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The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 4, Chapter 19) - Thomas Babington Macaulay
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 4, Chapter 19) - Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
This is volume 4 chapter 19 of a series of books written by the Baron Macaulay (1800-1859) in the 19th century. It starts with a brief resume of the history of England up until the Stuart kings and then starts to delve into a little more detail....
The Insect Folk - Margaret Warner Morley
The Insect Folk - Margaret Warner Morley
- Author: Margaret Warner Morley
- Genre: Children's Fiction / *Non-fiction / Science
Through delightful outings with her students, a teacher introduces her class to the fascinating world of insects. She encourages her students to observe and ask questions. This is a wonderful science text for young children. (Summary by Laura...
With the Turks in Palestine - Alexander Aaronsohn
With the Turks in Palestine - Alexander Aaronsohn
- Author: Alexander Aaronsohn
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
While Belgium is bleeding and hoping, while Poland suffers and dreams of liberation, while Serbia is waiting for redemption, there is a little country the soul of which is torn to piecesβa little country that is so remote, so remote that her ardent...
Selected Essays - Voltairine de Cleyre
Selected Essays - Voltairine de Cleyre
- Author: Voltairine de Cleyre
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Philosophy
Voltairine de Cleyre (1866β1912) was, according to Emma Goldman, "the most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced." Today she is not widely known as a consequence of her short life. De Cleyre was especially influenced by Thomas...
Memoirs of Napoleon, Vol. 1 - Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
Memoirs of Napoleon, Vol. 1 - Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
- Author: Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
The author and Napoleon become boyhood friends when they are eight years old in Corsica. They separate when Napoleon is transferred from the Military College of Brienne to another college in Paris in 1784. Napoleon has a stern or disdainful...
Richard III (Makers of History series) - Jacob Abbott
Richard III (Makers of History series) - Jacob Abbott
- Author: Jacob Abbott
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
Jacob Abbott chronicles the unspeakably treacherous rise of Richard III to the throne of England in the midst of the war between the Yorks and the Lancasters and his ultimate fall on the Field of Bosworth. (Introduction by Cathy Barratt)...
The Theory of Social Revolutions - Brooks Adams
The Theory of Social Revolutions - Brooks Adams
- Author: Brooks Adams
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Political Science
Brooks Adams (1848-1927), was an American historian and a critic of capitalism. He believed that commercial civilizations rise and fall in predictable cycles. First, masses of people draw together in large population centers and engage in commercial...
The World's Lumber Room - Selina Gaye
The World's Lumber Room - Selina Gaye
- Author: Selina Gaye
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Nature / Science
If this book were written today, it would be called "The Story of the World's Rubbish". That may not sound a promising subject for a book, but we are taken on a journey all over the world (and beyond) to explain the many varieties of dust and refuse...
The Interpretation of Dreams - Sigmund Freud
The Interpretation of Dreams - Sigmund Freud
- Author: Sigmund Freud
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Psychology
A neat book on dream analysis by the founding father of psychoanalysis. This book is about the inner theater and the workings of the mind in the dreaming state. Covering lots of topics, the Austrian psychoanalyst's work on dreams is worth reading...
The Mohawk Valley - W. Max Reid
The Mohawk Valley - W. Max Reid
- Author: W. Max Reid
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
An in-depth view and early history of the Mohawk Valley in upper New York state, covering the time period of 1609-1780. This historical piece covers that part of the Mohawk Valley between Schenectady and Rome, NY. The narrator hopes that the...
Paradise Regain'd (version 2) - John Milton
Paradise Regain'd (version 2) - John Milton
- Author: John Milton
- Genre: Poetry / *Non-fiction / Religion
Having been publicly acknowledged as God's "beloved Son," Jesus retires to the desert to meditate upon what it means to be the Messiah, about whose coming many conflicting opinions have been circulating among the Jews. Although a learned rabbi,...
The Spell of the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines - Isabel Anderson
The Spell of the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines - Isabel Anderson
- Author: Isabel Anderson
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Travel & Geography
Isabel Anderson has written a most interesting travelogue of Hawaii and The Philippines. Actually it is more of a history lesson. Anyone with any interest whatsoever in the South Pacific will find this book very interesting indeed, to note all that...
Lancashire - Francis Archibald Bruton
Lancashire - Francis Archibald Bruton
- Author: Francis Archibald Bruton
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Travel & Geography
The county of Lancashire in the north-west of England is best known as the engine room of the nineteenth-century Industrial Revolution. Steering clear of the industrial districts, F. A. Bruton takes the reader on an engaging tour of the county's...
