Hiram Corson (November 6, 1828 - June 15, 1911) was an American professor of literature. Corson was born in Philadelphia......more

Captain Harry Willes Darell de Windt FRGS (9 April 1856, Paris - 30 November 1933, Bournemouth) was the aide-de-camp to ......more

George Brannon (1784-1860), a printer, engraver and publisher, originally from Antrim in Ireland. George Brannon was the......more

Demetrius Charles De Kavanagh Boulger (14 July 1853 - 15 December 1928) was a British author. He was born in Kensington ......more

Martin Ignatius Joseph Griffin (1842-1911) was an American Catholic journalist and historian, instrumental to the foundi......more

"I have long purposed the following work, designing to put in a form somewhat permanent my recollections of experiences ......more

James Henry Coyne, FRSC (October 3, 1849 - January 5, 1942) was a Canadian lawyer and historian. Born in St. Thomas, Can......more

A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 is a book by James Ford Rhodes. It won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1918. The......more

Abel Janszoon Tasman (1603 - 1659) was a Dutch seafarer, explorer, and merchant, best known for his voyages of 1642 and ......more

Richard Garnett C. B. (27 February 1835 - 13 April 1906) was a scholar, librarian, biographer and poet. He was son of Ri......more

Sir Leslie Stephen, KCB (1832-1904) was an English author, critic and mountaineer, and the father of Virginia Woolf and ......more

James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (29 October 1740 (N. S.) - 19 May 1795), was a Scottish biographer, diarist, and ......more

John Wesley Powell (March 24, 1834 - September 23, 1902) was a geologist, U. S. Soldier, explorer of the American West, ......more

Joseph Arthur Gibbs (25 November 1867 - 13 May 1899) was an English cricketer who made ten first-class appearances betwe......more

Johann Jakob Hottinger (18 May 1783, in Zürich - 17 May 1860, in Zürich) was a Swiss historian. He was a great-grandson ......more

The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson (1920) is a biography by Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez (1856-1935). Fanny Van de G......more

Silvio Pellico (24 June 1789 - 31 January 1854) was an Italian writer, poet, dramatist and patriot active in the Italian......more

本文集是我們對自己同時代兄弟王康的深切紀念。人類大劫難中，春天如故，已經準時到來。在這沒有王康的第一個春天，本書在纽约付梓，是我們今年特別的慰籍。我們在此感謝本文集所有作者--無論您在天涯海角...more

"It is perhaps due to a chance conversation, held some seventeen years ago in New York, that this Diary of the Civil War......more

Romain Rolland (29 January 1866 - 30 December 1944) was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic......more

这是一本以散文铺就的文学之书。这更是一本呈现作者品味、才华、爱憎、经历的时光之书，我们经由阅读，得以走进作者的精神世界，是流亡造成了一个作家，并让作家在写作中呈现最好、最具正能量的一面，以流...more

Lieutenant General Watkin Tench (6 October 1758 - 7 May 1833) was a British marine officer who is best known for publish......more

David Hutton Webster (March 24, 1875 - May 20, 1955) was an American sociologist, economist and anthropologist. He was L......more

Henry Charles Lahee (1856-1953) was an American author on music. He wrote several comprehensive biographical reference w......more

"From Orange Court House, Virginia, the road running northeast into Culpeper crosses Morton’s Ford of the Rapidan River,......more

Julian Hawthorne (June 22, 1846 - July 14, 1934) was an American writer and journalist, the son of novelist Nathaniel Ha......more

Bayard Taylor (January 11, 1825 - December 19, 1878) was an American poet, literary critic, translator, travel author, a......more

William Henry Gilder (August 16, 1838 - February 5, 1900), was an American soldier, journalist, explorer and writer. Fro......more

Partial Portraits is a book of literary criticism by Henry James published in 1888. The book collected essays that James......more

Andrew Lang FBA (31 March 1844 - 20 July 1912) was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the fi......more

Writers have time and again attempted to define love from a range of perspectives. But one thing remains true then and n......more

"John Stuart Mill was born in 1806. "I am glad," wrote George Grote to him in 1865, with reference to a forthcoming arti......more

John St Loe Strachey (9 February 1860 - 26 August 1927), was a British journalist and newspaper proprietor. Strachey was......more

Logbook for keeping all of your dog’s health information in one place, including vaccinations, medications, or training.......more

"IMMEDIATELY upon the election of Abraham Lincoln as President, in November, 1860, a predetermined plan of secession was......more

John Hanning Speke (4 May 1827 - 15 September 1864) was an English explorer and officer in the British Indian Army who m......more

