Category Archives: Non-fiction
Brief Lives Volume I
Author(s): John Aubrey A collection of sparkling gossipy biographical pieces of Aubrey’s contemporaries, including Bacon,...
English Literature: Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World
Author(s): William J. Long This book, which presents the whole splendid history of English literature...
Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Volume II
Author(s): Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart This volume, the second volume of a two-volume set, contains over...
Dogs and All About Them
Author(s): Robert Leighton This comprehensive guide on dog-rearing looks at dogs as more than just...
Birds and Nature, Vol. X, No 1, June 1901
Author(s): Various “Birds and Nature” was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company...
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself
Author(s): Harriet Jacobs Harriet Jacobs’ autobiography, written under the pseudonym Linda Brent, details her experiences...
Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators
Author(s): Elbert Hubbard Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other...
Foundations of Geometry
Author(s): David Hilbert The German mathematician David Hilbert was one of the most influential mathematicians...
Moral Principles in Education
Author(s): John Dewey In this book, Dewey elaborates the moral principles that play into the...
History of the United States, Vol. VII
Author(s): Charles Austin BeardMary Ritter Beard Charles Beard was the most influential American historian of...
Great Artists: Volume 1
Author(s): Jennie Ellis Keysor Biographies of Raphael Santi, Murillo, Peter Paul Rubens, and Albrecht Durer....
Life of Frances Power Cobbe as Told by Herself
Author(s): Frances Power Cobbe Frances Power Cobbe was an important Irish-Anglo writer, suffragist, anti-vivisectionist, philosopher,...
Birds and Nature, Vol. VIII, No 2, September 1900
Author(s): Various “Birds and Nature” was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company...
Language Learning Collection
Author(s): Various This collection is part of an initiative to create a language learning resource....
Bible (YLT) 11: 1 Kings
Author(s): Young’s Literal Translation As one kingdom passes and another emerges, the First Book of...
Principles of Economics, Book 6: The Distribution of National Income
Author(s): Alfred Marshall Principles of Economics was a leading economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924),...
Cassell’s Vegetarian Cookery
Author(s): Arthur Gay Payne This is a little cookbook of vegetarian recipes, which were only...
How to Grow the Peanut: and 105 Ways of Preparing It for Human Consumption
Author(s): George Washington Carver George Washington Carver, in his most famous work, explains how to...
Inaugural Dissertation on Pulmonary Consumption
Author(s): Edward Delafield At a time when diseases termed “consumption” were among the leading cause...
How They Succeeded
Author(s): Orison Swett Marden Success! Alluring, fascinating, informative. Why are some people successful while others...
Impressions of Ukiyo-ye, the School of the Japanese Colour-print Artists
Author(s): Dora Amsden Ukiyo-ye prepared Japan for intercourse with other nations by developing in the...
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. IV
Author(s): Edward Gibbon The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a...
Popular History of Ireland, Book 07
Author(s): Thomas D’Arcy McGee Thomas D’Arcy McGee was an Irish refugee and a father of...
Mirror of the Sea (Version 2)
Author(s): Joseph Conrad “Here speaks the man of masts and sails, to whom the sea...
Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia and Letter to a Friend
Author(s): Thomas Browne Selections from the varied writings of a 17th century English doctor with...
Gossip In The First Decade Of Victoria’s Reign
Author(s): John Ashton “I have written this Gossip not only for the edification of those...
Elementary Greek Grammar
Author(s): Raphael Kühner We have followed the Grammars of Kühner, known as his “Large” and...
Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists
Author(s): Elbert Hubbard Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other...
Half Century of Conflict
Author(s): Francis Parkman, Jr. Francis Parkman (1823-1893) is one of the great nineteenth century United...
Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance
Author(s): Ford Madox Ford Joseph Conrad (1857 – 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as...