Non-fiction Books

Queen Victoria - A Biography

Lytton Strachey

Victoria was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. On 1 May 1876, she adopted the additional title of Empress of India. Victoria was the daughter ..

Chronicle of the Cid

Henry Morley

Robert Southey's "Chronicle of the Cid" is all translation from the Spanish, but is not translation from a single book. Its groundwork is that part of the Crónica General de España, the most ancient o..

Report of the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations

Great Britain Board of Trade

Report of the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations on the Petition of the Honourable Thomas Walpole, Benjamin Franklin, John Sargent, and Samuel Wharton, Esquires, and their Associates. ..

Observations Géologiques sur les Îles Volcaniques Explorées par l'Expédition du

Charles Darwin

Observations Géologiques sur les Îles Volcaniques Explorées par l'Expédition du "Beagle" Et Notes sur la Géologie de l'Australie et du Cap de Bonne-Espérance..

The Berne Universal Copyright Convention [1988]

Coalition for Networked Information

The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, usually known as the Berne Convention, is an international agreement governing copyright, which was first accepted in Berne, Swi..

Lincoln at Cooper Union

Abraham Lincoln

The Cooper Union speech or address, known at the time as the Cooper Institute speech, was delivered by Abraham Lincoln on February 27, 1860, at Cooper Union, in New York City. Lincoln was not yet the ..

Reviews

Oscar Wilde

Wilde’s literary reputation has survived so much that I think it proof against any exhumation of articles which he or his admirers would have preferred to forget. As a matter of fact, I believe this v..

The Happiness of Heaven

F. J. Boudreaux

Shows how the joys of Heaven stem from the direct vision of God--the joys of the heart; of the mind; of physical beauty; of the senses; of friendship; and of perfect love of God. Tells of the magnific..