Category Archives: Non-fiction
The Bible (ASV) NT 22: 2 Peter
Author(s): American Standard Version The Second Epistle of Peter is a book of the New...
The Drama: A Quarterly Review
Author(s): Various This is a collection of theatrical essays from the American quarterly The Drama,...
The Arte or Crafte of Rhethoryke
Author(s): Leonard Cox This text is a reprint of the first English-language book on rhetoric,...
Up from Slavery: An Autobiography (version 3)
Author(s): Booker T. Washington Up from Slavery is the autobiography of American educator Booker T....
Victorian Literature
Author(s): Clement Shorter Victorian Literature by Clement Shorter is a brief work that gives a...
The Memoirs of Chateaubriand Volume IV
Author(s): François-René de Chateaubriand After the extinction of Napoleon’s comet on St Helena, Chateaubriand covers...
Six Years at the Russian Court
Author(s): Magaretta Eagar From 1898 to 1904, Irish born Margaretta Eagar was the nanny to...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 051
Author(s): Various Seventeen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers....
When Buffalo Ran
Author(s): George Bird Grinnell “Seventy years ago, when some of the events here recounted took...
Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur
Author(s): Gertrude Jekyll Wood and Garden reads like a walk through the garden with renowned...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 096
Author(s): Various “Can we solve the problems confronting us? Well, the answer is an unequivocal...
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 7
Author(s): Charles F. HorneRossiter JohnsonJohn Rudd A comprehensive and readable account of the world’s history,...
The American Newspaper
Author(s): William Henry Irwin The American Newspaper is a critical study of journalism conducted by...
The Book of Musical Knowledge
Author(s): Arthur Elson This book has been planned with a view to placing before the...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 106
Author(s): Various “It is a foolish thing to speak on every kind of work, for...
The waning of the middle ages: a study of the forms of life, thought and art in France and the Netherlands in the XIVth and XVth centuries
Author(s): Johan Huizinga The Waning of the Middle Ages (also known as The Autumn of...
The Cambridge Modern History. Volume 04, The Thirty Years’ War
Author(s): Various The Cambridge Modern History is a universal history covering the period from 1450...
The Chronicles of Canada Volume 02 – Mariner of St. Malo: A Chronicle of the Voyages of Jacques Cartier
Author(s): Stephen Leacock Jacques Cartier grew up as a sailor, married well and became an...
Treatise of Modern Falconry
Author(s): James Campbell The 18th century book A Treatise on Modern Falconry is still one...
The Autobiography of Lord Alfred Douglas
Author(s): Lord Alfred Douglas Lord Alfred “Bosie” Douglas wrote his autobiography in his late fifties,...
Sex
Author(s): Henry Stanton Henry Stanton’s 1922 book Sex – Avoided Subjects Discussed in Plain English...
The Life and Works of Joseph Wright
Author(s): William Bemrose Joseph Wright, commonly called “Wright of Derby”, was an English landscape and...
The Soul of a People
Author(s): Harold Fielding Hall In The Soul of a People, Englishman H. Fielding explores the...
Lives of the Engineers (George and Robert Stephenson)
Author(s): Samuel Smiles George Stephenson did not invent the steam engine, that was due to...
The Pudding and Pastry Book
Author(s): Elizabeth Douglas This is a collection of recipes for all types of puddings and...
The New Science of Controlled Breathing, Vol. 1 and 2
Author(s): Edward Lankow Instructions on the health benefits of consciously controlled breathing, by famous opera...
The Chronicles of Canada Volume 26 – The Tribune of Nova Scotia: A Chronicle of Joseph Howe
Author(s): William Lawson Grant Joseph Howe (1804-1873) was one of Nova Scotia’s greatest and best-loved...
Upper Canada Sketches
Author(s): Thomas Conant This book relates “somewhat random sketches of life in the early settlements...
The Underground Railroad, Part 4
Author(s): William Still “The work is intensely interesting. Many of the narratives thrill the reader...
The Children
Author(s): Alice Meynell Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also...