Jim Locke
The Frozen North
It is in this world that Mayde has created his fascinating The Frozen North: "Great as are the barren grounds, or tundri, as they are c…
Cane
Reading this book, I had a vision of a land, heretofore sunk in the mists of muteness, suddenly rising up into the eminence of song. Innume…
Ireland Under the Stuarts and During the Interregnum, Volume 2
This second volume of a history of Ireland focuses on the years 1642-1660. It, like the first, was a period of dramatic, and even of violent…
The Life of Washington, Volume 5
Volume five of John Marshall's biography follows Washington through his second term ending in the election of John Adams and Washington's re…
We
"We" is comprised of two parts. The first ten chapters (sections) where he traces his steady and remarkable genius for flying are …
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 com…
Imperium in Imperio: A Study of the Negro Race Problem
Imperium in Imperio is a historical fiction novel by Sutton Griggs, published in 1899. The novel covers the life of Belton Piedmont, an educ…
Whitman: An Interpretation in Narrative
"You want to know in a word the sum total of my life philosophy as I have tried to live it and as I have tried to put it in my book. I …
Rousseau and Education According to Nature
In my Volume on Aristotle in this series, I tried to give an account of ancient, classical, and social Education; in the present volume I ha…
Mr. Weston's Good Wine
This 1927 novel describes an evening in 1923 when Mr. Weston, who is apparently a wine merchant, but is evidently God, visits the fictional …
The Man of Feeling
A man of refined taste, who caught the tone of the French sentiment of his time, has, of course, pleased French critics, and has been transl…
The Love of Landry
The Love of Landry is one of Dunbar's four novels, and one of three that are about white people. In this case, the story is about the recupe…
Monte-Cristo's Daughter
"Monte-Cristo's Daughter," a wonderfully brilliant, original, exciting and absorbing novel, is the Sequel to "The Count of Mo…
The Chronicles of America Volume 06 - The Fathers of New England
This sixth installment in the series, as one would expect, deals with events in the northern settlements that were taking place at the same …
The Three Lieutenants
A few years have passed since the adventures of Terence, Jack, and Alick as midshipmen in the British Navy. They have each gone on their pat…
William Lloyd Garrison, the Abolitionist
"THE author of this volume desires . . . to say . . . that it is his earnest hope that this record of a hero may be an aid to brave and…
William The Outlaw (Abridged)
This 1927 abridged book contains seven of the ten hilarious adventures by the world's most misunderstood eleven-year-old English boy. - Summ…
Wild Bird Guests
How to entertain them; with chapters on the destruction of birds, their economic and aesthetic values, suggestions for dealing with their en…
Prejudices, Second Series
Mencken is famous for his sometimes-savage attacks on almost everything humans can in their stupidity and priggishness and prejudice conjure…
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book III
The five-volume work chronicling the adventures of father Gargantua and son Pantagruel is a vehicle for Rabelais' satire of sixteenth-centur…