(started 2022 July 25)
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23561
Audio at: https://librivox.org/anchorite-by-randall-garrett/
By Randall Garrett (1927-1987)
Reading Notes: This story (and the Librivox summary below) while entertaining and a worthwhile read, seem loosely like a science fiction expression of Ayn Rand'ian romantic realism -- with the central characters as heroic individualists or ignorant villains who emphasize duty to your team and collectivist moral ideals.
Librivox Summary:
Randall Garrett sticks a sharp needle into our government and society in this wonderful story. He projects the current trends towards paternalistic government into the future. Yes, we have attained a world government and everyone is equal whether they want to be or not; everyone is taken care of no matter how incompetent, stupid or sleazy they are and everyone is out to undermine everyone else. The author predicts (sadly only too well) what the trends of today will eventually produce if allowed to continue. But wait! there is hope in the asteroid belt where jerks and incompetents are weeded out by hard physical laws and only those who possess common sense and the ability to actually survive are allowed to govern. But will the Earth government allow this to continue? Of course not. Listen to this great story to have a peek into the future.
By Gillette, C. P. (Clarence Preston) (1859-1941)
Publication info: Fort Collins, Colo, The Experiment station, 1900
Notes: "Bulletin 54. The Agricultural experiment station of the Agricultural college of Colorado."
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/55796
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/116514#page/8/mode/1up
https://ia801301.us.archive.org/16/items/cu31924003192543/cu31924003192543.pdf
Reading Notes: The title says it all... If you have any interest in how honey bees build their honey combs, this might be a useful, short introduction to the subject.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/215
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Call_of_the_Wild
By Jack London (1876-1916), published 1903
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68686
By Murray Leinster (1896-1975), published 1956
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Leinster
This ebook: https://www.loc.gov/item/17001543/
The full The Dred Scott v. Sandford Decision which adds another ~180 pages of opinions by other members of the Supreme Court
The Dred Scott v. Sandford Decision Wikipedia Summary.
By Roger Brooke Taney (1777 - 1864)
Introduction by Dr. John H. Van Evrie, "defender of slavery." (1814 - 1896)
and
Appendix. "Natural History Of The Prognathous Species Of Mankind." By Dr. Samuel A. Cartwright, inventor of the 'mental illness' of drapetomania, the desire of a slave for freedom. (1793 - 1863)
Reader notes: I read this in early 2024 while thinking about the increasing volume of race-related arguments in Far Right and Trumpist/Trumper rhetoric that I see in print news and in streaming news-like programming. It is a depressing read -- made more depressing when paired with its "echos" in political speech in the U.S. today. That said, I recommend this exercise to anyone who has only a foggy memory (or less) of the kind of language and logic used in mid-19th century America to justify and solidify Black slavery in the U.S. [Update late February 2024: Listening to some of the legislative debate about a bill to specify content of public school social studies classes in Iowa, I heard one Iowa legislator argue that the topic of slavery in the U.S. is not important enough to include in the Iowa public school social studies curriculum. Ugg... Some people need much more help than will be found in this 1857 publication.]
As a reminder to those who forgot their High School history or government class summary of this case, "Taney infamously delivered the majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), ruling that African Americans could not be considered U.S. citizens (and thus they could not enjoy the rights and privileges the Constitution conferred upon American citizens) and that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the U.S. territories.." Chief Justice Taney wrote for the majority that African Americans:
"are not included, and were not intended to be included, under the word “citizens” in the Constitution, and can therefore claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secures to citizens of the United States. On the contrary, they were at that time considered as a subordinate and inferior class of beings, who had been subjugated by the dominant race, and, whether emancipated 18 or not, yet remained subject to their authority, and had no rights or privileges but such as those who held the power and the government might choose to grant them." (page 30)
and that:
"a perpetual and impassable barrier was intended to be erected between the white race and the one which they had reduced to slavery, and governed as subjects with absolute and despotic power... (page 36)
and finally, that:
"it is the opinion of the court that the act of Congress which prohibited a citizen from holding and owning property of this kind in the territory of the United States north of the line therein mentioned, is not warranted by the Constitution, and is therefore void. (page 87)
The "Introduction" and "Appendix" of this 1860 printing wrap some late-1850s social context to the Supreme Court opinion. Unfortunately, some of the "race science" and "state's rights" themes in those two essays seem to be appearing again in Far Right and Trumpist/Trumper dog whistle talking points.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70235
By Van Vogt, A. E. (Alfred Elton), (1912-2000)
...especially https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._E._van_Vogt#Critical_reception
Reading Notes: This short book begins with "One hundred and nine years after leaving Earth, the spaceship, Hope of Man, went into orbit around Alta III." Sending a spaceship to a planet over 100 light-years away involves a lot of guess-work about the nature of their destination. In this story, some of the original guesses were wrong.
