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Great Englishwomen - M. B. Synge
Great Englishwomen - M. B. Synge
- Author: M. B. Synge
- Genre: Children's Fiction / *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Great Englishwomen is a collection of biographies of some of the greatest women in England's history. Women who were leaders of their country in troubled times, women who were reformers in prison conditions, and those who sought improvement in the...
The Apostle of Alaska: The Story of William Duncan of Metlakahtla - John W. Arctander
The Apostle of Alaska: The Story of William Duncan of Metlakahtla - John W. Arctander
- Author: John W. Arctander
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
This is this story of William Duncan, an English missionary, who established a colony among the Tsimshian people of the Pacific Northwest. He worked there from 1856 until his death in 1918 at the age of 86. - Summary by Fritz...
The Analects of Confucius - Confucius 孔子
The Analects of Confucius - Confucius 孔子
- Author: Confucius 孔子
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / *Non-fiction / Philosophy
The Analects, or Lunyu, also known as the Analects of Confucius, are considered a record of the words and acts of the central Chinese thinker and philosopher Confucius and his disciples, as well as the discussions they held. Written during the...
The Story of Peterloo - Francis Archibald Bruton
The Story of Peterloo - Francis Archibald Bruton
- Author: Francis Archibald Bruton
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
On 16th August 1819 around 60,000 people gathered at St. Peter’s Fields, Manchester, to rally for parliamentary reform. Shortly after the meeting began, a troop of Hussars and local yeomanry rode into the crowd, wielding clubs, swords and sabres,...
Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, and Other Papers - John Burroughs
Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, and Other Papers - John Burroughs
- Author: John Burroughs
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Science
Probably no other American writer has a greater sympathy with, and a keener enjoyment of, country life in all its phases—farming, camping, fishing, walking—than has John Burroughs. His books are redolent of the soil, and have such "freshness and...
Memory: How to Develop, Train and Use It - William Walker Atkinson
Memory: How to Develop, Train and Use It - William Walker Atkinson
- Author: William Walker Atkinson
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Psychology / Science
An in-depth series of chapters devoted to the use of our memory system; as the title suggests, how to develop our memory system, how to train it to improve it, and how to make the best use of it in our everyday lives, and to improve our positions in...
Bible (ASV) 18: Job - American Standard Version
Bible (ASV) 18: Job - American Standard Version
- Author: American Standard Version
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Religion
The Book of Job (American Standard Version) is presented in forty-two chapters and is one of the Old Testament Wisdom Books. The narrative chronicles the trials of Job as he is brought low from a comfortable and exalted position in his community to...
Pragmatism - William James
Pragmatism - William James
- Author: William James
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Psychology
'Pragmatism' contains a series of public lectures held by William James in Boston 1906–7. James provides a popularizing outline of his view of philosophical pragmatism while making highly rhetorical and entertaining lashes towards rationalism and...
Utilitarianism - John Stuart Mill
Utilitarianism - John Stuart Mill
- Author: John Stuart Mill
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
John Stuart Mill's book Utilitarianism is one of the most influential and widely-read philosophical defenses of utilitarianism in ethics. The essay first appeared as a series of three articles published in Fraser's Magazine in 1861; the articles...
Stories of Inventors - Russell Doubleday
Stories of Inventors - Russell Doubleday
- Author: Russell Doubleday
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Science
Doubleday chronicles the history of everyday inventions that form the foundation of technology now common through the world. While some of the inventions are no longer used, each example shows how inventors contributed to technology through...
Apis Mellifica - C. W. Wolf
Apis Mellifica - C. W. Wolf
- Author: C. W. Wolf
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Animals / Science
Wolf's essay considers the homeopathic medicine Apis Mellifica, or the poison of the honey bee, as a therapeutic agent based on his experience as a practicing physician. (Summary by Marie Daum)...
A Student's History of American Literature - William Simonds
A Student's History of American Literature - William Simonds
- Author: William Simonds
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Engaging history of American Lit from the 1600's up through the late 1890's. The author, who was a professor at Knox College, really put a lot into this, combining national history with his love for literature. - Summary by BellonaTimes...
The Mastery of Destiny - James Allen
The Mastery of Destiny - James Allen
- Author: James Allen
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Psychology / Self-Help
James Allen's inspirational and thought-provoking books have inspired millions. In The Mastery of Destiny, he instructs readers on developing self-control, willpower, concentration, and motivation. Through discipline and mindfulness, we can create a...
