True North: 481 books

I greet with joy the choral trains  Fresh from palms and Cuba's canes.  Best gems of Nature's cabinet,  With dews of tropic morning wet,  Beloved of children, bards, and Spring,  O birds, your perfect virtues bring,  Your song, your forms, your rhythmic flight,  Your manners for the heart's delight,  Nestle in hed

Shakespeare's sonnets are a collection of 154 sonnets, dealing with themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality, first published in a 1609 quarto entitled SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS. Never before imprinted.  

Titus Andronicus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, and possibly George Peele, believed to have been written between 1588 and 1593. It is thought to be Shakespeare's first tragedy, and is often seen as his attempt to emulate the violent and bloody revenge plays of his contemporaries, which were extremely popular with audiences throughout the sixteenth century

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a book by the Scottish empiricist philosopher David Hume, published in 1748. It was a revision of an earlier effort, Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature, published anonymously in London in 1739–40. Hume was disappointed with the reception of the Treatise,...

This book is the second volume of a two-volume guide to the best popular music ever recorded and the artists who created and recorded it. This book, like its predecessor, covers a number of genres that comprise popular music including pop, rock, blues, jazz, country, reggae, hip hop, ragtime, folk,...

In preparing this book it has not been the purpose of the author to write a complete historical sketch of the Michigan cavalry brigade. Such a history would require a volume as large for the record of each regiment; and, even then, it would fall short of doing justice to the patriotic services of that superb organization.

This is a pure and romantic story of New England life. It is a tale full of the love and warm-hearted country folks. The book is based on the play on the play of the same name by Lottie Blair Parker, made into a movie by D.W. Griffiths

The purpose of this volume is to give a summary of what is known of American Antiquities, with some thoughts and suggestions relative to their significance. It aims at nothing more. No similar work, I believe, has been published in English or in any other language. What is known of American Archeology...

In the following pages an endeavour has been made to give a concise account of the physical features of the Edge Hill district, as well as to describe the events of the first great battle of the Civil War, with which it is so intimately associated. The intention is to provide a handbook for the guidance of the visitor rather than to attempt any elaborate historical or scientific work.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a children's novel written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow. Originally published by the George M. Hill Company in Chicago on May 17, 1900, it has since been reprinted numerous times, most often under the name The Wizard of Oz, which is the name of both the popular 1902 Broadway musical and the well-known 1939 film adaptation.

This classic text describes the discovery of the great national park, Yellowstone, and includes letters and correspondence from those who were instrumental in the establishment of Yellowstone as America’s greatest natural treasure.

This classic text provides historical background of the old testament and also serves as a companion to the good book by providing supplementary information and historical references to the stories described in the bible.

Mark Twain was born in Florida, Missouri, on November 30, 1835. He was the foremost American philosopher of his time, and he was the world's most famous humorist. This is the most complete collection of his correspondence ever published.

Before the war the Canadian Militia consisted of about 75,000 of all ranks and all grades of efficiency. To a neutral eye it must have appeared to be in a highly disorganised condition, for battalions and corps had sprung up here and there throughout the country with no proportion existing between...