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  • Gracchi, Marius and Sulla-A. H. Beesly

    Gracchi, Marius and Sulla-A. H. Beesly
    11 Nov 2026
    Gracchi, Marius and Sulla by A. H. Beesly.

    During the last half of the second century B.C. Rome was undisputed mistress of the civilized western world. As the British historian, Augustus Henry Beesly writes, "a brilliant period of foreign conquest had succeeded the 300 years in which she had overcome her neighbors and made herself supreme in Italy. In 146 B.C. she had given the death-blow to her greatest rival, Carthage, and had annexed Greece." But Rome was on the brink of a one hundred year-long revolution. In this slim volume Beesley, recounts the careers of four of its first dynamic leaders: the idealistic Brothers Gracchi, who attempted land reforms, and the rough, resourceful soldier, Marius, who overhauled the army.

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  • Garcia Moreno, President of Ecuador 1821-1875-Augustin Berthe

    Garcia Moreno, President of Ecuador 1821-1875-Augustin Berthe
    10 Nov 2026
    Garcia Moreno, President of Ecuador 1821-1875 by Augustin Berthe.

    Gabriel Gregorio Fernando José María García y Moreno y Morán de Buitrón (1821–1875) was an Ecuadorian politician who twice served as President of Ecuador (1859-1865 and 1869-1875) and was assassinated during his second term, after being elected to a third term. He is noted for his conservatism, Catholic religious perspective and rivalry with liberal strongman Eloy Alfaro. Under his administration, Ecuador became a leader in science and higher education within Latin America. In addition to the advances in education and science, he was noted for economically and agriculturally advancing the country, as well as for his staunch opposition to corruption, even giving his own salary to charity.

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  • Little Masterpieces of Autobiography - Writers-George Iles

    Little Masterpieces of Autobiography - Writers-George Iles
    9 Nov 2026
    Little Masterpieces of Autobiography by Writers-George Iles.

    Writers is Volume 4 of Library of Little Masterpieces of Autobiography in Six Volumes as published in 1913, and includes writings of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Burns, Walter Scott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry George. The series includes letters, passages from autobiographies, and pages from diaries written by each of these.

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  • Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 3-Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus

    Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 3-Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus
    8 Nov 2026
    Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 3 by Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus.

    Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving lives contain twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of one Greek and one Roman, as well as four unpaired, single lives. Plutarch was not concerned with writing histories, as such, but in exploring the influence of character, good or bad, on the lives and destinies of famous men. The first pair of lives the Epaminondas-Scipio Africanus no longer exists, and many of the remaining lives are truncated, contain obvious lacunae and/or have been tampered with by later writers. His Life of Alexander is one of the five surviving secondary or tertiary sources about Alexander the Great and it includes anecdotes and descriptions of incidents that appear in no other source.

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  • Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 4-Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus

    Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 4-Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus
    7 Nov 2026
    Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 4 by Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus.

    Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving lives contain twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of one Greek and one Roman, as well as four unpaired, single lives. Plutarch was not concerned with writing histories, as such, but in exploring the influence of character, good or bad, on the lives and destinies of famous men. The first pair of lives the Epaminondas-Scipio Africanus no longer exists, and many of the remaining lives are truncated, contain obvious lacunae and/or have been tampered with by later writers. In this copy-right expired 11-volume translation from the Loeb Classical library, the order of the paired lives is rearranged to present the Greek lives in chronological order.

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  • Royal Son and Mother-Pauline von Hügel

    Royal Son and Mother-Pauline von Hügel
    6 Nov 2026
    Royal Son and Mother by Pauline von Hügel.

    Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin (1770-1840) was an emigre Russian aristocrat and Catholic priest who is acclaimed as "The Apostle of the Alleghenies." He is the son of Prince Dimitri Alexeievich, a Russian ambassador to the Netherlands, and the German Countess Adelheid Amalie von Schmettau. Demetrius was raised Russian Orthodox, but at age seventeen he converted to Catholicism, the faith of his mother, following her miraculous recovery from a serious illness. Although the ambassador had planned a military career for his son and had sent him to America for an education, he was shocked to learn that his son had renounced his inheritance and had entered a seminary instead. Demetrius was ordained a Catholic priest in 1795 and devoted his life to ministering to the pioneers of rural Maryland and Pennsylvania.

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  • Anabasis-Xenophon

    Anabasis-Xenophon
    5 Nov 2026
    Anabasis by Xenophon.

    Xenophon the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was a pupil of Socrates. He marched with the Spartans, and was exiled from Athens. Sparta gave him land and property in Scillus, where he lived for many years before having to move once more, to settle in Corinth. He died in 354 B.C. "Anabasis" is a Greek word which means "journey from the coast to the center of a country." This is Xenophon's account of his march to Persia with a troop of Greek mercenaries to aid Cyrus, who enlisted Greek help to try and take the throne from his brother Artaxerxes, and the ensuing return of the Greeks, in which Xenophon played a leading role. This occurred between 401 B.C. and March 399 B.C. (Summary from Gutenberg version of text.)

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  • Giacomo Puccini-Wakeling Dry

    Giacomo Puccini-Wakeling Dry
    4 Nov 2026
    Giacomo Puccini by Wakeling Dry.

    This biography of Puccini was written while the composer was at the height of his career. Besides the usual biographical information, the author summarizes and discusses Puccini's works to this point, including Le Villi, Edgar, Manon Lescaut, La Boheme, Tosca, and Madama Butterfly (which was in production at the time of this writing).

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