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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. II - Edward Gibbon
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. II - 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. Volume I was published in 1776, and went through six...
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Version 2) - Henry David Thoreau
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Version 2) - Henry David Thoreau
- Author: Henry David Thoreau
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Political Science
ivil Disobedience (Resistance to Civil Government) is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their...
The Life and Doctrine of St. Catherine of Genoa - Unknown
The Life and Doctrine of St. Catherine of Genoa - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Saint Catherine of Genoa (Caterina Fieschi Adorno, born Genoa 1447 β 15 September 1510) is an Italian Roman Catholic saint and mystic, admired for her work among the sick and the poor. She was a member of the noble Fieschi family, and spent most of...
Kindness - Frederick William FABER
Kindness - Frederick William FABER
- Author: Frederick William FABER
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Christianity - Other
Father Frederick William Faber was a beloved spiritual writer, preacher, and superior of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri in London. An Oxford scholar and Anglican priest since 1839, Faber converted to Roman Catholicism in 1845 following his mentor...
Ceresβ Runaway & Other Essays - Alice Meynell
Ceresβ Runaway & Other Essays - Alice Meynell
- Author: Alice Meynell
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Essays & Short Works
Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' Suffrage League, She and her husband Wilfrid Meynell were active in publishing and editing literary works...
Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts - Frank R. Stockton
Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts - Frank R. Stockton
- Author: Frank R. Stockton
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
Buccaneers is non-fiction, a highly readable history of how piracy began and spread throughout the region in response to the plundering of Spanish colonialism. It is written with great flair for the dramatic by the author of The Lady or the Tiger?...
Principles of Economics, Book 3: On Wants and Their Satisfaction - Alfred Marshall
Principles of Economics, Book 3: On Wants and Their Satisfaction - Alfred Marshall
- Author: Alfred Marshall
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Principles of Economics was a leading economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), first published in 1890. Marshall began writing the book in 1881, and he spent much of the next decade at work on it. His plan for the work gradually extended...
Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World - Mark Twain
Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / *Non-fiction / Travel & Geography
Following the Equator (American English title) or More Tramps Abroad (English title) is a non-fiction travelogue published by American author Mark Twain in 1897.Twain was practically bankrupt in 1894 due to a failed investment into a "revolutionary"...
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 032 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 032 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the history of aeroplanes, political speeches, travel, philosophy, Japan, the United Nations, Congressional law, rules of cricket and more....
The Hindu-Yogi Science Of Breath - William Walker Atkinson
The Hindu-Yogi Science Of Breath - William Walker Atkinson
- Author: William Walker Atkinson
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Increase your awareness about the forgotten art of breathing as researched, practiced and written by our Eastern brothers. Inside you will find how our Western society has perhaps forgotten the proper way to breath, hence leaving us more susceptible...
Sidelights on Relativity - Albert EINSTEIN
Sidelights on Relativity - Albert EINSTEIN
- Author: Albert EINSTEIN
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Nature / Science
Sidelights on Relativity contains ETHER AND THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY, an address delivered on May 5th, 1920, in the University of Leyden; and GEOMETRY AND EXPERIENCE, an expanded form of an address to the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin on...
A Memoir on the Life and Character of the Rev. Prince Demetrius A. de Gallitzin - Thomas HEYDEN
A Memoir on the Life and Character of the Rev. Prince Demetrius A. de Gallitzin - Thomas HEYDEN
- Author: Thomas HEYDEN
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Christianity - Biographies
Prince Demetrius of Gallitzin (1770-1840), or "Father Smith," as he was known on the eighteenth century American frontier, was one of the glories of early Catholicism in America. Though a prince by birth, Demetrius discreetly concealed the glory of...
The Mentor 2 - Various
The Mentor 2 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction
The Mentor Association was established to increase interest and knowledge among the public in the areas of art, literature, science, nature, history and travel. The association published a magazine twice monthly, each dealing with a different topic...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 061 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 061 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Seventeen short nonfiction works in the public domain independently chosen by the readers. Volume 61 features articles and essays on both current and timeless topics, ranging from whether marijuana is addictive (U.S. Gov.) to what constitutes...
What's Wrong With the World - G. K. Chesterton
What's Wrong With the World - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / *Non-fiction / Political Science
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874β1936) has been called the βprince of paradox.β Time magazine observed of his writing style: βWhenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegoriesβfirst carefully turning them inside...
