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D R.  W IDGER'S  L IBRARY

A collection of copyright-expired and generally out-of-print books from my library which I have scanned, proofed and submitted to Project Gutenberg for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. They may be copied or published with or without credit to either myself or Project Gutenberg under the terms and minimal restrictions outlined in the headers of each individual file. Corrections, suggestions and comments on these works will be gratefully received by David Widger.
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Collections:
Court Memoirs
Civil War Generals     
Napoleon Memoirs

The Gutenberg Bibles
Dore's Illustrated Books    
The French Immortals

Quotes and Images
Historical Antiquities
American Eloquence

All Single Works

List of Authors:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W XYZ
Most of the eBooks in this collection have been recently corrected and updated (see the "Release Date" or "Last Updated" date in the file headers).    DW

Adeler ------- Frictional Electricity
Aesop -------- Aesop's Fables
Aldrich ------ Story of a Bad Boy
Alger -------- Novels
Allen -------- A Woman With Tenacity
Ambient ------ Oh! Suzannah
Ames --------- Mayflower and Her Log
Angellotti --- The Firefly Of France
Anonymous ---- Log-Cabin Lady et al.
Apuleius ----- The Golden Asse
Aristophanes - Lysistrata
Auerbach ----- Gellert's Last Christmas

Balzac ------- A Street of Paris et al.
Barca -------- Life Is A Dream
Barr --------- Remember the Alamo
Barrie ------- Peter Pan
Baring ------- Orpheus in Mayfair and Others
Bazin -------- The Ink Stain
Becke -------- Novels
Bedier ------- Tristan and Iseult
Bellamy ------ Stories
Benson ------- Michael
Bentzon ------(Mme. Blanc) Jacqueline
Bernard ------ Gerfaut
Bernard ------ Gerfaut
Beresford ---- Psychical Tale
Bierce ------- Essays
Biggs -------- Drake's Great Armada
Bindloss ----- The Girl From Keller's
Birmingham --- Novels
Blackmantle -- The English Spy
Blackmore ---- Novels
Bojer -------- The Great Hunger
Boswell ------ Life of Johnson
Bourrienne---- Memoirs of Napoleon
Boyesen------- A Good-For-Nothing
Brine--------- Grandma's Memories
N. Brooks----- First Across the Continent
E. Brooks----- True Story of Columbus
Brown--------- Clotelle
Bruce--------- Back To Billabong
Burnett------- Racketty-Packetty
Burnham------- Jewel
Burns--------- Poems and Songs

Cæsar -------- Commentaries, Books I-IV
Caine -------- The Scapegoat
Campan ------- Marie Antoinette
Will Carleton  Farm Ballads
Carleton ----- Irish Stories
Carlyle ------ The French Revolution
Carroll ------ Stories
Casanova ----- Memoirs
Cather ------- Stories
Catherwood --- Mackinac Tales
Cervantes ---- Don Quixote (Illust.)
Chaplin ------ Stories
Chatrain ----- The Dean's Watch
Chekhov ------ Schoolmistress and Others
Cherbuliez --- Samuel Brohl & Company
Chesterfield-- Letters to His Son
Chopin ------- The Awakening and Others
Church ------- Stories from Livy
Churchill ---- Novels
Claretie ----- Prince Zilah
Clausewitz --- On War
Cleland ------ Fanny Hill
Connor ------- Novels
Coleridge ---- Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Collins ------ Novels
Conrad ------- Novels
Constant ----- Life of Napoleon
Conwell ------ Acres of Diamonds
Cooper ------- The Last of the Mohicans
Coppée ------- A Romance of Youth
Coppée ------- The Lost Child
Corneille ---- Polyuecte
Cory --------- Ionica
Cotes -------- The Path of a Star
Craddock ----- Novels and Stoies
Craik -------- Novels
Crawford ----- The Witch of Prague
Curwood ------ Thomas Jefferson Brown

Dante -------- Divine Comedy-(Illust.)
Daskam ------- Stories
Daudet ------- Fromont and Risler
Daudet ------- Other Novels
Davis -------- Stories
Day ---------- Novels
Defoe -------- Journal of the Plague Year
Deforest ----- The Brigade Commander
Dickens ------ Novels
Disraeli ----- Endymion
Ditchfield --- English Villages
Donkersley --- Athaliah
Donnell ------ A Treeless Street
Dore --------- Illustrated Books
Dostoevsky --- Crime and Punishment
Douglass ----- Life of Frederick Douglass
Doumic ------- George Sand
Doyle -------- Stories
Dreiser ------ The Financier
Droz --------- M.M. and Bebe
Dumas -------- Celebrated Crimes
Dyer --------- Edison, Life and Inventions
Dyke --------- Little Rivers

