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The Heart of Midlothian is the seventh of Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley Novels. It was originally published in four volumes on 25 July 1818, under the title of Tales of My Landlord, 2nd series, and the author was given as "Jedediah Cleishbotham, Schoolmaster and Parish-clerk of Gandercleugh"....

Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion, etc., is an elegy written by Percy Bysshe Shelley for John Keats in 1821, and widely regarded as one of Shelley's best and most well-known works. The poem, which is in 495 lines in 55 Spenserian stanzas, was composed...

"The African Colony" was written by John Buchan in London (1903) when he was Editor of The Spectator magazine about his previous time spent as private secretary to Alfred Milner, who was then the High Commissioner for Southern Africa, Governor of Cape Colony, and colonial administrator...

Marcus Porcius Cato (234 BC, Tusculum – 149 BC) was a Roman statesman, commonly referred to as Censorius (the Censor), Sapiens (the Wise), Priscus (the Ancient), or Major, Cato the Elder, or Cato the Censor, to distinguish him from his great-grandson, Cato the Younger. His manual on running...

The London and Country Brewer, originally published in 1736 is an account of the London Method of Brewing Stout, Pale and Brown Ales. Printed anonymously "By a Person formerly concerned in a Common Brewhouse at London, but for twenty Years past has resided in the Country." the book explains...

Mr. X., whose impressions and mild adventures in the 19th century I have undertaken the task of editing was an officer employed in one of the small States of the Malay Peninsula, which were under the protection of the Colonial Government of the Straits Settlements. These are the tales of his adventures in the jungles of Java.

The full title of this edition - "Among Malay Pirates, A Tale of Adventure and Peril" is a collection of short stories by G.A. Henty originally published posthumously in 1905 about Malay pirates, tales of India, a shipwreck off the Channel Islands and a bursting dam in California, as well...

When William Came is a novel written by British author Saki and published in 1913. It was set several years in what was then the future, after a war between Germany and Great Britain, which Germany won. The "William" of the title is Kaiser Wilhelm II. The book chronicles life in London...

A collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party).

Robert Henry Elliot (1837 – 1914), was an early British coffee planter in Mysore, India, and author of books on plantation life in Mysore. He arrived in Bombay in 1855 at 18 years of age. From there he sailed to Mangalore, then headed inland through the ghauts to the high plateau of Mysore where...

Originally published in 1890, "Fathers of Biology" gives an account of the lives of five great naturalists - Hippocrates, Aristotle, Galen, Vesalius and Harvey. The work of each one of them marked a definite advance in the science of Biology. There is often among students of anatomy and...

Journal of Voyages contains an account of the author Captain Jacob Dunham (born 27 April 1779 in Connecticut,USA) being twice captured by the English and once by Gibbs the Pirate; his narrow escape when chased by an English War schooner; as well as his being cast away and residing with Indians. To...

The Siege of Lucknow was the prolonged defence of the Residency within the city of Lucknow during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. After two successive relief attempts had reached the city, the defenders and civilians were evacuated from the Residency, which was abandoned. Lucknow was the capital...

Shahanshah Akbar-e-Azam also known as  or Akbar the Great (14 October 1542  – 27 October 1605), was the third Mughal Emperor. He was of Timurid descent; the son of Emperor Humayun, and the grandson of the Mughal Emperor Zaheeruddin Muhammad Babur, the ruler who founded the Mughal dynasty...