Text: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71305
Audio: https://librivox.org/the-farmers-bride-by-charlotte-mew/
By Charlotte Mew (1869 - 1928)
Wikipedia Summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Farmer's_Bride
Librivox Summary:
The Farmer's Bride is a collection of 28 poems by British modernist writer Charlotte Mew. The original edition was published in 1916; this edition, published in 1921, contains 11 more poems. Mew's poetry is varied in style and content, but manifests a concern with gender issues throughout. Mew's life was marked by loneliness and depression, and she eventually committed suicide. Her work earned her the admiration of her peers, including Virginia Woolf, who characterized her as "very good and quite unlike anyone else." Summary by Elizabeth Klett
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29455
By Murray Leinster (1896-1975), published 1933
. . . and the Lake keeps people as they were, forever and ever
https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v37n05_1944-05_LPM-AT/page/n77/mode/2up
By Ray Bradbury (1920 - 2012)
Reading Notes: The opportunity to read this short story is worth any hassle of finding the text on archive.org.
Summary from Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lake_(short_story)
Background from Wikipedia:
Bradbury recounted when he came into his own as a writer, the afternoon he wrote a short story about his first encounter with death. When he was a boy, he met a young girl at a lake edge and she went out into the water and never came back. Years later (at 22 years old), as he wrote about it, tears flowed from him. He recognized he had taken the leap from emulating the many writers he admired to connecting with his voice as a writer. When later asked about the lyrical power of his prose, he replied: "From reading so much poetry every day of my life. My favorite writers have been those who've said things well." He said: "If you're reluctant to weep, you won't live a full and complete life." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Bradbury#Writing
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6993
By M. P. Shiel (Matthew Phipps Shiel, 1865-1947)
Reading Notes and 3rd Party Summaries:
Reading Notes: This book is characterized by "choppy" story telling -- skipping from one vignette to another, sometimes with minimal connective tissue, and fleshing out some (few) scenes while leaving others dryly skeletal. Shiel seems most consistent in his threading of anti-semitism throughout the many literary sketches that make up this book (this content may be offensive for many, even inappropriate for some).
3rd Party Summaries:
"The Lord of the Sea." January 8, 2021 by Philip Jenkins https://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbench/2021/01/the-lord-of-the-sea-2/
"The First Alt-Right Novel? -- M. P. Shiel’s Weird Anti-Semitism." 2016(?), By James J. O'Meara. https://counter-currents.com/2016/08/m-p-shiels-weird-anti-semitism/
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71726
https://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/grimwood/manipur/manipur.html
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.44982/mode/2up
By Ethel St. Clair Grimwood (1867 – 1928)
Reader's Notes: This first-person description of (1) late 19th century Manipur (an Indian state on the Eastern edge of the country), (2) British colonialism in India within a very specific set of circumstances and (3) what it was like as a British official's wife to be under attack and fleeing in late 19th century Manipur/South Asia.
This book includes some sterotyping based on race, ethnicity and other characteristics that may shape society. Some might be repulsed by how oppression built around the concepts of gender, race, caste, and class are expressed throughout this story. It might be easy for a 21st century reader to pass these off as parodies of British colonial society at that time, but they seem to be expressions of the author's understanding of the world and that of her readers at the time. As much as we can know, her written words are facts of 19th century British colonial management -- as well as expressions of immoral, unethical and unprincipled, disgraceful, sometimes shocking and corrupt, even evil behaviors. This book may be hurtful to some.
