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By: Ben J. (Ben Johannis) Viljoen (1868-1917)

Book cover My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War

By: Ben Jonson (1573-1637)

Book cover Sejanus: His Fall
Book cover The Poetaster

By: Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)

Book cover Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity
Book cover Lord George Bentinck A Political Biography

By: Benjamin Drake (1794-1841)

Book cover Great Indian Chief of the West Or, Life and Adventures of Black Hawk
Book cover Life of Tecumseh, and of His Brother the Prophet With a Historical Sketch of the Shawanoe Indians

By: Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Inventor, author, printer, scientist, politician, diplomat—all these terms do not even begin to fully describe the amazing and multitalented, Benjamin Franklin who was of course also one of the Founding Fathers of America. At the age of 75, in 1771 he began work on what he called his Memoirs. He was still working on it when he died in 1790 and it was published posthumously, entitled An Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. The book had a complicated and controversial publication history. Strangely enough, the first volume only was first published in French, in Paris in 1791...

By: Benjamin Franklin Schappelle (1885-)

Book cover The German Element in Brazil Colonies and Dialect

By: Benjamin Harris (1781-1858)

The Recollections of Rifleman Harris by Benjamin Harris The Recollections of Rifleman Harris

The recollections of a British infantryman who served in the British army during the Napoleonic Wars.

By: Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville (1796-1878)

Book cover The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West

By: Benjamin Perley Poore (1820-1887)

Book cover Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis

By: Benjamin Waterhouse (1754-1846)

Book cover A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed.

By: Bennet Burleigh (-1914)

Book cover Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan

By: Benson John Lossing (1813-1891)

Book cover Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3.

By: Benvenuto Cellini ((1500-1571))

The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

Cellini’s autobiographical memoirs, which he began writing in Florence in 1558, give a detailed account of his singular career, as well as his loves, hatreds, passions, and delights, written in an energetic, direct, and racy style. They show a great self-regard and self-assertion, sometimes running into extravagances which are impossible to credit. He even writes in a complacent way of how he contemplated his murders before carrying them out. He writes of his time in Paris: Parts of his tale recount...

By: Bernard Henry Becker (1833-)

Book cover Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.

By: Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657-1757)

Book cover Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds

This book is a popular science book written in the late 1600s. It is written as a series of conversations between a gallant philosopher and a countess, while walking in her garden and gazing at the stars. The philosopher explains the heliocentric model of the solar system and also muses on the possibility of extraterrestrial life. While it explains the heliocentric model, unlike other astronomy works of the time, it did not attract the attention of the Church.

By: Bertha F. Herrick

Book cover Myths and Legends of Christmastide

By: Bertram Lenox Simpson (1877-1930)

Book cover The Fight for the Republic in China

By: Bertram Mitford (1855-1914)

Book cover The Sign of the Spider

By: Bertrand Russell

Book cover Proposed Roads to Freedom

Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (1872 – 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, political activist and Nobel laureate. He led the British “revolt against idealism” in the early 1900s and is considered one of the founders of analytic philosophy along with his predecessor Gottlob Frege and his protégé Ludwig Wittgenstein. In this book, written in 1918, he offers his assessment of three competing streams in the thought of the political left: Marxian socialism, anarchism and syndicalism.

Book cover The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
Book cover On Propositions: What They Are and How They Mean

In this piece, Bertrand Russell offers an account of propositions. This essay has been widely regarded as a turning point in Russell's thought: fresh from his prison sentence, during which he read numerous works of psychology, he now rejects the existence of the unitary, lasting metaphysical subject and the act-object analysis of sensation. He here embraces the view advocated by American philosophers like William James, namely, neutral monism. This far-ranging essay includes a lengthy discussion of behaviorism and of the structure of facts, complete with an endorsement of negative facts and criticisms of attempts to avoid them. - Summary by Landon D. C. Elkind

Book cover Philosophical Essays

Six out of seven essays appearing here were reprinted from other publications; indeed, this 1910 collection went out of print, so that two of the essays occurring here were reprinted in Russell's 1917 "Mysticism and Logic, and Other Essays". Nonetheless, this essay records Russell's thinking at a critical juncture, just before the publication of Volume I of the co-authored "Principia Mathematica" and just after the passing of the American pragmatist, William James. These essays record Russell's reactions...

