Jh: 146 books

Books and Persons was previously published as articles under Bennett's pseudonym, Jacob Tonson in the magazine The New Age. He wrote these essays in Paris, London, Switzerland and the Forest of Fontainebleau, covering such topics as "Ugliness in Fiction," "The Novel of the Season," "German Expansion," and "Joseph Conrad."

This book was begun as a result of the author's experience in teaching some classes in English in the night preparatory department of the Carnegie Technical Schools of Pittsburg.

The novel All Roads Lead to Cavalry offers an irreverent take on the social forces at play in England in the period leading up to and just following the outbreak of World War I. If you're interested in history but often find yourself bored by historical fiction, this funny, one-of-a-kind novel is for you.

The Flight of Georgiana: A Story of Love and Peril in England in 1746 by American novelist and playwright Robert Neilson Stephens. This book is one of many works by him. 

The Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare, first published in 1602, though believed to have been written prior to 1597. The Merry Wives of Windsor features the fat knight Sir John Falstaff, and is Shakespeare's only play to deal exclusively with contemporary Elizabethan...

What starts out as a much-anticipated wedding among members of the high-society set in 1870s San Francisco eventually devolves into a tragic story of a doomed love triangle in Gertrude Atherton's deeply moving historical romance novel Sleeping Fires.

First published over 350 years ago during the reign of Elizabeth I, Culpeper's Herbal remains one of the most complete listings of herbs and their uses in existence. From Adder's Tongue to Yarrow, each of the 411 herbs is described in detail, along with its "government and virtues," remedies,...

Elsie Singmaster has made a name for herself as an author of well-written books with historical settings of special interest to young people. "John Baring's House" is a vivid narrative of Gettysburg days.

The Study of Astronomy written by British–Dutch colonial soldier and writer John Stedman. This book is one of many works by him.

WHEN Dr. S. P. Langley, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, established the Children's Room in that great museum, he took for his motto, "Knowledge begins in wonder," and he put into this room a selection of specimens especially intended to excite interest in the young mind. 

From Dublin to Chicago: Some Notes on a Tour in America

How to Be a Man written by an American clergyman and writer Harvey Newcomb. This book is one of many works by him. Published in 1847. A Book For Boys Containing Useful Information on Character Building.

In 1922, William H. Ukers wrote the definitive work on coffee. As the founder of The Tea and Coffee Trade Journal, an industry magazine still active today, he spent seventeen years traveling the world and uncovering everything there was to know about both the bean and the beverage. From its historic...

Here in you will find 9 stories from "Golden Lands" compiled by May Wentworth. But why "Golden Lands"? Well, an introductory poem tells us why –