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540 public-domain classics in English — novels, stories, plays, poetry and non-fiction — as free audiobooks, with the text following along as you listen.
History & biography (540)
My Life in China and America
Yung Wing
My Life — Volume 1
Richard Wagner
Celebrated Crimes (Complete)
Alexandre Dumas
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Frederick Douglass
The Roll of Honour, Volume 1
Melville Henry Massue, marquis de Ruvigny et Raineval
De Profundis
Oscar Wilde
The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete
Samuel Pepys
Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
Mary White Rowlandson
Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1
Charles Darwin
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 / A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters
Charles Darwin
The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus
Cornelius Tacitus
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself
Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African / Written By Himself
Olaudah Equiano
The Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay
Mary Wollstonecraft
Modern English biography, volume 2 (of 6), I-Q
Frederic Boase
The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn; With Notes
King of England Henry VIII
Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Up from Slavery: An Autobiography
Booker T. Washington
Fifty years in Wall Street
Henry Clews
Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans
Plutarch
The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Complete
Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Complete
Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
Meriwether Lewis
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Thomas De Quincey
My Bondage and My Freedom
Frederick Douglass
Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Complete / Being the Historic Memoirs of Madam Campan, First Lady in Waiting to the Queen
Mme. Campan
A guide to the history of physical education
Fred Eugene Leonard
Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot
Austin Craig
The history of the Norman conquest of England, its causes and its results, Volume 3 (of 6)
Edward A. Freeman
Præraphaelite diaries and letters
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The dogaressas of Venice (the wives of the doges)
Edgcumbe Staley
The eclipse of Russia
Emile Joseph Dillon
Things near & far
Arthur Machen
Miniatures of French history
Hilaire Belloc
The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political
Franklin K. Lane
Complete Prose Works / Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy
Walt Whitman
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete
Ulysses S. Grant
Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 / For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources
Emperor of the French Napoleon I
Shakespeare's family
C. C. Stopes
The Anabasis of Alexander
Arrian
Emily Brontë
A. Mary F. Robinson
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott / From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford
Walter Scott
The letters of Queen Victoria, vol. 1, 1837-1843
Queen of Great Britain Victoria
Life of St. Francis of Assisi
Paul Sabatier
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Edwin Lefevre
Rizal's own story of his life
José Rizal
The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave
Mary Prince
The Life of Florence Nightingale, vol. 2 of 2
Edward Tyas, Sir Cook
Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ
Aaron Bernstein
The Bābur-nāma in English (Memoirs of Bābur)
Emperor of Hindustan Babur
The Life of John Marshall, Volume 4: The building of the nation, 1815-1835
Albert J. Beveridge
The Waterloo Roll Call / With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes
Charles Dalton
Harriet Martineau
Florence Fenwick Miller
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire / Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes)
Edward Gibbon
Anabasis
Xenophon
Fifty Years In The Northwest / With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes
William H. C. Folsom
Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 6), A-H
Frederic Boase
France and England in North America, Part III: La Salle, Discovery of The Great West
Francis Parkman
Cornish Characters and Strange Events
S. Baring-Gould
My Life and Loves, Vol. 1 (of 4)
Frank Harris
A Japanese Boy
Shigemi Shiukichi
The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volume 3 (of 4)
John Charles Dent
Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1836-1840
Dorothée, duchesse de Dino
The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 4 (of 6) / Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 4
François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand
English Eccentrics and Eccentricities
John Timbs
Montreal from 1535 to 1914. Vol. 3. Biographical
William H. Atherton
Lyman's History of old Walla Walla County, Vol. 2 / Embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties
William Denison Lyman
The Black Hawk War Including a Review of Black Hawk's Life
Frank Everett Stevens
Herman Melville, Mariner and Mystic
Raymond M. Weaver
The Memoirs of Admiral Lord Beresford
Charles William De la Poer Beresford, Baron Beresford
Letters of Asa Gray; Vol. 2
Asa Gray
Audubon the Naturalist: A History of His Life and Time. Vol. 2 (of 2)
Francis Hobart Herrick
All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography
Ida M. Tarbell
The History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. Volume 2 (of 2)
H. B. Walters
Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman
William Godwin
Ancient Britain and the Invasions of Julius Caesar
T. Rice Holmes
The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments, of Great Britain / Second Edition, Revised
John Evans
A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 1 of 2 / Third edition, Revised and Expanded, in two volumes
J. M. Robertson
England under the Angevin Kings, Volumes I and II
Kate Norgate
The History of Herodotus — Volume 1
Herodotus
The history of human marriage
Edward Westermarck
A History of the Philippines
David P. Barrows
The Part Borne by the Dutch in the Discovery of Australia 1606-1765
J. E. Heeres
History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 / Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens
George Washington Williams
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete
Giacomo Casanova
A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 2 of 2 / Third edition, Revised and Expanded, in two volumes
J. M. Robertson
Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies. Vol 1
Pierre de Bourdeille Brantôme
The New English Canaan of Thomas Morton with Introductory Matter and Notes
Thomas Morton
The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind
H. G. Wells
The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete
John Forster
My own story
Emmeline Pankhurst
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Charles Mackay
Society as I Have Found It
Ward McAllister
The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783
A. T. Mahan
Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
Sarah H. Bradford
Shakspeare and His Times [Vol. 2 of 2] / Including the Biography of the Poet; criticisms on his genius and writings; a new chronology of his plays; a disquisition on the on the object of his sonnets; and a history of the manners, customs, and amusements, superstitions, poetry, and elegant literature of his age
Nathan Drake
The French Revolution: A History
Thomas Carlyle
The Book of the Sword
Richard Francis, Sir Burton
Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' / From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts
William Bradford
Letters to His Son, Complete / On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield
History of the inductive sciences, from the earliest to the present time
William Whewell
History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 / Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens
George Washington Williams
Domesday Book and Beyond: Three Essays in the Early History of England
Frederic William Maitland
History of the Rise of the Huguenots, Vol. 1
Henry Martyn Baird
Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius
Samuel Dill
The Romance of Biography (Vol 1 of 2) / or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols.
Mrs. Jameson
History of Gujarát / Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Volume I, Part I.
James M. Campbell
The History of Signboards, from the Earliest times to the Present Day
John Camden Hotten
Shakspeare and His Times [Vol. 1 of 2] / Including the Biography of the Poet; criticisms on his genius and writings; a new chronology of his plays; a disquisition on the on the object of his sonnets; and a history of the manners, customs, and amusements, superstitions, poetry, and elegant literature of his age
Nathan Drake
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway
Snorri Sturluson
A Short History of the World
H. G. Wells
The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2
Anatole France
Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 / or the Central and Western Rajput States of India
James Tod
The history of magic
Éliphas Lévi
The General Historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer Isles (Vol. I) / Together with the True Travels, Adventures and Observations, and a Sea Grammar
John Smith
The Roman assemblies from their origin to the end of the Republic
George Willis Botsford
An Account of Egypt
Herodotus
The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
Edward W. Byrn
A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 2 (of 2) / From the Extinction of Plague to the Present Time
Charles Creighton
History of Civilization in England, Vol. 2 of 3
Henry Thomas Buckle
The Catacombs of Rome, and Their Testimony Relative to Primitive Christianity
W. H. Withrow
Selections from Viri Romae
C. F. L'Homond
The Rise of the Mediaeval Church / And Its Influence on the Civilization of Western Europe from the First to the Thirteenth Century
Alexander Clarence Flick
My Life and Work
Henry Ford
The Pantropheon; Or, History of Food, Its Preparation, from the Earliest Ages of the World
Alexis Soyer
The Sovereignty of the Sea / An Historical Account of the Claims of England to the Dominion of the British Seas, and of the Evolution of the Territorial Waters
Thomas Wemyss Fulton
Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama
Walter L. Fleming
Brief Lives, Vol. 1
John Aubrey
The Education of Henry Adams
Henry Adams
The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 3, Myths and Languages / The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 3
Hubert Howe Bancroft
The Round Towers of Ireland; or, The History of the Tuath-De-Danaans
Henry O'Brien
A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies / Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them.
