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Nonfiction
314 nonfiction classics restored by Bibliomancer — every one free to read online in full.
All 314 titles, A–Z
- Abraham Lincoln · James Russell Lowell
- An Account of Egypt · Herodotus
- Acres of Diamonds · Russell H. Conwell
- Across the Plains, with Other Memories and Essays · Robert Louis Stevenson
- Adventures Among Books · Andrew Lang
- The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West · Washington Irving
- The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boon · John Filson
- Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War · Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot
- Agesilaus · Xenophon
- Alexandria and Her Schools · Charles Kingsley
- The Altruist in Politics · Benjamin N. Cardozo
- The American Crisis · Thomas Paine
- American Notes · Rudyard Kipling
- American Notes · Charles Dickens
- The American Republic · Orestes Augustus Brownson
- America, Through the Spectacles of an Oriental Diplomat · Wu Tingfang
- Anabasis · Xenophon
- The Analects of Confucius (From the Chinese Classics) · Confucius
- The Ancien Régime · Charles Kingsley
- Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England
- Angling Sketches · Andrew Lang
- Areopagitica · John Milton
- The Argonautica · Apollonius of Rhodes
- Arizona Sketches · J. A. Munk
- Astoria · Washington Irving
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin · Benjamin Franklin
- The Autobiography of Charles Darwin · Charles Darwin
- The Battle of the Books, and Other Short Pieces · Jonathan Swift
- Beyond Good and Evil · Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
- The Bible in Spain · George Borrow
- The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers · Jonathan Swift
- Biographia Literaria · Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Biographical Notes on the Pseudonymous Bells · Charlotte Brontë
- Björnstjerne Björnson, 1832-1910 · William Morton Payne
- A Book of Scoundrels · Charles Whibley
- The Book of Snobs · William Makepeace Thackeray
- A Book of Strife in the Form of the Diary of an Old Soul · George MacDonald
- The Book of Tea · Kakuzo Okakura
- Books and Bookmen · Andrew Lang
- The Boy Captives · John Greenleaf Whittier
- Bunyan Characters (1st Series) · Alexander Whyte
- Bunyan Characters (2nd Series) · Alexander Whyte
- Bygone Beliefs · H. Stanley Redgrove
- The Cavalry General · Xenophon
- The Cell of Self-Knowledge
- Ceres' Runaway, and Other Essays · Alice Meynell
- Charmides · Plato
- The Children · Alice Meynell
- A Child’s History of England · Charles Dickens
- China and the Manchus · Herbert Allen Giles
- The Chinese Boy and Girl · Isaac Taylor Headland
- Chinese Sketches · Herbert Allen Giles
- The Civilization of China · Herbert Allen Giles
- Clocks · Jerome K. Jerome
- Cobb’s Anatomy · Irvin S. Cobb
- The Colour of Life · Alice Meynell
- Common Sense · Thomas Paine
- Common Sense and The American Crisis · Thomas Paine
- The Communist Manifesto · Karl Marx
- Confessio Amantis · John Gower
- The Confessions of St. Augustine · Augustine of Hippo
- Contributions to All the Year Round
- Coral Reefs · Charles Darwin
- Court Life in China · Isaac Taylor Headland
- Critias · Plato
- The Crown of Thorns · E. H. Chapin
- The Danish History, Books I-IX · Saxo Grammaticus
- A Defence of Poesie and Poems · Philip Sidney
- The Description of Wales · Giraldus Cambrensis
- Dhammapada, a Collection of Verses
- Diary of a Pilgrimage · Jerome K. Jerome
- Discourse on the Method · René Descartes
- The Discovery of Guiana · Walter Raleigh
- The Dominion of the Air · John M. Bacon
- Early Australian Voyages · John Pinkerton
- Early Kings of Norway · Thomas Carlyle
- The Economist · Xenophon
- Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes · Robert Louis Stevenson
- Edison · Frank Lewis Dyer
- The Education of Henry Adams · Henry Adams
- Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon · Samuel White Baker
- Eighty Years and More · Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Emile Zola · William Dean Howells
- Emily Brontë · A. Mary F. Robinson
- An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding · David Hume
- Eothen · Alexander William Kinglake
- An Essay on Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit · George Meredith
- Essays · Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Essays and Lectures · Oscar Wilde
- Essays in Little · Andrew Lang
- Essays in the Art of Writing · Robert Louis Stevenson
- Essays of Travel · Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral · Francis Bacon
- Europe Revised · Irvin S. Cobb
- Euthydemus · Plato
- Everybody’s Business Is Nobody’s Business · Daniel Defoe
- The Evolution of Theology: An Anthropological Study · Thomas Henry Huxley
- The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals · Charles Darwin
- Familiar Studies of Men and Books · Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Federalist Papers · Alexander Hamilton
- Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort · Edith Wharton
- First Across the Continent · Noah Brooks
- A Footnote to History · Robert Louis Stevenson
- The French Revolution · Thomas Carlyle
- From London to Land’s End · Daniel Defoe
