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Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 - Friedrich Engels
Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 - Friedrich Engels
- Author: Friedrich Engels
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Political Science
This is Engels' first book (since considered a classic account of England's working class in the industrial age), which argues that workers paid a heavy price for the industrial revolution that swept the country. Engels wrote the piece while staying...
Unidentified Flying Objects - UNITED STATES FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Unidentified Flying Objects - UNITED STATES FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
- Author: UNITED STATES FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Political Science
Through the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) this series of communications has been de-classified and made public. Most names have been omitted, however much information of the sightings of UFOs in 1947 can be gleaned from these communications...
Four Discourses Against The Arians - Athanasius of Alexandria
Four Discourses Against The Arians - Athanasius of Alexandria
- Author: Athanasius of Alexandria
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / *Non-fiction
In spite of Nicea's condemnation of Arius in 325, Arianism was far from dead. For decades after Nicea, political intrigue and personality clashes continued to confuse the doctrinal issues. Additionally, the line separating othodoxy from Arianism was...
Totem and Taboo - Sigmund Freud
Totem and Taboo - Sigmund Freud
- Author: Sigmund Freud
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Psychology
Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics is a book by Sigmund Freud published in German in 1913 under the title Totem und Tabu: Einige Übereinstimmungen im Seelenleben der Wilden und der Neurotiker. It is a...
The History of the Peloponnesian War - THUCYDIDES
The History of the Peloponnesian War - THUCYDIDES
- Author: THUCYDIDES
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
The History of the Peloponnesian War is an account of the Peloponnesian War in Ancient Greece, fought between the Peloponnesian League (led by Sparta) and the Delian League (led by Athens) in the 5th Century BC. It was written by Thucydides, an...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 065 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 065 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. A review of William Carlos Williams' "Kora in Hell" by Robert McAlmon is one of several selections devoted to literature and learning. Others are H. P. Lovecraft's "Literary Composition;" George...
The Meaning of the Glorious Koran - Mohammed Marmaduke PICKTHALL
The Meaning of the Glorious Koran - Mohammed Marmaduke PICKTHALL
- Author: Mohammed Marmaduke PICKTHALL
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Religion / Other religions
The Koran (Qur'an) is regarded by Muslims as the word of God (Allah) as revealed to the prophet Muhammad. It is divided into 114 chapters (surahs), arranged roughly by length. This version, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran, is a widely used English...
Confessions of a Convert - Robert Hugh Benson
Confessions of a Convert - Robert Hugh Benson
- Author: Robert Hugh Benson
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / Religion
Robert Hugh Benson was the youngest son of Edward White Benson, the Archbishop of Canterbury and his wife Mary. Benson was was a prolific and popular writer during his time, and in 1903 he became a prominent convert to the Roman Catholic Church from...
Radioactive Substances - Marie CURIE
Radioactive Substances - Marie CURIE
- Author: Marie CURIE
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Chemistry
Marie Curie, born in Warsaw in 1867, was a Polish-French physicist and chemist famous for her work on radioactivity. She was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity and the first person honored with two Nobel Prizes - in physics (1903) and chemistry...
The Lives of the Queens of England Volume 2 - Agnes Strickland
The Lives of the Queens of England Volume 2 - Agnes Strickland
- Author: Agnes Strickland
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
The Lives of the Queens of England is a multi-volumed work attributed to Agnes Strickland, though it was mostly researched and written by her sister Elizabeth. These volumes give biographies of the queens of England from the Norman Conquest in 1066....
Great Artists: Volume 1 - Jennie Ellis KEYSOR
Great Artists: Volume 1 - Jennie Ellis KEYSOR
- Author: Jennie Ellis KEYSOR
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Art / Design & Architecture / Biography & Autobiography
Biographies of Raphael Santi, Murillo, Peter Paul Rubens, and Albrecht Durer. This is a wonderful tool for art study as there are references for further study, as well as ideas for language arts to incorporate into the study. Summary by Laura...
The Outline of Science, Vol 1 (Solo) - J. Arthur Thomson
The Outline of Science, Vol 1 (Solo) - J. Arthur Thomson
- Author: J. Arthur Thomson
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Nature / Science
In The Outline of Science, Thomson gives us a window into scientific thinking as it stood in 1922 on the big, the little, and the biological. With straightforward language intended for a general audience, this book covers astronomy from the Solar...