Bartolomé de las Casas
A History of Architecture in all Countries, Volumes 1 and 2, 3rd ed. / From the Earliest Times to the Present Day
James Fergusson
The Critical Period of American History
John Fiske
A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 1 (of 2) / From A.D. 664 to the Extinction of Plague
Charles Creighton
Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535
Eileen Power
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1
Edward Gibbon
The Naval History of the United States. Volume 2
Willis J. Abbot
The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 1, Wild Tribes / The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 1
Hubert Howe Bancroft
A Source Book for Ancient Church History
Joseph Cullen Ayer
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917
Ernest Henry, Sir Shackleton
The History of Prostitution: Its Extent, Causes, and Effects throughout the World
William W. Sanger
The Letters of Charles Dickens. Vol. 2, 1857-1870
Charles Dickens
The Reign of William Rufus and the Accession of Henry the First, Volume 2 (of 2)
Edward A. Freeman
Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 2 of 3 / or the Central and Western Rajput States of India
James Tod
England under the Angevin Kings, Volume II
Kate Norgate
A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 1
Henry Charles Lea
The Life of King Edward VII / with a sketch of the career of King George V
J. Castell Hopkins
Fox's Book of Martyrs / Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant / Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs
John Foxe
The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla / With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting
Thomas Commerford Martin
The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Vol. 1 (of 2)
Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq
The hero of the Filipinos
Charles Edward Russell
The Bronze Age and the Celtic World
Harold Peake
The History of the Standard Oil Company
Ida M. Tarbell
The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 / The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Mycenæ: a narrative of researches and discoveries at Mycenæ and Tiryns
Heinrich Schliemann
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson / Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20)
Thomas Jefferson
Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War
G. F. R. Henderson
The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Plutarch's Lives, Volume 3 (of 4)
Plutarch
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) / Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi
Giorgio Vasari
Lorenzo de' Medici, the Magnificent (vol. 1 of 2)
Alfred von Reumont
The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08
Livy
The Preaching of Islam: A History of the Propagation of the Muslim Faith
Thomas Walker, Sir Arnold
Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography
Theodore Roosevelt
History of Greece, Volume 01 (of 12)
George Grote
Albert Gallatin
John Austin Stevens
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. / Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II.
T. Smollett
Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
Lucy Aikin
My Reminiscences
Rabindranath Tagore
The Wonders of the Invisible World / Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, to which is added A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches
Cotton Mather
Hellenica
Xenophon
Apologia pro vita sua
John Henry Newman
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John / With an Historical Introduction
William Sharp McKechnie
The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations / A Comparative Research Based on a Study of the Ancient Mexican Religious, Sociological, and Calendrical Systems
Zelia Nuttall
History of the Philippine Islands
Antonio de Morga
Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell, Vol. 1 of 2 / Life, Letters to 1535
Roger Bigelow Merriman
Edison: His Life and Inventions
Frank Lewis Dyer
The Letters of Charles Dickens. Vol. 1, 1833-1856
Charles Dickens
Cyropaedia: The Education of Cyrus
Xenophon
The archæology and prehistoric annals of Scotland
Daniel, Sir Wilson
The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 2 of 2)
Dean C. Worcester
Feudal England: Historical Studies on the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
John Horace Round
The Origin of Tyranny
P. N. Ure
Ancient States and Empires / For Colleges and Schools
John Lord
Woman under Monasticism / Chapters on Saint-Lore and Convent Life between A.D. 500 and A.D. 1500
Lina Eckenstein
Life on a Mediaeval Barony / A Picture of a Typical Feudal Community in the Thirteenth Century
William Stearns Davis
The Mediaeval Mind (Volume 2 of 2) / A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in the Middle Ages
Henry Osborn Taylor
The History of Tammany Hall / Second Edition
Gustavus Myers
Home Life in Colonial Days
Alice Morse Earle
The Elizabethan Stage, Vol. 2
E. K. Chambers
A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume III
Henry Charles Lea
History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2)
William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 2, Civilized Nations / The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 2
Hubert Howe Bancroft
The Invasion of India by Alexander the Great as described by Arrian, Q. Curtius, Diodoros, Plutarch and Justin: Being Translations of such portions of the Works of these and other Classical Authors as describe Alexander's Campaigns in Afghanistan, the Panjâb, Sindh, Gedrosia and Karmania
John Watson McCrindle
The Story of Mankind
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
A History of Art for Beginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
Clara Erskine Clement Waters
The Underground Railroad / A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author.
William Still
The history of witchcraft and demonology
Montague Summers
Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie
Autobiography
John Stuart Mill
A history of art in Chaldæa & Assyria, Vol. 1 (of 2)
Georges Perrot
A Short History of French Literature
George Saintsbury
Captain Canot; Or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
Theodore Canot
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8
Elbert Hubbard
History of Central America, Volume 3, 1801-1887 / The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 8
Hubert Howe Bancroft
Two Years Before the Mast
Richard Henry Dana
The letters of Queen Victoria, vol. 3, 1854-1861
Queen of Great Britain Victoria
Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. — Complete / Being secret memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, lady's maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of the Princess Lamballe
Mme. Du Hausset
The Naval History of the United States. Volume 1
Willis J. Abbot
Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete
William T. Sherman
Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends
John Keats
Wellington's Army, 1809-1814
Charles Oman
A history of the Peninsular War, Vol. 5, Oct. 1811-Aug. 31, 1812
Charles Oman
Church History (Volumes 1-3)
J. H. Kurtz
The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended / To which is Prefix'd, A Short Chronicle from the First Memory of Things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great
Isaac Newton
Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions. Volume 2 (of 2)
Frank Harris
The Viking Age. Volume 1 (of 2) / The early history, manners, and customs of the ancestors of the English-speaking nations
Paul B. Du Chaillu
History, Manners, and Customs of the Indian Nations Who Once Inhabited Pennsylvania and the Neighbouring States.