The Fantastic story of the “Heroine of Manipur” who led to bloody, battered survivors of the Manipur Mutiny to safety over some of the roughest roads in all of India. Includes 9 illustrations. “Manipur, Rebellion in (1891). This small state in north-eastern India southeast of Assam was a quasi-independent British protectorate ruled from 1834 by Chandra Kirti Singh (1832-1866). On his death his sons and other relatives formed numerous parties, each contending for the throne. In the midst of general unrest, on 24 March 1891 the British political agent and other resident British officials were murdered, and the residency in Manipur was attacked. The small surviving band of loyal sepoys was led to safety in India by Ethel St Clair Grimwood, the wife of the slain Political Resident. The British sent troops into the country and, after several encounters with the 3000-man Manipuri army, finally restored order. The offending princes were hanged or transported to the Andaman Islands. Mrs Grimwood was awarded the Royal Red Cross.”-Farwell
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69156
By Carl Bernhard Wadström (1746-1799)
Reading Notes: By 1779 Swede Carl Bernhard Wadström was a convert to Emanuel Swedenborg’s doctrines, and in that year he and Augustus Nordenskjöld formed a Swedenborgian anti-slavery group in Norrköping, Sweden. The Norrköping Swedenborgian group birthed a plan for a colony in Africa built on agricultural trade as an alternative to slavery -- its long term purpose being the abolition of slavery -- or at least of providing a free alternative to it. King Gustav III granted a charter for forty families to emigrate. That effort was delayed by war between England and France [from Robert William Rix]. After years of delay, in 1787 Wadström (also now a central figure in the British abolition movement) accompanied by Carl Axel Arrhenius and Anders Sparrman traveled to West Africa for scientific investigations in Senegal. This book, "Observations on the Slave Trade..." is one of the outputs of that journey and describes some of what Wadström observed and some of what he thought about it -- in the context of his experiences and beliefs leading up to the late 1780s.
As a reminder, the slave trade had already been active and evolving for 170 years in what is now United States of America by the time Mr. Wadström journied to West Aftica and wrote this book (see: The 1619 Project and "The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story").
For additional context, you might want to read an article by Morton D. Paley, "“A New Heaven Is Begun”: William Blake And Swedenborgianism," and another by Klas Rönnbäck, "Enlightenment, Scientific Exploration and Abolitionism: Anders Sparrman's and Carl Bernhard Wadström's Colonial Encounters in Senegal, 1787–1788 and the British Abolitionist Movement." in A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies. Volume 34, 2013 - Issue 3, Pages 425-445 (Published online: 06 Dec 2012)
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24418
This story was published in Amazing Science Fiction Stories, October 1958.
By Robert Wicks ( – ) [I couldn't find any bio information for Robert Wicks]
Reading Notes:
This is an excellent short science fiction story about a small team of space explorer's first landing on a planet circling a star that is not the sun. There are at least three audio versions of this short story. See them at: https://librivox.org...
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6711
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Dru:_Administrator
By Edward Mandell House (1858–1938), published 1912
Utopian reformer..."we are entering a new era. The past is no longer to be a guide to the future…"
Main characters: Phillip Dru, Gloria Strawn, Senator Selwyn
Also: Governor James R. Rockland (earmarks of a demagogue)…
The story outlines how society is corrupted by Dark money, Control of the press, Corrupt high-finance personalities, Anti-democracy Senators, and a Corrupt anti-democracy President (Rockland)
…who was ignorant of history
…who picks three compliant Supreme Court justices
There are recordings that capture corrupt acts by the President, and a Whistleblower.
Corrupt leaders are defiant & claim others were doing what they were charged with, and that they were trying to protect America… They:
…Moved troops to cities and the navy to U.S. coasts
…dehumanized political opponents
…chose quick violence against protest
Civil War follows — unrealistic assertions about the nature and practice of war. More than 50,000 die in the one and only battle -- and the war is won…
General Dru remakes the U.S. as a more fair society with a smaller and more responsive government (too often just by saying so...)
