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By: Grace Greenwood (1823-1904)

Book cover Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children

By: Grace Livingston Hill (1865-1947)

Book cover The War Romance of the Salvation Army

By: Grammaticus Saxo

Book cover The Danish History, Books I-IX

By: Grant Allen (1848-1899)

Book cover Anglo-Saxon Britain

By: Grant Martin Overton (1887-1930)

Book cover When Winter Comes to Main Street

By: Grazia Deledda (1871-1936)

Book cover After the Divorce

Giovanna and Costantino Ledda are a happily married couple living with their young child in a Sardinian country village close to their extended family. Costantino is wrongly convicted of murdering his wicked uncle and with no way of supporting herself, Giovanna reluctantly divorces him and is driven to marry Brontu Dejas, a wealthy but brutish drunkard who has always lusted after her. As well as enduring a marriage amounting to slavery, Giovanna is derided by villagers for having two husbands...

By: Great Britain. Army. Highland Light Infantry. Battalion, 5th

Book cover The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918

By: Great Britain. Board of Trade

Book cover Report of the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations on the Petition of the Honourable Thomas Walpole, Benjamin Franklin, John Sargent, and Samuel Wharton, Esquires, and their Associates 1772

By: Great Britain. War Office

Book cover History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government

By: Gregory of Tours (538-594)

Book cover Selections of the History of the Franks

The Historia Francorum is the most important contemporary source for the Merovingian age. It is written in ten books, of which one to four recount the world's history from the Creation and move on to the Christianization of Gaul, the life and times of Saint Martin of Tours, the conversion of the Franks, the conquest of Gaul under Clovis, and the history of the Frankish kings down to the death of Sigebert I in 575. From the fifth book on, Gregory starts the second part of the book, on his contemporary history, closing Book 6 with Chilperic I's death in 584...

By: Grenville Mellen Dodge (1831-1916)

Book cover The Battle of Atlanta and Other Campaigns, Addresses, Etc.

By: Gustav Gottheil (1827-1903)

Book cover Zionism and Anti-Semitism

By: Gustav Karpeles (1848-1909)

Book cover Jewish Literature and Other Essays

By: Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)

Book cover Salammbô

After completing the famous Mme Bovary, Flaubert put all his efforts into researching the Punic Wars and completed the lesser known Salammbô. In this volume, Flaubert describes in detail the Mercenary Revolt and the fight of the Mercenaries against the all-powerful Carthage, the theft of the magical Zaimph and the love and hate between the Carthaginian princess Salammbô and the fiercest leader of the Mercenaries, Matho.

Book cover Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man

By: Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931)

Book cover The Psychology of Revolution

By: Gustavus Cheyney Doane (1840-1892)

Book cover Yellowstone Expedition of 1870

Lt. Gustavus Doane was a member of the 1870 Yellowstone Expedition led by Henry Washburn. Washburn requested military support from General Hancock of the US Army who selected Doane to lead a detail of five soldiers from Fort Ellis in Montana to accompany the expedition. This is Doane's journal submitted by the War Department to the US Senate reporting on the observations of the expedition. The record kept by Doane is recognized as a significant contribution to the subsequent creation of Yellowstone National Park. - Summary by Fritz

By: H. A. Guerber (1859-1929)

Book cover Story of the Greeks

This book is a collection of stories and histories about the Ancient Greeks, including many of their famous myths!

Book cover Story of Old France

The aim of this volume is to give a complete graphic account of the main features of the history of France to 1715 A.D., with as much additional illuminating detail as limited space permits. Besides outlines of the principal events, this narrative includes many biographical sketches, together with the anecdotes and sayings to which allusions are often made in literature, politics, and arts. It also gives such data in regard to places, public buildings, and works of art as the well informed like to have at their fingers' ends.

By: H. B. (Helen Barrett) Montgomery (1861-1934)

Book cover The Empire of the East

By: H. Beam Piper (1904-1964)

Book cover Rebel Raider

By: H. G. (Henry George) Keene (1825-1915)

Book cover Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan

By: H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

Anticipations by H. G. Wells Anticipations

Wells considered this book one of his most important, a natural follow-up to such works as his Man of the Year Million and The Time Machine. His goal was to get people to think and act in new ways. The book starts with a look at how humans get along socially and how they carry out their business ventures. It then discusses how these elements influence others, such as politics, the world of work, and education. H. G. tried to make clear how the current social order was disintegrating without preparing another to take its place. He then traced the roots of democracy, which in its present state he saw as unworkable. Instead, he proposed a new republic. He also critiqued modern warfare.

