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1000 Things Worth Knowing - Nathaniel C. Fowler, Jr.
1000 Things Worth Knowing - Nathaniel C. Fowler, Jr.
- Author: Nathaniel C. Fowler Jr.
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Reference
Part almanac, part encyclopedia, part dictionary, Nathaniel C. Fowler, Jr. gives us his idea of important, but sometimes obscure, facts that he thinks should be in our bank of general knowledge. He includes a large section on medical emergency and...
1903 Collection - Various
1903 Collection - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories / *Non-fiction
This is what people were reading in 1903, short stories, poetry, and non-fiction articles. (Summary by BellonaTimes)...
The Unreality of Time - John McTaggart
The Unreality of Time - John McTaggart
- Author: John McTaggart
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
John McTaggart was a British metaphysician and philosophical idealist. In this famous article for the periodical Mind, he introduced the notion of the A, B and C series, which was to become a leading theory in explaining the nature of time....
The Life of God in the Soul of Man - Henry Scougal
The Life of God in the Soul of Man - Henry Scougal
- Author: Henry Scougal
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Religion / Christianity - Other
Henry Scougal was born in Scotland in 1650. The son of the Bishop of Aberdeen, he flourished under rigorous teaching to become Professor of Philosophy at King's College, Aberdeen. In 1672, Scougal was ordained minister in Auchterless and, after a...
The Legends of Genesis - Hermann Gunkel
The Legends of Genesis - Hermann Gunkel
- Author: Hermann Gunkel
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / *Non-fiction / History
The Legends of Genesis is the English translation of the introduction to Gunkel’s massive commentary, Genesis. Gunkel uses form critical analysis on the text of Genesis to determine the various genres of the biblical legends and their significance...
A Description of New England - Captain John Smith
A Description of New England - Captain John Smith
- Author: Captain John Smith
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
Captain John Smith (c. January 1580 – June 21, 1631) Admiral of New England was an English soldier, explorer, and author. He was knighted for his services to Sigismund Bathory, Prince of Transylvania. He is remembered for his role in establishing...
The Apology of Socrates - Plato
The Apology of Socrates - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
Plato's account of Socrates' defense at his trial for "corrupting the youth" is a classic summation of his teacher's life and mission, centered in Socrates' most famous line, "The unexamined life is not worth living." - Written by FrZeile...
History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century, Volume 2 - Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné
History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century, Volume 2 - Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné
- Author: Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Early Modern
The History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century, by Jean-Henri Merle d’Aubigné, is a classic work on the great events that re-opened the Christian gospel to a needy world. The author was a Swiss Protestant pastor. He was also a historian...
Auguste Comte and Positivism - John Stuart Mill
Auguste Comte and Positivism - John Stuart Mill
- Author: John Stuart Mill
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
Part 1 lays out the framework for Positivism as originated in France by Auguste Comte in his Cours de Philosophie Positive. Mill examines the tenets of Comte's movement and alerts us to defects. Part 2 concerns all Comte's writings except the Cours...
The Autobiography of Mother Jones - Mary Harris Jones
The Autobiography of Mother Jones - Mary Harris Jones
- Author: Mary Harris Jones
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones) was a legendary labor organizer. She was a founding member of the International Workers of the World (the IWW, or the Wobblies), and was active in the United Mine Workers and the Socialist Party of America. (Summary...
Pirates of Panama - Alexandre Exquemelin
Pirates of Panama - Alexandre Exquemelin
- Author: Alexandre Exquemelin
- Genre: General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction / *Non-fiction
This volume was originally written in Dutch by John Esquemeling, and first published in Amsterdam in 1678 under the title of De Americaeneche Zee Roovers. It immediately became very popular and this first hand history of the Buccaneers of America...
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge - George Berkeley
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge - George Berkeley
- Author: George Berkeley
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Psychology
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (Commonly called "Treatise" when referring to Berkeley's works) is a 1710 work by the Irish Empiricist philosopher George Berkeley. This book largely seeks to refute the claims made by his...
With Christ in the School of Prayer - Andrew Murray
With Christ in the School of Prayer - Andrew Murray
- Author: Andrew Murray
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Religion / Self-Help
It is under a deep impression that the place and power of prayer in the Christian life is too little understood, that this book has been written. I feel sure that as long as we look on prayer chiefly as the means of maintaining our own Christian...