Red Jacket (known as Otetiani in his youth and Sagoyewatha [Keeper Awake] Sa-go-ye-wa-tha as an adult because of his ora......more

This is the perfect book for organizing all of your dog’s health information, including vaccinations, meds, and training......more

A logbook is a thing where you may keep track of all of your dog’s health information, such as vaccinations, meds, and t......more

Archibald Forbes (17 April 1838 - 30 March 1900) was a Scottish war correspondent. On being invalided from the army in 1......more

Count Adam Gurowski (10 September 1805, in Russocice near Kalisz, Poland - 4 May 1866, in Washington, D. C.) was a Polis......more

Emma McPherson (1833 - 1915), also known as Mrs Allan Macpherson, author and watercolour artist, was the daughter of Cha......more

"In the loving "Memory" which his brother Roswell contributed to the "Sabine Edition" of Eugene Field’s "Little Book of ......more

Russell Herman Conwell (February 15, 1843 - December 6, 1925) was an American Baptist minister, orator, philanthropist, ......more

Rev. Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth (December 25, 1810 - October 6, 1895) was an American apiarist, clergyman, and teacher,......more

Maturin Murray Ballou (1820-1895) was a writer and publisher in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts. He co-founded Gleaso......more

Francis Marion Crawford (August 2, 1854 - April 9, 1909) was an American writer noted for his many novels, especially th......more

Elizabeth Robins Pennell (February 21, 1855 - February 7, 1936) was an American writer who, for most of her adult life, ......more

"I was laughed at for nearly twenty years because I stammered. I found school a burden, college a practical impossibilit......more

Alexander Lange Kielland (18 February 1849 - 6 April 1906) was one of the most famous Norwegian realistic writers of the......more

The theory which is sketched in the following pages forms the most wide-going generalization conceivable of what is at p......more

The present book has for its object the presentation of the lectures which I delivered as foreign lecturer at Columbia U......more

In 1865 James Clerk Maxwell (1831 - 1879) published this work, "A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field" demonst......more

Though the name Mata Hari is one of the most famous in all of espionage, she has been called the worst spy of the centur......more

Marcus Tullius Cicero (3 January 106 - 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher and Academi......more

Joseph Robson was an 18th-century stonemason, surveyor and author, best known for writing about the decades he spent con......more

"I was born in Livingston County, N. Y., July 5, 1827. My parents both died before I was eight years old. I found a home......more

"The Editor with the most profound respect, submits to the Public the following NARRATIVE.-It forms a small portion of a......more

Henry Cruse Murphy (July 5, 1810 - December 1, 1882) was an American lawyer, politician and historian. During his politi......more

The Kent was an East Indiaman, a vessel sailing for the British East India Company, and launched in 1820. She completed ......more

IN HER recent visit to America, Madame Curie conferred a special honor upon Vassar College by delivering in the chapel o......more

A revelation is that lightbulb moment when an individual gains a sense of clarity and understanding. It’s a breakthrough......more

A voice called to me in a mixture of Spanish and Guaraní, an indigenous language of Paraguay, "Come quickly, Mary Lou."......more

Otto Hermann Kahn (February 21, 1867 - March 29, 1934) was a German-born American investment banker, collector, philanth......more

Jasper Danckaerts (7 May 1639, Vlissingen - 1702/1704, Middelburg) was the founder of a colony of Labadists along the Bo......more

Henry James OM (1843-1916) was an Anglo-American novelist. He was one of the most important literary people of the late ......more

Charlotte Brontë (21 April 1816 - 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sister......more

Luise Mühlbach was the pen name of Clara Mundt (née Clara Maria Regina Müller) (January 2, 1814 in Neubrandenburg - Sept......more

A revelation is that lightbulb moment when an individual gains a sense of clarity and understanding. It’s a breakthrough......more

الشعب السوري مثال يحتذى في تضحياته، وسيكون مثالاً يحتذى في إنجازاته وتقدمه الحضاري. وسيحقق الأهداف التالية 1) سقوط حكم ا......more

这本书是历史学家陈飞鹏耗费近30年时间收集、整理、校注的弘一法师书信。是当下出版的最齐的弘一书信集。是研究弘一生平和思想不可或缺的参考书。...more

The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung’s Ring (originally published London, 1898) is a philosophical comment......more

This is my biography and my personal life. I decided to put them in this book, although, I’m not an expert in the field ......more

Volume II of John Bonner’s classic retelling of the history of Rome has lost none of its attention-grabbing interest sin......more

Volume II of John Bonner’s classic retelling of the history of Rome has lost none of its attention-grabbing interest sin......more