How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York - Jacob A. Riis
How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York - Jacob A. Riis
- Author: Jacob A. Riis
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Political Science
How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890) was a pioneering work of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting the squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. It served as a basis for future...
The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz - Anonymous
The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Philosophy
The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz was edited in 1616 in Strasbourg (annexed by France in 1681). It is the third of the original manifestos of the mysterious "Fraternity of the Rose Cross" (Rosicrucians). NOTE: It was translated into...
The Roaring Girl - Thomas Middleton
The Roaring Girl - Thomas Middleton
- Author: Thomas Middleton
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays / *Non-fiction
The Roaring Girl is a rip-roaring Jacobean comedy co-written by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker and first published in 1611. The play is a fictionalized dramatization of the life of Mary Frith, known as "Moll Cutpurse", a woman who had gained a...
Folk Ballad Collection 001 - Various
Folk Ballad Collection 001 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry / *Non-fiction / Music
Librivox’s first collection of sung and spoken folk ballads (13 in collection)....
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 1, Chapter 02) - Thomas Babington Macaulay
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 1, Chapter 02) - Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
This is the second chapter of Thomas Babington Macaulay’s History of England from the Succession of James II. In this chapter we see the restoration of the House of Stuart. The mood of the people sours toward the Roundheads, Army and, of course the...
The Masque of Anarchy - Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Masque of Anarchy - Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Genre: Poetry / *Non-fiction / Political Science
The Masque of Anarchy was Shelley's response to the Peterloo massacre at St Peter's Fields, Manchester, where 18 died and hundreds were injured, after Hussars charged into a rally for parliamentary reform. Written in Italy in 1819, the poem was not...
John Stuart Mill; His Life and Works - Various
John Stuart Mill; His Life and Works - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
This biography is actually a series of essays by prominent personalities of the time that shed light on John Stuart Mill's life and areas of endeavor. Those areas include his experiences in India House, his moral character, certain botanical...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 051 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 051 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Seventeen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include philosophy--Bertrand Russell, Spinoza, and Epictetus; science and invention--the Wright brothers, Leibniz, arctic explorer Sir John Franklin,...
Psychotherapy - Hugo MÜNSTERBERG
Psychotherapy - Hugo MÜNSTERBERG
- Author: Hugo MÜNSTERBERG
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Psychology
Talking about viewing the Ocean "If I take the attitude of appreciation, it would be absurd to say that this wave is composed of chemical elements which I do not see; and if I take the attitude of physical explanation, it would be equally absurd to...
A Text-book of Assaying - Cornelius BERINGER
A Text-book of Assaying - Cornelius BERINGER
- Author: Cornelius BERINGER
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Science
This is a formal but relaxed text covering assaying techniques for most of the substances which are mined. As the authors say: "At first our intention was to supply a description of those substances only which have a commercial value, but on...
The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Part 1 - Charles Darwin
The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Part 1 - Charles Darwin
- Author: Charles Darwin
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Science
A book on evolutionary theory by English naturalist Charles Darwin, first published in 1871. It was Darwin's second great book on evolutionary theory, following his 1859 work, On The Origin of Species. In The Descent of Man, Darwin applies...
The Gentleman and Lady's Book of Politeness and Propriety of Deportment - Élisabeth CELNART
The Gentleman and Lady's Book of Politeness and Propriety of Deportment - Élisabeth CELNART
- Author: Élisabeth CELNART
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Self-Help
A mid-nineteenth century book of etiquette. (Summary by Libby Gohn)...
The Wealth of Nations, Book 5 - Adam Smith
The Wealth of Nations, Book 5 - Adam Smith
- Author: Adam Smith
- Genre: *Non-fiction
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist Adam Smith, published on March 9, 1776 during the Scottish Enlightenment. It is a clearly written account of political economy at the dawn of...
The Life of Reason volume 1 - George Santayana
The Life of Reason volume 1 - George Santayana
- Author: George Santayana
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
The Life of Reason, subtitled "the Phases of Human Progress", is a book published in five volumes from 1905 to 1906, by Spanish-born American philosopher George Santayana (1863-1952). It consists of Reason in Common Sense, Reason in Society, Reason...
On the Laws - Marcus Tullius Cicero
On the Laws - Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / *Non-fiction / Philosophy
On the Laws (Latin: De Legibus) was written shortly after Cicero's "On the Commonwealth" during the last years of the Roman Republic. The three surviving books (out of an original six), in order, expound on Cicero's beliefs in Natural Law, recast...