Ebers -------- Historical Novels
Edgeworth ---- Castle Rackrent
Egan --------- Real Life in London
English Lady - Residence in France
Eliot -------- Adam Bede
Ellis -------- Thomas Jefferson
English AuthorsStories of Many English Authors
Epictetus ---- Golden Sayings of Epictetus
Erasmus ------ A Mery Dialogue
Eschstruth --- The Gray Nun

Fa-hien ------ Buddhistic Kingdoms
Fanu --------- The Purcell Papers
Farquar ------ The Beaux-Stratagem
Ferber ------- Fanny Herself
Ferguson ----- Garrison's Finish
Ferris ------- Music History
Feuillet ----- Monsieur de Camors
Filson ------- Colonel Daniel Boone
Flaubert ----- Novels
Fontaine ----- Tales and Novels(Poetry)
France ------- The Red Lily
France ------- Other Novels
Frederic ----- Damnation of Theron Ware
Freud -------- A Young Girl's Diary

Gaboriau ----- Novels
Galdos ------- Dona Perecta
Galsworthy --- Novels and Essays
Gaunt -------- The Moving Finger
Gautier ------ Captain Fracasse
Gibbon ------- Decline and Fall of Rome
Giles -------- Books on China
Gilman ------- Herland
Goldsmith ---- Court of St.Cloud
Gordon ------- Poems
Gower -------- Confessio Amantis
Grahame ------ Writings
Grant -------- Memoirs
Gray --------- A Bad Boy
Green -------- Stories
Guizot ------- History of France

Haggard ------ Novels
Hale --------- The Life of Columbus
Halevey ------ Abbe Constatin
Hall --------- Buried Cities
Hamilton ----- Memoirs Count Grammont
Hardy -------- Return of the Native
Harris ------- Stories
J.C. Harris -- Stories of Georgia
Harte -------- Selected Stories
Harte -------- Selected Stories
Hauff -------- The Severed Hand
Hausett ------ Memoirs Louis XIV.& XV.
Hawthorne ---- Remaining Works
A.A Hayes ---- The Denver Express
E. Hayes ----- Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland
Herodotus ---- An Account of Egypt
Hichens ------ Prophet of Berkeley Square
Hien --------- Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms
Hoffman ------ Man In The Reservoir
Holley ------- Samantha
Holmes, Sr. -- Essays and Novels
Holmes, Jr. -- Path of the Law
Home --------- Illustrated works
Howells ------ Novels and Essays
Hughes ------- Tom Brown's Schooldays
Hugo --------- Les Miserables
Hume --------- History of England
Huxley ------- Essays
Huysmans ----- Sac-Au-Dos

Ibanez ------- The Four Horsemen
Irving ------- Stories

Jacobs ------- Novels
James -------- Novels
Janvier ------ Novels
Jefferson ---- Memoir and Writings
Johnson ------ Getting Gold

Keable ------- Père Etienne
Kendall ------ That Very Mab
King --------- Legends Of Babylon And Egypt
Kingsley ----- Westward Ho!
Kipling ------ The Jungle Book
Kompert ------ The Ghetto Violet

Lang --------- Novels
Lawrence ----- Novels
Lawson ------- World was Wide Verses
Lee ---------- Uncle William
Lefevre ------ The Tipster
Lever -------- Lorrequer and Others
S.Lewis ------ Babbitt and Main Street
A.H.Lewis ---- How The Raven Died
Lincoln, A. -- Letters and Speeches
Lincoln, J. -- Stories
Little ------- Little Sister Snow
Livingstone -- Journeys in South Africa
Locke -------- Simon the Jester
Logan -------- The Great Conspiracy
London ------- Novels
Lorenzini ---- Adventures of Pinocchio
Loti --------- Mme. Crysantheme
Loti --------- Other Novels
Lowell ------- Many-Coloured Glass
Ludlow ------- A Brace Of Boys
Luther ------- Christian Liberty
Lytton ------- Novels, etc.

