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07 - Kings of the Eighth Century

In A Popular History of Ireland, Book 01

Read by Laura Koskinen

Thomas D'Arcy McGee

Thomas D'Arcy McGee was an Irish refugee and a father of the Canadian confederation. His work on Irish history is comprehensive, encompassin…

England Under Athelstan and the Six Boy-Kings

In A Child's History of England

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Charles Dickens

A Child's History of England first appeared in serial form, running from January 25, 1851 to December 10, 1853 and was first published in th…

02 Letter II. - Heloise to Abelard

In The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise

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Peter Abelard and Heloise and Pierre Abélard

Heloise was a strong-willed and gifted woman who was fluent in Latin, Greek and Hebrew, and came from a lower social standing than Abelard. …

Chapter 1, part 1-2

In A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great, Vol I

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John Bagnell Bury

J. B. Bury wrote his “History of Greece” before World War I, but it was such a good overview of classical Greek history that the third editi…

Preface; Ch. 01-Harald Haarfagr; Ch. 02-Eric Blood-Axe and Brothers

In Early Kings of Norway

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Thomas Carlyle

"The Icelanders, in their long winter, had a great habit of writing; and were, and still are, excellent in penmanship. It is to this fa…

The Annals Bk. 1: The Reign of Augustus

In The Works of Tacitus, Vol. I

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Tacitus, ed. Thomas Gordon and Publius Cornelius Tacitus

The historical works of Tacitus are a history of the period from A.D. 14 to 96 in thirty volumes. Although many of the works were lost (only…

Bk I, ch 02: Relates how Francis, Fourth Viscount, arrives at Castlewood

In The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Quee…

Read by Laura Koskinen

William Makepeace Thackeray

A classic Victorian novel and a historical novel rolled into one! Read about court and army life during the reign of Queen Anne - a story of…

Chapter XXXV

In The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

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Anne Bronte and Anne Brontë

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, the second and final novel by Anne Brontë, is concerned with the story of a woman who leaves her abusive, …

Chapter 7

In The Lost Stradivarius

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John Meade Falkner

The Lost Stradivarius (1895), by J. Meade Falkner, is a short novel of ghosts and the evil that can be invested in an object, in this case a…