History

First-hand accounts and analyses of civilizations, wars, and world events.

Lays of Ancient RomeThomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay

★4.1

FictionHistory

Oliver Wendell Holmes (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)William Dean Howells

★4.2

BiographyHistory

Historia CalamitatumPeter Abelard

★3.6

BiographyFiction

The unknown life of Jesus ChristNicolas Notovitch

★3.8

BiographyHistory

Prison Memoirs of an AnarchistAlexander Berkman

★4.0

PhilosophyBiography

The English Governess at the Siamese Court / Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at BangkokAnna Harriette Leonowens

★3.4

FictionHistorical Fiction

ApocolocyntosisLucius Annaeus Seneca

★3.7

FictionHistory

Letters from an American FarmerJ. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur

★3.2

FictionHistory

Science and the modern worldAlfred North Whitehead

★4.0

FictionHistory

Ten Great Events in HistoryJames Johonnot

★3.4

ReferenceFiction

The Story of the GreeksH. A. Guerber

★3.9

Mythology & FolkloreHistory

A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus with the EncheiridionEpictetus

★4.2

PhilosophyFiction

In the Arena: Stories of Political LifeBooth Tarkington

★3.9

BiographyHistory

This Country of OursH. E. Marshall

★4.0

Children's LiteratureFiction

The Common LawOliver Wendell Holmes

★3.8

Political ScienceFiction

The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of CanadaJosiah Henson

★4.4

BiographyHistory

MenexenusPlato

★3.2

FictionHistory

An Account of EgyptHerodotus

★3.8

HistoryFiction

BeethovenRomain Rolland

★3.9

BiographyFiction

On HorsemanshipXenophon

★4.1

HistoryPhilosophy

William the Conqueror / Makers of HistoryJacob Abbott

★3.7

BiographyChildren's Literature

The Hungry Stones, and Other StoriesRabindranath Tagore

★4.0

EssaysFiction

CathayBai Li Ezra Pound

★3.9

PoetryHistory

Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates / Fiction, Fact & Fancy Concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners of the Spanish MainHoward Pyle

★3.6

AdventureFiction