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• On a Chinese Screen#W. Somerset Maugham #public-domain #China #Description and travel #Authors, English #20th century #Biography #Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965 #Travel
• Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant#Ulysses S. Grant #public-domain #Generals #United States #Biography #Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 #History #Civil War, 1861-1865 #Campaigns #Mexican War, 1846-1848 #Personal narratives #Presidents #United States. Army
• An Autobiography#Theodore Roosevelt #public-domain #Presidents #United States #Biography #Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
• Twelve Years a Slave#Solomon Northup #public-domain #African Americans #Biography #Slaves #United States #Slaves' writings, American #Northup, Solomon, 1808-1863? #Plantation life #Louisiana #History #19th century #Slavery
• Memoirs of a Foxhunting Man#Siegfried Sassoon #public-domain #Fox hunting--Fiction (LCSH)
• The Diary#Samuel Pepys #public-domain #Pepys, Samuel, 1633-1703 #Diaries #Cabinet officers #Great Britain #Diarists #Social life and customs #17th century #Sources #History #Charles II, 1660-1685
• Travel Essays#Robert Louis Stevenson #public-domain #France #Description and travel #Edinburgh (Scotland) #Cévennes Mountains (France) #California #Calistoga (Calif.) #Napa Valley (Calif.) #West (U.S.) #Monterey (Calif.) #Authors, Scottish #19th century #Biography
• A Yankee in the Trenches#Robert Derby Holmes #public-domain #World War, 1914-1918 #Personal narratives
• Jack Keefe Stories#Ring Lardner #public-domain #Humorous stories #Epistolary Fiction #Baseball players #Fiction #Baseball stories #American wit and humor #World War, 1914-1918 #Humor #Caricature and cartoons
• Two Years Before the Mast#Richard Henry Dana Jr. #public-domain #Seafaring life #Dana, Richard Henry, 1815-1882 #Voyages and travels #Sailors
• To Cuba and Back#Richard Henry Dana Jr. #public-domain #Seafaring life #Voyages and travels #Cuba #Description and travel #Dana, Richard Henry, 1815-1882 #Travel
• Now It Can Be Told#Philip Gibbs #public-domain #World War, 1914-1918 #Great Britain
• Memoirs of a Revolutionist#Peter Kropotkin #public-domain #Russia #Social life and customs #Physical geography #Russia (Federation) #Siberia #Autobiography #Russian authors #Revolutions and socialism #Anarchism
• Red Dusk and the Morrow#Paul Dukes #public-domain #Communism #Soviet Union #Social conditions #Spies #Great Britain #Biography #Dukes, Paul, 1889-1967 #Espionage, British #History #20th century
• Struggles and Triumphs#P. T. Barnum #public-domain #Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor), 1810-1891 #Circus owners #United States #Biography
• The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano#Olaudah Equiano #public-domain #Slaves #United States #Biography #Equiano, Olaudah, 1745-1797 #Great Britain
• A Negro Explorer at the North Pole#Matthew Henson #public-domain #Arctic regions #Discovery and exploration #Henson, Matthew Alexander, 1866-1955 #African American explorers #Biography #North Pole
• The Autobiography of Mark Twain#Mark Twain #public-domain #Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 #Authors, American #19th century #Biography #Humorists, American
• Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc#Mark Twain #public-domain #Joan, of Arc, Saint, 1412-1431 #Fiction #France #History #Charles VII, 1422-1461 #Biographical fiction #Christian women saints
• Yashka#Maria Bochkareva #public-domain #Soviet Union #History #Revolution, 1917-1921 #World War, 1914-1918 #Personal narratives, Russian
• The Autobiography of an Idea#Louis H. Sullivan #public-domain #Architects--United States--Biography (LCSH)
• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl#Linda Brent #public-domain #Women slaves #United States #Biography #Slaves #Social conditions #Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897
• The Autobiography of John Stuart Mill#John Stuart Mill #public-domain #Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873 #Philosophers #England #Biography
• Three Men in a Boat#Jerome K. Jerome #public-domain #Young men #Travel #England #Thames River #Fiction #Boats and boating #Dogs #Humorous stories, English #Thames River (England) #Male friendship
• You Can’t Win#Jack Black #public-domain #Autobiography #Criminals #Escapes #Ex-convicts #Jewel thieves #Prison reform #Prison violence #Rogues and vagabonds #Thieves
