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Pictures from Italy - Charles Dickens
Pictures from Italy - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Travel & Geography
e:Dickens takes time off his novels to give an account of travels which he and his family undertook in France and Italy. There are vivid descriptions of the places, but also of the people and their lives. (Summary by Anthony Ogus)...
The Antichrist - Friedrich Nietzsche
The Antichrist - Friedrich Nietzsche
- Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Atheism & Agnosticism
Save for his raucous, rhapsodical autobiography, Ecce Homo, The Antichrist is the last thing that Nietzsche ever wrote, and so it may be accepted as a statement of some of his most salient ideas in their final form. Of all Nietzsche’s books, The...
Beautiful Girlhood - Mabel HALE
Beautiful Girlhood - Mabel HALE
- Author: Mabel HALE
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Self-Help
The transitioning years between girlhood and womanhood are an exciting time for a girl, as well as tumultuous and confusing. Beautiful Girlhood by Mabel Hale is a lovely guide that will help the young girl understand the changes she is going through...
The Gettysburg Address (version 3) - Abraham Lincoln
The Gettysburg Address (version 3) - Abraham Lincoln
- Author: Abraham Lincoln
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Political Science
The Dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, in November, 1863, followed a few short months after the roiling, acrid clouds of gun smoke dissipated, leaving a little crossroads town in Pennsylvania heir to the human tragedy of over 7,000...
The Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance - Edith BIRKHEAD
The Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance - Edith BIRKHEAD
- Author: Edith BIRKHEAD
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Literary Criticism
A seminal essay on the development of horror as a genre, highly influential on later writers. - Summary by Timothy Ferguson...
The Age of Reason - Thomas PAINE
The Age of Reason - Thomas PAINE
- Author: Thomas PAINE
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Political Science
The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology, a deistic treatise written by eighteenth-century British radical and American revolutionary Thomas Paine, critiques institutionalized religion and challenges the inerrancy of...
Our Knowledge Box - George BLACKIE
Our Knowledge Box - George BLACKIE
- Author: George BLACKIE
- Genre: *Non-fiction
This practical guide to solving all sorts of problems includes secrets and discoveries covering the Liquor Trade, Druggists' Aids, Manufacturing Hints, Toiletries and Perfumeries, Hunting and Trapping, the Fine Arts and Sciences, Farming Techniques,...
The First Apology of Justin Martyr - Saint Justin Martyr
The First Apology of Justin Martyr - Saint Justin Martyr
- Author: Saint Justin Martyr
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Religion
The purpose of the Apology is to prove to the emperors, renowned as upright and philosophical men, the injustice of the persecution of the Christians, who are the representatives of true philosophy … Christians are the true worshipers of God, the...
John Barleycorn or Alcoholic Memoirs - Jack London
John Barleycorn or Alcoholic Memoirs - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Jack London died at the age of forty. In this autobiographical work, London describes his life as seen through the eyes of John Barleycorn (alcohol). There is much controversy about the cause of his death just as there is about alcoholism and...
Annie Besant - Annie Besant
Annie Besant - Annie Besant
- Author: Annie Besant
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Atheism & Agnosticism
In her autobiography, Annie Besant poignantly writes of her search for the truth of what she believed in, leaving Christianity behind to embrace Atheism, and ultimately finding her peace in Theosophy, which she became interested in after meeting...
Among Typhoons And Pirate Craft - Lindsay ANDERSON
Among Typhoons And Pirate Craft - Lindsay ANDERSON
- Author: Lindsay ANDERSON
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Anderson served as third officer aboard the Eamont. Eamont was an opium clipper built in Cowes. Eamont was involved in the opening of Japan to foreigners in 1858, serving as a dispatch boat between Nagasaki and Shanghai, and was one of the first...
The Awful German Language (version 2) - Mark Twain
The Awful German Language (version 2) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / *Non-fiction / Education
This long essay is a work of mock philology, one of several appendices to Twain’s travel novel, A Tramp Abroad. In it, Twain explains, complains about, and shows how one might improve upon various aspects of the (awful) German language. His examples...
United Kingdom House of Lords Speeches Collection - Various
United Kingdom House of Lords Speeches Collection - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Political Science
This collection comprises recordings of seven historic speeches given to the UK House of Lords between 1641 and 1945. Readings are of speeches origninally given by the 1st Earl of Strafford (Thomas Wentworth), the 1st Earl of Chatham (William Pitt...