Book cover Problems of Philosophy (version 2)

This 1912 book remains among the most widely-used and well-written introductions to philosophy in English. It was aimed to be an accessible introduction to philosophy for the average shopkeeper in England in 1912. Despite its accessibility It has engaged scholarly philosophical commentators on a range of issues raised in the work. Above all it conveys in easy and witty manner the philosophical frame of mind to those that have never encountered it before. It was almost immediately, and remains today, a classic. This recording is dedicated to Jill Evans, Esq.

Book cover Practice and Theory of Bolshevism

This book records Bertrand Russell's impressions of the new regime after a 1920 visit to Russia following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, including his meetings with Lenin, Trostky, and Gorky. It includes a chapter that was authored by Dora Black, educational theorist and feminist author, and Russell's spouse. This chapter was unfortunately removed in the second edition, which was issued after Dora and Bertrand divorced. This recording is dedicated to my darling wife, Jill. Happy Hanukkah and Happy 2020! - Summary by Landon D. C. Elkind

Book cover Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays

This anthology collects a number of fascinating strands of Bertrand Russell's thought. "Mathematics and the Metaphysicians" details the impact of the 1900 World Congress of Philosophers on Russell's development and the hope that new methods in mathematics could be applied to the solution of ancient philosophical problems. Many of the subsequent essays show the evolution of this hope as Russell worked on the foundations of mathematics and applied the new methods to the reconstruction of physical objects on the basis of sense-data, and the redefinition of matter and cause.

By: Bliss Perry (1860-1954)

Book cover The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters
Book cover The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures

By: Blythe Harding

Book cover The Honest American Voter's Little Catechism for 1880

By: Bolesław Prus (1847-1912)

Book cover The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt

By: Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)

Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington Up From Slavery

Up From Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his slow and steady rise from a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton University, to his work establishing vocational schools—most notably the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama—to help black people and other disadvantaged minorities learn useful, marketable skills and work to pull themselves, as a race, up by the bootstraps. He reflects on the generosity of both teachers and philanthropists who helped in educating blacks and native Americans...

Book cover Character Building

Character Building is a compilation of speeches, given by Mr. Booker T. Washington, to the students and staff of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (now known as Tuskegee University).Booker T. Washington was one of the most prominent leaders in advancing African-American civil rights. Born into slavery and freed as a young boy, he rose through the ranks of education to eventually earn his position as principal of Tuskegee. Under his guidance, the school was built, by students and for students, to give them a deeply meaningful education...

By: Boyd Cable (1878-1943)

Book cover Between the Lines

This book, all of which has been written at the Front within sound of the German guns and for the most part within shell and rifle range, is an attempt to tell something of the manner of struggle that has gone on for months between the lines along the Western Front, and more especially of what lies behind and goes to the making of those curt and vague terms in the war communiqués. I think that our people at Home will be glad to know more, and ought to know more, of what these bald phrases may actually signify, when, in the other sense, we read 'between the lines.'

By: Brander Matthews (1852-1929)

Book cover Inquiries and Opinions

By: Bret Harte (1836-1902)

Book cover Thankful Blossom

By: Brinsley MacNamara (1890-1963)

Book cover Valley of the Squinting Windows

The Valley of the Squinting Shadows was the author's first novel and proved controversial. In it, he tells a realistic tale of life in a small Irish town as he saw it, rather than the romanticized version told by others, or how the locals wished to be seen. Mrs. Brennan, the local dressmaker, has opinions. Her son is off studying to become a priest, which elevates him -- and thus her -- in her opinion. Mr. Brennan is forgiven all his transgressions, on account of being father to the son. Mrs. Brennan is less tolerant of those not related to her and her acerbic tongue is well-known throughout the village...