- The Future of the Colored Race in America · William Aikman
- George Cruikshank · William Makepeace Thackeray
- The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus · Cornelius Tacitus
- Gitanjali · Rabindranath Tagore
- Glaucus · Charles Kingsley
- The God-Idea of the Ancients · Eliza Burt Gamble
- The Golden Sayings of Epictetus, with the Hymn of Cleanthes · Epictetus
- Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners · John Bunyan
- The Greatest English Classic · Cleland Boyd McAfee
- Harriet Martineau · Florence Fenwick Miller
- Hasisadra’s Adventure · Thomas Henry Huxley
- Hearts of Controversy · Alice Meynell
- Heimskringla · Snorri Sturluson
- Hellenica · Xenophon
- Henry James, Jr. · William Dean Howells
- Heroes of the Telegraph · John Munro
- Hiero · Xenophon
- Historical Lectures and Essays · Charles Kingsley
- The History of John Bull · John Arbuthnot
- History of the Britons (Historia Brittonum) · Nennius
- History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science · John William Draper
- History of the Conquest of Peru · William Hickling Prescott
- History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom · Andrew Dickson White
- Hunting Sketches · Anthony Trollope
- The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow · Jerome K. Jerome
- The Iliad · Homer
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl · Harriet A. Jacobs
- In Darkest England, and The Way Out · William Booth
- Indian Boyhood · Charles A. Eastman
- Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains · Charles A. Eastman
- Industrial Biography · Samuel Smiles
- An Inland Voyage · Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African · Olaudah Equiano
- In the South Seas · Robert Louis Stevenson
- John Barleycorn · Jack London
- John Jacob Astor · Elbert Hubbard
- The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon · Henry Fielding
- The Journal to Stella · Jonathan Swift
- A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland · Samuel Johnson
- The Jubilee of the Constitution · John Quincy Adams
- A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains · Isabella L. Bird
- A Lady’s Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53 · Charles Clacy
- Lectures on Evolution · Thomas Henry Huxley
- Le neveu de Rameau · Denis Diderot
- Les Rêveries du Promeneur Solitaire · Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Letters from England, 1846-1849 · Elizabeth Davis Bancroft
- Letters from the Cape · Lucie Duff Gordon
- Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society · George Borrow
- Letters on Literature · Andrew Lang
- Leviathan · Thomas Hobbes
- The Library · Andrew Lang
- Life and Letters of Robert Browning · Sutherland Orr
- The Life of Columbus · Edward Everett Hale
- The Life of Francis Marion · William Gilmore Simms
- The Life of General Francis Marion · M. L. Weems
- The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson · Robert Southey
- The Life of John Bunyan · Edmund Venables
- Life of John Sterling · Thomas Carlyle
- Life of Robert Browning · William Sharp
- The Life of the Spider · Jean-Henri Fabre
- The Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer · Samuel Smiles
- Life on the Mississippi · Mark Twain
- Literary Blunders · Henry B. Wheatley
- Literary Friends and Acquaintance · William Dean Howells
- Little Rivers · Henry Van Dyke
- London’s Underworld · Thomas Holmes
- The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac · Eugene Field
- The Love of Books · Richard de Bury
- Lysis · Plato
- Meditations · Marcus Aurelius
- Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin · Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Memorabilia · Xenophon
- Memories and Portraits · Robert Louis Stevenson
- Men of Invention and Industry · Samuel Smiles
- Miracle Mongers and Their Methods · Harry Houdini
- The Mirror of the Sea · Joseph Conrad
- Miscellaneous Papers · Charles Dickens
- A Miscellany of Men · G. K. Chesterton
- Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa · David Livingstone
- A Modest Proposal · Jonathan Swift
- My Bondage and My Freedom · Frederick Douglass
- My Garden Acquaintance · James Russell Lowell
- My Memories of Eighty Years · Chauncey M. Depew
- Myths and Legends of the Sioux · Marie L. McLaughlin
- Myths and Myth-Makers · John Fiske
- Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson · Mary White Rowlandson
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave · Frederick Douglass
- Native Life in South Africa · Sol. T. Plaatje
- The Natural History of Selborne · Gilbert White
- The New Revelation · Arthur Conan Doyle
- Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo · William Makepeace Thackeray
- Noto · Percival Lowell
- The Odyssey · Homer
- Old Friends · Andrew Lang
- On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History · Thomas Carlyle
- On Horsemanship · Xenophon
- On Liberty · John Stuart Mill
- On Revenues · Xenophon
- On the Improvement of the Understanding · Benedictus de Spinoza
- On the Method of Zadig · Thomas Henry Huxley
- On the Origin of Species · Charles Darwin
- On the Reception of the 'Origin of Species' · Thomas Henry Huxley
- On the Ruin of Britain · Gildas
- The Oregon Trail · Francis Parkman