At the highest level, much of writing is sophomoric and the characters almost comically wooden. (From: "What Colonel House Thinks." by William Marion Reedy, Reedy's Mirror, April 6th, 1917 pages 239-240)
One more thing. Edward M. House wrote this story about the 1920s sometime before publishing it in 1912, and he included an electric automobile as a normal mode of transportation (when Gloria Strawn picks up Phillip Dru at the train station).
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68694
By Eliza Fanny Pollard (1840–1911), published 1893
Reader Summary: Historical fiction likely targeted at middle-schoolers... Charles Langlade and (fictional) Roger Boscowen, friends since childhood, part ways when they choose opposite sides in the French and Indian War (1750s). Famous French General Louis de Montcalm joined Canada and is helped by Langlade -- but less by Canadian Governor Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial. Some in the government of French Canada use De Montcalm's daughter to increase the complexity of the General's job... This is not a history of the French and Indian War and veers far from some of the facts as they are known today. Rather, it is a morality tale, a family drama, and a coming-of-age story that occurs mid-18th century New England.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68780
By Samuel Bevan, (1816–?) published 1849
Note: This mid-19th century travel narrative (novel?) includes an early usage of the term "greasy spoon"
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69336
or https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/evans/n16417.0001.001?rgn=main;view=fulltext
https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/blog/library-archive/shipwreck-william-falconer
Audio of 1858 version: https://librivox.org/the-shipwreck-by-william-falconer/
By William Falconer (1732-1769)
Reading Notes:
The interesting biography of William Falconer was more enjoyable than the extensive poem. The style and some content of the poetry may turn some off, but it includes some excellent rhymes (think song lyrics).
3rd Party Summaries:
"William Falconer's "The Shipwreck" recounts the final voyage of the merchant ship Britannia and her crew. See the Royal Museums Greenwich (RMG) summary at: https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/blog/library-archive/shipwreck-william-falconer
RMG Digital Resources Librarian 'Renee' says: "Part fiction, part autobiography and part instructional guide for sailors, William Falconer's poem The Shipwreck is a must-read for Patrick O'Brian fans. Fair enough, there's no Jack Aubrey character - but the combination of high seas drama and technical detail makes for a surprisingly compelling read."
Librivox Summary: A semi-autobiographical poem in three cantos recounts the wreck of the merchant ship Britannia. Written by William Falconer, a seaman of some experience, who survived one shipwreck himself with only two others of the 50 man crew and eventually perished in the loss of a second ship, the frigate Aurora, 20 years later. The poem is recognized for its realistic portrayal of life aboard an 18th century sailing vessel. Summary by Fritz
supported by
An Universal Dictionary of the Marine. 1769
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57705
By William Falconer (1732-1769)
eBook: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/408
By W. E. B. Du Bois (William Edward Burghardt/W. E. Burghardt Du Bois), (1868-1963)
Reading Notes: This is a series of essays on race by Du Bois. The Wikipedia summary says that it is also "holds an important place in social science as one of the early works in the field of sociology."