Book of Concord Preface - Unknown
Book of Concord Preface - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Religion
The Christian Book of Concord was published in 1580 as a collection of eleven documents: Three Ecumenical Creeds and eight documents from the Reformation Era. Here is the Preface to the entire work together with the Saxon Visitation Articles from...
The Sins of Hollywood - Ed ROBERTS
The Sins of Hollywood - Ed ROBERTS
- Author: Ed ROBERTS
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Art / Design & Architecture
Exacerbated by several high-profile Hollywood scandals, a wave of anti-Hollywood rhetoric tried to paint the movie capital as a veritable hotbed of crime, licentiousness, and moral transgression. THE SINS OF HOLLYWOOD, published in May 1922, is...
A Letter Concerning Toleration - John Locke
A Letter Concerning Toleration - John Locke
- Author: John Locke
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke was originally published in 1689. Its initial publication was in Latin, though it was immediately translated into other languages. In this "letter" addressed to an anonymous "Honored Sir" (actually Locke's...
The Amateur Emigrant - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Amateur Emigrant - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Travel & Geography
In July 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson left Scotland to meet his future wife in her native California. Leaving by ship from Glasgow, Scotland, he determined to travel in steerage class to see how the working classes fared. At the last minute he was...
That Christ Is One - Cyril of Alexandria
That Christ Is One - Cyril of Alexandria
- Author: Cyril of Alexandria
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / *Non-fiction / Religion
Cyril of Alexandria was the leading voice of Nicene orthodoxy in the Christological controversies between Constantinople (381) and Chalcedon (451). Assuming the mantle of the Cappadotian fathers, he answered the auguments of Nestorius who had...
The Cycle Industry, its origin, history and latest developments - Walter Ferdinando GREW
The Cycle Industry, its origin, history and latest developments - Walter Ferdinando GREW
- Author: Walter Ferdinando GREW
- Genre: *Non-fiction
From the velocipede to the motor cycle in twenty chapters. A short history of the British bicycle industry from its origins in a Coventry sewing machine factory in 1868 to its transformation into one of the countries most important industries. A...
A First Century Message to Twentieth Century Christians - G. Campbell Morgan
A First Century Message to Twentieth Century Christians - G. Campbell Morgan
- Author: G. Campbell Morgan
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Religion
G. Campbell Morgan was one of the leading evangelical preachers of his day. He began preaching at age 13 and by age 26 was teaching at the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, Illinois. He returned to England in 1904 to become pastor at Westminster...
Soul Food - George Douglas WATSON
Soul Food - George Douglas WATSON
- Author: George Douglas WATSON
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Religion
A guide for Christians to walk a godly life. Covering various practical and spiritual topics.This project was proof listened by Guero and Laura Victoria....
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 067 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 067 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Essays & Short Works
Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. Two U.S. Presidents are remembered in "A Colored Man's Reminiscences of James Madison" and Washington's "Address to Congress on Resigning His Commission (1783)." Other topics in history and...
Aircraft and Submarines - Willis J. ABBOT
Aircraft and Submarines - Willis J. ABBOT
- Author: Willis J. ABBOT
- Genre: *Non-fiction / War & Military
"Aircraft and Submarines" is a history of the development of these forms of transportation and their ultimate use in warfare. Also a brief history of submarine use in commercial applications. A thoroughly enjoyable piece for anyone interested in the...
Autobiography of Anthony Trollope - Anthony Trollope
Autobiography of Anthony Trollope - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Anthony Trollope's autobiography will delight you whether or not you've read (or listened to) any of his many works. His honest if self-deprecating tone is at times hilarious and at times piteously moving. His detailed descriptions of his writing...
Timaeus - Plato
Timaeus - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / *Non-fiction / Philosophy
"Our intention is, that Timaeus, who is the most of an astronomer amongst us, and has made the nature of the universe his special study, should speak first, beginning with the generation of the world and going down to the creation of man..."...
The True Vine - Andrew Murray
The True Vine - Andrew Murray
- Author: Andrew Murray
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Religion
Andrew Murray's True Vine is a thirty-one day devotional focusing on Christ's Parable of the Vine and the Branches in John 15. The devotional for each day, though short, elaborates and expounds upon John 15, providing spiritual insight along the...
