Although my name appears on the title page, the real author of this book is Miss Helen McGill (now Mrs. Roger Mifflin), who told me the story with her own…

"No home is complete without this classic guide to cookery and home management. The ideal gift book, it contains hundreds of recipes, full menus and hints for cooks. Beeton's Book…

After four years in England, fifteen-year-old Vincent Wingfield, who supports slavery but not brutality toward slaves, returns to Virginia and serves courageously under Lee and Jackson through many of the…

Set in south-west Scotland in the immediate aftermath of the 1707 Union, The Black Dwarf was intended to be a story about the first, abortive, Jacobite uprising of 1708. Instead…

Author: Andrew LangPublisher: Independently PublishedGenre: History World historyPages: 198ISBN: 9780344588747

Author: Alexandre DumasPublisher: Independently PublishedGenre: Fiction HistoryPages: 564ISBN: 9798442964707

A diary style narrative of an exploration of Somalia. PDF (firstfootstepsin01burtuoft.pdf) is Vol. 6 of 1894 memorial edition–Vol. 1 of 2 of An exploration of Harar

Author: Andrew LangPublisher: Independently PublishedGenre: Fiction HistoryPages: 260ISBN: 9781434114587

Author: Joseph ConradPublisher: Independently PublishedGenre: British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author) Fiction, science fiction, generalPages: 202ISBN: 9781674844992

Harriet Beecher Stowe's second antislavery novel was written partly in response to the criticisms of Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) by both white Southerners and black abolitionists. In Dred (1856), Stowe…

'And Mr. Joseph Walters is going to stay the night?' said the smooth, clean-shaven man to his companion, an individual not of the most charming appearance, who had chosen to…

American Notes was the result of the author's five-month trip to America in 1842. Dickens's travelogue includes the glitter of Boston; a Broadway swarming with hogs; a gruesome penitentiary in…