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Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche
- Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
First published in 1886 at Nietzsche’s own expense, the book was not initially considered important. In it, Nietzsche denounced what he considered to be the moral vacuity of 19th century thinkers. He attacked philosophers for what he considered to...
Life In Mexico - Frances Calderón de la Barca
Life In Mexico - Frances Calderón de la Barca
- Author: Frances Calderón de la Barca
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
FRANCES CALDERON DE LA BARCA, born in Edinburgh, 1804, the daughter of William Inglis. After her father's death she settled in America, where she married the Spanish diplomat, Don Angel Calderon de la Barca. She accompanied him on his various...
The Chicago Race Riots, July 1919 - Carl Sandburg
The Chicago Race Riots, July 1919 - Carl Sandburg
- Author: Carl Sandburg
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Carl Sandburg's succinct reporting on and reflections upon the race riots that broke out In Chicago in July 1919. - Summary by KevinS...
Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 1 - John Calvin
Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 1 - John Calvin
- Author: John Calvin
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Religion
Institutes of the Christian Religion is John Calvin's seminal work on Protestant systematic theology. Highly influential in the Western world and still widely read by theological students today, it was published in Latin in 1536 and in his native...
All These Things Added - James Allen
All These Things Added - James Allen
- Author: James Allen
- Genre: *Non-fiction
In seeking for pleasures here and rewards hereafter men have destroyed (in their hearts) the Temple of Righteousness, and have wandered from the Kingdom of Heaven. By ceasing to seek for earthly pleasures and heavenly rewards, the Temple of...
The Friendship of Christ - Robert Hugh Benson
The Friendship of Christ - Robert Hugh Benson
- Author: Robert Hugh Benson
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Religion
Robert Hugh Benson, who was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, was ordained an Anglican priest in 1895 by his father, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Eight years later, after weighty consideration, Robert Benson converted to...
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times vol 5 - François Pierre Guillaume Guizot
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times vol 5 - 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 Feast of St. Friend - Arnold Bennett
The Feast of St. Friend - Arnold Bennett
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- Genre: *Non-fiction / House & Home / Self-Help
In The Feast of St. Friend, a Christmas book, Arnold Bennett shares his views on Christmas as the season of goodwill. As always, Bennett's writing includes some thought-provoking ideas liberally spiced with his wry sense of humour, and as always...
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy - Laurence Sterne
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy - Laurence Sterne
- Author: Laurence Sterne
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Travel & Geography
After the bizarre textual antics of "Tristram Shandy", this book would seem to require a literary health warning. Sure enough, it opens in mid-conversation upon a subject never explained; meanders after a fashion through a hundred pages, then...
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - David Hume
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - David Hume
- Author: David Hume
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
The Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a shortened and simplified version of Hume's masterpiece A Treatise of Human Nature. It sought to reach a wider audience, and to dispel some of the virulent criticism addressed toward the former book. In...
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days - Nellie Bly
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days - Nellie Bly
- Author: Nellie Bly
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / Travel & Geography
This is a true account by American woman journalist who, in 1889, set out to see whether she could beat the fictional journey in Jules Verne’s 1873 novel, Around the World in Eighty Days. Wearing one dress and carrying one handbag, Elizabeth...
Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman - Martha Summerhayes
Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman - Martha Summerhayes
- Author: Martha Summerhayes
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
"This is the lively autobiography of Martha Summerhayes, the wife of an officer in the American Army. Here, she tells many stories about life and conditions in different camps and forts in which she lived with her expanding family, people along the...
Perfumes and their Preparation - George William Askinson
Perfumes and their Preparation - George William Askinson
- Author: George William Askinson
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Most of us take for granted the sense of smell. It gives pleasure, warning, anticipation and a sense of nostalgia. People have used perfumes since the days of Ancient Persia and Egypt in order to improve their personal smell. In this work, Askinson...
Bill of Rights - United States Government
Bill of Rights - United States Government
- Author: United States Government
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Political Science
The Bill of Rights are the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, and were ratified on December 15, 1791....
The Flowers of Shakespeare - Esther Singleton
The Flowers of Shakespeare - Esther Singleton
- Author: Esther Singleton
- Genre: *Non-fiction
A lovely collection of information about those flowers that appear in William Shakespeare's work. The brief chapters are categorized by the four seasons in which the flowers first appear. - Summary by KevinS...