• Essays#Henry David Thoreau #public-domain #Apples #Authors, American #19th century #Biography #Brown, John, 1800-1859 #Cape Cod (Mass.) #Description and travel #Civil disobedience #Essays #Government, Resistance to #Maine #Nature
• The Story of My Life#Helen Keller #public-domain #Keller, Helen, 1880-1968 #Deafblind women #United States #Biography
• Our Nig#Harriet E. Wilson #public-domain #Autobiographical fiction #New England #Fiction #African American women #Racism #African American women household employees #Free African Americans
• Geronimo’s Story of His Life#Geronimo #public-domain #Apache Indians #Wars #Geronimo, 1829-1909 #Biography #History #Kings and rulers
• The House of the Dead#Fyodor Dostoevsky #public-domain #Exiles--Fiction #Russia (Federation)--Fiction #Siberia (Russia)--Fiction
• The Hashish Eater#Fitz Hugh Ludlow #public-domain #Recreational marijuana use
• A Daughter of the Samurai#Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto #public-domain #Sugimoto, Etsuko, 1873-1950 #Japanese--Ohio--Cincinnati--Biography #Immigrants--United States--Biography #Women--Japan--Biography
• South!#Ernest Shackleton #public-domain #Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922 #Travel #Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917) #Antarctica #Discovery and exploration
• The Enormous Room#E. E. Cummings #public-domain #Autobiographical fiction #War stories #France #Fiction #Americans #World War, 1914-1918 #Concentration camp inmates #Concentration camps #Ambulance drivers
• Pointed Roofs#Dorothy M. Richardson #public-domain #Autobiographical fiction #Women #England #Fiction #Social life and customs #20th century
• Rules for a Dictionary Catalogue: U. S. Bureau of Education Special Report on Public Libraries—Part II, Third Edition#Charles A. (Charles Ammi) Cutter #public-domain
• Ten years' digging in Egypt, 1881-1891#W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders) Petrie #public-domain
• Troy and Its Remains: A Narrative of Researches and Discoveries Made on the Site of Ilium and in the Trojan Plain#Heinrich Schliemann #public-domain
• Pompeii, Its Life and Art#August Mau #public-domain
• Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon#Austen Henry Layard #public-domain
• The Care of Books#John Willis Clark #public-domain
• Passages from the Life of a Philosopher#Charles Babbage #public-domain #Mathematicians #Great Britain #Biography #Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871
• A General History of the Pirates#Captain Charles Johnson #public-domain #Pirates #Early works to 1800
• The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge#Calvin Coolidge #public-domain #Presidents #United States #Biography
• The Autobiography of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, or Black Hawk#Black Hawk #public-domain #Black Hawk, Sauk chief, 1767-1838 #Sauk Indians #Biography #Black Hawk War, 1832
• The Worst Journey in the World#Apsley Cherry-Garrard #public-domain #British Antarctic ("Terra Nova") Expedition (1910-1913) #Cherry-Garrard, Apsley, 1886-1959--Travel--Antarctica #Antarctica--Discovery and exploration--British #Scott, Robert Falcon, 1868-1912--Travel--Antarctica
• History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1#Edward Gibbon #public-domain #Byzantine Empire #History #To 527 #Rome #Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D
• The French Revolution: A History#Thomas Carlyle #public-domain #France #History #Louis XVI, 1774-1793 #Revolution, 1789-1799
• The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1#Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano #public-domain #Asia #Description and travel #Early works to 1800 #Mongols #History #Polo, Marco, 1254-1323? #Voyages and travels
• Memoirs of a revolutionist#Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz #public-domain #Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz', 1842-1921 #Revolutionaries #Russia #Politics and government #1801-1917 #Socialism
• My four weeks in France#Ring Lardner #public-domain #World War, 1914-1918 #Personal narratives
• Recollections of full years#Helen Herron Taft #public-domain #Autobiographies #Philippines #Description and travel #Presidents' spouses #United States #Biography #Taft, Helen Herron, 1861-1943 #Washington (D.C.) #Social life and customs #White House (Washington, D.C.)