John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder
A History of Art in Ancient Egypt, Vol. 1 (of 2)
Georges Perrot
History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century, Volume 1
J. H. Merle d'Aubigné
Mark Twain: A Biography. Complete
Albert Bigelow Paine
The History of the Indian Revolt and of the Expeditions to Persia, China and Japan, 1856-7-8
George Dodd
Daniel Boone: The Pioneer of Kentucky
John S. C. Abbott
My Recollections of Lord Byron
Teresa, contessa di Guiccioli
London and the Kingdom - Volume 2 / A History Derived Mainly from the Archives at Guildhall in the Custody of the Corporation of the City of London.
Reginald R. Sharpe
Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812. Volume 1
A. T. Mahan
Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography
George William Erskine Russell
History of the Conquest of Mexico; vol. 1/4
William Hickling Prescott
The History of Herodotus — Volume 2
Herodotus
The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2
Karl Otfried Müller
The Story of My Life, volumes 4-6
Augustus J. C. Hare
History of Indian and Eastern Architecture
James Fergusson
Hans Holbein the Younger, Volume 1 (of 2)
Arthur B. Chamberlain
History of circumcision from the earliest times to the present
P. C. Remondino
The Autobiography of Phineas Pett
Phineas Pett
Fishing from the Earliest Times
William Radcliffe
Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812. Volume 2
A. T. Mahan
The Life of Florence Nightingale, vol. 1 of 2
Edward Tyas, Sir Cook
The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation
Carry Amelia Nation
Random Reminiscences of Men and Events
John D. Rockefeller
Letters of Abelard and Heloise / To which is prefix'd a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes
Peter Abelard
The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) / Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years
Ida Husted Harper
China Revolutionized
John Stuart Thomson
History of Phoenicia
George Rawlinson
History of Greece, Volume 10 (of 12)
George Grote
The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) / 1809-1859
John Morley
History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy / From the Earliest Times to the Death of Lorenzo the Magnificent
Niccolò Machiavelli
English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages (XIVth Century)
J. J. Jusserand
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology / Embracing the Anniversaries of Memorable Persons and Events in Every Period and State of the World, from the Creation to the Present Time
Joel Munsell
Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea / Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure
Charles H. L. Johnston
The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912
James H. Blount
Church History, Volume 1 (of 3)
J. H. Kurtz
The Letters of Cassiodorus / Being a Condensed Translation of the Variae Epistolae of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator
Senator Cassiodorus
The War in the Air; Vol. 1 / The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force
Walter Alexander, Sir Raleigh
The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. volume 5 (of 6) / Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 5
François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand
The Survey of London
John Stow
The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete
Abraham Lincoln
The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn / Including a new and circumstantial account of the battle of Long island and the loss of New York, with a review of events to the close of the year
Henry Phelps Johnston
The Letters of Jane Austen / Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne
Jane Austen
Historic Jamaica
Frank Cundall
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century / Fourth Edition
Agnes M. Clerke
Brief Lives, Vol. 2
John Aubrey
Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
George Francis Dow
Byzantine Constantinople, the walls of the city and adjoining historical sites
Alexander Van Millingen
Tacitus on Germany
Cornelius Tacitus
Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals
Louisa May Alcott
Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 3 of 3 / or the Central and Western Rajput States of India
James Tod
History of Linn County Iowa / From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time [1911]
Luther Albertus Brewer
History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria in the Light of Recent Discovery
L. W. King
The History of the Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece, Volume 3 (of 3)
James Augustus St. John
Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley / Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, Vol. I.
E. G. Squier
A history of the Peninsular War, Vol. 4, Dec. 1810-Dec. 1811
Charles Oman
Shakespearean Playhouses / A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration
Joseph Quincy Adams
A History of Roman Classical Literature.