Eight Pillars of Prosperity - James Allen
Eight Pillars of Prosperity - James Allen
- Author: James Allen
- Genre: *Non-fiction
It is popularly supposed that a greater prosperity for individuals or nations can only come through a political and social reconstruction. This cannot be true apart from the practice of the moral virtues in the individuals that comprise a nation....
A-Birding on a Bronco - Florence A. MERRIAM
A-Birding on a Bronco - Florence A. MERRIAM
- Author: Florence A. MERRIAM
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Nature
Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey was an American ornithologist and nature writer. She started observing bird behavior at a time when most bird study was based on collections and skins. By 1885, she began to write articles focusing on protecting...
Three Essays by James Freeman Clarke - James Freeman CLARKE
Three Essays by James Freeman Clarke - James Freeman CLARKE
- Author: James Freeman CLARKE
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Other religions
Three diverse essays on souls in animals, a comparison of Buddhism and Christianity, and individualism in religion. Born in Hanover, New Hampshire, James Freeman Clarke attended the Boston Latin School, graduated from Harvard College in 1829, and...
De Profundis (version 2) - Oscar Wilde
De Profundis (version 2) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Philosophy
This is a letter written from prison in 1897 by Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas, in which he recounts how he came to be in prison and charts his spiritual development. (summary by AdamH)NOTE: ."Transcribed from the 1913 Methuen & Co. edition...
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 5, Chapter 25) - Thomas Babington Macaulay
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 5, Chapter 25) - Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
This is volume 5, chapter 25 of a series of books written by the Baron Macaulay (1800-1859) and published after his death.To quote from the preface - 'I HAVE thought it right to publish that portion of the continuation of the "History of England"...
The Souls of Black Folk - W. E. B. Du Bois
The Souls of Black Folk - W. E. B. Du Bois
- Author: W. E. B. Du Bois
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Music
The Souls of Black Folk is a well-known work of African-American literature by activist W.E.B. Du Bois. The book, published in 1903, contains several essays on race, some of which had been previously published in Atlantic Monthly magazine. Du Bois...
Amendments to the United States Constitution (version 2) - United States Government
Amendments to the United States Constitution (version 2) - United States Government
- Author: United States Government
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
The Constitution has a total of 27 amendments. The first ten, collectively known as the Bill of Rights, were ratified simultaneously. The following seventeen were ratified separately. (Summary from wikipedia.org)...
They Call Me Carpenter - Upton Sinclair
They Call Me Carpenter - Upton Sinclair
- Author: Upton Sinclair
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Religion
The story takes place in the fictional city of Western City circa 1920. It begins with a man named Billy who is attacked by a mob of ex-servicemen outside a theater after watching a German film. Billy stumbles into a church to escape the mob and is...
Indian Heroes and Great Chieftans - Charles Alexander Eastman
Indian Heroes and Great Chieftans - Charles Alexander Eastman
- Author: Charles Alexander Eastman
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
EVERY age, every race, has its leaders and heroes. There were over sixty distinct tribes of Indians on this continent, each of which boasted its notable men. The names and deeds of some of these men will live in American history, yet in the true...
The Mentor 1 - Various
The Mentor 1 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction
The Mentor Association was established to increase interest and knowledge among the public in the areas of art, literature, science, nature, history and travel. The association published a magazine twice monthly, each dealing with a different topic...
History of the United States, Vol. VI - Charles Austin Beard
History of the United States, Vol. VI - Charles Austin Beard
- Author: Charles Austin Beard
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
Charles Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and interpretive studies in both history and political science. He graduated from DePauw University in 1898, where he...
Pep: Poise, Efficiency, Peace - William C. HUNTER
Pep: Poise, Efficiency, Peace - William C. HUNTER
- Author: William C. HUNTER
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Self-Help
Colonel William Crosbie Hunter was a businessman and self-help writer who was moderately popular in the early 20th century. His books set forth his personal philosophy on health, happiness, human relations, and success in the business world. Pep,...
The Lepers of Molokai - Charles Warren STODDARD
The Lepers of Molokai - Charles Warren STODDARD
- Author: Charles Warren STODDARD
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
This is the story of the lepers of Molokai and of the Roman Catholic missionary, Father Damien, who ministered to those who languished in that desolate place, waiting for death to release them from a most intense form of physical and mental...