Letters to a Daughter and A Little Sermon to School Girls - Helen Ekin Starrett
Letters to a Daughter and A Little Sermon to School Girls - Helen Ekin Starrett
- Author: Helen Ekin Starrett
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Psychology
Helen Ekin Starrett, journalist, mother of two daughters, grandmother of seven granddaughters and teacher to many young girls at the Starrett School for Girls offers lessons in life and religion to girls about to "pass out from the guardianship of...
Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air - Joseph Priestley
Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air - Joseph Priestley
- Author: Joseph Priestley
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Chemistry
Joseph Priestley, FRS (13 March 1733 (O.S.) – 6 February 1804) was an 18th-century English theologian, Dissenting clergyman, natural philosopher, chemist, educator, and political theorist who published over 150 works. In “Experiments and...
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano - Olaudah Equiano
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano - Olaudah Equiano
- Author: Olaudah Equiano
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, written in 1789, is the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano. It discusses his time spent in slavery, serving primarily on galleys, documents his attempts at becoming an independent man through...
Democracy in America Vol. II - Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America Vol. II - Alexis de Tocqueville
- Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Political Science
Democracy in America was published in two volumes, the first in 1835 and the second in 1840. It is a classic work on the United States in the 1830s and its strengths and weaknesses as seen from a European point of view. It is also regarded as a...
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None - Friedrich Nietzsche
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None - Friedrich Nietzsche
- Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Atheism & Agnosticism
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a nineteenth-century German philosopher. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science, using a distinctive German language style and displaying a fondness for...
The Ordeal of Mark Twain - Van Wyck Brooks
The Ordeal of Mark Twain - Van Wyck Brooks
- Author: Van Wyck Brooks
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
This book, published in 1920, analyzes the literary progression of Samuel Clemens and his shortcomings (which are debatable). Brooks attributes Clemens' increasing sense of pessimism to the repression of his creative spirit due largely to his mother...
Historical Tales, Vol V: German - Charles McLean Andrews
Historical Tales, Vol V: German - Charles McLean Andrews
- Author: Charles McLean Andrews
- Genre: Children's Fiction / *Non-fiction / History
Volume V of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This fifth volume covers the history of Germany from its first contact with Rome up to the coronation of Emperor William, describing...
Hints for Lovers - Arnold Haultain
Hints for Lovers - Arnold Haultain
- Author: Arnold Haultain
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Self-Help
"Hints for Lovers" is a thorough analysis of relationships between men and women, about everything that lovers should know, and delves deep into the psychology of men and women, and the philosophy of courtship, engagement, kissing, making love,...
Phillips Brooks - Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe
Phillips Brooks - Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe
- Author: Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / Religion
Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893) was one of the finest and most famous clergyman in the nineteenth century; he was acknowledged as a masterful preacher. His teachings were filled with understanding, compassion, and encouragement. He spent most of his...
A Little Swiss Sojourn - William Dean Howells
A Little Swiss Sojourn - William Dean Howells
- Author: William Dean Howells
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Travel & Geography
A charming brief account of a two months' autumnal stay on the shores of the Lake of Geneva. Howells, who was there with his family traveling from England to Italy, has a sharp eye not only for scenery and architecture, but for people and customs,...
Angel Food Time: Little Talks to Little Folks - Rev. Gerald T. Brennan
Angel Food Time: Little Talks to Little Folks - Rev. Gerald T. Brennan
- Author: Rev. Gerald T. Brennan
- Genre: Children's Fiction / *Non-fiction / Religion
This is the sixth and final volume of the "Angel Food" Series by Father Brennan. This volume consists of 28 charming selections with titles such as "Six Red Roses", "The Three Little Angels", "A Surprise From Santa Claus" and "The Boy Who Dusted the...
The Greek View of Life - Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
The Greek View of Life - Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
- Author: Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Art / Design & Architecture / Philosophy
“With the Greek civilisation beauty perished from the world. Never again has it been possible for man to believe that harmony is in fact the truth of all existence.” This elegantly-written work provides a splendid introduction to the Greeks of the...
Vices are not Crimes - Lysander Spooner
Vices are not Crimes - Lysander Spooner
- Author: Lysander Spooner
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
Lysander Spooner (1808 – 1887) was an American individualist anarchist, entrepreneur, political philosopher, abolitionist, supporter of the labour movement, and legal theorist of the nineteenth century. Here he gives his views on the role of...