Diary Written in the Provincial Lunatic Asylum - Mary Huestis Pengilly
Diary Written in the Provincial Lunatic Asylum - Mary Huestis Pengilly
- Author: Mary Huestis Pengilly
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Mary Pengilly was taken to a Lunatic Asylum by her sons where she kept a diary, which this book is taken from. Mary records the harsh conditions and treatments received at the hands of the nurses during her stay. Once Mary is released she takes it...
Birdseye Views of Far Lands - James T. Nichols
Birdseye Views of Far Lands - James T. Nichols
- Author: James T. Nichols
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Travel & Geography
Birdseye Views of Far Lands is an interesting, wholesome presentation of something that a keen-eyed, alert traveler with the faculty of making contrasts with all classes of people in all sorts of places, in such a sympathetic way as to win their...
The Dawn of a To-morrow - Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Dawn of a To-morrow - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Philosophy
A wealthy London business man takes a room in a poor part of the city.He is depressed and has decided to take his life by going the next day to purchase a hand gun he had seen in a pawnshop window. The morning comes with one of those 'memorable...
Migration of Birds - U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Migration of Birds - U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- Author: U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Animals
Snow Geese which left James Bay, Canada, arrived at the Louisiana Gulf coast "60 hours later after a continuous flight of over 1,700 miles at an average speed of 28 miles per hour." This is just one of the many intriguing facts about bird migration...
The Mirror of the Sea - Joseph Conrad
The Mirror of the Sea - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction / *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
The Mirror of the Sea (collection of autobiographical essays first published in various magazines 1904-6 ), 1906 (Summary from Wikipedia)...
Hallel (Psalms 113-118) (JPS) - Jewish Publication Society of America
Hallel (Psalms 113-118) (JPS) - Jewish Publication Society of America
- Author: Jewish Publication Society of America
- Genre: Poetry / *Non-fiction / Religion
Hallel (Hebrew: הלל "Praise [God]") is part of Judaism's prayers, a verbatim recitation from Psalms 113-118, which is used for praise and thanksgiving that is recited by observant Jews on Jewish holidays. Summary from Wikipedia...
Boyhood - Leo Tolstoy
Boyhood - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Boyhood is the second in Tolstoy's trilogy of three autobiographical novels, including Childhood and Youth, published in a literary journal during the 1850s. (Introduction by Bill Boerst)...
Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of The Universe: Introduction - Alexander von Humboldt
Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of The Universe: Introduction - Alexander von Humboldt
- Author: Alexander von Humboldt
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Nature / Philosophy
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt was a Prussian geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of romantic philosophy. Many consider him to be the last of the great polymaths. After his death in 1859, the scientific...
The Art of the Moving Picture - Vachel Lindsay
The Art of the Moving Picture - Vachel Lindsay
- Author: Vachel Lindsay
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Art / Design & Architecture
"This 1922 book by poet and sometime cultural critic Vachel Lindsay might have been the first to treat the then-new medium of moving pictures as an art form, one that was potentially as rich, complex, mysterious as far older ones, and whose physical...
Herndon's Lincoln - William H. Herndon
Herndon's Lincoln - William H. Herndon
- Author: William H. Herndon
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
A biography of Abraham Lincoln by his long-time law partner, William Herndon and Herndon's collaborator, Jesse Weik. The book is notable for its extensive use of first hand interviews (unusual for its time) and for Herndon's overriding determination...
Reminiscences of Captain Gronow - Rees Howell Gronow
Reminiscences of Captain Gronow - Rees Howell Gronow
- Author: Rees Howell Gronow
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Memoirs / Modern (19th C)
A collection of memoirs about the Peninsular War, the Battle of Waterloo, and society and personalities of Regency London and 19th century Paris, by a sometime Grenadier Guards officer, unsuccessful parliamentarian, and dandy. Gronow displays some...
The General History of the Pyrates - Captain Charles Johnson
The General History of the Pyrates - Captain Charles Johnson
- Author: Captain Charles Johnson
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction / *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates is a 1724 book containing biographies of contemporary pirates. It's author uses the name Captain Charles Johnson, generally considered a pseudonym.The real identity of the...
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 3, Chapter 13) - Thomas Babington Macaulay
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 3, Chapter 13) - Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
This chapter traces the history of the Glorious Revolution in Scotland, including the reaction of the country's religious parties, the installment of William and Mary, and the campaigns of the Highland Army. (Summary by Leon Mire)...
