Category Archives: Non-fiction
Die Neue Malerei
Author(s): Franz Moritz Wilhelm Marc Franz Moritz Wilhelm Marc (* 8. Februar 1880 in München;...
Little Masterpieces of Autobiography: Actors
Author(s): George Iles The playwright gives a play its plot, characters, dialog and form, but...
Edward the First (Version 2)
Author(s): Thomas Frederick Tout Part of the Twelve English Statesmen series of books. Edward I,...
Birds and Nature, Vol. XII, No 5, December 1902
Author(s): Various “Birds and Nature” was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company...
Memories of My Life
Author(s): Sarah Bernhardt Sarah Bernhardt was a popular French actress who starred in some of...
Declaration of Rights
Author(s): Stamp Act Congress On June 8, 1765 James Otis, supported by the Massachusetts Assembly...
Chronicles of America Volume 13 – The Fathers of the Constitution
Author(s): Max Farrand In this next installment of the Chronicles of America, Farrand takes American...
Old-Time Makers of Medicine
Long before the advent of germ theory or modern synthetic pharmaceuticals, ancient and medieval practitioners...
Dr. Elsie Inglis
Author(s): Frances Balfour Dr. Elsie Inglis is one of the unsung heroes of the late...
Essays on Modern Novelists
Author(s): William Lyon Phelps A collection of essays on 19th century novelists, both famous ones...
Principles of Economics, Book 3: On Wants and Their Satisfaction
Author(s): Alfred Marshall Principles of Economics was a leading economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924),...
Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends
Author(s): John KeatsSidney Colvin These are the letters of John Keats, as written to family,...
Partial Portraits
Author(s): Henry James In this book, writer Henry James gives wonderful and probing insights into...
Bible (KJV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Book of Tobit
Author(s): King James Version (KJV) The Book of Tobit (from Hebrew: טובי Tobi “my good”)...
Freedom’s Battle
Author(s): Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi A collection of writings and speeches by Gandhi during the British...
Cape Coddities
Author(s): Roger Livingston Scaife A message from the past from a former Cape Cod resident...
Episodes Before Thirty
Author(s): Algernon Blackwood Blackwood wrote this autobiography in his fifties, describing his first thirty years...
Oliver Cromwell
Author(s): Samuel Rawson Gardiner The following work gives within a short compass a history of...
Robert Schumann, Tone Poet Prophet And Critic
Author(s): Herbert Francis Peyser [This is] the sketchiest outline of Robert Schumann’s short life but...
Of Education
Author(s): John Milton A well educated population is the cornerstone of a strong society. On...
History of England, from the Accession of James II – (Volume 1, Chapter 05)
Author(s): Thomas Babington Macaulay This chapter of Macaulay’s History of England is concerned, for a...
Life of Honorable William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill The Famous Hunter, Scout and Guide
Author(s): Col. William F. Cody The life and adventures of Honorable William F. Cody–Buffalo Bill–as...
Border Raids and Reivers
Author(s): Robert Borland A history of southern Scots families (reivers). “There are few more remarkable...
Bible (KJV) 13: 1 Chronicles
Author(s): King James Version (KJV) Written to aid those returning to Israel after the exile...
Lectures on Landscape
Author(s): John Ruskin A series of lectures on landscape painting delivered at Oxford in 1871,...
Lives of the Queens of England of the House of Hanover, Volume 1
Author(s): Dr. John Doran The first of a two volume work looking at the lives...
Greece and the Allies
Author(s): George Frederick Abbott The author delves into Greece’s dealings leading up to, during, and...
Friend of Marie-Antoinette (Lady Atkyns)
Author(s): Frédéric Barbey Charlotte Atkyns (née Walpole) was an English actress. She was widowed while...
I, Mary MacLane
Author(s): Mary MacLane Described as “the first blogger”, Mary MacLane lived a tortured life, ahead...
Essays on Prohibition
Author(s): Various A collection of essays regarding the pros and cons of prohibition of alcoholic...