By: Brooks Adams (1848-1927)

The Theory of Social Revolutions by Brooks Adams The Theory of Social Revolutions

Brooks Adams (1848- 1927), was an American historian and a critic of capitalism. He believed that commercial civilizations rise and fall in predictable cycles. First, masses of people draw together in large population centers and engage in commercial activities. As their desire for wealth grows, they discard spiritual and creative values. Their greed leads to distrust and dishonesty, and eventually the society crumbles. In The Law of Civilisation and Decay (1895), Adams noted that as new population centers emerged in the west, centers of world trade shifted from Constantinople to Venice to Amsterdam to London...

Book cover The Emancipation of Massachusetts

By: Bruce Bairnsfather (1888?-1959)

Book cover Fragments From France

By: BS Murthy

Puppets of Faith: Theory of Communal Strife  by BS Murthy Puppets of Faith: Theory of Communal Strife

When a bunch of apparently non-practicing Musalmans headed by Mohamed Atta launched that fidayeen attack on New York’s World Trade Centre that Sep 11, the world at large, by then familiar with the ways of the Islamic terrorism, was at a loss to fathom the unthinkable source of that unexpected means of the new Islamist scourge. The symptoms of a latent terrorist in the Muslim youth can be traced to the sublimity of Muhammad's preaching’s in Mecca and the severity of his Medina sermons make Islam a Janus-faced faith that forever bedevils the mind of the Musalmans...

By: Budgett Meakin (1866-1906)

Book cover Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond

By: Bulstrode Whitlocke (1605-1676?)

Book cover A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Vol II.

By: Burton Egbert Stevenson (1872-1962)

Book cover A Soldier of Virginia

By: Burton Jesse Hendrick (1870-1949)

Book cover The Age of Big Business; a chronicle of the captains of industry
Book cover The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I

By: Bury Palliser (1805-1878)

Book cover Brittany & Its Byways

By: Byron A. Dunn (1842-1926)

Book cover Raiding with Morgan

It is a fictional tale of cavalry actions during the U.S. Civil War, under General John Morgan.

By: C. A. (Caroline Augusta) Frazer

Book cover Atmâ A Romance

By: C. A. (Cyrus Augustus) Bartol (1813-1900)

Book cover Senatorial Character A Sermon in West Church, Boston, Sunday, 15th of March, After the Decease of Charles Sumner.

By: C. A. Rose

Book cover Three years in France with the Guns: Being Episodes in the life of a Field Battery

By: C. B. Black (-1906)

Book cover The South of France—East Half
Book cover Itinerary through Corsica by its Rail, Carriage & Forest Roads

By: C. Bryson Taylor (1880-)

Book cover Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain

By: C. C. (Christopher Columbus) Andrews (1829-1922)

Book cover Minnesota and Dacotah

By: C. C. James (1863-1916)

History of Farming in Ontario by C. C. James History of Farming in Ontario

This paper takes the reader through the early settlement from 1783 to the modern period of 1888-1912. We see how farming and farm industries developed and how the population was distributed during these times. We see the trends of settlers moving into the Urban centers instead of rural and how the farm industries (making cheese, butter, wool, etc) move off the farm to the city factories. Excerpt: “The farmer’s wife in those days was perhaps the most expert master of trades ever known. She could spin and weave, make a carpet or a rug, dye yarns and clothes, and make a straw hat or a birch broom...