Days with the Great Composers - May Gillington Byron
Days with the Great Composers - May Gillington Byron
- Author: May Gillington Byron
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / Music
An imagined day in the life of each composer gives the anonymous author scope to describe each one's work and life, sketchily, of course, but interestingly. (Summary by David Wales) Note: This is a compilation of three books, each describing three...
Following the Color Line - Ray Stannard Baker
Following the Color Line - Ray Stannard Baker
- Author: Ray Stannard Baker
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Subtitled "An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy", we are presented an in-depth and essentially non-opinionated open view of race relations as they existed in the U.S. in 1908, more than 40 years following the end of the Civil...
History of Holland - George Edmundson
History of Holland - George Edmundson
- Author: George Edmundson
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
The title, "History of Holland," given to this volume is fully justified by the predominant part which the great maritime province of Holland took in the War of Independence and throughout the whole of the subsequent history of the Dutch state and...
The Marvels of Divine Grace - Alice Lady Lovat
The Marvels of Divine Grace - Alice Lady Lovat
- Author: Alice Lady Lovat
- Genre: *Non-fiction
These are Alice Lady Lovat's meditations on the treatise "Del Aprecio y Estima de la Divina Gracia," written by the prolific Roman Catholic theologian and mystic Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, S.J. (1595-1658). Nieremberg's treatise was published in 1638...
Claimants to Royalty - John Henry Ingram
Claimants to Royalty - John Henry Ingram
- Author: John Henry Ingram
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
A compilation of chronicles of the numerous impostors and impostures of kings, queens, and rulers. (Summary by Carmen H)...
Curiosities of the Sky - Garrett P. Serviss
Curiosities of the Sky - Garrett P. Serviss
- Author: Garrett P. Serviss
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Science
Astronomy is known as the oldest of the sciences, and it will be the longest-lived because it will always have arcana that have not been penetrated."-Excerpt from the Preface of Curiosities of the Sky by Garrett Serviss...
An Essay on the Principle of Population - Thomas Malthus
An Essay on the Principle of Population - Thomas Malthus
- Author: Thomas Malthus
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Nature / Philosophy
The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man. Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with...
Great Disasters and Horrors in the World's History - Allen H. Godbey
Great Disasters and Horrors in the World's History - Allen H. Godbey
- Author: Allen H. Godbey
- Genre: *Non-fiction
"Mankind is constantly astonished by reports of mishaps and disasters of manifold character, when there is seldom room for astonishment. A large proportion of the calamities reported from day to day are directly due to the haste, greed, and...
Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic - Benedetto Croce
Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic - Benedetto Croce
- Author: Benedetto Croce
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Art / Design & Architecture
One of the earliest works of this Italian philosopher and literary critic, Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic marks the beginning of Croce's elaboration of his highly influential ideas of aesthetics. Croce defines art in terms...
The Perfumed Garden - Sheikh Nefzaoui
The Perfumed Garden - Sheikh Nefzaoui
- Author: Sheikh Nefzaoui
- Genre: Erotica / Romance / *Non-fiction
A fifteenth-century Arabic sex manual and work of erotic literature. The book presents opinions on what qualities men and women should have to be attractive, gives advice on sexual technique, warnings about sexual health, and recipes to remedy...
Why do we need a public library? - Various
Why do we need a public library? - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / *Non-fiction
Internet Archive, which hosts our audio books, is in the midst of their annual fund-raising. They have also begun a drive to provide a mirror site in Canada to ensure IA's availability to all users. The IA is a vast library with millions of public...
Everglades Wildguide - Jean Craighead George
Everglades Wildguide - Jean Craighead George
- Author: Jean Craighead George
- Genre: *Non-fiction
This is a United States National Parks guidebook written by a popular young people's nature writer, Jean Craighead George. It covers the Everglades in detail, from its mangrove swamps to its sawgrass prairies. (Summary by Matt Pierard)...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 049 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 049 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Sixteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include science and natural history--carnivorous plants, tadpoles, tent caterpillars, flights of birds, horse training, dogs, children's sign language,...
Hunting Dogs - Oliver Hartley
Hunting Dogs - Oliver Hartley
- Author: Oliver Hartley
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Animals / Nature
The title of this book quotes its object. To tell something of night hunting, and especially to suggest how the ever necessary dog can best be selected, trained, maintained and utilized, is the consideration of first importance. To round out the...
Mormonism and Masonry - Samuel H. Goodwin
Mormonism and Masonry - Samuel H. Goodwin
- Author: Samuel H. Goodwin
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Religion
The edition of the book published in 1921 explored extensively the reasons why Mormons were not accepted ("are" at the time of publication) into the Masonic Lodges. (Summary by Chiquito J. Crasto)...
