Culture & Heritage
Zanzibar Tales
If you have read any accounts of adventure in Africa, you will know that travelers never mention animals of any kind that are gifted with th…
Human Nature and Conduct
John Dewey, an early 20th Century American philosopher, psychologist, educational theorist, saw Social Psychology as much a physical science…
Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great
Elbert Hubbard visits the homes of authors, politicians, poets, philosophers and other prestigious people. If they are still living he speak…
A Christmas Carol
"A Christmas Carol" has been credited with relaunching the celebration of Christmas as we know it. It relaunched Charles Dickens' …
Die Volkssagen von Pommern und Rügen
Sagen aus Pommern und Rügen, zusammengetragen von Jodocus Deodatus Hubertus Temme. Dabei handelt es sich meist um kurze Abschnitte &uum…
The Crossing
This is an historical fiction novel. Many real characters of history are included, as well as fictitious ones. The saga takes place in the p…
Myths and Legends of the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes
It is a loss to American literature that so much of the legendary history of these Indian tribes has gone, beyond hope of recovery. Exquisit…
A Son of the Middle Border
A Son of the Middle Border is Hamlin Garland's evocative memoir that captures the essence of life in the American Midwest during a transform…
By What Authority?
Two wealthy families are neighbors in Elizabethan England; one is staunchly Catholic and the other is devoutly Protestant. The attractive yo…
The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew
The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew recounts the wide-ranging exploits of a real-life rogue – a wily professional mendicant w…
Job
Job was a prosperous landowner who encountered a series of misfortunes, leading him to question himself and his relation to his God. A gran…
La Symphonie pastorale
Un pasteur recueille dans sa famille une jeune fille aveugle et non éduquée. Un attachement, un sentiment naît. Cé…
Tales of Daring and Danger
G A Henty takes us on a variety of adventures in this collection:A daring rescue on rough seas, a military action against Chinese pirates, h…
Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp
This is Stowe's second book, another one depicting the horrors of southern slavery, published 4 years after Uncle Tom's Cabin and 5 years be…
The Convivio
Convivio (The Banquet) is a work written by Dante Alighieri roughly between 1304 and 1307. This unfinished work of Dante consists of four tr…
Tea
Samuel Phillips Day traces the history of tea from Asia to England, exploring some of the romance of this treasured drink and its place in B…
The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann’s epic novel depicts a decaying, corrupted European society on the eve of the First World War. Set in a luxurious sanatorium hig…
Old Rail Fence Corners
Old Rail Fence Corners is an historical treasure trove containing the stories of the first significant waves of European-American settlers i…
Mémoires d'outre-tombe
Ouvrage relatant, depuis l'enfance, la vie de CHATEAUBRIAND, avec l'Histoire de France , Bonaparte, Napoléon, la Restauration, etc...…
Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio
"Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" (or "Strange Tales of Liaozhai") is a collection of nearly five hundred mostly sup…