MacDonald ---- Bannerman Boyhood
Macaulay ----- Works of History
Machiavelli -- The Prince
Maclaren ----- Doctor of Old School
Malot -------- Conscience
Marshall ----- Life of Washington
Marx --------- Louis Bonaparte
Mason -------- Mae Madden
Maspero ------ History of Egypt
Massa -------- Zibeline
Maupassant --- Stories and Novels
McElroy ------ Andersonville
McSpadden ---- Robin Hood
Meredith ----- Novels
Merimee ------ Novels
Merriman ----- The Vultures
Meslier ------ Superstition In All Ages
Miller ------- Robin Hood
Milton ------- Areopagitica
Mitchell ----- Autobiography of a Quack
Mitford ------ Stories
Montaigne ---- Essays
Montespan ---- Marquise de Montespan
Montgomery --- Anne Novels
Moore -------- Phyllis of Philistia
Morier ------- Hajji Baba
Morris ------- San Francisco Calamity
W. Morris ---- Child Christopher
Morrow ------- Inmate Of The Dungeon
Motley ------- History Netherlands
Muhlbach------ The Daughter of an Empress
Mulford------- Bar-20 Days
Munro -------- Novels
D.C.Murray --- Novels
W.H.Murray --- Ride With A Mad Horse
Musset ------- Child of The Century

Nash --------- Unfortunate Traveller
Navarre ------ Memoirs Queen of Navarre
Navarre ------ The "Heptameron"
Nennius ------ History Of The Britons
Neville ------ The Isle of Pines
Nesbit ------- Incomplete Amorist
Nichols ------ Sir Francis Drake Revived
Niemann ------ Coming Conquest of England
Niese -------- The Little Mamsell
Norris ------- McTeague

O'brien ------ The Diamond Lens
Ohnet -------- Serge Panin
Oliphant ----- Jeanne d'Arc
Oppenheim ---- The Great Impersonation
Ouida -------- Under Two Flags
Orczy -------- The Scarlet Pimpernel
Orleans ------ The Duchesse d'Orleans
Orr ---------- Life of Robert Browning
Osler -------- Evolution of Modern Medicine
Ossendowski -- Beasts, Men and Gods
Otway -------- Tragedy of Venice Preserved

Packard ------ Jimmie Dale
Page --------- Stories
Paine -------- Mark Twain
Paltock ------ Adventures Peter Wilkins
Parker ------- Novels
Parkman Jr. -- The Oregon Trail
Paterson ----- Stories
Peacock ------ Gryll Grange
Peattie ------ A Michigan Man
Peattie ------ A Michigan Man
Peck --------- Peck's Bad Boy, et al.
Pepys -------- Diary
Petronius ---- The Satyricon
Saint Pierre - Paul and Virginia
Pinero ------- The Squire (Play)
Poe ---------- Major Works
G. Porter ---- Novels
E.H. Porter -- Miss Billy
Poushkin ----- Queen Of Spades
Pretty ------- Sir Francis Drake's Voyage
Pyle --------- Men of Iron

Quiller-Couch  Roll-Call Of The Reef
Queux -------- Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo

Rabelais ----- Gargantua/Pantagruel
Raleigh ------ The Discovery of Guiana
Raspe -------- Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Rawlinson ---- Seven Monarchies
Reade -------- Novels
Retz --------- Cardinal de Retz
Richards ----- Green Satin Gown
Richardson --- Pamela
Rinehart ----- Where There's A Will
Robinson ----- Children of the Night
Rochefoucauld- Maxims
Rohmer ------- The Yellow Claw
Roosevelt ---- Autobiography and Others
Rousseau ----- Confessions
Rowson ------- Charlotte Temple
Russell ------ War for Humanity

De La Sale --- Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles
Sand --------- Novels
Sanger ------- The Pivot of Civilization
Saxo --------- The Danish History, Books I-IX
Saint-Simon -- The Duc de Saint-Simon
Schiller ----- Entire Works
Schiller ----- Entire Works
Schnitzler --- The Dead Are Silent
Scott -------- Novels
Service ------ Ballads
Sewell ------- Black Beauty
Seymour ------ Sketches
Shaw --------- Novels and Writings
Sheridan ----- Memoirs
Sherman ------ Memoirs
Sinclair ----- The Jungle
Skinner ------ Myths and Legends
Smedley ------ Frank Fairlegh
Smith & Watson American Antiquities
F.H. Smith --- Novels
Smollett ----- Fathom and Greaves
Sophocles ---- The Oedipus Trilogy
Southey ------ Horatio Lord Nelson
Souvestre ---- "Attic" Philosopher
Spyri -------- What Sami Sings
Stead -------- Dennison Grant
Stephens ----- Lecture on Heads
Stephenson --- Lincoln
Stevenson ---- Stories
Stockton ----- My Terminal Moraine
Stoddard ----- The Indian's Hand
Stowe -------- Uncle Tom's Cabin
Strachey ----- Queen Victoria
Sue ---------- The Wandering Jew
Suetonius ---- The 12 Caesars