Book cover War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war
Book cover Mankind in the Making

By: H. O. (Henry Osmond) Lock (1879-)

Book cover With the British Army in The Holy Land

By: H. R. Hill

Book cover A Succinct View of the Importance and Practicability of Forming a Ship Canal across the Isthmus of Panama

By: H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925)

Book cover The Brethren

Set in the days of the Crusaders, this books tells of a young maiden named Rosamund, and her twin cousins. Godwin is the grey eyed thoughtful man, and Wulf is the blue eyed warrior. They are both knights of England and they are both in love with their fair cousin. But the riddle of the story is which does Rosamund love?The adventure begins when Rosamund is taken from England and carried to the East. The plot thickens as the two young knights follow her in hopes of rescuing her from the Muslim leader, Saladin...

Book cover Jess

The setting for this novel is the Boer War in South Africa in 1880. This novel is interesting and exciting on several levels: there are complicated love entanglements, evil Machiavellian treachery, political reflection having to do with the ethics of the colonialism of the day, for one subject for thought, and war in all its lurid and shocking and murderous detail.

By: H. Taprell (Henry Taprell) Dorling (1883-1968)

Book cover Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories

By: H. W. (Henry William) Lee (1865-1932)

Book cover Bolshevism: A Curse & Danger to the Workers

By: H. Wilfrid Walker

Book cover Wanderings among South Sea Savages and in Borneo and the Philippines

By: Haji A. Browne

Bonaparte in Egypt and the Egyptians of To-day by Haji A. Browne Bonaparte in Egypt and the Egyptians of To-day

Knowing the Egyptian as I know him, I cannot but think that he is greatly misunderstood, even by those who are sincerely anxious to befriend him. His faults and his failings are to be found at large in almost any of the scores of books that have of late years been written about him and his country; but, though not a few have given him credit for some of his more salient good points, yet none that I have seen have shown any just appreciation of him as he really is. (From the Preface)

By: Hall Caine (1853-1931)

Book cover The Little Manx Nation - 1891
Book cover The Drama Of Three Hundred & Sixty-Five Days Scenes In The Great War

By: Hamilton W. (Hamilton Wilcox) Pierson (1817-1888)

Book cover A Letter to Hon. Charles Sumner, with 'Statements' of Outrages upon Freedmen in Georgia

By: Hamilton Wright Mabie (1846-1916)

Book cover Under the Trees and Elsewhere
Book cover Young Folks' Treasury, Volume 6 - Famous Travels & Adventures

Historical vignettes of selected locations throughout the world and many of our early explorers as well. Fascinating travel adventures throughout Europe, Asia, America, etc. for young and old alike. Perfect for the armchair traveler who enjoys learning of our global past... - Summary by BettyB

By: Hannah Glasse (1708-1770)

Book cover Art Of Cookery Made Plain And Easy

Although this recording has been made using the 1784 version, the original book of The Art of Cookery, Made Plain and Easy was first published by subscription in 1747 by Hannah Glasse and was a compilation of the recipes typical for British meals produced in the kitchens of the more affluent classes in the 1700s. It will become obvious to the reader of this book that Hannah Glasse was a very experienced and consummate cook totally focussed on preparing and presenting a wholesome and varied range of fare for the family and guests of the household in the most economic and efficient manner possible...

By: Hargrave Jennings (1817-1890)

Book cover Phallic Worship

A fairly scholarly, short survey of religious sexual symbols and practices from ancient times to the near-present, and within various countries and religions. The essay is coloured by liberality and acceptance of common themes between different religions. Note: "phallic" in the context of this work refers to both male and female genitalia.

By: Harold Begbie (1871-1929)

Book cover The Story of Baden-Powell 'The Wolf That Never Sleeps'

By: Harold Harvey

Book cover A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire

By: Harold Howland (1877-)

Book cover Theodore Roosevelt and His Times

By: Harold Joseph Laski (1893-1950)

Book cover Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham

By: Harold MacGrath (1871-1932)

Book cover The Puppet Crown

By: Harold Reginald Peat (1893-1960)

Book cover Private Peat

By: Harold Spender (1864-1926)

Book cover Home Rule Second Edition

By: Harold W. (Harold Williams) Picton (1867-)

Book cover The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship

By: Harold W. Fairbanks (1860-1952)

The Western United States: A Geographical Reader by Harold W. Fairbanks The Western United States: A Geographical Reader

“In preparation of this book the author has had in mind the needs of the upper grammar grades. The subject matter has not been selected with the object of covering the field of Western geography in a systematic manner, but instead the attempt has been made to picture as graphically as may be some of its more striking and interesting physical features, and the influence which these features have exerted upon its discovery and settlement.” (from the Preface of The Western United States)

By: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)

Book cover Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2
Book cover Oldtown Folks

1870's rural Massachusetts communities became famous as “Oldtown” in Harriet Beecher Stowe's 7th novel and national bestseller. Based partially on her husband Rev. Calvin Stowe's childhood memories and other old timers' recollections, this story of growing up in rural New England just after the American Revolution is one of the earliest examples of local color writing in New England. Young Horace Holyoke, the novel's narrator, describes life during the early Federalist years, capturing its many rich ideas, customs, and family lore...