The Elements of Ornithology - William Ruschenberger
The Elements of Ornithology - William Ruschenberger
- Author: William Ruschenberger
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Animals / Science
The Elements of Ornithology is one of seven in a Series of First Books of Natural History Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges. This succinct little textbook from 1845 presents an introduction to ornithology. The information, albeit not...
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. I - Edward Gibbon
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. I - Edward Gibbon
- Author: Edward Gibbon
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was written by the celebrated English historian Edward Gibbon. Volume I was published in 1776, and went through six...
The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775 - Abraham TOMLINSON
The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775 - Abraham TOMLINSON
- Author: Abraham TOMLINSON
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
"Perceiving that much of the intrinsic value of these Journals would consist in a proper understanding of the historical facts to which allusions are made in them, I prevailed upon Mr. LOSSING, the well-known author of the "_Pictorial Field-Book of...
Dogs and All About Them - Robert LEIGHTON
Dogs and All About Them - Robert LEIGHTON
- Author: Robert LEIGHTON
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Animals
This comprehensive guide on dog-rearing looks at dogs as more than just pets - as people's best friends. The author describes each breed of dog in a detailed and systematic way, with complete notes on show-dogs. (Summary by Diana Majlinger)...
The Birds' Christmas Carol - Kate Douglas Wiggin
The Birds' Christmas Carol - Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Genre: Children's Fiction / *Non-fiction / House & Home
Carol Bird was born on Christmas Day. She has spent all of her 11 years putting others above herself, always finding ways to make their lives a little more special. Even when faced with her own illness, the pure goodness of her heart shines through....
The Romance of Rubber - UNITED STATES RUBBER COMPANY
The Romance of Rubber - UNITED STATES RUBBER COMPANY
- Author: UNITED STATES RUBBER COMPANY
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Nature
This pamphlet was published in the early 20th century by the United States Rubber Company so that "coming generations of our country ... have some understanding of the importance of rubber in our every day life... We believe the rubber industry will...
History of the Conquest of Mexico - William H. PRESCOTT
History of the Conquest of Mexico - William H. PRESCOTT
- Author: William H. PRESCOTT
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
(Note: This project had some missing and duplicate sections. This has been corrected as of July 9, 2010. The affected sections were 12, 13, 27, 28, 33, & 34.) Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 066 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 066 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Essays & Short Works
Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. "Why Women Should Vote" (Jane Addams, 1910) is one of several selections devoted to women's interests, as are Martha Foote Crow's "The Young Woman on the Farm" (1910), Alice Freeman Palmer's...
Holy Sonnets - John Donne
Holy Sonnets - John Donne
- Author: John Donne
- Genre: Poetry / *Non-fiction / Religion
John Donne (1572 – March 31, 1631) was a Jacobean poet and preacher, representative of the metaphysical poets of the period. His works, notable for their realistic and sensual style, include sonnets, love poetry, religious poems, Latin translations,...
How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types - Elsie Lincoln BENEDICT
How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types - Elsie Lincoln BENEDICT
- Author: Elsie Lincoln BENEDICT
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Psychology / Self-Help
In this popular American book from the 1920s, accomplished public speaker and self-help charlatan Elsie Lincoln Benedict outlines her pseudo-scientific system of "Human Analysis". She proposes that, within the human race, five sub-types have...
Concise Commentary on the Bible - Book of Matthew - Matthew HENRY
Concise Commentary on the Bible - Book of Matthew - Matthew HENRY
- Author: Matthew HENRY
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Religion
Spiritual and practical lessons are extracted from every verse of the Book of Matthew, as well as detailed explanation of the text. The Book of Matthew is part of the New Testament in the Holy Bible and is one of the four gospels. The other 3...
Being a Boy - Charles Dudley WARNER
Being a Boy - Charles Dudley WARNER
- Author: Charles Dudley WARNER
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Warner's thoughtful and often humorous memoir of his life as a young farm-boy in Charlemont, Massachusetts. (Introduction by Mark Penfold)...
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 5, Chapter 23) - Thomas Babington Macaulay
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 5, Chapter 23) - Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
This is volume 5 chapter 23 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"...
Gorgias - Plato
Gorgias - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Satire / *Non-fiction
This dialogue brings Socrates face to face with the famous sophist Gorgias and his followers. It is a work likely completed around the time of "Republic" and illuminates many of the spiritual ideas of Plato. The spirituality, as Jowett points out in...
Bethink Yourselves! - Leo Tolstoy
Bethink Yourselves! - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Political Science
As Russia goes to war against Japan, Tolstoy urges those at all levels of society, from the Tsar down to the common soldier, to consider their actions in the light of Christ's teaching. "However strange this may appear, the most effective and...