Wikipedia Summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Souls_of_Black_Folk
eBook: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32889
(from "Space Science Fiction." May and July 1953)
By Thomas L. Sherred (1915 - 1985)
Reading Notes:
eBook: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34607
By George Washington Sears (1821 - 1890)
Reading Notes:
Gutenberg Summary:
"Woodcraft and Camping" by George Washington Sears is a practical outdoor guide written in the early 20th century. The text focuses on woodcrafting and camping techniques, offering insights for those seeking to enjoy nature and improve their outdoor skills. The author draws from extensive personal experience to provide readers with valuable tips and suggestions for successful camping and outdoor living. The beginning of the book delves into the importance of recreation for overworked individuals, stressing the necessity for meaningful rest and relaxation away from urban life. Sears addresses the inequalities in outdoor experiences where many people return from vacations feeling unsatisfied. He shares a variety of practical advice for aspiring campers, including how to pack lightly, the essentials of camping gear, and efficient techniques for setting up a campsite. Through his engaging and straightforward writing style, he aims to equip readers with the knowledge to make their outdoor adventures enjoyable and fulfilling. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Audio: https://librivox.org/beautiful-stories-from-shakespeare-version-2-by-e-nesbit/ and https://librivox.org/beautiful-stories-from-shakespeare-by-edith-nesbit/
eBook: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1430
By E. (Edith) Nesbit (1858-1924) and By William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
Reading Notes:
Wikipedia Summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beautiful_Stories_from_Shakespeare
eBook: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6934
By A. Frederick Collins (1869 – 1952)
Reading Notes:
eBook: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29489
By Vernon L. Kellogg (1867 - 1937)
Reading Notes: This is a short biography and then the focus is on Hoover's role in the post-WWI "Relief of Belgium" and the "American Food Administration."
eBook: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73731
By Victor Rubin (1892 - 1967) (photo and photo)
Reading Notes: ...a novel centered on themes that made up real life American racism and accompaning violence in the early 20th century. It is not easy reading and (for many reasons) will be hurtful to many. This is a part of relatively recent American history that is too often ignored and is being actively suppressed throughout much of the United States today.
Summary/Review from "Ku Klux Kulture: America and the Klan in the 1920s," page 89, (2017) by Felix Harcourt:
Tar and Feathers by Victor Rubin, a Chicago newspaperman, was not much of an improvement. The 1923 novel described the ethical awakening of Robert Hamilton, a young Georgian, the grandson of a Confederate captain, and heir to an extensive cotton plantation. Returning home after World War I, Hamilton joins the “Trick Track Tribe,” where he meets William J. Simmons’s fictional counterpart. By the novel’s end, though, the Georgian has been disabused of the organization’s worth by his true friends, a Catholic soldier and Jewish doctor. An effective argument against the real-life Klan’s official propaganda, Rubin’s novel met with some success, and was rushed into a second printing by his publisher, Dorrance & Company of Philadelphia. Once again, however, the book’s true appeal seems to have resided not in its story but in its message -- combined with the Klan’s seemingly ever-present ability to attract public attention. Reviewers noted that Tar and Feathers kept “the interest sustained,” but it was the “timely enough, and incidentally worthy enough,” theme of the book that would “justify its publication.”
See: https://academic.oup.com/chicago-scholarship-online/book/21466/chapter-abstract/181251787?redirectedFrom=fulltext
and
https://academic.oup.com/chicago-scholarship-online/book/21466
eBook: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6934
By A. Frederick Collins ( – )
Reading Notes:
The Game of Rat and Dragon. By Cordwainer Smith (Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger)
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29614
By Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger (AKA: Cordwainer Smith) (1913-1966)
Psychological Warfare. By Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger. 1948
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48612
By Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger (AKA: Cordwainer Smith) (1913-1966)
Government in Republican China. By Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger. 1938
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40350
By Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger (AKA: Cordwainer Smith) (1913-1966)
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61085
By Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
Editor Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972)
Reading Notes:
https://galacticjourney.org/stories/Fantasy__Science_Fiction_v036n03_1969-03_PDF.pdf (pages 76-87)
By Joseph Green and his professional bio. (1931–_)
Reading Notes: I noticed a review of this story in a 02-22-2024 blog page by Gideon Marcus on galacticjourney.org.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1872
By A. A. Milne (Alan Alexander), (1882-1956)
Reading Notes:
Recommended by Molly Young: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/06/books/mystery-novels.html
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58820
By Dorothy L. Sayers (Dorothy Leigh), (1893-1957)
Reading Notes:
Recommended by Molly Young: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/06/books/mystery-novels.html
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73059
By Ring Lardner (Ringgold Wilmer Lardner) (1885-1933)
Reading notes:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7828
By Robert Herrick (1868-1938)
Reading notes:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73056
By Robert Herrick (1868-1938)
Reading notes:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73090
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006573289
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011209034
By la Verne W. (Ward) Spring (1876-)
Reader notes: 358 pages of essays on iron and steel from the context of the first and early second decade of the 20th century United States. The author starts with "The early history of iron." and takes us through history and technology through "Transformations and Structures of the Steels" in the early WWI era.