Tacitus ------ Tacitus on Germany
Taine -------- History of France
Taylor ------- Stories
Tarkington --- Novels
Thackeray ---- The Rose and the Ring
Theuriet ----- Woodland Queen
Tolstoy ------ Father Sergius et al.
Toqueville --- Democracy In America, Vol. 1+2
Toulouse ----- Poésies
Trowbridge --- Stole A Meeting-House
Turgenev ----- The Rendezvous
Twain -------- Entire Available Works


Various ------ Works of Various Authors
Vigny -------- Cinq Mars
Volney ------- The Ruins

Wake --------- Forbidden Gospels
Wallace ------ Russia
Warner ------- Essays and Novels
Webster ------ Dear Enemy
Wells -------- Novels
West --------- Père Etienne
Wetmore ------ Buffalo Bill
Wharton ------ Novels
Whibley ------ A Book of Scoundrels
Whittier ----- Collected Works
Widger ------- Quotations
Wildenbruch -- Good Blood
Wodehouse ---- Indiscretions of Archie
Wollstonecraft Maria
Wood --------- The Voyage OutEast Lynne
Woolf -------- The Voyage Out
Wright ------- Brian Kent

Young -------- Christopher Columbus

Zschokke ----- The Broken Cup
Zola --------- Trilogy and Others



David Widger's Quotes and Images:

Plain Text Format
Jacques Casanova          
Lord Chesterfield          
Dumas Celebrated Crimes
Charles Dudley Warner
Georg Ebers
Court Memoirs
Immortals French Academy     
John Galsworthy
Oliver Wendell Holmes
William Dean Howells
Abraham Lincoln's Writings
Michel de Montaigne
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte
George Meredith
John Lothrop Motley
Gilbert Parker
A. B. Paines Works on Twain     
Diary of Samuel Pepys
Confessions of J. J. Rousseau
Mark Twain
Guy de Maupassant


Revised and Updated HTML Pages with Portraits and Illustrations:

Jacques Casanova

Lord Chesterfield

Dumas Celebrated Crimes    

Georg Ebers

Confessions of Lorrequer

Jean de La Fontaine

John Galsworthy

Oliver Wendell Holmes

William Dean Howells

Abraham Lincoln's Writings  

Michel de Montaigne

George Meredith

John Lothrop Motley

Gilbert Parker

Diary of Samuel Pepys

Confessions of J. J. Rousseau

Mark Twain

Guy de Maupassant

Charles Dudley Warner

Christopher Columbus


Immortals of The French Academy



Historic Court Memoirs

Madame Campan   
Goldsmith: Court of St. Cloud     
Hausett: Louis XV. & XVI.   
Madame de Montespan   
Duchesse d'Orleans: Louis XIV.     
Cardinal De Retz   
Saint-Simon: Louis XIV.   
Marguerite De Valois   
Hamilton: Grammont   




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Alexandre Dumas, Pere (1802-1870)

On-Line-Books Index of The Celebrated Crimes
Notes & Quotations


dumas_thumb (8K)     1. The Borgias
2. The Cenci
3. Massacres of the South   
4. Mary Stuart
5. Karl Ludwig Sand
6. Urbain Grandier
7. Nisida
8. Derues
9. La Constantin
10. Joan of Naples
11. Man in the Iron Mask
12. Martin Guerre
13. Ali Pacha
14. Countess St. Geran
15. Murat
16. Marquise Brinvillier
17. Vanika
18. Marquise de Ganges





John Galsworthy (1867-1933)
Galsworthy Thoughts

HTML
NOVELS:
The Forsyte Saga:
1. The Man of Property
2. Indian Summer of a Forsyte  
3. Awakening & To Let

Villa Rubein
Saint's Progress
Five Tales
The Island Pharisees
The Country House
Fraternity
The Patrician
The Burning Spear
The Dark Flower
The Freelands
Beyond

ESSAYS IN HTML
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NOVELS:
The Forsyte Saga:
1. The Man of Property
2. Indian Summer of a Forsyte
3. Awakening & To Let

Villa Rubein
Saint's Progress
Five Tales
The Island Pharisees
The Country House
Fraternity
The Patrician
The Burning Spear

