Category Archives: Non-fiction
Ronald And I; Or Studies From Life
Author(s): Alfred Pretor This is a collection of essays (1899) on English village life in...
Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth
Author(s): Anne Robert Jacques Turgot “This Essay May be Considered as the Germ of the...
Birds and Nature, Vol. IX, No 3, March 1901
Author(s): Various ] “Birds and Nature” was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing...
History of England, from the Accession of James II – (Volume 1, Chapter 03)
Author(s): Thomas Babington Macaulay This is the third chapter in Macaulay’s great History of England...
Notes on Life and Letters
Author(s): Joseph Conrad Conrad described the twenty-six essays collected here as a “one-man show” comprising...
Lucretia Borgia
Author(s): Ferdinand Gregorovius According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day. Lucretia Borgia is...
Diary from Dixie
Author(s): Mary Chesnut Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, a well-educated South Carolina woman who was married...
Mark Twain in the New York Times, Part Three (1890-1899)
Author(s): Mark TwainThe New York Times This collection of articles by and about Mark Twain...
Country Calendar
Author(s): Tickner Edwardes ‘A Country Calendar’ was written in 1928 by the Reverend Tickner Edwardes,...
History of California: The American Period
Author(s): Robert Glass Cleland The Author’s own summary surveys “first the faint awakenings of American...
Outline History of Japan
Author(s): Herbert Henry Gowen A history of Japan from its origins to the early 20th...
From October to Brest-Litovsk
Author(s): Leon Trotsky This account by Trotsky is of the events in Russia from the...
Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 4
Author(s): Charles F. Horne A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the lives of...
G.K. Chesterton in America: A Catholic Review of the Week
Author(s): G. K. Chesterton A collection of 15 articles/essays written by G.K. Chesterton in “America:...
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Author(s): Frederick Douglass Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise...
Favorite Hymns 01
Author(s): Various From the earliest period of history, God’s people have found joy in expressing...
Popular History of Ireland, Book 03
Author(s): Thomas D’Arcy McGee Thomas D’Arcy McGee was an Irish refugee and a father of...
Piano Tuning: A Simple and Accurate Method for Amateurs
Author(s): Jerry Cree Fischer This is a primer for anyone wishing to learn how to...
Life In Mexico
Author(s): Frances Calderón de la Barca FRANCES CALDERON DE LA BARCA, born in Edinburgh, 1804,...
dogaressas of Venice: The wives of the doges
Author(s): Edgcumbe Staley A series of biographies of the wives of the doges (leaders) of...
Bible (KJV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Additions to Daniel
Author(s): King James Version (KJV) The Additions to Daniel comprise three chapters not found in...
Birds and All Nature, Vol. V, No 2 February 1899
Author(s): Various “Birds and All Nature” was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing...
G.K. Chesterton in The Century Illustrated Magazine
Author(s): G. K. Chesterton A collection of 5 articles/essays and 2 letters written by G.K....
Interpretation of Keats’s Endymion
Author(s): Henry Clement Notcutt Endymion is the largest work by John Keats and was composed...
Cruising Voyage Around the World
Author(s): Woodes Rogers First to the South-seas, Thence to the East-Indies, and Homewards by the...
Henry Ford’s Own Story
Author(s): Rose Wilder Lane Rose Wilder Lane was a newspaper reporter, free-lance writer, political activist,...
History of the Thirty Years War, Volume 2
Author(s): Friedrich Schiller The History of the Thirty Years War is a five volume work,...
Exercises in Knitting
Author(s): Cornelia Mee Mrs. Mee, her husband, and her sister ran a yarn and needlework...
Famous Men of Modern Times
Author(s): John Henry HaarenA. B. Poland Famous Men of Modern Times is a series of...
Home Vegetable Gardening
Author(s): Fredrick Frye Rockwell Either as hobby or a great economic help, home vegetable gardens...