The Mystery of the Pinckney Draught - Charles C. Nott
The Mystery of the Pinckney Draught - Charles C. Nott
- Author: Charles C. Nott
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Political Science
Charles Pinckney, member of the South Carolina legislature, Confederation Congress, U.S. Congress, and notably the Constitutional Convention of 1787, may have been regarded by some as perhaps the true author of the U.S. Constitution, although most...
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times vol 3 - François Pierre Guillaume Guizot
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times vol 3 - François Pierre Guillaume Guizot
- Author: François Pierre Guillaume Guizot
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
François Pierre Guillaume Guizot (October 4, 1787 -September 12, 1874) was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics prior to the Revolution of 1848, actively opposing as a liberal the reactionary...
The First Battle of Bull Run - Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard
The First Battle of Bull Run - Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard
- Author: Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard was one of the senior commanders of Southern forces during the Civil War. It was he who initiated the hostilities by opening fire on Ft. Sumter in Charleston harbor, in April, 1861. In July of that year,...
De Anima - Aristotle
De Anima - Aristotle
- Author: Aristotle
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / *Non-fiction / Philosophy
On the Soul (Greek Ξ Ξ΅Οα½Ά Ξ¨Ο
ΟαΏΟ (PerΓ¬ PsΕ«chΓͺs), Latin De Anima) is a major treatise by Aristotle on the nature of living things. His discussion centres on the kinds of souls possessed by different kinds of living things, distinguished by their...
The Alhambra: A Series Of Tales And Sketches Of The Moors And Spaniards - Washington Irving
The Alhambra: A Series Of Tales And Sketches Of The Moors And Spaniards - Washington Irving
- Author: Washington Irving
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Art / Design & Architecture / History
This is a collection of essays, verbal sketches, and stories by Washington Irving. Irving lived at the Alhambra Palace while writing some of the material for his book. In 1828, Washington Irving traveled from Madrid, where he had been staying, to...
For Heaven's Sake: Little Talks to Little Folks - Rev. Gerald T. Brennan
For Heaven's Sake: Little Talks to Little Folks - Rev. Gerald T. Brennan
- Author: Rev. Gerald T. Brennan
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / *Non-fiction
This is the second book in the "Angel Food" series by the author. It consists of a series of short sermons for children, in the form of a charming story. The author was a Catholic parish priest in New York for many years during the mid 1900's. He...
Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
- Author: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Philosophy
In the heat of the failed 1905 revolution in Russia, Lenin here contrasts the precision of the Bolshevik political program and tactics with various inconsistent and servile factions within the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party. (Summary by...
Around the World on a Bicycle, Vol. 1 - Thomas Stevens
Around the World on a Bicycle, Vol. 1 - Thomas Stevens
- Author: Thomas Stevens
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Travel & Geography
Thomas Stevens was the first person to circle the globe by bicycle, a large-wheeled Ordinary. His journey started in April 1884 in San Francisco from where he cycled to Boston to take a steamer to England. Crossing England, France, Central Europe...
The Interior Castle - Saint Teresa of Avila
The Interior Castle - Saint Teresa of Avila
- Author: Saint Teresa of Avila
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Religion
El Castillo Interior or Las Moradas (trans.:The Interior Castle or The Mansions) was written by Saint Teresa of Γvila in 1577. After being ordered to write her autobiographical La Vida de la Santa Madre Teresa de JesΓΊs (The Life of S. Teresa of...
The Cricket on the Hearth - Charles Dickens
The Cricket on the Hearth - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / House & Home
John Peerybingle, a carrier, lives with his wife Dot (who is much younger than he), their baby, their nanny Tilly Slowboy, and a mysterious lodger. A cricket constantly chirps on the hearth and acts as a guardian angel to the family, at one point...
Rational Theology and Christian Philosophy volume 1 - John Tulloch
Rational Theology and Christian Philosophy volume 1 - John Tulloch
- Author: John Tulloch
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Early Modern / Christianity - Other
This work addresses the birth and development of a rationalist stream in the Christianity of England in the seventeenth century. In this volume, Tulloch focuses on five latitudinarian churchmen, examining their lives and thought. - Summary by Barry...
Greek and Roman Ghost Stories - Lacy Collison-Morley
Greek and Roman Ghost Stories - Lacy Collison-Morley
- Author: Lacy Collison-Morley
- Genre: *Non-fiction
A non-fiction work, comparing and collecting ghost stories by Classical Greek and Republican or Imperial Roman authors. (Summary by Timothy Ferguson)...