Showing posts with label Nonfiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nonfiction. Show all posts

Thursday, November 19, 2015

Things Mother Used to Make by Lydia Maria Gurney



Amazon | Project Gutenberg

This cookbook, originally published around 1913, includes dozens of recipes and housekeeping tips going back a hundred years from that time—a great resource for anyone interested in old-fashioned cooking as well as history.

Thursday, September 3, 2015

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, edited by John Bartlett



Project Gutenberg I | Project Gutenberg II

A collection of familiar phrases that have become woven into familiar English usage, traced to their sources in the Bible, Shakespeare, and the works of dozens more poets and writers. There are two different editions of this book available at Project Gutenberg: one that seems to be the original edition, and then the ninth edition, published in 1905. A free version is not currently available at Amazon, though there are several inexpensive ones.

Monday, March 23, 2015

The Law by Frederic Bastiat


Project Gutenberg

A brief, masterful study of the true purposes of law and government—written in the 1840s as a response to the socialism overtaking Bastiat's native France, but accessible and relevant in any century.

A free edition is not currently available for Kindle, though there are several editions for 99¢.