Book cover Key To Uncle Tom's Cabin

After the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which many claim sparked off the Civil War that put an end to legalized slavery in America, there was a great outcry that Stowe had blown her fictional story out of all proportion to the facts. She was viewed by some as an irresponsible monster. Stowe defended herself by painstakingly publishing this Key, describing the actual people, incidents, statutes, court cases, news articles, advertisements, and published facts from whence she drew her material...

Book cover 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 before the commencement of the Civil War, when new territories wanting admittance into the US , were vying to become slave states, threatening to spread the heinous system. While a work of fiction, the book successfully documents the horrors of the slave system, and depicts how some slaves escaped into the Dismal Swamp , where they often lived for years hiding from their pursuers, often in community...

By: Harriet H. Robinson (1825-1911)

Book cover Loom and Spindle

Harriet Robinson was a frequent contributor to the famous monthly periodical, "The Lowell Offering", which featured poetry, essays and fiction written between 1840-1845 by the young female textile workers known as Lowell Mill Girls, living in the innovative Lowell, Massachusetts textile mills communities. Articles published therein describe their living conditions, where they came from, how they felt about their jobs, challenges met, bosses, new experiences and education they received. Rev. A.C...

By: Harriet Julia Campbell Jephson

Book cover A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes

By: Harriet Manning Whitcomb

Book cover Annals and Reminiscences of Jamaica Plain

By: Harriet Martineau (1802-1876)

Book cover The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance

By: Harriet Theresa Comstock (1860-1925)

Book cover Molly, The Drummer Boy

Molly, The Drummer Boy is the tale of a brave drummer, who, during the war of the Revolution, passed like a gleam of brightness, fun—and alas! sadness through the scenes of war and bloodshed; winning the friendship of all, the esteem and consideration of General Washington himself, and lastly a page or so in history. - Summary by Harriet Theresa Comstock

By: Harriett Bradley (1892-)

Book cover The Enclosures in England An Economic Reconstruction

By: Harriot Stanton Blatch (1856-1940)

Book cover Mobilizing Woman-Power

By: Harris Dickson (1868-1946)

Book cover The Black Wolf's Breed A Story of France in the Old World and the New, happening in the Reign of Louis XIV

By: Harris Newmark (1834-1916)

Book cover Sixty Years in Southern California 1853-1913

Harris Newmark was personally acquainted with every person and family involved in the founding of the city of Los Angeles, California. He gathers into this well-written book his reminiscences of the period from 1853 to 1913, as Los Angeles developed from a tiny village surrounded by great ranchos into a modern city. This book is a fascinating treasure trove of information for anyone who lives in Los Angeles. ***NOTE: It should be noted that there is language within this book that was commonplace during the time this book was written that is often considered offensive today.***

By: Harrison Ainsworth

The Lancashire Witches by Harrison Ainsworth The Lancashire Witches

The Lancashire Witches is a highly fictionalised account of the activities of the notorious witches Demdike, Chattox and Alice Nutter who, together with others terrorised the district of Lancashire around Pendle Hill and the Forest of Bowland during the early seventeenth century. The witches named in the book were real enough, if not as witches then as people. Ainsworth, in his story brings in the dissolution of Whalley Abbey and the historic families of Assheton, Braddyll and Nowell and takes us through to the final trial and execution at Lancaster Castle in 1612. (Summary by Andy Minter)

By: Harry Alverson Franck (1881-1962)

Book cover Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond

By: Harry C. Yarrow (1840-1929)

Book cover A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians
Book cover An Introduction to the mortuary customs of the North American Indians

By: Harry Castlemon (1842-1915)

Book cover True To His Colors
Book cover Marcy The Blockade Runner
Book cover Rodney The Partisan

By: Harry Collingwood (1851-1922)

Book cover The Cruise of the Thetis A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection
Book cover The Log of a Privateersman
Book cover Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War

By: Harry De Windt (1856-1933)

Book cover A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistán
Book cover On the Equator

By: Harry F. Giles

The Beauties of the State of Washington A Book for Tourists by Harry F. Giles The Beauties of the State of Washington A Book for Tourists

By: Harry Lauder (1870-1950)

Book cover A Minstrel in France

By: Harry Moore

Book cover The Liberty Boys Running the Blockade or, Getting Out of New York

By: Harry Perry Robinson (1859-1930)

Book cover The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations

By: Harry Thurston Peck (1856-1914)

Book cover Twenty Years of the Republic 1885-1905

Excerpt: At the time when Mr. Cleveland was inaugurated there had been no Democratic President for a full quarter of a century. A whole generation had been born and had grown to manhood and to womanhood without ever having lived under any but Republican rule. This long continuance in power of a single party had led many citizens to identify the interest of that party with the interests of the nation. The democrats had been so invariably beaten at the polls as to make Republicans believe that the defeated party had no decent reason for existence, and that is was composed only of wilful obstructionists or of persons destitute of patriotism...