Phaedo - Plato
Phaedo - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / *Non-fiction / History
Plato's Phaedo is one of the great dialogues of his middle period, along with the Republic and the Symposium. The Phaedo, which depicts the death of Socrates, is also Plato's seventh and last dialogue to detail the philosopher's final days (the...
My Mark Twain - William Dean Howells
My Mark Twain - William Dean Howells
- Author: William Dean Howells
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
William Dean Howells (1837-1920) became fast friends with Mark Twain from the moment in 1869 when Twain strode into the office of The Atlantic Monthly in Boston to thank Howell, then its assistant editor, for his favorable review of Innocents...
Bits About Home Matters - Helen Hunt Jackson
Bits About Home Matters - Helen Hunt Jackson
- Author: Helen Hunt Jackson
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Self-Help
This book is a collection of short observations by Helen Hunt Jackson, several with children and parenting as the subject matter. (Summary by ashleighjane)...
Ten Days in a Madhouse - Nellie Bly
Ten Days in a Madhouse - Nellie Bly
- Author: Nellie Bly
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
In 1887 Nellie Bly, one of the first female newspaper writers, and a young reporter who would soon go on to make a career for herself as an investigative journalist and “stunt” reporter, had herself committed to the Blackwell’s Island Insane Asylum...
Byways Around San Francisco Bay - W. E. Hutchinson
Byways Around San Francisco Bay - W. E. Hutchinson
- Author: W. E. Hutchinson
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Nature
California, the land of sunshine and roses, with its genial climate, its skies as blue as the far-famed skies of Venice, and its pure, life-giving air, invites the lover of nature to take long tramps over hill and dale, mountain and valley, and to...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 064 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 064 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. Eucken's "The Failure of Speculative Philosophy," is one of several essays devoted to timeless questions. Others are by James Howell on man, nature and the universe, Samuel Johnson on...
Bible (ASV) 22: Song of Solomon (version 2) - American Standard Version
Bible (ASV) 22: Song of Solomon (version 2) - American Standard Version
- Author: American Standard Version
- Genre: *Non-fiction
The Song of Songs (Hebrew title שיר השירים, Shir ha-Shirim), is a book of the Hebrew Bible—Tanakh or Old Testament—one of the five megillot (scrolls). It is also known as the Song of Solomon or as Canticles, the latter from the shortened and...
The Slavery of Our Times - Leo Tolstoy
The Slavery of Our Times - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Political Science
This little book shows, in a short, clear, and systematic manner, how the principle of Non-Resistance, about which Tolstoy has written so much, is related to economic and political life. (Summary by Aylmer Maude, Translator)...
The Wonders of the Invisible World, and A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New England Witches - Cotton Mather
The Wonders of the Invisible World, and A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New England Witches - Cotton Mather
- Author: Cotton Mather
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Religion / Early Modern
Here are first hand accounts, published in 1692, of the infamous "Salem Witch Trials". In addition to Mather's interpretation of the Book of Revelations (which he calls "God's last letter to the people of earth"), included are explanations of what...
The Spinster Book - Myrtle Reed
The Spinster Book - Myrtle Reed
- Author: Myrtle Reed
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Self-Help
A cross between guidebook and social commentary, The Spinster Book gives clever and humorous insights on topics such as courting, handling men and women, love letters, marriage and spinsterhood. (Summary by Kristin Hughes)...
The Essentials of Spirituality - Felix Adler
The Essentials of Spirituality - Felix Adler
- Author: Felix Adler
- Genre: *Non-fiction
This recording contains four addresses of Felix Adler (1851-1933) concerning spirituality from the perspective of Ethical Culture, an educational and religious movement founded and first led by Adler, based on the belief that living in accordance...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 063 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 063 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Volume 63 features essays on a variety of topics: the emotion of the multitude in drama (Yeats), audience (Encyclopedia Britannica), corpulence and diet...
Autobiography Memories and Experiences, Volume 2 - Moncure Daniel Conway
Autobiography Memories and Experiences, Volume 2 - Moncure Daniel Conway
- Author: Moncure Daniel Conway
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
Moncure Daniel Conway was an American abolitionist, Unitarian, clergyman and author. This second volume of his autobiography covers the years from the US Civil War to roughly 1904. (Summary by JoeD)...