By: C. E. (Charles Edward) Callwell (1859-1928)

Book cover Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918

By: C. E. W. (Charles Edwin Woodrow) Bean (1879-1968)

Book cover Letters from France

By: C. F. (Charles Fayette) McGlashan

Book cover History of the Donner Party, a Tragedy of the Sierra

By: C. F. (Charles Finch) Dowsett (1836?-1915)

Book cover A start in life. A journey across America. Fruit farming in California

By: C. F. Argyll Saxby

Book cover The Fiery Totem A Tale of Adventure in the Canadian North-West

By: C. G. (Charles Gilbert) Hine (1859-1931)

Book cover The New York and Albany Post Road From Kings Bridge

By: C. Gasquoine Hartley (1867-1928)

Book cover The Truth About Woman

By: C. H. Thomas

Book cover Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked

By: C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns (1857-1920)

Book cover Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters

By: C. R. M. F. (Charles Robert Mowbray Fraser) Cruttwell (1887-1941)

Book cover The War Service of the 1/4 Royal Berkshire Regiment (T. F.)

By: C. R. N. (Charles Richard Newdigate) Burne

Book cover With the Naval Brigade in Natal (1899-1900) Journal of Active Service

By: C. Reginald (Charles Reginald) Enock (1868-1970)

Book cover Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development

By: C. S. (Constantine Samuel) Rafinesque (1783-1840)

Book cover The Ancient Monuments of North and South America, 2nd ed.

By: Caleb Huse (1831-1905)

Book cover The Supplies for the Confederate Army, how they were obtained in Europe and how paid for.

By: Calista McCabe Courtenay

Book cover George Washington

In this biography for young people, Calista McCabe Courtenay takes the reader from George Washington the surveyor to his early military career, first as a colonel in the Virgina militia and then as a member of General Braddock'a staff during the French and Indian War. He later commanded the Virginia forces before joining the First Continental Congress. Much of the book is devoted to his campaigns during the American Revolution. At the end, we see him as President for two terms.

By: Calvin Olin Davis (1871-)

Book cover A Guide to Methods and Observation in History Studies in High School Observation

By: Camille Mauclair (1872-1945)

Book cover The French Impressionists (1860-1900)

By: Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)

Book cover Musical Memories
Book cover On the Execution of Music, and Principally of Ancient Music

By: Campbell Stuart (1885-1972)

Book cover Secrets of Crewe House: the story of a famous campaign

Campbell Stuart, a Canadian, was involved in British efforts of propaganda during the two World Wars. His most active work was done during the first World War. This book is a detailed and illustrated account of his work during WWI, and more generally the efforts of British persons to direct propaganda campaigns against Germany and their allies with the intent of weakening German morale and shortening the war. Translations of some of the propaganda materials appear in the appendix and are read . - Summary by Patrick McHaffie

By: Canniff Haight (1825-1901)

Book cover Country Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago Personal recollections and reminiscences of a sexagenarian

By: Captain John Smith (1580-1631)

Book cover A Description of New England

Captain John Smith (c. January 1580 – June 21, 1631) Admiral of New England was an English soldier, explorer, and author. He was knighted for his services to Sigismund Bathory, Prince of Transylvania. He is remembered for his role in establishing the first permanent English settlement in North America at Jamestown, Virginia, and his brief association with the Virginia Indian girl Pocahontas during an altercation with the Powhatan Confederacy and her father, Chief Powhatan. He was a leader of the Virginia Colony (based at Jamestown) between September 1608 and August 1609, and led an exploration along the rivers of Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay...

By: Captain Rees Howell Gronow (1794-1865)

Reminiscences of Captain Gronow by Captain Rees Howell Gronow Reminiscences of Captain Gronow

A collection of memoirs about the Peninsular War, the Battle of Waterloo, and society and personalities of Regency London and 19th century Paris, by a sometime Grenadier Guards officer, unsuccessful parliamentarian, and dandy. Gronow displays social attitudes of the day which would now be regarded as unacceptable, but is a clever raconteur who brings to life both the horrors of war and the gaiety of high society.

