Tag: history

Borrow for free. Highlights of sex in Elizabeth I’s England: shenanigans in the royal household, courtesans, the selling of virginity, the horror of being a cuckold, serial seducers, homosexuality, pornography, licentious poetry, plays, and literature, cross-dressing, impotence, fashion, and syphilis.

Borrow for free. From Gregorian chants to John Cage, this funny ebook about music history shares mindblowing, rarely seen information about the lives of musicians who helped shape music.

Borrow for free. A fascinating look at the life of an extraordinarily gifted Frenchwoman who earned her living painting portraits of the aristocracy, fleeing the French Revolution to work her way through the courts of Italy, Austria, Russia, and England.

As you might expect, there is no shortage of books about scandals. Here are some that are less tawdry yet still compelling.

You can borrow and read The Sun Also Rises free. Ernest Hemingway can write, no doubt about it. The Sun Also Rises was his first novel, and by all accounts it was a huge struggle for him, requiring lots of drafts and rewriting, but he does seem to have gotten it right.