ESSAYS (Plain Text):
      Index of all Essays
      Inn of Tranquillity, et al
      Quality, et al
      Concerning Letters
      Censorship and Art

PLAYS:
THE FIRST SERIES: The Silver Box Joy Strife
THE SECOND SERIES: The Eldest Son The Little Dream    Justice
THE THIRD SERIES: The Fugitive The Pigeon The Mob
THE FOURTH SERIES:    A Bit O'Love The Foundations The Skin Game
THE FIFTH SERIES: A Family Man Loyalties Windows
SIX SHORT PLAYS: The First and Last    The Little Man Four Short Plays




Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894)
Quotes & Images

holmes_thumb (11K)     The Professor at the Breakfast Table

The Poet at the Breakfast Table

Over the Teacups

Elsie Venner

The Guardian Angel

A Mortal Antipathy

Pages from and Old Volume of Life

Medical Essays

Memoir of John Lothrop Motley


Poetical Works    
Volume 1.  
Volume 2.
Volume 3.
Volume 4.  
Volume 5.
Volume 6.
Volume 7.  
Volume 8.
Volume 9.
Volume 10.  
Volume 11.
Volume 12.




Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Entire Gutenberg Edition of Letters and Speeches (3.08 mb)
Quotes & Images

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Volume 2.

Volume 3.

Volume 4.

Volume 5.

Volume 6.

Volume 7.





Guy de Maupassant (1839-1908)

On-Line-Book Index of All Maupassant Original Short Stories
Quotes & Index
maupassant (20K)     Volume 1.

Volume 2.

Volume 3.

Volume 4.

Volume 5.

Volume 6.

Volume 7.

Volume 8.

Volume 9.

Volume 10.

Volume 11.

Volume 12.

Volume 13.
Other Novels:

Pierre and Jean    Strong as Death





Civil War Generals

Memoirs of Three Union Generals
—Grant, Sherman and Sheridan
(4.7 mb)

Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885)
Grant's Birthplace   Portrait   Other Commanders
The Memoirs of U. S. Grant


Phillip H. Sheridan (1831-1888)
Portrait as 2nd Lt.   Portrait as Lt.-General
The Personal Memoires of General P. H. Sheridan


William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891)
Portrait Battle of Vicksburg
The Memoires of General Sherman


John Alexander Logan (1826-1886)
Portrait
The Great Conspiracy


Illustrated HTML Editions:
   The Memoirs of U. S. Grant
   The Memoirs of P. Sheridan
   The Memoirs of W. Sherman
   Logan's Great Conspiracy




Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Photograph   Photos & Quotes   In Bed





Illustrated HTML Editions:

The American Claimant

A Dog's Tale

Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

Eve's Diary

The Innocents Abroad

A Tramp Abroad

A Gilded Age

Following The Equator

Sketches New and Old

Huckleberry Finn

AdventuresTom Sawyer

Roughing It

Prince and Pauper

Connecticut Yankee

Life on the Mississippi

Mysterious Stranger
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Plain Text Editions:

Following the Equator

Innocents Abroad

Roughing It

The Gilded Age

The American Claimant

The Double Barrelled Detective
The Stolen White Elephant
Rambling Idle Excursion
Carnival of Crime in CT.
The Loves of Alonzo Fitz
Those Extraordinary Twins

A Burlesque Autobiography

A Dog's Tale

Mysterious Stranger

Christian Science

Mark Twain's Speeches

Sketches New and Old

1601
Curious Republic of Gondour
Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again
Essays on Paul Bourget
How to Tell a Story
Fennimore Cooper Offences
Defence of Harriet Shelley

Hadleyberg Stories et al.

Life on The Mississippi

A Connecticut Yankee

The Prince and Pauper

Tom Sawyer

Huckleberry Finn

A Tramp Abroad

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson


Mark Twain's Letters:     V 1.     V 2.     V 3     V 4.     V 5.     V 6.


Albert Bigelow Paine (1861-1937)    Complete Biography of Mark Twain (3.15 mb)
1835-1866         1866-1875         1875-1886         1886-1900         1900-1907         1907-1910
The Boys' Life of Mark Twain

Archibald Henderson (1877-1963)   Mark Twain(In Text)
Mark Twain (In Illustrated HTML)     




Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900)
Quotes & Index

In a Garden & Calvin  
Backlog Studies
Baddeck
Saunterings
In the Wilderness
Spring in New England
Captain John Smith
Pocahantas
Being a Boy
On Horseback
Washington Irving
Their Pilgrimage
Little Journey in the World
The Golden House
That Fortune

