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My Bondage and My Freedom
The life of Frederick Douglass, recorded in the pages which follow, is not merely an example of self elevation under the most adverse circum…
The Quaker Colonies
The Quaker Colonies describes the Quaker emigration to the colonies in the sixteen and seventeen hundreds and at the same time its involveme…
The Life of Washington
If it be true that it takes a great man to interpret the life of a great man then Bushrod Washington made no mistake in the selection of a b…
Thomas Hobbes
This work is a look at the life and ideas of Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher of the seventeenth century. The most important ideas are fo…
Cleopatra
The world knows the fate of the classic lovers Cleopatra and Mark Antony, so there is no need to announce a spoiler alert. Georg Ebers was a…
The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche
Volume 3 of the complete works contains several short critical introductory essays, five lectures under the heading "On the Future of o…
Epochs of American History
This first of four volumes is a description and detailed analysis of the formation and development of the thirteen colonies of America. A ti…
Biography of an American Bondman
Josephine Brown's Biography of an American Bondsman faithfully follows the trajectory of her father's life as previously explored in his own…
True Love
The author is aware that she is entering a field which has been diligently cultivated by the best minds in Europe and America. Her design in…
Heroines of Fiction
This two-volume work includes heroines from the works of Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Harte, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, E. Bro…
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Noted historian sets out to locate and research a rare manuscript: the French version of -- "The Golden Legend" -- and meets the d…
Crime: The Autobiography of a Crook
This is not what one could call in any shape or form a pretty story. It is the plain unvarnished tale of a man who has been a notorious crim…
The Aftermath of Slavery
This work describes conditions and forces the black population of the South faced after freedom was brought by the Civil War. As Sinclair pu…
The Cross-Cut
A Colorado mining story dealing with an attempt by Squint Rodain and his son to wrest the Blue Poppy Silver Mine from Robert Fairchild. An e…
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
The deaths of five people resulting from the collapse of a bridge over a ravine prompts an observer to investigate the lives of the fallen a…
The Inheritance
"As the noblest attribute of man, family pride had been cherished time immemorial by the noble race of Rossville. Deep and incurable, t…
Virginia
Virginia does everything right: she attends a finishing school, marries the first man who proposes, and devotes her life to her husband and …
Laws
Laws (Greek: Νόμοι) is Plato's last and longest dialogue. It is generally agreed that Plato wrote this dialogue as an older man, having fail…
Savage Holiday
Savage Holiday is an unforgettable story--a high tension drama that throbs with suspense and shows the reader what it's like to be Erskine F…
The Negro
Nevertheless, I have not been able to withstand the temptation to essay such short general statement of the main known facts and their fair …