trois cents. Il s'étend du midi au nord depuis le cinquante-cinquième degré; ou à peu près, jusqu'au soixante et dixième, sous un climat rigoureux, qui n'a presque ni printemps ni automne."À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS LIGARANLes éditions LIGARAN proposent des versions numériques de qualité de… Shares: Early works to 1800, History

Epistolae Ho-Elianae James Howell · 1650 · 510p · ≈ 17h · Demanding Epistolae Ho-Elianae (or Familiar Letters) is a literary work by the 17th-century Anglo-Welsh historian and writer, James Howell. It was mainly written when Howell was in the Fleet Prison, during the 1640s; but its content reflects earlier travels he made from 1616 on behalf of a London glass factory. It appeared in three volumes from 1645 to 1650. A fourth volume was added in a collected edition… Shares: Bibliography, Early works to 1800

Utopia Thomas More · 1518 · ★ 3.5 · 164p · ≈ 5h · Demanding First published in 1516, Thomas More's Utopia is one of the most important works of European humanism. Through the voice of the mysterious traveler Raphael Hythloday, More describes a pagan, communist city-state governed by reason. Addressing such issues as religious pluralism, women's rights, state-sponsored education, colonialism, and justified warfare, Utopia seems remarkably contemporary… Shares: Bibliography, Early works to 1800, History

Colección de las obras sueltas, assi en prosa, como en verso Lope de Vega · 1776 · 594p · ≈ 19h · Demanding Shares: Bibliography, Early works to 1800

Short studies on great subjects James Anthony Froude · 1867 · 398p · ≈ 13h · Challenging There was a time—a time which, measured by the years of our national life, was not so very long ago—when the serious thoughts of mankind were occupied exclusively by religion and politics. The small knowledge which they possessed of other things was tinctured by their speculative opinions on the relations of heaven and earth; and, down to the sixteenth century, art, science, scarcely even… Shares: Christianity, History

The Travels of Marco Polo Marco Polo · 1818 · ★ 3.6 · 461p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Join the 13th century merchants Marco, Niccolo and Maffeo Polo as they journey from their native city of Venice to the faraway land of Cathay, or China. There, young Marco will meet Kublai Khan, the ruler of the vast Mongolian empire. Read about his many adventures serving the Khan in the lands East of Europe, and his adventures coming back home to Venice. This medieval book, dictated by Marco… Shares: Bibliography, Early works to 1800, History

De re coquinaria Apicius · 1500 · 292p · ≈ 9h · Demanding Apicius, also known as De re culinaria or De re coquinaria (On the Subject of Cooking) is a collection of Roman cookery recipes. It is thought to have been compiled in the fifth century AD. - Wikipedia Shares: Bibliography, Early works to 1800

Sobranie sochinenii v dvadtsati dvukh tomakh Лев Толстой · 1882 · 51p · ≈ 1h · Challenging Translation from various works on Idealism. Shares: Christianity, Death

Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe · 1958 · ★ 3.9 · 196p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Things Fall Apart is the debut novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, first published in 1958. It depicts pre-colonial life in the southeastern part of Nigeria and the arrival of Europeans during the late 19th century. It is seen as the archetypal modern African novel in English, and one of the first to receive global critical acclaim. It is a staple book in schools throughout Africa and is… Shares: Christianity, History

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