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The golden asse of Lucius Apuleius Ovid · 1469 · ★ 3.9 · 59p · ≈ 1h · Demanding "These rhetorical texts by Apuleius, second-century Latin writer and author of the famous novel Metamorphoses or Golden Ass, have not been translated in English since 1909. They are some of the very few Latin speeches surviving from their period, and constitute important evidence for Latin and Roman North African social and intellectual culture in the second century A.D. They are the work of a… Shares: Speeches, Latin literature, Early works to 1800

Cicero Cicero · 1881 · ★ 3.9 · 314p · ≈ 10h · Challenging De Officiis (On Duties) was Cicero's last philosophical work. In it he made use of Greek thought to formulate the political and ethical values of Roman Republican society as he saw them, revealing incidentally a great deal about actual practice. Writing at a time of political crisis after the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44BC, when it was not clear how much of the old Republican order would… Shares: Latin authors, Speeches, Early works to 1800

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: Latin authors, Early works to 1800, Biography & Memoir

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: Latin authors, Early works to 1800

Dē vītā Caesarum Suetonius · 1470 · ★ 4.0 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Demanding De vita Caesarum, known as The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies, each about one of the Roman emperors, including one on Julius Caesar. It was written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, commonly referred to as Suetonius, in 121. Considered highly significant in antiquity, The Twelve Caesars has remained a major source of Roman history. Shares: Latin literature, Early works to 1800, Biography & Memoir

In Catilinam Cicero · 1475 · ★ 3.9 · 174p · ≈ 5h · Demanding Emile and Juliette Hazel have just purchased what will be their final home, set in a little clearing an hour's drive from the nearest town. Here, they think, is the place for an idyllic retirement, isolated from the rest of the world save for one neighbor, a doctor, on the far side of the clearing. One day, after they have spent a week in the house, the Hazels' new neighbor comes knocking at… Shares: Speeches, Criticism and interpretation

Memorabilia Xenophon · 1650 · ★ 4.0 · 236p · ≈ 7h · Demanding The Memorabilia Xenophon - An essential text for understanding Socrates, Xenophon's Memorabilia is the compelling tribute of an affectionate student to his teacher, providing a rare firsthand account of Socrates' life and philosophy. The Memorabilia is invaluable both as a work of philosophy in its own right and as a complement to the study of Plato's dialogues. The longest of Xenophon's four… Shares: Trials, Early works to 1800, Biography & Memoir

Satyricon Petronius · 1575 · ★ 3.8 · 164p · ≈ 5h · Demanding An incomplete Roman novel believed to have been written by Gaius Petronius Arbiter. What remains of the novel is a picaresque story concerning the narrator’s battle to keep his lover, a handsome sixteen year old boy, away from his many rivals. Shares: Latin literature, Criticism and interpretation

Satyrs upon the Jesuits John Oldham · 1681 · 148p · ≈ 4h · Demanding Shares: Latin literature, Early works to 1800

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, Biography & Memoir

Furious Hours Casey Cep · 2019 · ★ 3.9 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate "'A triumph on every level. One of the losses to literature is that Harper Lee never found a way to tell a gothic true-crime story she'd spent years researching. Casey Cep has excavated this mesmerizing story and tells it with grace and insight and a fierce fidelity to the truth.'--David Grann,author of Killers of the Flower Moon."--Back of jacket. "The stunning story of an Alabama serial killer… Shares: Trials, Authors, Biography & Memoir

We Danced all Night Barbara Cartland · 1970 · 312p · ≈ 10h · Moderate The popular romance author recounts her experiences back in the 1920s, when life was carefree. Shares: Authors, Biography & Memoir

Satirae Horace · 1763 · ★ 5.0 · 329p · ≈ 10h · Demanding The Roman philosopher and dramatic critic Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-3 B.C.), known in English as Horace, was also the most famous lyric poet of his age. Written in the troubled decade ending with the establishment of Augustus's regime, his Satires provide trenchant social commentary on men's perennial enslavement to money, power, fame, and sex. Not as frequently translated as his Odes, in… Shares: Latin literature, Criticism and interpretation, Biography & Memoir

Paul Kelver Jerome Klapka Jérôme · 1902 · 322p · ≈ 10h · Challenging IN WHICH THE AUTHOR SEEKS TO CAST THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THIS STORY UPON ANOTHER. Shares: Authors, Biography & Memoir

Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson · 1785 · 265p · ≈ 8h · Demanding A one†‘volume collection of the prose and poetry of eighteenth†‘century Britain's pre†‘eminent lexicographer, critic, biographer, and poet Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson was eighteenth†‘century Britain’s preeminent man of letters, and his influence endures to this day. He excelled as a moral and literary critic, biographer, lexicographer, and poet. This anthology, designed to make Johnson’s… Shares: Authors, Criticism and interpretation

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: Criticism and interpretation, Early works to 1800, Biography & Memoir

Vitae excellentium imperatorum Cornelius Nepos · 1594 · 262p · ≈ 8h · Demanding Shares: Latin literature, Early works to 1800, Biography & Memoir

Paradise Lost John Milton · 1667 · ★ 3.9 · 311p · ≈ 10h · Demanding John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny. The struggle rages across three worlds - heaven, hell, and earth - as Satan and his… Shares: Criticism and interpretation, Early works to 1800, Biography & Memoir

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