Category Archives: Non-fiction
Bible (KJV) NT 03: Luke
Author(s): King James Version (KJV) The Gospel of Luke is the most literary of the...
Marion Harland’s Cookery for Beginners
Author(s): Marion Harland With this book, Marion Harland presents the reader and listener with “A...
Elia; and The Last Essays of Elia
Author(s): Charles Lamb Elia and The Last Essays of Elia are two collections of essays...
L’Art Pour l’Art
Author(s): Various A disparate assemblage of lingual mastery spanning genres and prowess with an eye...
Popular History of Ireland, Book 06
Author(s): Thomas D’Arcy McGee Thomas D’Arcy McGee was an Irish refugee and a father of...
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
Author(s): Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass published his highly acclaimed third autobiography, Life and Times of...
Birds and Nature, Vol. IX, No 4, April 1901
Author(s): Various “Birds and Nature” was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company...
Flowers and Ferns in their Haunts
Author(s): Mabel Osgood Wright Pleasant non-fiction journey into the backwoods of the New England coastal...
Bible (KJV) NT 20: James
Author(s): King James Version (KJV) The writer of this letter instructs the early Christians on...
Modern Woman’s Rights Movement
Author(s): Käthe Schirmacher A history of the international woman’s rights movements originally published in 1905...
Collection of the Facts and Documents Relative to the Death of Major-General Alexander Hamilton
Author(s): William Coleman Compiled by William Coleman the first editor of the New York Evening...
Lectures On Painting Delivered To The Students Of The Royal Academy
Author(s): Edward Armitage This 1883 book contains chapters on ancient costumes, Byzantine and Romanesque art,...
Love Letters of Mrs. Piozzi, Written When She Was Eighty
Author(s): Hester Lynch Piozzi Born into the influential Welsh Salusbury family and married to the...
History of the Jews in America
Author(s): Peter Wiernik Peter Wiernik was an influential Yiddish journalist in Chicago after immigrating from...
Capital and Interest
Author(s): Frédéric Bastiat Frédéric Bastiat was an early 19th century French economist/statesman whose common sense...
Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 5
Author(s): Charles F. Horne This is volume 5, Workmen and Heroes, in the series of...
Certo: A Short Cut to Better Jams and Jellies
Author(s): General Foods Corporation General Foods Corporation, makers of the product, Certo, prepared this little...
Miscellany of Men
Author(s): G. K. Chesterton Gilbert Keith Chesterton was among the world’s most prolific writers who...
History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy, Vol. 1
Author(s): Niccolò Machiavelli History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy is an historical...
King Alfred of England
Author(s): Jacob Abbott The life and accomplishments of England’s sole title holder of “The Great.”...
Bible (KJV) 26: Ezekiel
Author(s): King James Version (KJV) The book of Ezekiel follows the southern kingdom of Israel,...
Ingersoll on ROBERT BURNS, from the Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 3, Lecture 2
Author(s): Robert G. Ingersoll This is a duet by Michele Fry, reading Ingersoll’s essay, and...
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Author(s): Thomas de Quincey “Thou hast the keys of Paradise, O just, subtle, and mighty...
Poland: A Study of the Land, People and Literature
Author(s): George Brandes “I had accepted an invitation to deliver three lectures in French in...
Hunting In Many Lands
Author(s): Various The first volume published by the Boone and Crockett Club, entitled “American Big...
Neither Here nor There
Author(s): Oliver Herford Oliver Herford, and American humorist, writer, and illustrator here gives us short...
Frederick Douglass A Biography
Author(s): Charles Waddell Chesnutt Born into slavery, Frederick Douglass became one of America’s great icons....
Lady’s Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas
Author(s): Fanny Loviot This thrilling narrative recounts the true story of Fanny Loviot, a wealthy,...
From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom
Author(s): Lucy Ann Delaney In From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom...
Reading: An Essay
Author(s): Hugh Walpole A famous English author’s thoughts on the power of reading. – Summary...