Non-fiction Books

The Silverado Squatters

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Silverado Squatters is Robert Louis Stevenson's travel memoir of his two-month honeymoon trip with Fanny Vandegrift to Napa Valley, California, in 1880. In July 1879, Stevenson received word that ..

Vices Are Not Crimes

Lysander Spooner

Lysander Spooner was an American individualist anarchist, entrepreneur, political philosopher, abolitionist, supporter of the labour movement, and legal theorist of the nineteenth century. Here he giv..

A Middle High German Primer

Joseph Wright

The present book has been written in the hope that it will serve as an elementary introduction to the larger German works on the subject from which I have appropriated whatever seemed necessary for th..

Tales of lonely trails

Zane Grey

Tales of lonely trails is a travel literature written by Zane Grey, an American author and dentist best known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western genre in literatu..

The Venetian Painters of the Renaissance

Bernard Berenson

The following essay owes its origin to the author's belief that Venetian painting is the most complete expression in art of the Italian Renaissance. The Renaissance is even more important typically th..

Four Years

William Butler Yeats

Four Years is a biographical work written by William Butler Yeats, an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of the Irish literary establishment, he ..

Noa Noa

Paul Gauguin

Noa Noa is a non-fiction writing by Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin, a French post-Impressionist artist. Unappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of color..

Buried Cities, Volume 3 - Mycenae

Jennie Hall

Do you like to dig for hidden treasure? Have you ever found Indian arrowheads or Indian pottery? I knew a boy who was digging a cave in a sandy place, and he found an Indian grave. With his own hands ..