History

by Herodotus

The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

IN THE YEAR 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go throu...

Bible

by Bible

So there you are, a teenager at your grandparent's house.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation ...

The Riddle of the Sands

by Erskine Childers

I HAVE read of men who, when forced by their calling to live for long periods in utter solitude-save for a few black fac...

The complete poetical works

by Robert Burns

MY loved, my honoured, much respected friend!

Literary works of Leonardo da Vinci

by Leonardo da Vinci

The Caine mutiny

by Herman Wouk

He was of medium height, somewhat chubby, and good looking, with curly red hair and an innocent, gay face, more remarkab...

Sailing alone around the world

by Joshua Slocum

IN the fair land of Nova Scotia, a maritime province, there is a ridge called North Mountain, overlooking the Bay of Fun...

Mr. Midshipman Hornblower

by C. S. Forester

A JANUARY GALE was roaring up the Channel, blustering loudly, and bearing on its bosom rain squalls whose big drops ratt...

The Man Without a Country

by Edward Everett Hale, Florence Maria Miller

Two years before the mast

by Richard Henry Dana

The fourteenth of August was the day fixed upon for the sailing of the brig Pilgrim, on her voyage from Boston, round Ca...

Master and Commander

by Patrick O'Brian

The music-room in the Governor's House at Port Mahon, a tall, handsome, pillared octagon, was filled with the triumphant...

NAVAL DOCUMENTS of the American Revolution (Volume 1 Part 1 ...

by Naval History Naval History Division

NAVAL DOCUMENTS of the American Revolution (Volume 1 Part 3 ...

by Naval History Naval History Division

NAVAL DOCUMENTS of the American Revolution (Volume 1 Part 2 ...

by Naval History Naval History Division

King John

by William Shakespeare

1.1 [Flourish.] Enter King John, Queen Eleanor, the Earls of Pembroke, Essex, and Salisbury, with Chatillon, the French ...

The principall navigations, voiages, and discoveries of the ...

by Richard Hakluyt, Jack Beeching

Totum Imperium Imperatoris Grand Can distinctum est in 12. magnas prouincias, iuxta numerum duodecim filiorum primi Geni...

see subdivisions History under navies and History, Naval und...

By the King

by England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I).