Historical Books

Complete Works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Complete Works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

* illustrated with many images related to Dostoyevsky's work, life and places* includes rare translations of short stories available nowhere else* the...

tags: historical, novels, cultural, short stories, literary fiction, classics, literature, russia, historical fiction, fiction

Pink and White Tyranny: a Society Novel

Pink and White Tyranny: a Society Novel

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program.

tags: historical, american, historical fiction, classics, fiction, literature

Selected Philosophical Writings

Selected Philosophical Writings

by Thomas Aquinas

St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) saw religion as part of the natural human propensity to worship. His ability to recognize the naturalness of this phenomenon and...

tags: philosophy, religion, academic, history, christianity, theology, christian, medieval, classics, catholic, nonfiction, historical

The Poet's Homecoming

The Poet's Homecoming

by George MacDonald

He left the countryside the follower of restless ambition. He would return a different man.

tags: historical, historical fiction, classics, novels, fiction, christian fiction, christian

A Scottish Christian Heritage

A Scottish Christian Heritage

For 300 years a school of evangelical Christianity changed Scotland as a nation. Passing on the evangel of the Reformation, and growing stronger in...

tags: historical, christianity, church, religion, scotland, church history, nonfiction, history, cultural

Saint Ben

by John Fischer

In the late 50's setting, a captivating novel of a pastor's young son whose sheer honesty in seeking God confronts everyone in the church. No one who met Ben...

tags: historical, historical fiction, fiction, christian fiction, christian

Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood

Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood

by George MacDonald

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books...

tags: historical, historical fiction, fiction

Callista: A Sketch of the Third Century

Callista: A Sketch of the Third Century

by John Henry Newman

tags: historical, catholic, historical fiction, christianity, classics, religion

Hereward, the Last of the English

Hereward, the Last of the English

by Charles Kingsley

Work by Charles Kingsley, a prolific English novelist and author whose main power lay in his descriptive faculties. Kingsley's interest in history spilled over...

tags: historical, academic, school, historical fiction, classics, medieval, fiction, literature

This Glorious Struggle: George Washington's Revolutionary War Letters

This Glorious Struggle: George Washington's Revolutionary War Letters

by George Washington

George Washington wrote an astonishing number of letters, both personal and professional. The majority—about 140,000 documents—are from his years as commander...

tags: historical, american revolution, politics, presidents, nonfiction, history, military history

Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp

Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe's second antislavery novel was written partly in response to the criticisms of Uncle Tom's CabinUncle Tom's Cabin (1852) by both white...

tags: historical, 19th century, historical fiction, classics, novels, civil war, african american, fiction, literature, military history, cultural

Three Novels: Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly / The Minister's Wooing / Oldtown Folks

Three Novels: Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly / The Minister's Wooing / Oldtown Folks

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

In this Library of America volume are the best and most enduring works of Harriet Beecher Stowe, “the little woman,” as Abraham Lincoln said when he met her in...

tags: american, historical, classics, fiction, literature

Jesus is Victor

Jesus is Victor

by Corrie Ten Boom

tags: nonfiction, religion, historical, christian

Josephus: Thrones of Blood

Josephus: Thrones of Blood

by Flavius Josephus

tags: historical, reference, nonfiction, history, christian

Against the Academicians / The Teacher

Against the Academicians / The Teacher

These new translations of two treatises dealing with the possibility and nature of knowledge in the face of skeptical challenges are the first to be rendered...

tags: theology, historical, academic, school, philosophy, christianity, education, classics, religion, medieval, nonfiction, christian

Malcolm

by George MacDonald

Malcolm, a nineteenth-century Scottish fisherman, is captivated by a willful, adventurous girl whom he dares not to love, until he discovers a startling secret...

tags: historical, historical fiction, classics, fiction, christian fiction

St. George and St. Michael

St. George and St. Michael

by George MacDonald

This work has been previously published and carefully edited by humans to be read digitally on your eReader. Please enjoy this historical and classic work. All...

tags: historical, historical fiction, classics, fiction

Geoffrey Chaucer (Chesterton's Biographies)

Geoffrey Chaucer (Chesterton's Biographies)

by G.K. Chesterton

The medieval poet as seen by a 20th century voice of art.The medieval poet as seen by a 20th century voice of art.

tags: historical, biography, medieval, nonfiction, literature, history, criticism

Past and Present

Past and Present

by Thomas Carlyle

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books...

tags: nonfiction, history, historical, politics, victorian, classics, british literature, literature, 19th century, european literature, philosophy, essays, writing

The Writings of Julian of Norwich: A Vision Showed to a Devout Woman and a Revelation of Love

The Writings of Julian of Norwich: A Vision Showed to a Devout Woman and a Revelation of Love

by Julian of Norwich

Julian of Norwich (ca. 1343-ca. 1416), a contemporary of Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, and John Wyclif, is the earliest woman writer of English we know...

tags: occult, historical, catholic, theology, philosophy, christianity, classics, religion, medieval, nonfiction, mysticism

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