This is Engels' first book (since considered a classic account of England's working class in the industrial age), which argues that workers paid a...

Coningsby is the first of trilogy of political novels that Disraeli and gives an insight into his views of the political turmoil following the...

"A novel, with several elements of rather unusual interest. As a tale, it is swift, simple, and absorbing, and one does not willingly put it down...

Carl Sandburg's succinct reporting on and reflections upon the race riots that broke out In Chicago in July 1919.

This is the tale of an ancient family’s struggles to survive, one woman’s selflessness and another’s evil schemes; Two Gentlemen, two scoundrels...

Book of poems by John Keats

The Critique of Pure Reason, first published in 1781 with a second edition in 1787, has been called the most influential and important...

Abner Doubleday began the Civil War as a Union officer and aimed the first cannon shot in response to the bombardment opened on Ft. Sumter in 1861...

The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer (two of them in prose, the rest in verse). The...

How it fell out that Count Antonio, a man of high lineage, forsook the service of his Prince, disdained the obligation of his rank, set law at...

The Chemical History of a Candle is a series of 6 lectures on chemistry. Taught by Michael Faraday - a chemist and physist, and regarded as the...