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An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation - Jeremy BENTHAM
An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation - Jeremy BENTHAM
- Author: Jeremy BENTHAM
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Political Science
Jeremy Bentham's Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, a classic text in modern philosophy and jurisprudence, first published in 1789, focuses on the principle of utility and how this view of morality ties into legislative...
The Keepsake - Anonymous
The Keepsake - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Poetry / *Non-fiction
"The Keepsake, or, Poems and Pictures For Childhood and Youth", is a collection of twenty pastoral poems published as one collection in London, 1818. The topics are moral encouragement for children, young and old alike. (Summary by Sam Stinson)...
History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688, Volume 1C - David Hume
History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688, Volume 1C - David Hume
- Author: David Hume
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
David Hume is one of the great philosophers of the Western intellectual tradition. His philosophical writings earned him lasting fame and renown; his historical writing earned his bread and butter. His "The History of England from the Invasion of...
Romulus - Jacob Abbott
Romulus - Jacob Abbott
- Author: Jacob Abbott
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / *Non-fiction / History
Jacob Abbott wrote many historical books for children. He was careful to ensure historical accuracy, and as he said himself in the preface to this book "Whatever of interest ... these stories may possess is due solely to the facts themselves which...
Mob Rule In New Orleans - Ida B. WELLS-BARNETT
Mob Rule In New Orleans - Ida B. WELLS-BARNETT
- Author: Ida B. WELLS-BARNETT
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Modern (20th C)
Born into slavery in Mississippi in 1862, Ida B. Wells-Barnett was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist, leader in the Civil Rights Movement, and one of the founders of the National Association for the...
Physics - Aristotle
Physics - Aristotle
- Author: Aristotle
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / *Non-fiction / Nature
Physics (Greek: Φυσικὴ ἀκρόασις; Latin: Physica, or Physicae Auscultationes) discusses concepts including: substance, accident, the infinite, causation, motion, time and the Prime Mover. (Summary by Geoffrey Edwards)...
Letters from Victorian Pioneers - Various
Letters from Victorian Pioneers - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Letters
A series of letters on the early occupation of the colony, the Aborigines, etc addressed by Victorian pioneers to his Excellency Charles Joseph La Trobe Esq. , Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of Victoria in response to a circular letter sent by...
The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science - Thomas TROWARD
The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science - Thomas TROWARD
- Author: Thomas TROWARD
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Psychology
Thomas Troward was a divisional Judge in British-administered India. His avocation was the study of comparative religion. Influences on his thinking, as well as his later writing, included the teachings of Christ, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism....
The Bridge of History Over the Gulf of Time: A Popular View of the Historical Evidence for the Truth of Christianity - Thomas COOPER
The Bridge of History Over the Gulf of Time: A Popular View of the Historical Evidence for the Truth of Christianity - Thomas COOPER
- Author: Thomas COOPER
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Religion
Written by the former skeptic, poet, and scholar, Thomas Cooper, The Bridge of History Over the Gulf of Time admirably sets forth a winsome defense of Christianity. Written as the substance of fourteen years of lectures, at the request of his...
The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. III - James Boswell
The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. III - James Boswell
- Author: James Boswell
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
This is the third volume of the Biography of Samuel Johnson. Samuel Johnson's Life has been documented in great detail by his friends, this biography being originally published by James Boswell, and then edited several times by other persons, such...
The French Revolution - Hilaire Belloc
The French Revolution - Hilaire Belloc
- Author: Hilaire Belloc
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
“It is, for that matter, self-evident that if one community decides in one fashion, another, also sovereign, in the opposite fashion, both cannot be right. Reasoning men have also protested, and justly, against the conception that what a majority in...
Evolution Creatrice - Henri BERGSON
Evolution Creatrice - Henri BERGSON
- Author: Henri BERGSON
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Contemporary / Life Sciences
Creative Evolution (French: L'Évolution créatrice) is a 1907 book by French philosopher Henri Bergson. Its English translation appeared in 1911. The book provides an alternate explanation for Darwin's mechanism of evolution, suggesting that...
The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century - Thomas Henry Huxley
The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century - Thomas Henry Huxley
- Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Science
Thomas H. Huxley, an English biologist and essayist, was an advocate of the theory of evolution and a self-proclaimed agnostic. A talented writer, his essays helped to popularize science in the 19th century, and he is credited with the quote, "Try...
