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Few women, indeed few people, have had a greater hand in shaping their culture than the 18th century aristocrat Germaine de Staël. And few have done so in more spectacular fashion. For twenty years t ...
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Strange Things Happen has been made available for free to DailyLit readers by its publisher, HarperStudio. ... When Stewart Copeland gets dressed, he has an identity crisis. Should he put on “leathe ...
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Travel writing of the recipe kind, this cookbook and genealogy hybrid selects the best from tried-and-true, stain-spattered, dog-eared, and time-honored collections. The Ghost in the Pantry dishes up ...
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Born into a modest Detroit family, Henry Ford became a pioneer of American ingenuity and industry. In 1922, at the peak of his success in putting countless automobiles on the road, Ford put his own st ...
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself
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One woman's amazing story of abuse, degradation, and courage as she faces the devastating hardships of America's "peculiar institution."
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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From his family origins and youth to his professional and intellectual life as a printer, publisher, diplomat, and brilliant inventor, Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography is an astounding work that chal ...
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Never-before-published essays by American legend Mark Twain.
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Interviews with 21 bestselling contemporary authors about food, memory, and their experiments in the kitchen.
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Jane Austen: Her Life and Letters
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Enter the world of the woman behind the beloved classics. Here, in her own words and in the stories of those who knew her best, Jane Austen comes alive.
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Lives of Girls Who Became Famous
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Harriet Beecher Stowe. Louisa May Alcott. Elizabeth Barrett Browning. These are some of the inspiring women whose lives Bolton traces in this unique collection of mini-biographies, offering a woman's ...
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Before he became one of America's best-loved authors, Mark Twain lived out his own adventures as a steamboat captain on the Mississippi River. The waterway that would run through the heart of some of ...
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If the volume now presented to the public were a mere work of ART, the history of its misfortune might be written in two very simple words--TOO LATE. The nature and character of slavery have been sub ...
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When it came time to tell the life story of Samuel Johnson, a central figure of British thought and literature, only the most brilliant of biographers would do. Happily, in 1791, James Boswell rose to ...
Wikipedia Tour: Key Philosophers
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“The unexamined life is not worth living.” So said the famous Greek philosopher Socrates, one of the most famous and important voices in Western philosophy. That sentiment is undoubtedly shared by ...
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The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay, Volume 1
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Fanny Burney, one of the most important British novelists of the eighteenth century, led an extraordinary life. Not one to take “no” for an answer, Burney had willpower and spirit uncommon among w ...
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Written by her nephew, this memoir offers an intimate, familial look at the figure so many readers have come to know, simply and affectionately, as "Jane."
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It's been called the best nonfiction book of the twentieth century. At times sarcastic, at others heady, Adams's reaches far beyond his school days, exploring the human experience in a rapidly changin ...
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From a childhood marred by the cruelties of slavery Booker T. Washington rose to become a champion for black Americans. Here's how he pulled himself up by his boostraps—and his vision for how his di ...
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