R. W. Browne
The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) / with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest
John Fiske
The Memoirs, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson / A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions
Thomas Jefferson
Plutarch's Lives, Volume 4 (of 4)
Plutarch
Letters of Samuel Rutherford / (Third Edition)
Samuel Rutherford
Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Complete
Philip Henry Sheridan
The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson)
Stuart Dodgson Collingwood
The History of Java, v. 1-2
Thomas Stamford, Sir Raffles
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2
Edward Gibbon
Chaucer and His England
G. G. Coulton
History of Zionism, 1600-1918, Vol. 2 (of 2)
Nahum Sokolow
The History of Trade Unionism / (Revised edition, extended to 1920)
Sidney Webb
The War with Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2)
Justin Harvey Smith
A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3
George Elliott Howard
The Story of Paris
Thomas Okey
The Origin of Metallic Currency and Weight Standards
William Ridgeway
The Promised Land
Mary Antin
History of Spanish Literature, vol. 1 (of 3)
George Ticknor
A history of the Peninsular War, Vol. 3, Sep. 1809-Dec. 1810
Charles Oman
St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh
of Clairvaux, Saint Bernard
Lectures on the French Revolution
John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.
A. T., Mrs. Thomson
The Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri: or, Memoirs of Jahangir (Volume 1 of 2)
Emperor of Hindustan Jahangir
History of Education
Levi Seeley
The Age of Justinian and Theodora: A History of the Sixth Century A.D., Volume 1 (of 2)
William Gordon Holmes
Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Henri Frédéric Amiel
The History of the Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece, Volume 1 (of 3)
James Augustus St. John
Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) / The Age of the Despots
John Addington Symonds
Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 (of 4)
Plutarch
The History of Rome, Books 09 to 26
Livy
Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons
John McElroy
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume III.
A. T., Mrs. Thomson
The loyalists of America and their times
Egerton Ryerson
The Story of the Upper Canadian Rebellion, Volume 1
John Charles Dent
A History of Elizabethan Literature
George Saintsbury
The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6)
Charles Rollin
History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2
William Hickling Prescott
The Oxford Reformers: John Colet, Erasmus, and Thomas More
Frederic Seebohm
Secret Service Under Pitt
William J. Fitz-Patrick
The Huguenots in France
Samuel Smiles
Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I
Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron Fleury de Chaboulon
Haunted London
Walter Thornbury
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3
Edward Gibbon
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume II.
A. T., Mrs. Thomson
William of Malmesbury's Chronicle of the Kings of England / From the earliest period to the reign of King Stephen
of Malmesbury William
Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 1 (of 2)
Edward Gibbon
Patrick Henry
Moses Coit Tyler
The Wars of Religion in France 1559-1576 / The Huguenots, Catherine de Medici and Philip II
James Westfall Thompson
Jane Austen and her works
Sarah Tytler
Geoffrey de Mandeville: A study of the Anarchy
John Horace Round
Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne, Taken from Original Sources
John Ashton
The inquisition in the Spanish dependencies / Sicily—Naples—Sardinia—Milan—the Canaries—Mexico—Peru—New Granada
Henry Charles Lea
History of the Mackenzies, with genealogies of the principal families of the name
Alexander Mackenzie
My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War
Ben J. Viljoen
The Book of Buried Treasure / Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day
Ralph Delahaye Paine
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 / To the Close of the 19th Century
George Saintsbury
The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 4, Antiquities / The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 4
Hubert Howe Bancroft
The English Peasantry and the Enclosure of Common Fields
Gilbert Slater
Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II / With an Account of Salem Village and a History of Opinions on Witchcraft and Kindred Subjects
Charles Wentworth Upham
The Life of John Marshall, Volume 2: Politician, diplomatist, statesman, 1789-1801
Albert J. Beveridge
The History of the Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece, Volume 2 (of 3)
James Augustus St. John
A History of the Reformation (Vol. 2 of 2)
Thomas M. Lindsay
History of the Reformation in Europe in the Time of Calvin. Vol. 2 (of 8)
J. H. Merle d'Aubigné
Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period
P. L. Jacob
Pagan and Christian Rome
Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani
Ten Days in a Mad-House; or, Nellie Bly's Experience on Blackwell's Island. / Feigning Insanity in Order to Reveal Asylum Horrors. The Trying Ordeal of the New York World's Girl Correspondent.