The Gilded Age, A Tale of Today (version 2) - Mark Twain
The Gilded Age, A Tale of Today (version 2) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: General Fiction / Satire / *Non-fiction
Originally published in 1873, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is the only novel Twain co-wrote (C.D. Warner was a good friend and neighbor of the Clemens family in Hartford, and the collaboration sprang from their wive's challenge and...
Indian Frontier Policy, an Historical Sketch - General Sir John Miller ADYE
Indian Frontier Policy, an Historical Sketch - General Sir John Miller ADYE
- Author: General Sir John Miller ADYE
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
"The subject of our policy on the North-West frontier of India is one of great importance, as affecting the general welfare of our Eastern Empire, and is specially interesting at the present time, when military operations on a considerable scale are...
Spurgeon's Sermons May 1858 - Charles H. Spurgeon
Spurgeon's Sermons May 1858 - Charles H. Spurgeon
- Author: Charles H. Spurgeon
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Religion
Charles Spurgeon was a popular Baptist minister in London in mid-Victorian times; his ministry was highly influential and had a significant effect on many families in London and further afield. It was difficult to find a hall large enough to...
The Lost Art of Reading - Gerald Stanley LEE
The Lost Art of Reading - Gerald Stanley LEE
- Author: Gerald Stanley LEE
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Crafts & Hobbies
Gerald Stanley Lee speaks here-in of books and self in the time of factories, tall buildings and industry and big city making, the effects of modern civilization on the individual. - Summary by Joseph Tabler...
Voyage Round the World in His Majesty's Frigate Pandora - George HAMILTON
Voyage Round the World in His Majesty's Frigate Pandora - George HAMILTON
- Author: George HAMILTON
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction / *Non-fiction / History
George Hamilton was the surgeon assigned to the frigate Pandora. The British Admiralty ordered the ship to the Pacific to arrest the Bounty mutineers and bring them back to England for trial. The commander, Captain Edward Edwards, also was ordered...
Two Years and Four Months in a Lunatic Asylum - Hiram CHASE
Two Years and Four Months in a Lunatic Asylum - Hiram CHASE
- Author: Hiram CHASE
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Psychology
Hiram Chase is a well liked Reverend in a small ministry in Utica. When his mental and physical health deteriorates, he is taken to Utica lunatic asylum. After his stay in the asylum, Hiram documents his experiences and those of other patients in...
Memoirs of a Revolutionist, Vol. 1 - Peter KROPOTKIN
Memoirs of a Revolutionist, Vol. 1 - Peter KROPOTKIN
- Author: Peter KROPOTKIN
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
Peter Kropotkin was a Russian anarcho-communist and scientist. This is his autobiography, and he writes not only about his own life, but also about 19th century Russian society and politics. He was born into the nobility and had a military...
Around the World on a Bicycle, Vol. 2 - Thomas Stevens
Around the World on a Bicycle, Vol. 2 - 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...
Our Old Nursery Rhymes - Alfred MOFFAT
Our Old Nursery Rhymes - Alfred MOFFAT
- Author: Alfred MOFFAT
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Poetry / *Non-fiction
_Our Old Nursery Rhymes_ (1911) is a book of 30 of folkloric songs arranged by Alfred Moffatt and beautifully illustrated by H. Willebeck Le Mair. You and your child can listen and sing along as you read the facsimile edition online from the...
Considerations on Representative Government - John Stuart Mill
Considerations on Representative Government - John Stuart Mill
- Author: John Stuart Mill
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Philosophy
Mill's volume was published in 1861 as an argument favoring this form of governance. Mill covers what forms of government work best, including when representative government is applicable and when not. He details appropriate functions of...
Shakespeare and Music - Christopher WILSON
Shakespeare and Music - Christopher WILSON
- Author: Christopher WILSON
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Music
Shakespeare's plays are full of music: love songs, comic ditties, serious ballads, and songs for witches and spirits. Over the centuries musicians and composers have also created musical adaptations based on Shakespeare's plays. Composer Christopher...
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan - Isabella L. BIRD
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan - Isabella L. BIRD
- Author: Isabella L. BIRD
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Travel & Geography
Isabella Lucy Bird was a 19th century English traveller, writer, and natural historian. She was a sickly child, however, while she was travelling she was almost always healthy. Her first trip, in 1854, took her to America, visiting relatives. Her...
