Category Archives: Non-fiction
Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV
Author(s): Francis Parkman, Jr. Part five of Francis Parkman’s multi-volume series France and England in...
Catherine De’ Medici
Author(s): Honoré de Balzac The Philosophical Studies from The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine) are...
Report of the Airship ”Hindenburg” Accident Investigation
Author(s): United States Department of Commerce “Oh my!”-Herbert O. Morrison, WLS News, Chicago Thursday, 6...
Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 2 (1890-1895)
Author(s): Oscar Wilde This second collection of the correspondence of Oscar Wilde includes letters written...
Entertaining Made Easy
Author(s): Emily Rose Burt This book provides the hostess with ideas for parties and games....
My Southern Home or, The South and Its People
Author(s): William Wells Brown William Wells Brown was born a slave, near Lexington, Kentucky. His...
Recollections of Oscar Wilde
Author(s): Franz BleiAndré GideErnest La Jeunesse This 1906 collection of memories of Oscar Wilde is...
Recollections of Napoleon at St. Helena
Author(s): Elizabeth Balcombe Abell In this memoir written by Betsy Balcombe, who was a precocious...
Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush
Author(s): Susanna Moodie As a middle class Englishwoman Moodie did not particularly enjoy “the bush”,...
Prime Numbers
Author(s): Unknown A recording of the first 2000 prime numbers (2-17389). Recommended listening for all...
Little Journeys to the Homes of Famous Women
Author(s): Elbert Hubbard Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other...
Birds, Vol. I, No 1, January 1897
Author(s): Various Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography was a monthly publication of the Nature Study...
Mark Twain in the New York Times, Part One (1867-1879)
Author(s): Mark TwainThe New York Times This collection of articles by and about Mark Twain...
Pioneer Life Among The Loyalists In Upper Canada
Author(s): Walter Stevens Herrington What became of the citizens who remained loyal to the Crown...
Jazz
Author(s): R. P. Jones Long before 1900 there began a fusion of African and European...
Room of One’s Own
Author(s): Virginia Woolf This feminist essay argues for both a literal and figural space for...
Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Vol. I
Author(s): Wolfgang Amadeus MozartGrace Jane Wallace This volume, the first volume of a two-volume set,...
Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse (dramatic reading)
Author(s): Thornton W. Burgess Danny begins his tale regretting the length of his tail until...
A Voyage to the South Sea
Author(s): William Bligh A Voyage to the South Sea, undertaken by command of His Majesty,...
A New England Girlhood: Outlined From Memory
Author(s): Lucy Larcom Lucy Larcom was an American poet, teacher, and mil-worker. According to Wikipedia:...
A Horse’s Tale
Author(s): Mark Twain A Horse’s Tale is a novel by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), written...
A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison
Author(s): James E. Seaver Mrs. Mary Jemison was taken by the Indians, in the year...
A General History of the Pyrates
Author(s): Charles Johnson A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious...
Honey-Bee: Its Nature, Homes and Products
Author(s): William Hetherington Harris “In these days of intense business-pressure, it is a good thing...
Herodotus’ Histories Vol 3
Author(s): Herodotus The Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus is considered the first work of history...
1891 Collection
Author(s): Various A look at the year 1891 through literature and non-fiction essays first published...
A Book of Discovery
Author(s): M. B. Synge Telling the history of geographical discoveries, “Book of Discovery” is a...
History of Rome and the Popes in the Middle Ages, Volume 3
Author(s): Hartmann Grisar This present work may be described as history of the medieval Popes,...
History of Holland
Author(s): George Edmundson The title, “History of Holland,” given to this volume is fully justified...
Books Fatal to Their Authors
Author(s): Peter Hempson Ditchfield This is a collection of stories of authors who have lost...