"The first 13 articles were published during 1915 and 1916 in serial form in the "Valve world," the house organ of Crane company of Chicago."
Related resources: A glossary of furnace-terms in English, French and German. 1888, By Thomas Egleston (1832-1900) (LCCN Permalink https://lccn.loc.gov/25022444) and The manufacture of iron, in all its various branches. 1853, By Frederick Overman (1810-1852) (LCCN Permalink: https://lccn.loc.gov/32025952)
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73082
By Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
Reader notes: Original publication was in "The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, VOL. XXVII—Sixth Series. January-June, 1914.
"In a previous paper[2] the writer has shown that an explanation of some of the laws of line spectra may be obtained by applying Planck’s theory of black radiation to Rutherford’s theory of the structure of atoms. In the present paper these considerations will be further developed, and it will be shown that it seems possible on the theory to account for some of the characteristic features of the recent discovery by Stark[3] of the effect of an electric field on spectral lines, as well as of the effect of a magnetic field first discovered by Zeeman. It will also be shown that the theory seems to offer an explanation of the appearance of ordinary double spectral lines[4]."
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73087
By Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
Reader notes: Original publication was in "The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, VOL. XXX—Sixth Series. July-December, 1915.
"...present writer has attempted to give the outlines of a theory of the constitution of atoms and molecules by help of a certain application of the Quantum theory of radiation to the theory of the nucleus atom. As the theory has been made a subject of criticism, and as experimental evidence of importance bearing on these questions has been obtained in the meantime, an attempt will be made in this paper to consider some points more closely."
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22495
By Thomas A. Brown (?) and T. J. (Thomas Joseph) Carey (1868 - 1942) (?) (or Carey, T. J. (Thomas Joseph) (1853-_))
(previously published under the title of “The Ethnogastronomy of Thanksgiving.” in the 25 Nov. 1972 issue of the "Saturday Review of Science.")
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72628
By Jay Anderson, Folklorist and living Historian (–) and James Deetz (1930 – 2000)
Reading Notes:
3rd Party Summaries:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71794 By John Randolph Spears. (1850-1936)
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71795 By John Randolph Spears. (1850-1936)
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71796 By John Randolph Spears. (1850-1936)
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71797 By John Randolph Spears. (1850-1936)
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53122 By John Randolph Spears. (1850-1936)
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71782
By William Metcalf (1838 - 1909)
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71799
By Rev. Francis Higginson (First Minister of the Plantation at Salem in the Massachusetts Bay Colony) 1908
("New-Englands Plantation." by Rev. Francis Higginson, London, 1630)
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60963
http://galacticjourney.org/stories/6011IF9.pdf
http://galacticjourney.org/oct-2-1960-second-rate-fun-november-1960-if-science-fiction/
By Robert Wicks. 1960
Summary/Review by Gideon Marcus from galacticjourney.org: The Impersonator, the third story ever published by Robert Wicks. In the midling future, the Earth is threatened by an impending Ice Age thanks to humanity’s rapacious exploitation of the planet’s resources. A host of outrageous plans are developed to fix the problem: from salting ice fields with carbon dust, to altering the axial tilt of the planet, to tapping the heat from the Earth’s core. It’s not a great story, but I liked Wicks’ satirical presentation of “doubling down” in an attempt to thwart catastrophe. Three stars.
[Want to find]
"Patient 926" • short story by Robert Wicks
Published in "Satellite Science Fiction." v3 #5, April 1959. 35¢, 64pp+
http://www.philsp.com/homeville/SFI/k01540.htm#A1
"Robert Wicks’ Patient 926, in which all children are inoculated against imagination."