Kepler - Walter W. BRYANT
Kepler - Walter W. BRYANT
- Author: Walter W. BRYANT
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
This biography of Johannes Kepler begins with an account of what the world of astronomy was like before his time, then proceeds to a look at his early years. Two chapters deal with his working relationship with Tycho Brahe. These are followed by a...
Christmas Poetry and Hymn Collection - Various
Christmas Poetry and Hymn Collection - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry / *Non-fiction / Religion
This collection includes 40 different Christmas carols collected and read by Douglas D. Anderson, the creator of The Hymns and Carols of Christmas website, a public-domain collection of Christmas music containing over 2,600 hymns, carols and songs....
The Life of Charlemagne (Einhard) - EINHARD
The Life of Charlemagne (Einhard) - EINHARD
- Author: EINHARD
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
Einhard was employed by Charlemagne as a court historian. At the request of Charlemagne's son and successor Louis the Pious, he wrote a biography of Charlemagne, the Vita Karoli Magni or Life of Charlemagne (c. 817–830), which provides much direct...
Principles of Economics, Book 4: The Agents of Production - Alfred Marshall
Principles of Economics, Book 4: The Agents of Production - Alfred Marshall
- Author: Alfred Marshall
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Principles of Economics was a leading economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), first published in 1890. Marshall began writing the book in 1881, and he spent much of the next decade at work on it. His plan for the work gradually extended...
The Andes and The Amazon - James ORTON
The Andes and The Amazon - James ORTON
- Author: James ORTON
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Nature / Science
This book, with the subtitle "Across the Continent of South America" describes the scientific expedion of 1867 to the equatorial Andes and the Amazon. The route was from Guayaquil to Quito, over the Cordillera, through the forest to Napo, and,...
Prehistoric Men - Robert J. BRAIDWOOD
Prehistoric Men - Robert J. BRAIDWOOD
- Author: Robert J. BRAIDWOOD
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Earth Sciences
This little book, first published in 1948, is part of the Chicago Natural History Popular History series that explains difficult subjects in ways and terms we all can understand. It was published at a time in Anthropology when exciting things like...
The Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ - Anne Catherine EMMERICH
The Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ - Anne Catherine EMMERICH
- Author: Anne Catherine EMMERICH
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Religion
Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774-1824) was a German Augustinian nun who had visions about Christ's life and death. This book relates her visions regarding the Blessed Virgin Mary, from her marriage to St. Joseph to the events surrounding the birth of...
The Twilight of the Idols - Friedrich Nietzsche
The Twilight of the Idols - Friedrich Nietzsche
- Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
Of The Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche says in Ecce Homo: “If anyone should desire to obtain a rapid sketch of how everything before my time was standing on its head, he should begin reading me in this book. That which is called ‘Idols’ on the...
The Faith of Our Fathers - James GIBBONS
The Faith of Our Fathers - James GIBBONS
- Author: James GIBBONS
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Psychology
The Faith of Our Fathers: A Plain Exposition and Vindication of the Church Founded by Our Lord Jesus Christ is a book published in 1876 by archbishop James Gibbons, which became a best-selling conversion manual in the United States, and by 1980 was...
Oscar Wilde: Art and Morality - Stuart MASON
Oscar Wilde: Art and Morality - Stuart MASON
- Author: Stuart MASON
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
“Who can help laughing when an ordinary journalist seriously proposes to limit the subject-matter at the disposal of the artist?” “We are dominated by journalism.... Journalism governs for ever and ever.”[/i] One of the nastiest of the British...
Padre Ignacio, Or The Song Of Temptation - Owen Wister
Padre Ignacio, Or The Song Of Temptation - Owen Wister
- Author: Owen Wister
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Westerns / *Non-fiction
Padre Ignacio has been the pastor of California mission Santa Ysabel del Mar for twenty years. In 1855 a stranger rides into the mission bringing news and a spiritual crisis. It's really more of a novella than a novel. (Summary by David Wales)...
Metaphysics - Aristotle
Metaphysics - Aristotle
- Author: Aristotle
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Science
Metaphysics (Ancient Greek: ΜΕΤΑ ΤΑ ΦΥΣΙΚΑ; Latin: METAPHYSICA; English: After the Physics) discusses topics including substance, accident, causation and God. The text was lost in Western Europe during the Dark Ages. (Summary by Geoffrey Edwards)...
