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Carefully curated learning materials by LingoPear.
Summary
Keynes presents a first-hand account of the 1919 Paris Peace Conference and an analysis of the resulting Versailles treaty.
Written by
John Maynard Keynes
Language
English
Category
Nonfiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
A collection of essays by Errico Malatesta.
Written by
Errico Malatesta
Translated by
F. A. B.
Free Society Library
Freedom Press
Industrial Syndicalist Education League
Norman Matson
Language
English
Category
Nonfiction · Philosophy
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
A British Creole woman provides medical assistance during the Crimean War after her travels around Panama.
Written by
Mary Seacole
Language
English
Category
Autobiography · Nonfiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
Socialism, Anarchism, and Syndicalism
Summary
Bertrand Russell investigates the merits and potential shortcomings of different socialist tendencies.
Written by
Bertrand Russell
Language
English
Category
Nonfiction · Philosophy
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
Quiller-Couch surveys the history of English prose while dispensing advice for writing tastefully.
Written by
Arthur Quiller-Couch
Language
English
Category
Nonfiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
A collection of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essays.
Written by
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Language
English
Category
Nonfiction · Philosophy
Source
Standard Ebooks
Diary 1920–1922
Summary
A left-wing radical records his experiences in revolutionary Russia.
Written by
Alexander Berkman
Language
English
Category
Memoir · Nonfiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
Theodore Roosevelt’s autobiographical account of his expedition into the uncharted depths of the Brazilian rainforest.
Written by
Theodore Roosevelt
Language
English
Category
Nonfiction · Travel
Source
Standard Ebooks
A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
Summary
James introduces the philosophy of pragmatism and applies it to some metaphysical problems.
Written by
William James
Language
English
Category
Nonfiction · Philosophy
Source
Standard Ebooks
A Historical Study
Summary
A tracing of the development of religious thought from the Middle Ages to the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.
Written by
R. H. Tawney
Language
English
Category
Nonfiction · Philosophy · Spirituality
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
A discussion of the political philosophy of a democratic society.
Written by
John Dewey
Language
English
Category
Nonfiction · Philosophy
Source
Standard Ebooks
The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery
Summary
The authors escape from slavery by posing as a slaveowner and his slave.
Written by
Ellen Craft
William Craft
Language
English
Category
Adventure · Autobiography · Memoir · Nonfiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
From Their First Rise and Settlement in the Islands of Providence to the Present Time
Summary
The lives and stories of the daring pirate outlaws who terrorized the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea in the 18th century.
Written by
Captain Charles Johnson
Language
English
Category
Biography · Nonfiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
Voices from Within the Veil
Summary
A collection of essays, short fiction, and poetry related to the lives of black people in Jim Crow-era America.
Written by
W. E. B. Du Bois
Language
English
Category
Nonfiction · Philosophy
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
Short stories and essays detailing the landscape and inhabitants of the American Southwest.
Written by
Mary Austin
Language
English
Category
Nonfiction · Shorts
Source
Standard Ebooks
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education
Summary
A critical survey of the philosophy and aims of education in a democratic society.
Written by
John Dewey
Language
English
Category
Nonfiction · Philosophy
Source
Standard Ebooks
An Autobiography
Summary
A prominent and caustic historian reflects on the reasons that “the more he was educated, the less he understood,” and what he believes the future holds for American society.
Written by
Henry Adams
Language
English
Category
Autobiography · Memoir · Nonfiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy
Summary
A philosophical discussion on the nature of wealth and labor.
Written by
John Ruskin
Language
English
Category
Nonfiction · Philosophy
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
A narrative history of the Roman Empire from the time of Trajan to the fall of Constantinople.
Written by
Edward Gibbon
Language
English
Category
Nonfiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
An Essay in Political and Social Criticism
Summary
Matthew Arnold describes what he considers to be the flaws in Victorian British society.
Written by
Matthew Arnold
Language
English
Category
Nonfiction · Philosophy
Source
Standard Ebooks