By: Carl E. Koppenhaver (1915-2000)

Book cover Martin Luther

This short, engaging volume summarizes the life of a priest who, intending to spark a lively academic debate by nailing 95 theses on a church door, unwittingly sets the continent aflame with the 1517 Reformation of the Catholic Church. - Summary by Elyse J. Wood

By: Carl Ewald (1856-1908)

The Pond by Carl Ewald The Pond

By: Carl Lotus Becker (1873-1945)

Book cover Beginnings of the American People

By: Carl Lumholtz (1851-1922)

Book cover Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917
Unknown Mexico by Carl Lumholtz Unknown Mexico

Unknown MexicoA Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan By Carl Lumholtz, M.A. PREFACE In the course of my travels in Australia, and especially after my arrival at Upper Herbert River in Northern Queensland, I soon perceived that it would be impracticable for me to hunt for zoological specimens without first securing the assistance of the natives of the country. Thus it came about...

By: Carl Niebuhr (1861-1927)

Book cover The Tell El Amarna Period

By: Carl Parcher Russell (1894-1967)

Book cover One Hundred Years In Yosemite: The Story Of A Great Park And Its Friends

This recording of the 1931 book about Yosemite National Park comprises the narrative text about the Park from its discovery by non-natives in the Indian War of 1851 to the mid-twentieth century. The printed book contains dozens of early photographs and drawings, as well as an extensive timeline and bibliography, which are not here recorded. The author was an ecologist, historian, and administrator. He was an officer of the U.S. National Park Service for thirty four years, serving as the Chief Naturalist of Yosemite from 1923-1929 and later as Park Superintendent. - Summary by David Wales

By: Carl Russell Fish (1876-1932)

Book cover The Path of Empire; a chronicle of the United States as a world power

By: Carlton McCarthy (1847-1936)

Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 by Carlton McCarthy Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865

The author, who fought as a private in the Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War, describes the Confederate soldier’s daily struggles with hunger, illness, fear, and the perils of combat; as well as his pride of service, love of comrades, and courage in the face of overwhelming odds

By: Caroline C. Leighton

Book cover Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California

By: Caroline Clifford Newton (-1936)

Book cover Once Upon a Time in Connecticut

By: Caroline Dale Snedeker (1871-1956)

Book cover Perilous Seat

Theria is a young Delphian woman who becomes an oracle. Persian wars, a doomed love affair, and a strong woman make up this well-researched novel set in Ancient Greece. - Summary by Lynne Thompson

By: Caroline Emelia Stephen (1834-1909)

Book cover French History for English Children

A history of France from Ancient Gaul up until 1880, written in short easy to comprehend chapters aimed at teaching English children.

By: Caroline Hadley

Book cover Woodside or, Look, Listen, and Learn.

By: Carolyn M. Osborne

Book cover A Burial Cave in Baja California The Palmer Collection, 1887

By: Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947)

Book cover Woman Suffrage and Politics

Written after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment and published in 1923, "This book's essential contribution must be sought in its revelation of the bearing of American politics upon the question of woman suffrage." The book traces the history of the women's suffrage movement in the United States from 1848 through 1920. The Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution giving women the right to vole was passed by Congress on June 4, 1919 and ratified August 18, 1920. - Summary by J. M. Smallheer

By: Carter Godwin Woodson (1875-1950)

Book cover A Century of Negro Migration

By: Carter Woodson (1875-1950)

Book cover Century of Negro Migration

Dr. Woodson describes the internal migration of African Americans within the United States, including the Northern Migration and the draw of California. Cultural and sociological observations are made as well as a study of principal economic factors in this migration. Summary by KevinS.

By: Casimir Stryienski (1853-1912)

Book cover Eighteenth Century (National History of France)

This panoramic history of the last days of Bourbon France opens with the death of Louis XIV in 1715 and the minority of the ill-educated, Louis XV. The financial genius, John Law, precipitates a market bubble, with speculators frantic to buy and sell shares. The King, indolent and sensual, is content to leave the government to his cardinals and his mistresses. Meanwhile, France loses India and North America in the Seven Years' War. In 1774, Louis XVI succeeds his grandfather. Well-intentioned, but ineffectual, he falls under the sway of Marie-Antoinette and her favorites, so that when at last competent ministers are found to confront France's problems, it is too late.

By: Cassius Dio Cocceianus

Book cover Dio's Rome, An Historical Narrative

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