Category Archives: Free eBooks
George Orwell Fifty Essays
Currently working my way through George Orwell‘s fifty essays. Orwell should be better known as an essayist. I especially liked the essay Bookshop Memories. Copy the plain text at Gutenberg Australia where Orwell is out of copyright. Convert the text … Continue reading
The Mask Of Sanity and Kurt Vonnegut
” To say somebody is a PP is to make a perfectly respectable medical diagnosis, like saying he or she has appendicitis or athlete’s foot. The classic medical text on PPs is The Mask of Sanity by Dr. Hervey Cleckley. … Continue reading
Martin Luther King Day | Charles W. Chesnutt ebooks
Today on Martin Luther King day, I received an email from the Library of America with a link to their publication of Charles W. Chesnutt’s Stories, Novels, and Essays. Charles W. Chesnutt was a African American writer who wrote about … Continue reading
Narrative of the Raft of the Medusa
The chilling account of the Raft of the Medusa is called Narrative of a Voyage to Senegal in 1816 by J.B. Henry Savigny and Alexander Correard.
Memoirs of Vidocq
Another great book for free download in Google books is Memoirs of Vidocq: Master of Crime by Francois Eugene Vidocq. Publisher is H.G. Bohn, 1853. Francois Vidocq was a thief, army deserter, grifter, convict, and private detective. He is also … Continue reading