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection - Charles Darwin
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection - Charles Darwin
- Author: Charles Darwin
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Nature / Science
Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species (publ. 1859) is a pivotal work in scientific literature and arguably the pivotal work in evolutionary biology. The book’s full title is On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the...
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 003 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 003 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Essays & Short Works
A collection of ten short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass history, politics science and religion. Included in...
Good Things to Eat As Suggested By Rufus - Rufus Estes
Good Things to Eat As Suggested By Rufus - Rufus Estes
- Author: Rufus Estes
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Self-Help
Rufus Estes was born a slave in 1857 in Tennessee, and experienced first hand the turmoil of the Civil War. He began working in a Nashville restaurant at the age of 16, and in 1883 took up employment as a Pullman cook. In 1897, he was hired as...
Bible (ASV) 22: Song of Solomon - American Standard Version
Bible (ASV) 22: Song of Solomon - American Standard Version
- Author: American Standard Version
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Religion
The Song of Songs is the twenty-second book of The Bible and was authored by Solomon. In some translations, this book is entitled The Song of Solomon. It is also known as The Best Song. Replete with metaphor, this book is a love song that describes...
Quiet Talks about Jesus - S. D. Gordon
Quiet Talks about Jesus - S. D. Gordon
- Author: S. D. Gordon
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Psychology
So far as I can find out, I have no theory about Jesus to make these talks fit into. I have tried to find out for myself what the old Book of God tells about Him. And here I am trying to tell to others, as simply as I can, what I found. It was by...
The Reason Why - Robert Kemp Philp
The Reason Why - Robert Kemp Philp
- Author: Robert Kemp Philp
- Genre: Family Life / *Non-fiction / Education
This collection of useful information on "Common Things" is put in the interesting form of "Why and Because," and comprehends a familiar explanation of many subjects which occupy a large space in the philosophy of Nature, relating to air, animals,...
As a Man Thinketh - James Allen
As a Man Thinketh - James Allen
- Author: James Allen
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
Allen's books illustrate the use of the power of thought to increase personal capabilities. Although he never achieved great fame or wealth, his works continue to influence people around the world, including the New Thought movement. Allen's most...
Letters of Travel - Rudyard Kipling
Letters of Travel - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / *Non-fiction
Three books of travel writing (between them covering the USA, Canada, Japan and Egypt) by the Nobel Prize winning author of the Just So Stories and the Jungle Book. Rudyard Kipling (an Englishman born and raised in India) offers an interesting...
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 007 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 007 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Philosophy
A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and reports included in this collection were independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass history, politics, philosophy, science...
The Autobiography of a Slander - Edna Lyall
The Autobiography of a Slander - Edna Lyall
- Author: Edna Lyall
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories / *Non-fiction
The Autobiography of a Slander exposes the consequences of reckless words or, even worse, intentionally disparaging words. In this moral tale, told from the point of view of "the slander", Edna Lyall (pseudonym used by Ada Ellen Bayley) reveals her...
Treatise on Light - Christiaan Huygens
Treatise on Light - Christiaan Huygens
- Author: Christiaan Huygens
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Nature / Science
Treatise on Light was published in 1690 and is probably the largest scientific volume on light published before Newton's Opticks. The book explains how light travels (i.e., that it has a certain velocity), and what happens when it hits a surface...
The Elements of Entomology - William Ruschenberger
The Elements of Entomology - William Ruschenberger
- Author: William Ruschenberger
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Nature / Science
The Elements of Entomology is one of seven in a Series of First Books of Natural History Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges. It is a succinct little textbook from 1845 that presents an introduction to entomology. The author was a surgeon...
The Education of Henry Adams - Henry Brooks Adams
The Education of Henry Adams - Henry Brooks Adams
- Author: Henry Brooks Adams
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
The Education of Henry Adams records the struggle of Bostonian Henry Adams (1838-1918), in early old age, to come to terms with the dawning 20th century, so different from the world of his youth. It is also a sharp critique of 19th century...
Current Superstitions - Fanny Dickerson Bergen
Current Superstitions - Fanny Dickerson Bergen
- Author: Fanny Dickerson Bergen
- Genre: *Non-fiction
No matter how enlightened, chances are you've been raised around superstitious lore of one kind or another. Fanny Dickerson Bergen was one of the original researchers of North American oral traditions relating to such key life events and experiences...
