Historia ja muistelmat
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Roman History : Books I - III
Livius, TitusDuke Classics 2022Titus Livius, often known as Livy in English, was a Roman historian who wrote a monumental history of Rome, Ab Urbe Condita, from its founding (traditionally dated to 753 BC) throu...
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South : The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917
Shackleton, Ernest HenryDuke Classics 2024When Sir Henry Ernest Shackleton was beaten to the South Pole in 1912, he decided to trek across the continent via the pole instead. Before his ship even reached the continent it w...
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The History of the Thirty Years' War : Volume I
Schiller, FriedrichDuke Classics 2022Tensions between Catholic and Protestant factions of the Roman Empire erupted into what became know as the Thirty Years' War in 1618. German poet, historian, philosopher and dramat...
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My Life and Work
Ford, HenryDuke Classics 2022One world's richest and best-known people in his day, Henry Ford was the founder of Ford Motor Company and a pioneering innovator of mass production. Ford's autobiography, My Life...
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From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan
Blavatsky, H. P.Duke Classics 2021In addition to founding the Theosophical Society and playing an influential role in the New Thought movement, the controversial and idiosyncratic figure Madame Blavatsky was a tire...
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The History of the Peloponnesian War
ThucydidesDuke Classics 2022Written by Thucydides around 400 AD, The History of the Peloponnesian War is a meticulous account by the Athenian general of the extended struggle that raged between Athens and Spa...
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The True Story of My Life
Andersen, Hans ChristianDuke Classics 2022Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen gave the world some of the most memorable stories ever written; masterpieces like "The Little Mermaid," "Thumbelina," and "The Little Match Gi...
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Duelling : The Code of Honor: Or, Rules for the Government of Principals and Seconds in Duelling
Wilson, John LydeDuke Classics 2021Originally this was published by the author (1784-1849), a former governor of South Carolina, as a 22-page booklet, in 1838. Before his death he added an appendix of the 1777 Irish...
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Stories of Inventors : The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers
Doubleday, RussellDuke Classics 2022There are many thrilling incidents - all the more attractive because of their truth - in the study, the trials, the disappointments, the obstacles overcome, and the final triumph o...
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Common Sense
Paine, ThomasDuke Classics 2022When Thomas Paine first anonymously published his series of pamphlets titles Common Sense they became an overnight success. First released in 1776 at the height of the American Rev...
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The Story of My Heart : An Autobiography
Jefferies, RichardDuke Classics 2022The Story of My Heart is an inspiring and personal account of a soul's awakening. In this 1883 autobiography, naturalist and journalist Richard Jefferies describes his journey thro...
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The Twelve Caesars
Suetonius,Duke Classics 2022De 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 Suetoni...
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Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom : The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery
Craft, William; Craft, EllenDuke Classics 2022Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom details the escape of Ellen and William Craft from slavery in Georgia in the United States. Well publicized at the time, the married couple bec...
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The Education of Henry Adams
Adams, HenryDuke Classics 2022The Education of Henry Adams is the autobiography of the Bostonian Henry Adams. As he approached his seventieth birthday when "the mind wakes to find itself looking blankly into th...
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The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass : An American Slave
Douglass, FrederickDuke Classics 2024Frederick Douglass was an ex-slave and a great orator in early 19th-century USA. His autobiography details his experiences as a slave and is considered the most famous such work, t...
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater : Being an Extract from the Life of a Scholar
de Quincey, ThomasDuke Classics 2021You won't be able to put down this gripping first-hand account of opium addiction that shocked England after its initial publication in 1821. Thomas De Quincy was a renowned author...
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Two Years Before the Mast : A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea
Dana, Richard HenryDuke Classics 2022After a bout with the measles that left his vision impaired, Harvard undergrad Richard Henry Dana signed up for a two-year engagement as a sailor, thinking that the fresh sea air m...
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Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life
Budge, E. A. WallisDuke Classics 2021In the pursuit of their amazingly complex vision of the afterlife, the ancient Egyptians created some of the most remarkable structures ever built by human hands. In Egyptian Ideas...
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U. S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses from Washington to Obama
Walsh, Sheila; Meberg, Marilyn; Swindoll, Luci; Clairmont, Patsy; Patti, SandyDuke Classics 2022A collection of US inauguration speeches from Washington to Obama. At the beginning of a term each new President of the United States delivers their inauguration speech to the nati...
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The Book of the Dead
Budge, E. A. WallisDuke Classics 2022The Book of the Dead is the title now commonly given to the great collection of funerary texts which the ancient Egyptian scribes composed for the benefit of the dead. These consis...