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Carefully curated learning materials by LingoPear.
Carefully curated learning materials by LingoPear.
From Their First Rise and Settlement in the Islands of Providence to the Present Time
Summary
The lives and stories of the daring pirate outlaws who terrorized the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea in the 18th century.
Written by
Captain Charles Johnson
Language
English
Category
Biography · Nonfiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
An Iliad of the Southwest
Summary
An embellished retelling of the town of Tombstone, Arizona, during its heyday in the late 19th century, featuring famous heroes and outlaws of the American Old West.
Written by
Walter Noble Burns
Language
English
Category
Biography · Fiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
A fictional biography of Joan of Arc from her early teenage years to her martyrdom.
Written by
Mark Twain
Language
English
Category
Biography · Fiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
A sardonic and generally unflattering biography of Victoria Alexandrina, Queen of England.
Written by
Lytton Strachey
Language
English
Category
Biography · Nonfiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
Brief biographies of the prominent philosophers of ancient Greece.
Written by
Diogenes Laërtius
Translated by
C. D. Yonge
Language
English
Category
Biography · Philosophy
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
Four witty and biting biographies of Victorians that take aim at the moral superiority of their subject’s time.
Written by
Lytton Strachey
Language
English
Category
Biography · Nonfiction
Source
Standard Ebooks1
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