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Collection · 9 books · 100 to 1902 AD

History & Literature

Histories, biographies, travel narratives, and novels from the ancient world to the nineteenth century, in modern English.

100s

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Letters of Pliny the Younger

Pliny the Younger · 100 AD — Pliny's letters on Roman society, early Christians, and the eruption of Vesuvius.

Selected Lives of Plutarch

Plutarch · 100 AD — four Parallel Lives: Publicola, Eumenes, Demosthenes, and Aristides the Just.

800s

The Life of King Alfred

Asser · 893 AD — Alfred's wars, schooling, and rule as told by the monk who knew him.

1600s

Mourt’s Relation

William Bradford and Edward Winslow · 1622 AD — the Plymouth settlers' own account of the Mayflower voyage and first winter.

1700s

Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe · 1719 AD — a shipwrecked mariner's twenty-eight years of solitude read as the work of providence.

1800s

The Swiss Family Robinson

Johann David Wyss · 1812 AD — a shipwrecked family builds a new home on an unknown island, in all 58 chapters.

The Little Duke

Charlotte M. Yonge · 1854 AD — the boy duke Richard the Fearless bound to forgive his father's killer.

Parables from Nature

Margaret Gatty · 1855 AD — Victorian allegories in which a caterpillar, a bee, and a dragonfly grub learn faith.

1900s

Viking Tales

Jennie Hall · 1902 AD — fifteen retold Norse sagas following Harald's rise and the voyages west.

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