Nellie Bly
A Literary History of the Arabs
Reynold Alleyne Nicholson
Roman Public Life
A. H. J. Greenidge
Parish Priests and Their People in the Middle Ages in England
Edward Lewes Cutts
The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa
Paul Barron Watson
The Emperor Marcus Aurelius
John C. Joy
An Historical Sketch of Sacerdotal Celibacy in the Christian Church
Henry Charles Lea
My First Summer in the Sierra
John Muir
Slave ships and slaving
George Francis Dow
Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals
Ulysses S. Grant
A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art
Thomas Wright
The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus, of the Order of Our Lady of Carmel
of Avila, Saint Teresa
Pompeii, Its Life and Art
August Mau
The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees
Mary Caroline Crawford
History of the English People, Volume V / Puritan England, 1603-1660
John Richard Green
A history of the Peninsular War, Vol. 2, Jan.-Sep. 1809
Charles Oman
The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1
George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
John Bunyan
The Ancient Bronze Implements, Weapons, and Ornaments, of Great Britain and Ireland.
John Evans
The Bloody Theatre, or Martyrs Mirror of the Defenseless Christians / who baptized only upon confession of faith, and who suffered and died for the testimony of Jesus, their savior, from the time of Christ to the year A.D. 1660
Thieleman J. van Braght
The clipper ship era / an epitome of famous American and British clipper ships, their owners, builders, commanders, and crews, 1843-1869
Arthur H. Clark
Visits to Fields of Battle, in England, of the Fifteenth Century / to which are added, some miscellaneous tracts and papers upon archæological subjects
Richard Brooke
The reign of Mary Tudor
James Anthony Froude
Correspondence and Report from His Majesty's Consul at Boma Respecting the Administration of the Independent State of the Congo [and Further Correspondence]
Roger Casement
New England and the Bavarian Illuminati
Vernon Stauffer
The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea. Vol. I
Gomes Eannes de Zurara
A Literary History of Ireland, from Earliest Times to the Present Day
Douglas Hyde
Military Architecture in England During the Middle Ages
A. Hamilton Thompson
The Viking Age. Volume 2 (of 2) / The early history, manners, and customs of the ancestors of the English-speaking nations
Paul B. Du Chaillu
The History of Antiquity, Vol. 3 (of 6)
Max Duncker
Some Reminiscences of old Victoria
Edgar Fawcett
The Origin and Growth of the Healing Art / A Popular History of Medicine in All Ages and Countries
Edward Berdoe
The Life of George Washington, Vol. 2 / Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War / which Established the Independence of his Country and First / President of the United States
John Marshall
The Life of John Marshall, Volume 3: Conflict and construction, 1800-1815
Albert J. Beveridge
History of the Jews, Vol. 4 (of 6)
Heinrich Graetz
History of Ancient Art
Franz von Reber
An Introduction to the History of Western Europe
James Harvey Robinson
George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 (of 3)
George Eliot
The Reign of William Rufus and the Accession of Henry the First, Volume 1 (of 2)
Edward A. Freeman
The Life of Friedrich Schiller / Comprehending an Examination of His Works
Thomas Carlyle
The Life of Trust: Being a Narrative of the Lord's Dealings With George Müller
George Müller
The Heritage of Dress: Being Notes on the History and Evolution of Clothes
Wilfred Mark Webb
This Country of Ours
H. E. Marshall
The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon
J. M. Gordon
History of Central America, Volume 1, 1501-1530 / The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 6
Hubert Howe Bancroft
A history of Italian painting
Frank Jewett Mather
The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire
T. R. Glover
Asser's Life of King Alfred
John Asser
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 02 (of 10) / Berna to Michelozzo Michelozzi
Giorgio Vasari
History of the Rise of the Huguenots, Vol. 2
Henry Martyn Baird
The Story of the Mormons, from the Date of Their Origin to the Year 1901
William Alexander Linn
The Letters of William James, Vol. 2
William James
The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals
E. P. Evans
The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Vol. 2 (of 2)
Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq
Passages from the Life of a Philosopher
Charles Babbage
The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky
Modest Chaikovskii
Church History, Volume 3 (of 3)
J. H. Kurtz
England under the Angevin Kings, Volume I
Kate Norgate
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6
Edward Gibbon
Geronimo's Story of His Life
Geronimo
The Epidemics of the Middle Ages
J. F. C. Hecker
The Nine Days' Queen, Lady Jane Grey, and Her Times
Richard Davey
Triumphs and Wonders of the 19th Century: The True Mirror of a Phenomenal Era / A volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress
James P. Boyd
The ceramic art of Great Britain from pre-historic times down to the present day, Volume 1 (of 2)
Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt
The Ghost-dance religion and the Sioux outbreak of 1890
James Mooney
The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1
Fanny Burney
Great Britain and the American Civil War
Ephraim Douglass Adams
Johann Sebastian Bach: His Life, Art, and Work
Johann Nikolaus Forkel
Memoir of Jane Austen
James Edward Austen-Leigh
The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 2 (of 2) / or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence
Benson John Lossing
The Cathedral Builders: The Story of a Great Masonic Guild
Leader Scott
The Grey Friars in Oxford
A. G. Little
A History of Chinese Literature
Herbert Allen Giles
Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 6 and 7 (of 7) / The Catholic Reaction
John Addington Symonds
A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 3 of 3
George Elliott Howard
A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine
Robert Henry Thurston
The Yellowstone National Park: Historical and Descriptive
Hiram Martin Chittenden
William Pitt and the Great War
J. Holland Rose
A history of the administration of the Royal Navy and of merchant shipping in relation to the Navy from MDIX to MDCLX, with an introduction treating of the preceding period
M. Oppenheim
Andersonville diary
John L. Ransom
An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England
Edward Potts Cheyney
The letters of Queen Victoria, vol. 2, 1844-1853
Queen of Great Britain Victoria
Old Virginia and Her Neighbours, Vol. 2 (of 2)
John Fiske
Chinese pottery and porcelain; vol. 2. Ming and Ch'ing Porcelain
R. L. Hobson
History of Greece, Volume 02 (of 12)
George Grote
Napoleon's British visitors and captives, 1801-1815
John Goldworth Alger
English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. / How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times.