The World’s Story Volume III: Egypt, Africa and Arabia - Eva March Tappan
The World’s Story Volume III: Egypt, Africa and Arabia - Eva March Tappan
- Author: Eva March Tappan
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Poetry / *Non-fiction
This is the third volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature, poetry and pictures and offers a...
Other People's Money - Louis D. BRANDEIS
Other People's Money - Louis D. BRANDEIS
- Author: Louis D. BRANDEIS
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Business & Economics / Essays & Short Works
Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It is a collection of essays written by Louis Brandeis published as a book in 1914. The book attacked the use of investment funds to promote the consolidation of various industries under the control of a...
The Letters of a Post-Impressionist - Vincent VAN GOGH
The Letters of a Post-Impressionist - Vincent VAN GOGH
- Author: Vincent VAN GOGH
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Art / Design & Architecture / Letters
“Being the Familiar Correspondence of Vincent Van Gogh ... [Van Gogh's] art was appreciated during his life only by a very few and it is but within recent years that it has found admirers who in many cases have been most ardently enthusiastic. Of...
Historical Newspaper Articles, Volume 2 - Various
Historical Newspaper Articles, Volume 2 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
This collection of 20 public domain newspaper articles comprises volume 2 of Historic Newspaper Articles in the LibriVox collection. Both U.S. and U.K. newspapers are represented here. The articles span from 1848 to 1920. Topics covered (e.g., the...
New Discoveries at Jamestown - John L. COTTER
New Discoveries at Jamestown - John L. COTTER
- Author: John L. COTTER
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
Chances are, you are reading this because you are aware that Jamestown, Virginia, celebrated its 400th birthday in 2007. It was the first "successful" English settlement in America. Although the colonists eventually moved upriver to be quit of the...
Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway - Steve SOLOMON
Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway - Steve SOLOMON
- Author: Steve SOLOMON
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Nature / Self-Help
Gardening expert Steve Solomon has written extensively on gardening techniques for the home gardener. Water conservation is the focus of this work, along with more information on how to have the healthiest plants in your garden through...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 068 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 068 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Essays & Short Works
Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain. "The Regulation of Time" and "Uniform Standard Time" are two of several readings which touch on social regulation, societal norms, and individual expression. Others examine dancing mania...
Beacon Lights of History, Vol 9: European Statesmen - John Lord
Beacon Lights of History, Vol 9: European Statesmen - John Lord
- Author: John Lord
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
Continuing the Beacon Lights of History Series, Mr. Lord discusses important European Statesmen Mirabeau, Edmund Burke, Napoleon, Prince Metternich, Chateaubriand, George V, and Louis Philippe. Also discussed is the Greek Revolution. (Summary by...
Behind the Scenes - Elizabeth KECKLEY
Behind the Scenes - Elizabeth KECKLEY
- Author: Elizabeth KECKLEY
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
This is the autobiography of Elizabeth Keckley, a former slave who bought her freedom with the money she earned as a seamstress. She eventually worked for Mary Lincoln. It is a fascinating book, filled with many recollections of her own life and her...
Native Races and the War - Josephine BUTLER
Native Races and the War - Josephine BUTLER
- Author: Josephine BUTLER
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
Josephine Elizabeth Butler was a Victorian era British feminist who was strongly committed to liberal reforms. As a result of her efforts, international organisations including the International Abolitionist Federation were set up to campaign...
Phaedrus - Plato
Phaedrus - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / General Fiction / *Non-fiction
“For there is no light of justice or temperance, or any of the higher ideas which are precious to souls, in the earthly copies of them: they are seen through a glass, dimly…” Socrates and his earnest friend Phaedrus, enjoying the Athenian equivalent...
The Tao Teh King - LAOZI 老子
The Tao Teh King - LAOZI 老子
- Author: LAOZI 老子
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
Lao-Tze's Tao Teh King illuminates The Tao: a guiding principle of the universe and all within it. By exploring the nature of dualities and complements, Lao-Tze dissects strength and weakness; presence and absence; life and death. The Tao Teh King...
Reviews - Oscar Wilde
Reviews - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Wilde’s literary reputation has survived so much that I think it proof against any exhumation of articles which he or his admirers would have preferred to forget. As a matter of fact, I believe this volume will prove of unusual interest; some of the...