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Complete essays in HTML
Complete essays in Text
As We Go
As We Were Saying
Nine Short Essays
For Whom Shakespeare Wrote
Novel and the Common School
England
Mr. Froude's Progress
Modern Fiction
What is Your Culture to Me
Equality
Literature and Life
Literary Copyright
Indeterminate Sentence
Education of the Negro
Causes of Discontent
The Pilgrim and American
Diversities of American Life
American Newspaper
Fashions in Literature




John McElroy (1846-1929)
Prison Camp   Stripping the Dead   Dying Prisoner

Andersonville    A STORY OF REBEL MILITARY PRISONS
[15 Months a Guest of the So-called Southern Confederacy]
Volume 1.        Volume 2.        Volume 3.        Volume 4.        

Illustrated HTML Editions:
COMPLETE         Volume 1.        Volume 2.        Volume 3.        Volume 4.        




Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773)
The Entire Gutenberg Edition of Letters to His Son (1.66 mb)
The Entire Gutenberg Edition of Letters to His Son in HTML
Quotations
1746-47

1748

1749

1750

1751
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1753-54

1756-58

1759-65

1766-71





William Dean Howells (1837-1920)
Quotes & Images

Essays: Text

Literature and Life  

Literary Friends

Essays: HTML

Literature and Life  

Literary Friends

Stories Of Ohio

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Novels:

The March Family Trilogy
     Their Wedding Journey
     A Hazard of New Fortunes:
     Their Silver Wedding Journey

The Landlord at Lions Head
Dr. Breen's Practice
Fennel and Rue
The Kentons
Ragged Lady
April Hopes




Eugene Sue (1804-1857)
The Escape   Poisoned Brush

The Wandering Jew




An English Lady's Residence in France

The Entire Gutenberg Edition of Residence in France

1792        1793        1794        1795




Napoleon: Memoirs

Bourrienne: (1769-1834)    Memoirs of Napoleon
Quotes & Images
Bourrienne's Memoirs of Napoleon (2.83 mb)
Illustrated HTML file



Constant (Louis Constant Wairy) (1778-1845)
Private Life of Napoleon
Quotes & Images
Constant's Private Life of Napoleon (1.68 mb)
Illustrated HTML file



Memoirs of The Court of St. Cloud
Quotes & Images
The Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud by Goldsmith
Illustrated HTML file
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Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
The Entire Gutenberg Edition of Montaigne's Essays
The Entire PG HTML Edition of Montaigne's Essays
Quotes & Images
Volume 1.
Volume 2.
Volume 3.
Volume 4.
Volume 5.
Volume 6.
Volume 7.
Volume 8.
Volume 9.
Volume 10.   
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Volume 12.
Volume 13.
Volume 14.
Volume 15.
Volume 16.
Volume 17.
Volume 18.
Volume 19.




Court Memoirs
Marguerite, Queen of Navarre (1552-1615  
Quotes & Images
Entire Text
Complete Illustrated Edition


Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz (1613-1679)  
Quotes & Images
Entire Text
Complete Illustrated Edition


Memoirs of Marquise de Montespan   
Quotes & Images
Entire Text
Complete Illustrated Edition


Memoirs of The Duchesse d'Orleans   
Quotes & Images
Entire Text
Complete Illustrated Edition


Memoirs of The Duc de Saint-Simon (1675-1755)   
Quotes & Images
Entire Text
Complete Illustrated Edition
Secret Memoirs of Louis XIV. & XV.   
Quotes & Images
Entire Text
Complete Illustrated Edition


Memoirs of The Court of Marie Antoinette   
Quotes & Images
Entire Text
Complete Illustrated Edition


The Court of St. Cloud, by Goldsmith   
Quotes & Images
Entire Text
Complete Illustrated Edition


The Memoirs of Count Grammont   
Quotes & Images
(By Anthony Hamilton—Notes by Sir Walter Scott)
Entire Text












Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)   —  Confessions
Quotes & Images



The Confessions of Rousseau  

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The Immortals  —  Crowned by the French Academy

Ohnet, Georges: SERGE PANIN   
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France, Anatole: THE RED LILY   
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Droz, Gustave: M.M. AND BEBE   
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Claretie, Jules: PRINCE ZILAH   
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De Massa, Phillipe: ZIBELINE   
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Theuriet, Andre: WOODLAND QUEEN   
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De Musset, Alfred: CHILD OF THE CENTURY      
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Feuillet, Octave: MONSIEUR DE CAMORS   
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De Vigny, Alfred: CINQ MARS   
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Halevey, Ludovic: ABBE CONSTATIN   
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Coppee, Francois: A ROMANCE OF YOUTH   
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Bourget, Paul: COSMOPOLIS   
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Bentzon, Theo. (Mme. Blanc): JACQUELINE   
Quotes & Images