• A Personal Record#Joseph Conrad #public-domain #Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 #Novelists, English #20th century #Biography
• My Disillusionment in Russia#Emma Goldman #public-domain #Communism #Soviet Union #Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940 #History #Revolution, 1917-1921 #Personal narratives, American
• Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69#Edward Whymper #public-domain #Alps #Description and travel #Mountaineering #History #19th century #Mountaineers #Biography #Whymper, Edward, 1840-1911
• Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark#Mary Wollstonecraft #public-domain #Authors, English #18th century #Correspondence #Feminists #Great Britain #Imlay, Gilbert, 1754?-1828? #Scandinavia #Description and travel #Early works to 1800 #Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797 #Travel
• Roughing It#Mark Twain #public-domain #Authors, American #Homes and haunts #West (U.S.) #Hawaii #Description and travel #Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 #Travel #Intellectual life #19th century
• The Innocents Abroad#Mark Twain #public-domain #Europe #Description and travel #Middle East #Voyages and travels
• Eminent Victorians#Lytton Strachey #public-domain #Arnold, Thomas, 1795-1842 #Gordon, Charles George, 1833-1885 #Great Britain #Biography #History #Victoria, 1837-1901 #Manning, Henry Edward, 1808-1892 #Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910
• Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands#Mary Seacole #public-domain #Crimean War, 1853-1856 #Personal narratives, Jamaican #Seacole, Mary, 1805-1881 #Travel #Ukraine #Crimea #Women, Black #Jamaica #Biography
• My Reminiscences#Rabindranath Tagore #public-domain #Authors, Bengali #20th century #Biography #Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941
• A Negro Explorer at the North Pole#Matthew Alexander Henson #public-domain #African American explorers #Biography #Arctic regions #Discovery and exploration #Henson, Matthew Alexander, 1866-1955 #North Pole
• The Education of Henry Adams#Henry Adams #public-domain #Adams, Henry, 1838-1918 #Historians #United States #Biography
• Confessions of an English Opium-Eater#Thomas De Quincey #public-domain #Authors, English #19th century #Biography #De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859 #Drug addicts #Great Britain #Opium abuse #England
• Elizabeth and Her German Garden#Elizabeth Von Arnim #public-domain #Autobiographical fiction #British #Germany #Fiction #Gardening #Gardens #Women gardeners
• Queen Victoria#Lytton Strachey #public-domain #Great Britain #History #Victoria, 1837-1901 #Queens #Biography #Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901
• Through the Brazilian Wilderness#Theodore Roosevelt #public-domain #Brazil #Description and travel #Roosevelt River (Brazil) #Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition (1913-1914) #Zoology
• The Mirror of the Sea#Joseph Conrad #public-domain #Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 #Travel #Seafaring life
• The Bolshevik Myth#Alexander Berkman #public-domain #Communism #Communism--Soviet Union #Soviet Union--Description and travel #Soviet Union--Economic conditions--1917-1945
• The autobiography of Calvin Coolidge#Calvin Coolidge #public-domain #Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933 #Presidents #United States #Biography
• Passages from the Life of a Philosopher#Charles Babbage #public-domain #Babbage, Charles, 1791-1871 #Mathematicians #Great Britain #Biography
• History of the Peloponnesian War#Thucydides #public-domain #Greece #History #Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C
• The Lives of the Caesars#Suetonius #public-domain #Rome #History #Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D #Emperors #Biography #Early works to 1800
• Commentaries on the Gallic War#Julius Caesar #public-domain #Gaul #History #Gallic Wars, 58-51 B.C
• Histories#Herodotus #public-domain #History, Ancient #Greece #History #To 146 B.C
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass#Frederick Douglass #public-domain #Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 #African American abolitionists #Biography #Abolitionists #United States #Slaves
• The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire#Edward Gibbon #public-domain #Rome #History #Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D #Byzantine Empire #To 527 #Indexes
• Up from Slavery#Booker T. Washington #public-domain #Tuskegee Institute #Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915 #African Americans #Biography #Educators #United States
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin#Benjamin Franklin #public-domain #Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 #Statesmen #United States #Biography
• De Profundis#Oscar Wilde #public-domain #Grief #Imprisonment #Suffering #Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
• The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus#Cornelius Tacitus #public-domain #Agricola, Gnaeus Julius, 40-93 #Germanic peoples #Early works to 1800 #Statesmen #Rome #Biography
• Modern English biography, volume 2 (of 4), I-Q#Frederic Boase #public-domain #Great Britain #Biography #Dictionaries
• My Life — Volume 1#Richard Wagner #public-domain #Composers #Germany #Biography #Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883
• The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete#Samuel Pepys #public-domain #Cabinet officers #Great Britain #Diaries #Diarists #History #Charles II, 1660-1685 #Sources #Social life and customs #17th century #Pepys, Samuel, 1633-1703
• Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812: For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources#Emperor of the French Napoleon I #public-domain #Correspondence #Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
• Harriet Martineau#Florence Fenwick Miller #public-domain #Authors, English #19th century #Biography #Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876 #Women and literature #England #History #Women social reformers #Great Britain
• The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2): Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain.#Bernal Díaz del Castillo #public-domain #Mexico #History #Conquest, 1519-1540
• Meditations#Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius #public-domain #Ethics #Life #Stoics
• Shakespeare's family#C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael) Stopes #public-domain #Arden family #Shakespeare family #Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 #Family
• Emily Brontë#A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances) Robinson #public-domain #Authors, English #19th century #Biography #Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848 #Women and literature #England #History
• Life on the Mississippi#Mark Twain #public-domain #Authors, American #19th century #Biography #Mississippi River #Description and travel #Mississippi River Valley #Social life and customs #Pilots and pilotage #Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 #Travel
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave#Frederick Douglass #public-domain #Abolitionists #United States #Biography #African American abolitionists #Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 #Enslaved persons
• The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African: Written By Himself#Olaudah Equiano #public-domain #Enslaved persons #Great Britain #Biography #United States #Equiano, Olaudah, 1745-1797
• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself#Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs #public-domain #Enslaved persons #United States #Biography #Social conditions #Enslaved women #Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897