Category Archives: Non-fiction
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Author(s): Pitts Sanborn The late Pitts Sanborn wrote this booklet under the title Beethoven and...
Birds and All Nature, Vol. VII, No 4, April 1900
Author(s): Various “Birds and All Nature” was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing...
Bible (KJV) 24: Jeremiah
Author(s): King James Version (KJV) The Book of Jeremiah is the second of the Latter...
How We Elected Lincoln; Personal Recollections of Lincoln and Men of His Time
Author(s): Abram J. Dittenhoefer Dittenhoefer as a young man campaigned for Lincoln in 1860 and...
History of Billy the Kid
Author(s): Charles A. Siringo A cowboy outlaw whose youthful daring has never been equalled in...
On The Seashore
Author(s): R. Cadwallader Smith This gifted nature writer who is so good at describing animals...
Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays
Author(s): William Hazlitt This famous Shakespearean exploration illuminates its plays through the frame of character,...
Lady Jane Grey and Her Times
Author(s): Ida Ashworth Taylor Lady Jane Grey was an English noblewoman, great-granddaughter of Henry VII....
History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great, Vol I
Author(s): John Bagnell Bury J. B. Bury wrote his “History of Greece” before World War...
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1
Author(s): Isaac D’Israeli This is a collection of short essays on literature. Various subjects are...
Life of Florence Nightingale
Author(s): Sarah Tooley Journalist and author Sarah Tooley was best known in her time for...
On Famine Fever and Some of the Other Cognate Forms of Typhus
Author(s): Rudolf Virchow Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902), professor of medicine and pathology at the Charité Hospital...
Birds and Nature, Vol. IX, No 1, January 1901
Author(s): Various “Birds and Nature” was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company...
Glimpse of India
Author(s): Clara Swain A Glimpse of India: being a collection of extracts from the letters...
Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 5 (1898-1900)
Author(s): Oscar Wilde This fifth and final collection of the correspondence of Oscar Wilde includes...
Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
Author(s): Elizabeth E. Lea The compiler of [this book] having entered early in life upon...
Mozart: The Man and the Artist as Revealed in His Own Words
Author(s): Friedrich KerstWolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. His name is one of the most...
History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy, Vol. 2
Author(s): Niccolò Machiavelli History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy is an historical...
Mark Twain and the Happy Island
Author(s): Elizabeth Wallace This Mark Twain Memoir by Elizabeth Wallace paints an idyllic portrait of...
Recollections of Old Liverpool by a Nonagenarian
Author(s): James Stonehouse These reflections of a 93 year old Liverpudlian provide a unique view...
Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation, Harvesting, Curing and Uses (Version 2)
Author(s): Maurice Grenville Kains Culinary Herbs may be regarded as the secret to preparing good...
Declaration of Independence of the United States of America
Author(s): Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Independence is the document in which the Thirteen Colonies declared...
Eighty Years Ashore and Afloat, or, The Thrilling Adventures of Uncle Jethro: Embracing the Remarkable Episodes in a Life of Toil and Danger, on Land and Sea
Author(s): E. C. Cornell Experiences of Jethro Ripley, mainly in the Atlantic coast trade, but...
Key To Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Author(s): Harriet Beecher Stowe After the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which many claim sparked...
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 7
Author(s): Giorgio Vasari The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from...
History of England, from the Accession of James II – (Volume 2, Chapter 09)
Author(s): Thomas Babington Macaulay This is chapter 9 of Thomas Babington Macaulay’s History of England...
Growth of a Soul
Author(s): August Strindberg Johan August Strindberg was a Swedish playwright who has had many of...
Mrs. Shelley
Author(s): Lucy Madox Rossetti “I have to thank all the previous students of Shelley as...
Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 2
Author(s): Charles F. Horne A collection of writings about a variety of men and women...
New Discoveries at Jamestown
Author(s): John L. CotterJ. Paul Hudson Chances are, you are reading this because you are...