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Alexander the Great - Jacob Abbott
Alexander the Great - Jacob Abbott
- Author: Jacob Abbott
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
Alexander the Great was one of the most successful military commanders in history, and was undefeated in battle. By the time of his death, he had conquered most of the world known to the ancient Greeks. Alexander the Great is one of many biographies...
Piano and Song - Friedrich WIECK
Piano and Song - Friedrich WIECK
- Author: Friedrich WIECK
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Music
This book talks about teaching, learning and performing on the piano in a delightful style, alternating between conversation and instruction. As he was the father of Clara Schumann and Robert Schumann's teacher, need I say more? (Summary by SandraG)...
Flowers from the Garden of Saint Francis for Every Day of the Year - Saint Francis of ASSISI
Flowers from the Garden of Saint Francis for Every Day of the Year - Saint Francis of ASSISI
- Author: Saint Francis of ASSISI
- Genre: *Non-fiction
This is a collection of 365 moral admonitions of Saint Francis of Assisi (1182-1226) and other notable Franciscans. The compiler of this anthology suggests that Francis "was inspired by God, six hundred years ago, to rekindle in His Church the...
The Truth About Jesus. Is He a Myth? - M. M. MANGASARIAN
The Truth About Jesus. Is He a Myth? - M. M. MANGASARIAN
- Author: M. M. MANGASARIAN
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Religion
The following work offers in book form the series of studies on the question of the historicity of Jesus, presented from time to time before the Independent Religious Society in Orchestra Hall, Chicago, 1909. No effort has been made to change the...
The Prince - Niccolò Machiavelli
The Prince - Niccolò Machiavelli
- Author: Niccolò Machiavelli
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
ll Principe (The Prince) is a political treatise by the Florentine writer Niccolò Machiavelli, originally called “De Principatibus” (About Principalities). It was written around 1513, but not published until 1532, five years after Machiavelli’s...
Bible (WEB) NT 01-27: The New Testament - World English Bible
Bible (WEB) NT 01-27: The New Testament - World English Bible
- Author: World English Bible
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Religion
The World English Bible is a translation of the Bible into modern English. Work on the project began in 1997, but the translation has been released directly into the public domain, free of copyright. It is largely an update of the American Standard...
Nature's Miracles Volume 1: World Building and Life - Elisha GRAY
Nature's Miracles Volume 1: World Building and Life - Elisha GRAY
- Author: Elisha GRAY
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Nature / Science
Elisha Gray (August 2, 1835 – January 21, 1901) was an American electrical engineer who co-founded the Western Electric Manufacturing Company. Gray is best known for his development of a telephone prototype in 1876 in Highland Park, Illinois and is...
The Life and Ventures of the Original John Jacob Astor - Elizabeth Louisa GEBHARD
The Life and Ventures of the Original John Jacob Astor - Elizabeth Louisa GEBHARD
- Author: Elizabeth Louisa GEBHARD
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
John Jacob Astor was pre-eminently the opener of new paths, a breaker of trails. From his first tramp alone through the Black Forest of Baden, at sixteen, his life never lost this typical touch. In America, both shores of the Hudson, and the...
The Story of a Soul - Saint THERESE OF LISIEUX
The Story of a Soul - Saint THERESE OF LISIEUX
- Author: Saint THERESE OF LISIEUX
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / Religion
Marie Francoise Therese Martin, affectionately known as 'The Little Flower', was born on January 2, 1873, in Alencon, France to Louis Martin and Zelie Guerin. She was the youngest and one of five surviving sisters of the nine Martin children. When...
Sesame and Lilies - John Ruskin
Sesame and Lilies - John Ruskin
- Author: John Ruskin
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Sesame and Lilies proposes and answers the questions, how, what and why to read in the context of how and why to live. About earlier and later editions of the book containing the first two lectures alone, Ruskin wrote: "...chiefly written for young...
Declaration of Rights - STAMP ACT CONGRESS
Declaration of Rights - STAMP ACT CONGRESS
- Author: STAMP ACT CONGRESS
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
On June 8, 1765 James Otis, supported by the Massachusetts Assembly sent a letter to each colony calling for a general meeting of delegates. The meeting was to be held in New York City in October. Representatives from nine colonies met in New York....
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Volume 1 - Charles MACKAY
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Volume 1 - Charles MACKAY
- Author: Charles MACKAY
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
The book chronicles and vilifies its targets in three parts: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philosophical Delusions". The subjects of Mackay's debunking include alchemy, beards (influence of politics and religion on), witch-hunts,...