Graham Everitt
Horton Genealogy / or Chronicles of the Descendants of Barnabas Horton, of Southold, L. I., 1640.
Geo. F. Horton
Annals of Music in America: A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events
Henry Charles Lahee
The Life of Napoleon I (Complete)
J. Holland Rose
Miss Eden's Letters
Emily Eden
The Journal to Stella
Jonathan Swift
Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror
Trumbull White
A Complete History of Music / for Schools, Clubs, and Private Reading
W. J. Baltzell
History of Frederick the Second, Called Frederick the Great.
John S. C. Abbott
Church History, Volume 2 (of 3)
J. H. Kurtz
Plymouth memories of an octogenarian
William T. Davis
Sailing ships
E. Keble Chatterton
The ships and sailors of old Salem
Ralph Delahaye Paine
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
Mary Seacole
A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 2 of 3
George Elliott Howard
Richard Wagner His Life and His Dramas / A Biographical Study of the Man and an Explanation of His Work
W. J. Henderson
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Vol. 7. July
Alban Butler
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 8 (of 9) / Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private
Thomas Jefferson
A History of the United States
Charles Kendall Adams
A history of the Peninsular War, Vol. 1, 1807-1809
Charles Oman
Celtic Scotland
W. F. Skene
From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America
James Longstreet
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
The French Revolution - Volume 3
Hippolyte Taine
Lord John Russell
Stuart J. Reid
The history of fashion in France
Augustin Challamel
Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose, His Life and Speeches
Jagadis Chandra Bose
Woman in Science / With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind
J. A. Zahm
A Small Boy and Others
Henry James
The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea. Vol. II
Gomes Eannes de Zurara
The Greville Memoirs, Part 1 (of 3), Volume 1 (of 3) / A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV
Charles Greville
Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume 1 (of 2) / Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries, from 1812 to 1883
Judith Cohen, Lady Montefiore
Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin; Written by Himself. [Vol. 2 of 2] / With his Most Interesting Essays, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings; Familiar, Moral, Political, Economical, and Philosophical, Selected with Care from All His Published Productions, and Comprising Whatever Is Most Entertaining and Valuable to the General Reader
Benjamin Franklin
Romulus / Makers of History
Jacob Abbott
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oliver Wendell Holmes
A History of Sanskrit Literature
Arthur Anthony Macdonell
Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters
C. H. W. Johns
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
The Ancient Regime
Hippolyte Taine
A history of England principally in the seventeenth century, Volume 1 (of 6)
Leopold von Ranke
History of the Jews, Vol. 3 (of 6)
Heinrich Graetz
Ecclesiastical History of England, Volume 3—The Church of the Restoration [part 1]
John Stoughton
The nightless city; or, The "history of the Yoshiwara Yūkwaku"
J. E. De Becker
The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln / A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal / Recollections By Those Who Knew Him
Francis F. Browne
The Campaign of Waterloo: A Military History / Third Edition
John Codman Ropes
The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Volume 1
Elizabeth Bisland
A Labrador Doctor / The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
Wilfred Thomason, Sir Grenfell
The Saxons in England, Volume 1 (of 2) / A history of the English commonwealth till the period of the Norman conquest
John Mitchell Kemble
The letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846
Robert Browning
Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance)
Elizabeth W. Champney
Audubon and His Journals, Volume 1
John James Audubon
The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 1 (of 6) / Mémoires d'outre-tombe, volume 1
François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand
The Modern Regime, Volume 1
Hippolyte Taine
Traditions of Edinburgh
Robert Chambers
Domestic Annals of Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution, Volume 2 (of 2)
Robert Chambers
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 04 (of 10) / Filippino Lippi to Domenico Puligo
Giorgio Vasari
The history of the Norman conquest of England, its causes and its results, Volume 1 (of 6)
Edward A. Freeman
The Noble and Gentle Men of England / or, notes touching the arms and descents of the ancient knightly and gentle houses of England, arranged in their respective counties.
