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Women of Versailles: the Court of Louis XIV

Read by Pamela Nagami


Arthur-Léon Imbert De Saint-Amand


Jean de La Bruyère famously characterized Versailles as "that region where joys were visible but false, and vexations hidden but…

The Houses of Lancaster and York with the Conquest and Loss of France

Read by Pamela Nagami


James Gairdner


The Wars of the Roses took place during the last phase of the Hundred Years' War. In 1377 the great warrior king, Edward III, died leaving h…

A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome, Volume II

Read by Pamela Nagami


Mandell Creighton


Mandell Creighton's history of the Papacy continues in Volume II with the condemnation in 1415 of Jan Hus by the Council of Constance and hi…

On Famine Fever and Some of the Other Cognate Forms of Typhus

Read by Pamela Nagami


Rudolf Virchow


Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902), professor of medicine and pathology at the Charité Hospital in Berlin, published more than 2000 papers an…

Edward III

Read by Pamela Nagami


William Parsons Warburton


Edward III reigned for fifty years, from 1327 to 1377. William Warburton writes that "the backbone of the story of his reign and times …

The History of the Popes During the Last Four Centuries, Volume 1

Read by Pamela Nagami


Leopold Von Ranke


Leopold von Ranke was a German Lutheran historian and a founder of modern historical writing based on primary sources. This is a panoramic a…

Modern England 1820-1885

Read by Pamela Nagami


Oscar Browning


This short survey opens with the accession of that portly spendthrift, King George IV. With British support, Greece becomes independent. The…

Rise of the Macedonian Empire

Read by Pamela Nagami


Arthur M. Curteis


Through diplomacy and conquest the Kingdom of Macedonia under Philip II (382-336 BC) came to dominate ancient Greece. To the classical Greek…

The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648

Read by Pamela Nagami


Samuel Rawson Gardiner


Samuel Rawson Gardiner remains a respected source on the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), which began as a civil conflict between Protestant p…

The Renaissance and the Reformation: A Textbook of European History 1494-1610

Read by Pamela Nagami


Emmeline Tanner


Dame Emmeline Tanner writes of the Renaissance that its "special characteristic was the revolt against authority and the rise to import…

Charles James Fox

Read by Pamela Nagami


Henry Offley Wakeman


Charles James Fox (1749-1806) was a prominent British Whig member of Parliament and the arch-rival of William Pitt the Younger. A staunch op…

Cavour

Read by Pamela Nagami


Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco


Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour (1810-1861) was an Italian statesman and a leading figure in the movement for Italian unification. A nobleman…

Lives of Greek Statesmen

Read by Pamela Nagami


George William Cox


In the darkest days of the Persian War when the armies of Xerxes were overrunning northern Greece, Athens faced destruction. The desperate A…

A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome, Volume III

Read by Pamela Nagami


Mandell Creighton


Volume III of this History of the Papacy opens with the Council of Basel in revolt against Pope Eugenius IV, who doggedly defends papal auto…

Hobbes

Read by Pamela Nagami


Leslie Stephen


Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) famously wrote that in the state of nature "the life of man" was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, a…

Christmas Poetry and Hymn Collection

Read by Douglas D. Anderson


Various


This collection includes 40 different Christmas carols collected and read by Douglas D. Anderson, the creator of The Hymns and Carols of Chr…

The World of Unicellular

Read by Oleg Seriy and MaRiCaBo


Oleg Seriy and MaRiCaBo


It is the next book of an author of apocalyptic books. It may be said that this book is an adapted version of “Book of Rescue from the Dooms…

1. An Introduction to Sacrifice and Modern Thought

In Sacrifice and Modern Thought

Read by Johannes Zachhuber and Tim Howles


Various


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