The Autobiography of St. Ignatius - St. Ignatius LOYOLA
The Autobiography of St. Ignatius - St. Ignatius LOYOLA
- Author: St. Ignatius LOYOLA
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / Religion
This account of the life of St. Ignatius, dictated by himself to Father Gonzalez, is a most valuable record of the great Founder of the Society of Jesus. It, more than any other work, gives an insight into the spiritual life of St. Ignatius. Few...
The Path of Prosperity - James Allen
The Path of Prosperity - James Allen
- Author: James Allen
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Self-Help
Summary from The Path of Prosperity:I looked around upon the world, and saw that it was shadowed by sorrow and scorched by the fierce fires of suffering. And I looked for the cause. I looked around, but could not find it; I looked in books, but...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 052 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 052 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Essays & Short Works
Seventeen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include Nature and Science--fall scenery, rose oil, large type books for low vision, the pulmotor, and the method of scientific investigation;...
The Golden Bough - James FRAZER
The Golden Bough - James FRAZER
- Author: James FRAZER
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Religion
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion is a wide-ranging comparative study of mythology and religion, written by Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). It offered a modernist approach, discussing religion...
France At War: On the Frontier of Civilization - Rudyard Kipling
France At War: On the Frontier of Civilization - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: *Non-fiction
In 1915, as the "Great War" (World War 1) entered its second year Rudyard Kipling made a journalistic tour of the front, visiting French armed forces. By then he was already winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (the first writer in English to be...
The Natural History Volume 4 - Pliny the Elder
The Natural History Volume 4 - Pliny the Elder
- Author: Pliny the Elder
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / *Non-fiction
Naturalis Historia (Latin for "Natural History") is an encyclopedia published circa AD 77-79 by Pliny the Elder. It is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman empire to the modern day and purports to cover the entire field of...
Laws - Plato
Laws - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / *Non-fiction / History
Laws (Greek: Νόμοι) is Plato's last and longest dialogue. It is generally agreed that Plato wrote this dialogue as an older man, having failed in his effort in Syracuse on the island of Sicily to guide a tyrant's rule, instead having been thrown in...
Report of the Airship ''Hindenburg'' Accident Investigation - UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Report of the Airship ''Hindenburg'' Accident Investigation - UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
- Author: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
- Genre: *Non-fiction
“Oh my!” -Herbert O. Morrison, WLS News, Chicago Thursday, 6 May, 1937: It is early evening at a remote airport in central New Jersey. It’s starting to rain again. Suddenly, much to the surprise of the dozens of spectators gathered below, a gigantic...
The Ethics of Belief - William Kingdon CLIFFORD
The Ethics of Belief - William Kingdon CLIFFORD
- Author: William Kingdon CLIFFORD
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Self-Help
This is an essay on decision biases and a critique on prejudices, neatly written and thought provoking. (Summary by sidhu177)...
Narrative of The Life of David Crockett of The State of Tennessee - David CROCKETT
Narrative of The Life of David Crockett of The State of Tennessee - David CROCKETT
- Author: David CROCKETT
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Autobiography, written by David (Davey) Crockett about 2 years before his death at the Alamo in March of 1836. - Summary by Bill2147...
The Kybalion - The Three INITIATES
The Kybalion - The Three INITIATES
- Author: The Three INITIATES
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
The Kybalion: Hermetic Philosophy is a 1908 book claiming to be the essence of the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus, published anonymously by a group or person under the pseudonym of "the Three Initiates". (Introduction by Wikipedia)...
The Cottager to Her Infant - William Wordsworth
The Cottager to Her Infant - William Wordsworth
- Author: William Wordsworth
- Genre: Poetry / Romance / *Non-fiction
Wordsworth was a defining member of the English Romantic Movement. Like other Romantics, Wordsworth’s personality and poetry were deeply influenced by his love of nature, especially by the sights and scenes of the Lake Country, in which he spent...
A Christmas Carol (version 02) - Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol (version 02) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / *Non-fiction / House & Home
A Christmas Carol (full title: A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas) is A Christmas Carol is a Victorian morality tale of an old and bitter miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, who undergoes a profound experience of redemption over the...
The Life of Richard Nash, Esq., Late Master of the Ceremonies at Bath - Oliver GOLDSMITH
The Life of Richard Nash, Esq., Late Master of the Ceremonies at Bath - Oliver GOLDSMITH
- Author: Oliver GOLDSMITH
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Beau Nash (1674–1762), born Richard Nash, was a celebrated dandy and leader of fashion in 18th-century Britain. He is best remembered as the Master of Ceremonies at the spa town of Bath. (Wikipedia) This, the best of Goldsmith's Biographies, was...