The Evolution Of Religion: An Anthropological Study. By Lewis Richard Farnell. 1905
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71722
By Lewis Richard Farnell (1856-1934)
A Summer Journey In The West. By Eliza R. Steele 1841
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71725
By Eliza R. Steele ()
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61575
By Romain Rolland (1866-1944)
Translated by Catherine Daae Groth (AKA: Catherine Daae Sparrow, Mrs. Edward Grant Sparrow) (1888-1972)
Reading Notes:
3rd Party Summaries:
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/where-do-we-go-here
By Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 – 1968) Delivered 16 August 1967, in Atlanta, Georgia.
Reading Notes:
By Dr. Wade Walter Nyquist (1919-2000). Written August 1995.
https://www.ekn.io/wadenyquist_compressed_pdf/
(Thank you Erik Nyquist) and https://www.ekn.io/wadenyquist/
Reading Notes:
Summary by Eric Nyquist:
Wade Nyquist, was captured by the German army in Tunisia in 1943, and remained a POW until 1945. He was eventually persuaded by my Grandmother to recount the whole story so she could write it down. At some point, my Grandmother typed up several copies of the original papers and passed them out to her kids. I found one of these copies at my Aunt's house, and scanned each page to have a digital copy for myself. It's a fascinating piece of history, which you can download here.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16537
By Hamilton Wright Mabie (1846 – 1916) and illustrated by Blanche Ostertag (1872 – 1915)
Reading Notes:
3rd Party Summaries:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1080
By Dr. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
Reading Notes:
3rd Party Summaries:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal
Librivox Summary:
Jonathan Swift almost defines satire in this biting and brutal pamphlet in which he suggests that poor (Catholic) Irish families should fatten up their children and sell them to the rich (Protestant) land owners, thus solving the twin problems of starving children and poverty in one blow. When the “Proposal” was published in 1729, Swift was quickly attacked, and even accused of barbarity – the exact state the “Proposal” was written to expose. Summary by Hugh
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53080
By Lewis Spence (1874-1955)
Illustrators: Gilbert James and William Sewell
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70136
By Syed Ameer Ali (1849-1928)
~ 100 pages
or
https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.238014/mode/2up
By Syed Ameer Ali (1849-1928)
~590 pages
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.86023
By Syed Ameer Ali (1849-1928)
~215 pages
https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.87988
By Syed Ameer Ali (1849-1928)
Reading Notes:
3rd Party Summaries:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48605
By Richard Wilson (1878-1921) Published 1916
Illustrator Frank Cheyne Papé (1878-1972)
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70041
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Small_Bachelor
By P. G. Wodehouse, (Sir Pelham Grenville) (1881-1975) Published 1927
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/785
and https://books.google.com/books?id=iKdij3ErDnMC
By Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) (c. 99 – c. 55 BC)
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66363
By Ralph Scott () Published 1923
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/e-e-cummings/the-enormous-room
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8446
By E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) Published 1922
Summary: Wikipedia
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70022
By Walter Colton (1797 – 1851) Published 1850
Naval Memoir...
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69154
By Arthur Hamilton Clark (1841-1922), published 1911
[Late Commander of Ship “Verena,” Barque “Agnes,” Steamships “Manchu,” “Suwo Nada,” “Venus,” and “Indiana.” (1863-1877)]
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69808
By Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897). Published 1880.
Review (in Hungarian) by 'Kuszma' on GoodReads, and an English translation of that review from Google Translate
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39742
By Mary White Ovington (1865-1951) Published 1911
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42084
By Franz Boas (1858-1942) Published 1888
From content originally written for the Sixth annual report of the Bureau of ethnology. (1888 N 06 / 1884-1885) by Boas et al.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68765
By Henri Le Caron (1841-1894) [real name: Thomas Miller Beach] published 1892
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69156
By Carl Bernhard Wadström and see an article on Wadström at Enlightenment, Scientific Exploration and Abolitionism..., (1746-1799) published 1789
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6362
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Soldiers
By John Dos Passos (1896-1970, John Roderigo Dos Passos) published 1921
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24202
By John Dos Passos (1896-1970, John Roderigo Dos Passos) published 1922
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Manhattan_Transfer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Transfer_(novel)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:Manhattan_Transfer_(John_Dos_Passos,_1925).djvu
By John Dos Passos (1896-1970, John Roderigo Dos Passos) published 1925
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46430
By Robert Thomas Kerlin (1866-1950) published 1898
Spanish-American War
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60003
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negro_Poets_and_Their_Poems
By Robert Thomas Kerlin (1866-1950) published 1923
[Contents: "The Race of Orven," "The Stone of the Edmundsbury Monks," and "The S.S."]
