Star Lamp: 152 books

Tales from the Hindu Dramatists written by R. N. Dutta.This book is about mighty king of Lunar dynasty.The story was gripping when the king goes on hunting and he saw a deer.

A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century by the Portugueses India officer, Duarte Barbosa.This book is one of the travel literature.He died in 1521 at the feast of rajah Humabon on Cebu Island in the Philippines.

The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language by Alpheus Sherwin Cody or Sherwin Cody, an American writer and entrepreneur who developed a long-running home-study course in speaking and writing and a signature series of advertisements asking “Do You Make These Mistakes in English?” A...

Novel Notes by the English writer and humourist, Jerome K. Jerome.This book is a novel by this humorous author of fiction and essays.This early work by Jerome K. Jerome was originally published in 1893.

The History of Rome by Theodor Mommsen,the German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician, archaeologist and writer generally regarded as one of the greatest classicists of the 19th century.This book is a multi-volume history of ancient Rome.

A Short History of the World is a period-piece non-fictional historic work by H. G. Wells.The book was largely inspired by Wells's earlier 1919 work The Outline of History.The story was about summarising  the scienctific knowledge of the time regarding the gistory of Earth and life.

The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) by the Russian-born Israeli writer, translator and archaeologist, Nahum Slouschz.He was known for his studies of the "secret" Jews of Portugal and Jews of Africa.He earned a livelihood as correspondent of several newspapers, among them Ha-Melitz and...

On Our Selection by the Australian author from Queenland, Steele Rudd.On Our Selection is a series of stories.In Australian history, a selection was a "free selection before survey" of crown land under legislation introduced in the 1860s, similar to the United States Homestead Act. Selectors often...

The Duchess of Padua by the Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet,Oscar Wilde.The Duchess of Padua is a play,it is a five-act melodramatic tragedy set in Padua and written in blank verse. It was written for the actress Mary Anderson in early 1883 while in Paris. After she turned it down,...

Peeps at Many Lands:Ancient Egypt written by James Baikie.It was a popular classic work by James Baikie.

Jewish History : An Essay in the Philosophy of History by the Jewish historian, writer and activist,Simon Dubnow.He is the father-in-law of Henryk Erlich, a famous Bundist leader.Dubnow was ambivalent toward Zionism, which he felt was an opiate for the spiritually feeble.Despite being sympathetic...

Stray Studies from England and Italy by the English historian,John Richard Greene.In 1869 he finally gave up his work as a clergyman, and was appointed librarian at Lambeth. He had been laying plans for various historical works.