By: Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins (1876-1929)

Book cover Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft

By: Hattie Greene Lockett (1880-1962)

Book cover The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi

By: Hawaii. Dept. of Foreign Affairs

Book cover The Hawaiian Islands Their Resources, Agricultural, Commercial and Financial

By: Hector Malot (1830-1907)

Book cover Nobody's Boy Sans Famille
Book cover Nobody's Girl (En Famille)

By: Helen C. Black

Book cover Mrs. Hungerford Notable Women Authors of the Day

By: Helen Cody Wetmore

Book cover Last of the Great Scouts : the life story of Col. William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill" as told by his sister

By: Helen Elliott Bandini

Book cover History of California

By: Helen Fraser

Book cover Women and War Work

By: Helen Hayes Gleason

Book cover Golden Lads

By: Helen Nicolay (1866-1954)

Book cover Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln

The Boys’ Life of Abraham Lincoln is a biography with many anecdotes that takes one deeper into the thoughts, personality, and beliefs of the man that was Lincoln. While the title indicates the book is about Lincoln’s life as a boy, the book is a full, if somewhat shortened biography. It is very well written and was a joy to record. One might ask, "Who was Helen Nicolay?" Her father, John George Nicolay, was Abraham Lincoln's private secretary and doubtless much of the material comes from his complete biography of Abraham Lincoln. (

By: Helen S. Wright

Book cover Great White North

Sketches of those who braved the 'Great White North' in exploration and adventure. - Summary by KevinS

By: Helen W. Pierson

Book cover History of England In Words of One Syllable

A simple history of England written principally with words of one syllable. Books of these kind, I understand, are helpful for both beginning and remedial reading students. - Summary by KevinS

Book cover Lives of the Presidents of the United States in Words of One Syllable

This book consists of simple biographies of the first 23 Presidents of the United States written chiefly in words of one syllable. Books such as this one were popular around the turn of the 20th century as a way to help children learn to read. A book like this could also be useful for ESL learners as well. - Summary by Mark Dykshoorn

By: Helena P. Blavatsky (1831-1891)

Book cover From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan

By: Hendrik van Loon

The Story of Mankind by Hendrik van Loon The Story of Mankind

A book that won the Newberry Prize in 1921 for an Outstanding Contribution in Children's Literature, The Story of Mankind, by Hendrik van Loon is indeed a classic that has been enjoyed by generations of children and adults. The book is an engagingly written work, dedicated to the author Hendrik van Loon's two young son's Hansje and Willem. It was created to convey the history of the human race to young people in a way that was interesting, memorable and would spur them onto further research and reading into the subject...

By: Henri Bergson (1859-1941)

Book cover The Meaning of the War Life & Matter in Conflict

By: Henri de Crignelle

Book cover Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches

By: Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall (1867-1941)

Our Island Story by Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall Our Island Story

Tailored specially to make history more palatable and interesting to children, Our Island Story, by Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall, is a charmingly illustrated volume that promises hours of delight for parents as well as children. Beginning with the myths and legends about Albion, the author ensures that she captivates the child's imagination from the very first page. Unlike today's dry and non-committal history tomes that are prescribed in schools, Our Island Story is full of lyrical prose, literary allusions, heroic and tragic characters, the hunger for power and the glory of empire...

This Country of Ours by Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall This Country of Ours

History made interesting for young readers—This Country of Ours by Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall provides a simple and easy to comprehend way of looking at the history of the United States. Arranged chronologically in seven long chapters, it presents events in a story form, making them memorable and very different from other formats. One of the challenges that writers of history face is about fleshing out the characters and making the bland repetition of dates and dynasties seem relevant to modern day readers...

By: Henriette Lucie Dillon, marquise de La Tour du Pin Gouvernet (1770-1853)

Book cover Recollections of the Revolution and the Empire

An aristocratic Frenchwoman's personal record of the dazzling extravagance of the Ancien Régime, of the court of Marie Antoinette, of the Revolution, of her life in exile and of the court of Napoleon Bonaparte. This famous historically valuable memoir, written for her son, ends with Napoleon's return from Elba in 1815.


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