- The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection · Charles Darwin
- Orthodoxy · G. K. Chesterton
- Pagan and Christian Creeds · Edward Carpenter
- Pages from an Old Volume of Life · Oliver Wendell Holmes
- A Pickle for the Knowing Ones · Timothy Dexter
- Poems of Henry Timrod · Henry Timrod
- The Poetics of Aristotle · Aristotle
- The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians · Xenophon
- Ponkapog Papers · Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- Pragmatism · William James
- The Prince · Niccolò Machiavelli
- The Prophet, The Madman and The Forerunner · Kahlil Gibran
- Protagoras · Plato
- The Puzzle of Dickens’s Last Plot · Andrew Lang
- Queen Victoria · Lytton Strachey
- The Querist · George Berkeley
- A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms · Faxian
- Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and The Letter to a Friend · Thomas Browne
- The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria · Theophilus G. Pinches
- Reminiscences of a Stock Operator · Edwin Lefevre
- Reminiscences of Tolstoy, by His Son · Ilia Lvovich Tolstoi
- The Republic · Plato
- The Rhythm of Life, and Other Essays · Alice Meynell
- The Rise and Progress of Palaeontology · Thomas Henry Huxley
- Robert Louis Stevenson · Alexander H. Japp
- Roughing It · Mark Twain
- The Ruins · C.-F. Volney
- Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom · William Craft
- Russia · Donald Mackenzie Wallace
- Sanitary and Social Lectures and Essays · Charles Kingsley
- The Scholemaster · Roger Ascham
- The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow · Jerome K. Jerome
- Self Help · Samuel Smiles
- Sesame and Lilies · John Ruskin
- Shelley · Francis Thompson
- Shelley · Sydney Waterlow
- Shorter Prose Pieces · Oscar Wilde
- Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science · Simon Newcomb
- The Silverado Squatters · Robert Louis Stevenson
- Sketches of Young Couples · Charles Dickens
- Some Reminiscences · Joseph Conrad
- The Song of Hiawatha · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- The Soul of Man Under Socialism · Oscar Wilde
- The Soul of the Far East · Percival Lowell
- Speeches · Charles Dickens
- The Spirit of Place, and Other Essays · Alice Meynell
- The Sportsman · Xenophon
- Stage-Land · Jerome K. Jerome
- Steep Trails · John Muir
- The Story of Burnt Njal
- The Story of Mankind · Hendrik Willem Van Loon
- A Straight Deal · Owen Wister
- Sunday Under Three Heads · Charles Dickens
- Symposium · Plato
- The Symposium · Xenophon
- The Tale of Balen · Algernon Charles Swinburne
- The Tao Teh King, or The Tao and Its Characteristics · Laozi
- Ten Days in a Mad-House; Or, Nellie Bly’s Experience on Blackwell’s Island. · Nellie Bly
- The Theory of the Leisure Class · Thorstein Veblen
- Thomas Jefferson, a Character Sketch · Edward Sylvester Ellis
- Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and Speeches · Edmund Burke
- Thus Spake Zarathustra · Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
- Timaeus · Plato
- Tour Through the Eastern Counties of England, 1722 · Daniel Defoe
- Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes · Robert Louis Stevenson
- The True Story of Christopher Columbus, Called the Great Admiral · Elbridge S. Brooks
- Twenty Years at Hull House · Jane Addams
- Two Years Before the Mast · Richard Henry Dana
- Two Years in the Forbidden City · Der Ling
- The Uncommercial Traveller · Charles Dickens
- A Unique Story of a Marvellous Career · Joel Benton
- The Unseen World, and Other Essays · John Fiske
- Up from Slavery · Booker T. Washington
- The Use and Need of the Life of Carry a. Nation · Carry Amelia Nation
- Utilitarianism · John Stuart Mill
- Utopia · Thomas More
- Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays · G. K. Chesterton
- Vailima Letters · Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Valet’s Tragedy, and Other Studies · Andrew Lang
- A Vanished Arcadia · R. B. Cunninghame Graham
- Vanished Arizona · Martha Summerhayes
- The Varieties of Religious Experience · William James
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman · Mary Wollstonecraft
- Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers · Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Vital Message · Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Voyage of the Beagle · Charles Darwin
- A Voyage to Abyssinia · Jerónimo Lobo
- Wake-Robin · John Burroughs
- Walden, and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience · Henry David Thoreau
- Walking · Henry David Thoreau
- War of the Classes · Jack London
- The Ways of Men · Eliot Gregory
- What Is Man? and Other Essays · Mark Twain
- What Is Property? an Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government · P.-J. Proudhon
- The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair · Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Wild Apples · Henry David Thoreau
- Wild Wales · George Borrow
- William the Conqueror · Edward A. Freeman
- Woman and Labour · Olive Schreiner
- Worldly Ways & Byways · Eliot Gregory
- Yankee Gypsies · John Greenleaf Whittier
- 分甘余話 · Wang Shizhen
- 續世說 · Pingzhong Kong
- 西湖夢尋 · Zhang Dai
- 顏氏家訓 · Zhitui Yan














































