Treasureword Classics: 174 books

A fascinating history of Puerto Rico by R.A. Van Middeldyk.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, the text describes...

An entertaining collection of essays by Arthur Christopher Benson.

A classic adventure novel which details the life of Grettir Ásmundarson, a bellicose Icelandic outlaw.

A classic collection of essays by Arthur Christopher Benson.

From the preface:    It may seem to be late in the day to give an account of the more ordinary characteristics of Europe. But the mass of all nations can form their opinions of others through the medium of testimony only; and as no two travellers see precisely the same things, or, when seen,...

The story of a young, abandoned woman and her difficult life in the West.

This book is made up of articles written abroad in the spring and summer of 1918 and cabled or mailed back for publication at home.     It has been given to the writer to behold widely dissimilar aspects of the Great War. As a neutral observer, hailing from a neutral country, I was a witness,...

Volpone (Italian for "sly fox") is a comedy by Ben Jonson first produced in 1606, drawing on elements of city comedy, black comedy and beast fable. A merciless satire of greed and lust, it remains Jonson's most-performed play, and it is among the finest Jacobean Era comedies.

A classic Western novel set at a dude ranch.

A striking presentation of facts about the British Empire, a plea for a better understanding of the English by Americans and a powerful argument for Anglo-American friendship.

The Prince is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, De Principatibus (About Principalities). However, the printed version was not published...

From the introduction:    The book that follows is an attempt, or rather a hundred attempts, to sketch some of the details of life, seen from a simple plane enough, and with no desire to conform it to a theory, or to find anything very definite in it, or to omit anything because it did not...

A fascinating recollection of the civil war, told from the point of view of a child whose mother worked in a hospital during the war.