Bazin, Rene: THE INK STAIN   
Quotes & Images

Daudet, Alphonse: FROMONT AND RISLER   
Quotes & Images

De Bernard, Charles: GERFAUT   
Quotes & Images

Malot, Hector-Henri :CONSCIENCE   
Quotes & Images

Loti, Pierre: MME. CRYSANTHEME   
Quotes & Images

Souvestre, Emile: AN "ATTIC" PHILOSOPHER   
Quotes & Images








Winston Churchill (1871-1947)
   (The American Author who is no relation of the British Sir Winston)

Quotations

The Dwelling Place of Light   

Mr. Crewe's Career

A Far Country

Coniston

The Inside of The Cup

Richard Carvel

A Modern Chronicle

The Celebrity

The Crisis

The Crossing   

Dr. Jonathan (Play)    A Traveller in Wartime
Essay on The American Contribution





Azel Ames (1845-1908)        The Mayflower and Her Log
Quotes & Images

maythumb (53K) Plain Text, Complete

The Complete Illustrated HTML file
of The Mayflower And Her Log





Filson Young: (1876-1938)     Christopher Columbus
Quotes & Images
Plain Text Version




Illustrated HTML Version
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Samuel Pepys (1633-1703)    Unabridged Diary

Quotes & Images

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1668

1669

pepys_thumb (19K)




George Meredith (1828-1909)

Quotes & Images

Ordeal of Richard Feverel    

Sandra Belloni

Rhoda Fleming

Evan Harrington

Vittoria

Harry Richmond

Beauchamps Career

The Tragic Comedians

Diana of The Crossways

One of Our Conquerors

Lord Ormont and His Aminta

The Amazing Marriage

Celt and Saxon

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Shaving of Shagpat   Entire Plain Text    HTML Edition

The Entire Short Works of George Meredith:
     Farina; General Opel; Tale of Chloe; House on The Beach;
     Gentleman of Fifty; The Sentimentalists; Miscellaneous Prose




John Lothrop Motley (1814-1877)
Quotes & Images

motley (13K)
Rise of the Dutch Republic I. (1555-66)    
Rise of the Dutch Republic II. (1566-74)    
Rise of the Dutch Republic III. (1574-84)    


History of the United Netherlands I. (1584-86)   
History of the United Netherlands II. (1586-89)   
History of the United Netherlands III. (1590-99)   
History of the United Netherlands IV. (1600-09)    


Life and Death of John of Barneveld I. (1609-15)    
Life and Death of John of Barneveld II. (1614-23)    


Memoir by Oliver Wendell Holmes





Georg Ebers  (1837-1898) —  Historical Novels   

Quotes & Images

Uarda

Egyptian Princess      

The Sisters

Joshua

Cleopatra

The Emperor

Homo Sum

Serapis

Arachne

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Bride of the Nile

A Thorny Path

In Fire of the Forge

Margery

Barbara Blomberg

A Word, Only a Word

The Burgomaster's Wife

Complete Short Works

The Story of My Life





Benjamin Disraeli  (1804-1881) —  Novels   

Endymion

Alroy

The Infernal Marriage

Tancred

Hennrietta Temple

Sketches

Bentinck

The Young Duke

Ixion in Heaven

disraeli_th (21K)




Gilbert Parker (1860-1932)     
Quotes & Images

Pierre and His People

Romany of the Snows

Northern Lights

Mrs. Falchion

Cumner &South Sea Folk

When Valmond Came to Pontiac     

The Trail of the Sword

The Translation of a Savage

The Pomp of the Lavilettes

The Trespasser

The Seats of The Mighty

Battle of the Strong

The Lane That Had No Turning

The Right of Way

Michel and Angele

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Donovan Pasha

The Weavers

Embers (Poetry)

A Lover's Diary (Poetry)

The Money Master

The World For Sale

You Never Know Your Luck

Wild Youth

No Defense

Carnac's Folly

At the Sign of the Eagle

The March of the White Guard

Parables of a Province

There is Sorrow on The Sea

John Enderby





Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)        

Athens: Its Rise and Fall       

The Caxtons

Zicci

Eugene Aram

Pelham

Devereux

Disowned

Ernest Maltrevers

Kenelm Chillingly

What Will He Do With It

Harold

Lucretia

A Strange Story

The Last Days of Pompeii

The Coming Race

lytton (29K)

