Meditations
Previous Next Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is one of the greatest philosophical works of all time. A collection of personal reflections written […]
Genre: Memoir
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
Frederick Douglass, the renowned nineteenth-century orator, editor, publisher, and statesman, was born into slavery in Maryland and escaped in 1838. He quickly […]
The Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex
Previous Next The Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex recounts one of the greatest real-life sea adventures of all time. This faithful Warbler […]
Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Previous slide Next slide Henry David Thoreau’s Walden details his experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days […]
My First Summer in the Sierra
Previous Next My First Summer in the Sierra is perhaps the most lyrical, joyous, and engaging of all John Muir’s many works. […]
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
. Previous Next Edwin Lefèvre’s Reminiscences of a Stock Operator is a fictionalized autobiography based on the life of Jesse Livermore (1877–1940) […]
A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains
Isabella Bird traveled by horseback from Truckee, California, through the Tahoe Basin and on to Colorado where, during the autumn and early […]
The White Heart of Mojave
Click Here Previous Next Edna Brush Perkins visited Death Valley with her good friend and fellow suffragette Charlotte Jordan chronicling their beautiful, […]
West with the Night
– In West with the Night Beryl Markham chronicles her unconventional, free-spirited girlhood in Kenya and her adventures as a rescue pilot, […]
The Enormous Room
The Enormous Room is a fictionalized autobiographical account of the three months that E. E. Cummings spent in a French prison under […]