Evelyn Philip Shirley
Familiar Letters / The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 06 (of 20)
Henry David Thoreau
The Foundation of the Ottoman Empire; a history of the Osmanlis up to the death of Bayezid I (1300-1403)
Herbert Adams Gibbons
Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle
Clement King Shorter
Franklin's Autobiography / (Eclectic English Classics)
Benjamin Franklin
The ceramic art of Great Britain from pre-historic times down to the present day, Volume 2 (of 2)
Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt
Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 1 (of 2)
Dorothy Wordsworth
Michael Angelo Buonarroti / With Translations Of The Life Of The Master By His Scholar, Ascanio Condivi, And Three Dialogues From The Portugese By Francisco d'Ollanda
Charles Holroyd
Henry VIII.
A. F. Pollard
Lord Milner's Work in South Africa / From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902
W. Basil Worsfold
In Byways of Scottish History
Louis A. Barbé
The Destruction of the Greek Empire and the Story of the Capture of Constantinople by the Turks
Edwin Pears
History of Julius Cæsar, Vol. 1 of 2
Emperor of the French Napoleon III
A History of the British Army, Vol. 1 / First Part—to the Close of the Seven Years' War
J. W., Sir Fortescue
The History of the Fabian Society
Edward R. Pease
The Minority of Henry the Third
Kate Norgate
Émile Zola, Novelist and Reformer: An Account of His Life & Work
Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
The Early Norman Castles of the British Isles.
Ella Sophia Armitage
William the Conqueror / Makers of History
Jacob Abbott
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 09 (of 10) / Michelagnolo to the Flemings
Giorgio Vasari
The Political History of England - Vol XI / From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837)
George C. Brodrick
The Works of John Knox, Volume 2 (of 6)
John Knox
History for ready reference, Volume 4, Nicæa to Tunis
J. N. Larned
The War with Mexico, Volume 2 (of 2)
Justin Harvey Smith
Cicero: Letters to Atticus, Vol. 3 of 3
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The history of our Navy from its origin to the present day, 1775-1897, vol. 4 (of 4)
John Randolph Spears
George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philosophy
George Willis Cooke
Old and New London, Volume I / A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places
Walter Thornbury
Survey of London, Volume 05 (of 14), the parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, part 2
George Laurence Gomme
Halleck's New English Literature
Reuben Post Halleck
Bohemia, from the earliest times to the fall of national independence in 1620 / With a short summary of later events
C. Edmund Maurice
The Argonauts of California: being the reminiscenses of scenes and incidents that occurred in California in the early mining days
Charles Warren Haskins
Toronto of Old / Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario
Henry Scadding
Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Volume 2 / Their History and Construction Including a Consideration of their Value as Aids in the Study of Geography and Astronomy
Edward Luther Stevenson
Japan
David Murray
Argentina, Legend and History
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
George Fox: An Autobiography
George Fox
History of Julius Cæsar, Vol. 2 of 2
Emperor of the French Napoleon III
History for ready reference, Volume 7
J. N. Larned
History of Spanish Literature, vol. 2 (of 3)
George Ticknor
Recollections / With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of / Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and / another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in / facsimile
David Christie Murray
The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542. / Excerpted from the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-1893, Part 1.
George Parker Winship
The History of Mary I, Queen of England / as found in the public records, despatches of ambassadors, in original private letters, and other contemporary documents
J. M. Stone
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1668 N.S.
Samuel Pepys
History of the World War
Francis A., Jr. March
The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp
W. H. Davies
A General History of the Pirates
Captain Charles Johnson
Twelve Years a Slave
Solomon Northup
You Can’t Win
Jack Black
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
Diogenes Laërtius
The Autobiography of Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Ten Days That Shook the World
John Reed
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
T. E. Lawrence