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10709
By M. P. Shiel (Matthew Phipps Shiel, 1865-1947)
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11229
By M. P. Shiel (Matthew Phipps Shiel, 1865-1947)
Summary: Adam Jeffson finds himself the last man alive on Earth.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41794
By M. P. Shiel (Matthew Phipps Shiel, 1865-1947)
https://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/shiel-childrenofthewind/
By M. P. Shiel (Matthew Phipps Shiel, 1865-1947), Published 1923
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69149
By Georges Ohnet (1848-1918) published 1904
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62799
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_(abolitionist)
By W. E. B. Du Bois (William Edward Burghardt/W. E. Burghardt Du Bois), (1868-1963) published 1909
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69138
By Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922) published 1911
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5199
By Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922) published 1919
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2988
By Albert Bigelow Paine
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69827
By H. Paul Caemmerer (Hans Paul, 1884-1962) Published 1939
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69121
By Cécile Tormay (1876-1937) Published 1923
Summary from Wikipedia:
Originally "Bujdosó könyv" (1923) -- which is translated literally as "The Proscribed Book," but an English translation was published as "An Outlaw's Diary" (1923). It provides a hostile account of the 1918–1919 (Hungarian) revolution and the subsequent Hungarian Soviet Republic led by Béla Kun. She also bemoaned the division of the Kingdom of Hungary which led to territorial concessions to the Kingdom of Roumania, This book is cited as evidence of Tomay's anti-semitism as she claims that "The demon of the revolution is not an individual, not a party, but a race among the races. The Jews are the last people of the Ancient East who survived among the newer peoples of shorter history."
https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA581171.pdf
By Pamela Scott (1944- ) Published 2011
Summary from the book's Foreward:
Although not forgotten, but perhaps imperfectly remembered, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ critical role in the development of Washington, D.C., is a fascinating and important chapter in U.S. Army Engineer history.
By Aleph Bey
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69717
Nevil Shute (1899-1960) Australian novelist
See his availible titles at: http://gutenberg.ca/index.html#catalogueS
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45368
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outline_of_History
By H. G. Wells (1866-1946), published 1920
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14975
By Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) published in 1892, 1893, 1894
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64426
By Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931), published 1899
"During six weeks of the months of March and April 1899, twelve colored men were lynched in Georgia, the reign of outlawry culminating in the torture and hanging of the colored preacher, Elijah Strickland, and the burning alive of Samuel Wilkes, alias Hose, Sunday, April 23, 1899."
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15263
By William Still (1821-1902), published 1871
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9999
By Sarah H. Bradford (1818-1912), published 1886
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57821
By Sarah H. Bradford (1818-1912), published 1869
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/226
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/10245
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/925
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/6
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70052
By Emmeline M. Plunket
alibris Summary:
The great temple of Amen-Ra at Thebes... is oriented to the setting sun of the season so important to Egyptians, that of the summer solstice, and this fact strengthens the opinion that Amen was considered to be a god in some way presiding over the course of the year and its right measurement. -from "Amen and the Egyptian Year" First published in 1903 as Ancient Calendars and Constellations, this overview of early astronomical observations and how they influenced the belief systems and religions of early civilizations quickly became a resource later scholars looked to for guidance. From the very beginnings of astronomy, nearly 8,000 years ago, to the more "modern" ancient astronomies of Greece, Egypt, India, Persia, and China, this charming and erudite book will fascinate students of science, history, and mythology as well as lovers of the night sky.