The Life of Reason volume 2 - George Santayana
The Life of Reason volume 2 - 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...
Wild Life in Woods and Fields - Arabella B. Buckley
Wild Life in Woods and Fields - Arabella B. Buckley
- Author: Arabella B. Buckley
- Genre: Children's Fiction / *Non-fiction / Science
Wild Life in Woods and Fields by Arabella B. Buckley is a collection of stories that will encourage children to become little naturalists and explore the majesty of the great outdoors. This is science taught in such a charming, delightful way that...
Science and Hypothesis - Henri POINCARÉ
Science and Hypothesis - Henri POINCARÉ
- Author: Henri POINCARÉ
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Science
Jules Henri Poincaré (1854 – 1912) was one of France's greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists, and a philosopher of science. As a mathematician and physicist, he made many original fundamental contributions to pure and applied...
The Awakening of Europe - M. B. Synge
The Awakening of Europe - M. B. Synge
- Author: M. B. Synge
- Genre: Children's Fiction / *Non-fiction / History
The Awakening of Europe by M. B. Synge is the third book in the series, Story of the World. Included in this history is a myriad of interesting men, women, and events that shaped Europe during the years 1520-1745. (Summary by Laura Caldwell)...
How a British Subject Became President of the United States - Arthur P. Hinman
How a British Subject Became President of the United States - Arthur P. Hinman
- Author: Arthur P. Hinman
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Political Science
In 1880, the New York Times reported a curious story from St. Albans, Vermont, about a mysterious figure, an attorney and Democratic operative named A. P. Hinman. Hinman privately told local Democratic leaders that he had been hired by the...
The Light of Egypt Volume II - Thomas H. Burgoyne
The Light of Egypt Volume II - Thomas H. Burgoyne
- Author: Thomas H. Burgoyne
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Psychology
"The Light of Egypt" will be found to be an Occult library in itself, a textbook of esoteric knowledge, setting forth the "wisdom Religion" of life, as taught by the Adepts of Hermetic Philosophy. It will richly repay all who are seeking the higher...
The Lives of the Queens of England Volume 4 - Agnes Strickland
The Lives of the Queens of England Volume 4 - 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....
The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt - David Miller DeWitt
The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt - David Miller DeWitt
- Author: David Miller DeWitt
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
April, 1865 -- The war ended and throughout the Northern States joy and relief reigned. Then, less than a week later, a thunderbolt: the president was dead -- struck down by an assassin's bullet. Could this have been the mad act of a single demented...
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 004 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 004 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Essays & Short Works
A collection of eleven short nonfiction works in the public domain. The items included in this collection were independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass history, conservation, philosophy, politics, religion and cooking....
The Hindu Book of Astrology - Bhakti Seva
The Hindu Book of Astrology - Bhakti Seva
- Author: Bhakti Seva
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
”Each person is born in or under one of the twelve signs of the Zodiac and is thus influenced throughout life by the planetary conditions at their time of birth. By referring to your sign, which is indicated by your date and month of birth you can...
For Every Music Lover - Aubertine Woodward Moore
For Every Music Lover - Aubertine Woodward Moore
- Author: Aubertine Woodward Moore
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Essays & Short Works / Music
A series of essays for music lovers, covering many topics. From music appreciation, to violin and symphony, music education, to piano and, in fact, the very origins of music, there is sure to be something for everyone. (Summary by prwells32)...
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Vol.2 - Alexander von Humboldt
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Vol.2 - Alexander von Humboldt
- Author: Alexander von Humboldt
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / Science
In Volume 2 of “The Personal Narrative”, Alexander von Humboldt and the botanist Aimé Bonpland continue their travels, beginning at Lake Valencia in the llanos of Venezuela and then travelling the mighty South American river, the Orinoco, and its...
Fathers of Biology - Charles MCRAE
Fathers of Biology - Charles MCRAE
- Author: Charles MCRAE
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
An account given of the lives of five great naturalists (Hippocrates, Aristotle, Galen, Vesalius and Harvey) will not be found devoid of interest. The work of each one of them marked a definite advance in the science of Biology. There is often among...
On a Chinese Screen - W. Somerset Maugham
On a Chinese Screen - W. Somerset Maugham
- Author: W. Somerset Maugham
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Travel & Geography
This is a non-fiction collection of Maugham's observations of life in Asia in the early 20th Century. (Summary by BellonaTimes)...