History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688, Volume 1B - David Hume
History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688, Volume 1B - 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...
Vice in its Proper Shape - Anonymous
Vice in its Proper Shape - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Humorous Fiction / *Non-fiction
Or, The Wonderful and Melancholy Transformation of Several Naughty Masters and Misses Into Those Contemptible Animals Which They Most Resemble In Disposition, Cautionary tales of the transmigration of the souls of naughty boys and girls, as...
Don't Marry - James W. Donovan
Don't Marry - James W. Donovan
- Author: James W. Donovan
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Family & Relationships
This book doesn't advise against marriage but just offers advice on the errors some people can make who make the wrong choice when entering into so long a contract. - Summary by Michele Eaton...
Wild Life on the Rockies - Enos A. MILLS
Wild Life on the Rockies - Enos A. MILLS
- Author: Enos A. MILLS
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / Nature
"This book contains the record of a few of the many happy days and novel experiences which I have had in the wilds. For more than twenty years it has been my good fortune to live most of the time with nature, on the mountains of the West. I have...
Categories - Aristotle
Categories - Aristotle
- Author: Aristotle
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / *Non-fiction / Philosophy
Categories (Lat. Categoriae, Greek Κατηγορίαι Katēgoriai) is the first of Aristotle's six texts on logic which are collectively known as the Organon. In Categories Aristotle enumerates all the possible kinds of things that can be the subject or the...
A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery - Anonymous
A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Science
This book, a reprint of a successful English publication, has been so enlarged as to be to all intents and purposes new. It has been carefully revised by a Reverend gentleman, who for some time filled the chair of Physics and Chemistry in one of our...
The Chronicles of America Volume 08 - The Quaker Colonies - Sydney Fisher
The Chronicles of America Volume 08 - The Quaker Colonies - Sydney Fisher
- Author: Sydney Fisher
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
The Quaker Colonies describes the Quaker emigration to the colonies in the sixteen and seventeen hundreds and at the same time its involvement in the evolution of Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey. Throughout, the author investigates the various...
Good Sense - Paul Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach
Good Sense - Paul Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach
- Author: Paul Henri Thiry Baron d'Holbach
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Atheism & Agnosticism
In 1770, Baron D'Holbach published his masterpiece, "Systeme de la Nature", which for a long time passed as the posthumous work of M. de Mirabaud. That text-book of "Atheistical Philosophy" caused a great sensation, and two years later, 1772, the...
The Monadology - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
The Monadology - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Author: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Science
The Monadology (La Monadologie, 1714) is one of Gottfried Leibniz’s best known works representing his later philosophy. It is a short text which sketches in some 90 paragraphs a metaphysics of simple substances, or monads. What he proposed can be...
Signs of Change - William Morris
Signs of Change - William Morris
- Author: William Morris
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Political Science
In the 1880s William Morris, the artist and poet famously associated with the Arts and Crafts movement, left the Liberal Party and threw himself into the Socialist cause. He spoke all over the country, on street corners as well as in working men's...
How to Listen to Music - Henry Edward Krehbiel
How to Listen to Music - Henry Edward Krehbiel
- Author: Henry Edward Krehbiel
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Music / Self-Help
This book is "not written for professional musicians, but for untaught lovers of the art". It gives broad instruction on composers, styles, instruments, venues - and when to believe the critics. (Summary by Sarah Jennings)...
The Death of Lord Nelson - William Beatty
The Death of Lord Nelson - William Beatty
- Author: William Beatty
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
"The Surgeon of the late illustrious Lord NELSON feels himself called upon, from the responsible situation which he held on the eventful day of the 21st of October 1805, to lay before the British Nation the following Narrative. It contains an...
Reflections on War and Death - Sigmund Freud
Reflections on War and Death - Sigmund Freud
- Author: Sigmund Freud
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Political Science
Anyone, as Freud tells us in Reflections on War and Death, forced to react against his own impulses may be described as a hypocrite, whether he is conscious of it or not. One might even venture to assert—it is still Freud's argument—that our...
Marius the Epicurean, Volume 1 - Walter Pater
Marius the Epicurean, Volume 1 - Walter Pater
- Author: Walter Pater
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
Marius the Epicurean is a philosophical novel written by Walter Pater, published in 1885. In it Pater displays, with fullness and elaboration, his ideal of the aesthetic life, his cult of beauty as opposed to bare asceticism, and his theory of the...