  My Novel

  The Last Of The Barons

  Paul Clifford

  Tomlinsoniana

  The Parisians

  Godolphin

  Falkland

  Pilgrims Of The Rhine

  Night and Morning

  Leila

  Calderon

  Alice

  Rienzi

  Zanoni






Suetonius (75-160)    The Twelve Caesars

Entire Suetonius—The Twelve Caesars

Entire Suetonius—The Twelve Caesars—HTML Edition

1. Julius Caesar      2. Augustus 3. Tiberius     4. Caligula     5. Claudius
6. Nero 7. Galba 8. Otho 9. Vitellius 10. Vespasian
11. Titus     12. Domitian     13. Grammarians    14. Poets    




Charles M. Skinner   (1852-1907)

The Entire Myths and Legends of Our Own Land

The Entire Myths and Legends of Our Own Land—HTML Edition

1. The Hudson      2. Manhattoes     3. Delaware     4. Puritans     5. The South
6. Great Lakes     7. The Rockies 8. The Pacific     9. Treasure




Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
—The Waverly Novels
Sea Coast
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Plain Text Editions:
The Heart of Midlothian
The Antiquary
Old Mortality
Rob Roy
Waverley

HTML Editions:
The Heart of Midlothian
The Antiquary
Old Mortality
Rob Roy
Waverly
Bride of Lammermoor
The Black Dwarf
The Legend of Montrose
Kenilworth
Guy Mannering
Ivanhoe






Frederich Schiller (1759-1805)

HISTORY:
Thirty Years War:   Book I.   Book II.   Book III.   Book IV.   Book V.  
Revolt of Netherlands:   Book I.   Book II.   Book III.   Book IV.  


PLAYS:
The Robbers Fiesco Love and Intrigue
The Camp of Wallenstein     Piccolomini     The Death of Wallenstein
Whilhelm Tell     Don Carlos     Demetrius
Mary Stuart     The Maid of Orleans     The Bride of Messina


POEMS:                    1st Period     2nd Period     3rd Period     Supressed Poems

PHILOSOPHY:        Aesthetical Essays     Philosophical Letters    

NOVEL:                    The Ghost Seer [or, The Apparitionist]    and The Sport of Destiny



ILLUSTRATED HTML EDITIONS:                   

HISTORY:        Thirty Years War       Revolt of Netherlands      

PLAYS:
The Robbers Fiesco Love and Intrigue
The Camp of Wallenstein     Piccolomini     The Death of Wallenstein
Whilhelm Tell     Don Carlos     Demetrius
Mary Stuart     The Maid of Orleans     The Bride of Messina


POEMS:                    First Period     Second Period     Third Period     Supressed Poems

PHILOSOPHY:        Aesthetical Essays     Philosophical Letters    

NOVEL:                    The Ghost Seer [or, The Apparitionist]    and The Sport of Destiny




Tobias Smollett (1721-1771)
Image
tobias (79K)

Plain Text Files

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom

The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves


In HTML with Engravings

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom   

The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves

History of England



Charles James Lever (1806-1872)

The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer
Introduction to Lorrequer

Vol 1.        Vol 2.        Vol 3.        Vol 4.        Vol 5.        Vol 6.

In HTML with Engravings


Volume 1.



Volume 2.



Volume 3.



Volume 4.



Volume 5.



Volume 6.
    lorrequer (39K)



Charles O'Malley: The Irish Dragoon
Illustrated HTML, by Phiz.             Vol 1.        Vol 2.       


Lord Kilgobbin
Illustrated HTML, by Swain             Complete       


Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women        Complete       




Bernard Blackmantle (circa 1825)

With 72 Color Plates
by Robert Cruikshank


The English Spy

spy_th (77K)





Frank E. Smedley (circa 1825)

With 28 Color Plates by Robert Cruikshank

Frank Fairlegh, Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil






Pierce Egan (circa 1821)

With Many Color Plates by Aiken and Rowlinson

Real Life in London





Robert Seymour (1800-1836)   Sketches
Fishing Lesson   Vy Sarah You're Drunk

Complete Illustrated HTML Edition





American Historical Antiquities Collected by John Jay Smith and John F. Watson
1639   1693   1765   1776


Illustrated HTML
First Series (23 mb)
Pt. 1.      Pt. 2.      Pt. 3.      Pt. 4.      Pt. 5.