Herein is Love - Reuel Howe
Herein is Love - Reuel Howe
- Author: Reuel Howe
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Prescient look at the church, its message and role in society, both perceived and true, focused through the lens of the biblical doctrine of love, and demonstrated in relationships between parent and child, parishioners and public, and pastor and...
Neighbors - Life Stories of the Other Half - Jacob A. Riis
Neighbors - Life Stories of the Other Half - Jacob A. Riis
- Author: Jacob A. Riis
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories / *Non-fiction
These stories have come to me from many sources—some from my own experience, others from settlement workers, still others from the records of organized charity, that are never dry, as some think, but alive with vital human interest and with the...
The Scrap Book (volume 1) Sampler - Various
The Scrap Book (volume 1) Sampler - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / History
18 works -- two non-fic articles & one short fiction or poetry each -- from issues March, April, May, June, July, & August 1906 of The Scrap Book, Volume 1, edited by Frank Munsey. As he states in the editorial of the April 1906 issue (Vol...
Visions - Coulson Kernahan
Visions - Coulson Kernahan
- Author: Coulson Kernahan
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / *Non-fiction / Religion
Deeper questions of life and death, and of God’s relationship to man, are explored in this collection of “dreams” by a noted English novelist and literary critic. A man takes an uncertain step into the next world as his life ends – Defendants at the...
Careers of Danger and Daring - Cleveland Moffett
Careers of Danger and Daring - Cleveland Moffett
- Author: Cleveland Moffett
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Animals / Technology & Engineering
In this volume of adventure the author depicts the lives of certain humble modern heroes whose unconscious courage ordinarily goes unnoticed. Mr. Moffett has chosen unusual and picturesque careers, and has offered dramatic scenes from the lives of...
The Italian Cook Book - Maria Gentile
The Italian Cook Book - Maria Gentile
- Author: Maria Gentile
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Self-Help
One of the beneficial results of the Great War has been the teaching of thrift to the American housewife. For patriotic reasons and for reasons of economy, more attention has been bestowed upon the preparing and cooking of food that is to be at once...
Two Diaries From Middle St. John's, Berkeley, South Carolina, February - May, 1865 - Susan R. Jervey
Two Diaries From Middle St. John's, Berkeley, South Carolina, February - May, 1865 - Susan R. Jervey
- Author: Susan R. Jervey
- Genre: *Non-fiction / War & Military / Biography & Autobiography
Two diaries from Middle St. John’s, Berkeley, South Carolina, February – May, 1865. Journals kept by Miss Susan R. Jervey and Miss Charlotte St. Julien Ravenel, at Northampton and Poooshee Plantations, and reminiscences of Mrs. (Waring) Henagan....
Bonaparte in Egypt and the Egyptians of To-day - Haji A. Browne
Bonaparte in Egypt and the Egyptians of To-day - Haji A. Browne
- Author: Haji A. Browne
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Travel & Geography
Knowing the Egyptian as I know him, I cannot but think that he is greatly misunderstood, even by those who are sincerely anxious to befriend him. His faults and his failings are to be found at large in almost any of the scores of books that have of...
Chemical Phenomena in Life - Frederick Czapek
Chemical Phenomena in Life - Frederick Czapek
- Author: Frederick Czapek
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Chemistry / Life Sciences
Published in 1911 as part of the "Harper's Library of Living Thought," this volume presents an introduction to the chemistry of cells in the context of plant physiology and gives an interesting overview of the field of biochemistry and related...
A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison - James E. Seaver
A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison - James E. Seaver
- Author: James E. Seaver
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
Mrs. Mary Jemison was taken by the Indians, in the year 1755, when only about twelve years of age, and has continued to reside amongst them to the present time. Containing an account of the murder of her father and his family; her sufferings; her...
Easy Lessons in Einstein - Edwin E. Slosson
Easy Lessons in Einstein - Edwin E. Slosson
- Author: Edwin E. Slosson
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Nature / Astronomy / Physics & Mechanics
Published in 1920, Slosson’s Easy Lessons in Einstein is one of the first popularizations of Einstein’s theory of relativity. This book is meant to convey to the general reader the ideas of relativity in non-mathematical terms, by the use of thought...
The Old Peabody Pew - Kate Douglas Wiggin
The Old Peabody Pew - Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance / *Non-fiction
A sweet, old fashioned Christmas romance set in an old New England meeting house. (Summary by Maria Therese)...