Bible Defence of Slavery - Josiah PRIEST
Bible Defence of Slavery - Josiah PRIEST
- Author: Josiah PRIEST
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Political Science
The full title of this book is Bible Defense of Slavery; and Origin, Fortunes, and History of the Negro Race, by Rev. Josiah Priest, A. M. 5th edition. This is a compilation of pro-slavery literature and propaganda that went through numerous...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 047 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 047 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Essays & Short Works
Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include philosophy and thought -- Plato, Aristotle, Leonhard Euler, Henri Amiel, and the French Rights of Man; adventure and mystery -- the ascent of...
Mrs. Shelley - Lucy Madox ROSSETTI
Mrs. Shelley - Lucy Madox ROSSETTI
- Author: Lucy Madox ROSSETTI
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
"I have to thank all the previous students of Shelley as poet and man--not last nor least among whom is my husband--for their loving and truthful research on all the subjects surrounding the life of Mrs.Shelley." -Lucy Madox Brown Rossetti Mrs....
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind - Gustave LE BON
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind - Gustave LE BON
- Author: Gustave LE BON
- Genre: *Non-fiction
"Civilisations as yet have only been created and directed by a small intellectual aristocracy, never by crowds. Crowds are only powerful for destruction. Their rule is always tantamount to a barbarian phase. A civilisation involves fixed rules,...
Capital and Interest - Frédéric BASTIAT
Capital and Interest - Frédéric BASTIAT
- Author: Frédéric BASTIAT
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Business & Economics
Frédéric Bastiat was an early 19th century French economist/statesman whose common sense essays tried to battle the rise of socialist ideology after the French revolution, where provisional governments were rivaling each other for power. Of central...
The Secret of Dreams - Yacki RAIZIZUN
The Secret of Dreams - Yacki RAIZIZUN
- Author: Yacki RAIZIZUN
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Psychology
A guide to different kinds of dreams, their meanings, and how they influence our waking lives. (Summary by Andrea Fiore)...
The Home and the World - Rabindranath Tagore
The Home and the World - Rabindranath Tagore
- Author: Rabindranath Tagore
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance / *Non-fiction
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), also known by the sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali poet, Brahmo religionist, visual artist, playwright, novelist, and composer whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th...
Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion - Lyndon ORR
Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion - Lyndon ORR
- Author: Lyndon ORR
- Genre: Romance / *Non-fiction / History
"Famous Affinities of History" is a book of passion-filled accounts of the most famous love affairs of history. The stories of Cleopatra, Victor Hugo, Honore de Balzac, Jonathan Swift, Charles Dickens, Karl Marx, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Byron, George...
Essays, First Series (version 2) - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essays, First Series (version 2) - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
Essays: First Series is a series of 12 essays written by Ralph Waldo Emerson concerning transcendentalism, including Self-Reliance. It was published in 1841. (Summary by Wikipedia)...
Woman in Science - John Augustine ZAHM
Woman in Science - John Augustine ZAHM
- Author: John Augustine ZAHM
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Science
A history of woman's role in science through the ages and the many contributions she has made. (summary by Guero)...
Robert O'Hara Burke and the Australian Exploring Expedition of 1860 - Andrew JACKSON
Robert O'Hara Burke and the Australian Exploring Expedition of 1860 - Andrew JACKSON
- Author: Andrew JACKSON
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
A non-fictional account of Burke and Wills's 1860 expedition to cross the Australian continent from south to north and then return. Containing many excerpts from the diaries and accounts of the explorers, this book was published the year after the...
The Burgess Animal Book for Children - Thornton W. Burgess
The Burgess Animal Book for Children - Thornton W. Burgess
- Author: Thornton W. Burgess
- Genre: Children's Fiction / *Non-fiction / Science
Peter Rabbit goes to school, with Mother Nature as his teacher. In this zoology book for children, Thornton W. Burgess describes the mammals of North America in the form of an entertaining story, including plenty of detail but omitting long...
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. IV - Edward Gibbon
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. IV - 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. The books cover the period of the Roman Empire after...
Out of Mulberry Street - Jacob A. Riis
Out of Mulberry Street - Jacob A. Riis
- Author: Jacob A. Riis
- Genre: *Non-fiction
These riveting accounts by Jacob A. Riis are from the late 19th century, when lower Manhattan was teeming with struggling, near-starving immigrants crammed into wretched fire-prone tenements. Riis writes compassionately of these people who were...
