History
Discover the best books on history, including world, American, and ancient European history. Find top-selling history books and must-reads at our online bookstore.
-
A Vindication of the Rights of WomanA Vindication of the Rights of Woman - With Strictures on Political and Moral SubjectsThis should be the first thing seen when anyone opens the book. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with...
- Dhs. 24.80 AED
Dhs. 49.62 AED- Dhs. 24.80 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
William Ewart GladstoneWilliam Ewart GladstoneNo man has lived in our times of whom it is so hard to speak in a concise and summary fashion as Mr. Gladstone. For forty years he was so closely associated with the public affairs of his country that the record...
- Dhs. 24.80 AED
Dhs. 49.62 AED- Dhs. 24.80 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
The American Spirit in Literature: A Chronicle of Great InterpretersThe American Spirit in Literature: A Chronicle of Great Interpreters Title: The American Spirit in Literature, A Chronicle of Great Interpreters, Volume 34 in The Chronicles Of America Series Author: Bliss Perry Editor: Allen Johnson Release Date: January 15, 2009 [EBook #3410] Last Updated:...
- Dhs. 24.80 AED
Dhs. 49.62 AED- Dhs. 24.80 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
The Golden Chersonese and the Way ThitherThe Golden Chersonese and the Way ThitherIn presenting to the public the last installment of my travels in the Far East, in 1879, I desire to offer, both to my readers and critics, my grateful acknowledgments for the kindness with which my letters from...
- Dhs. 24.80 AED
Dhs. 49.62 AED- Dhs. 24.80 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
The Spell of EgyptThe Spell of Egypt I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII Why do you come to Egypt? Do you come to gain a dream, or to regain lost dreams of old; to gild...
- Dhs. 24.80 AED
Dhs. 49.62 AED- Dhs. 24.80 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of PesaroThe Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro For three days I had been cooling my heels about the Vatican, vexed by suspense. It fretted me that...
- Dhs. 24.80 AED
Dhs. 49.62 AED- Dhs. 24.80 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
Complete Project Gutenberg William Dean Howells Literature EssaysComplete Project Gutenberg William Dean Howells Literature EssaysThis should be the first thing seen when anyone opens the book. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with the information they need about what they...
- Dhs. 24.80 AED
Dhs. 49.62 AED- Dhs. 24.80 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
My First Visit to New England, and Others (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)My First Visit to New England, and Others (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)Long before I began the papers which make up this volume, I had meant to write of literary history in New England as I had known it in the lives of its...
- Dhs. 24.80 AED
Dhs. 49.62 AED- Dhs. 24.80 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
Literary Boston as I Knew It (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)Literary Boston as I Knew It (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)Among my fellow-passengers on the train from New York to Boston, when I went to begin my work there in 1866, as the assistant editor of the Atlantic Monthly, was the late Samuel Bowles,...
- Dhs. 24.80 AED
Dhs. 49.62 AED- Dhs. 24.80 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
Oliver Wendell Holmes (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)Oliver Wendell Holmes (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)Elsewhere we literary folk are apt to be such a common lot, with tendencies here and there to be a shabby lot; we arrive from all sorts of unexpected holes and corners of the earth, remote, obscure;...
- Dhs. 24.80 AED
Dhs. 49.62 AED- Dhs. 24.80 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
The White Mr. Longfellow (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)The White Mr. Longfellow (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)We had expected to stay in Boston only until we could find a house in Old Cambridge. This was not so simple a matter as it might seem; for the ancient town had not yet quickened...
- Dhs. 24.80 AED
Dhs. 49.62 AED- Dhs. 24.80 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
Studies of Lowell (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)Studies of Lowell (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)I have already spoken of my earliest meetings with Lowell at Cambridge when I came to New England on a literary pilgrimage from the West in 1860. I saw him more and more after I went to...
- Dhs. 24.80 AED
Dhs. 49.62 AED- Dhs. 24.80 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
Cambridge Neighbors (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)Cambridge Neighbors (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)Being the wholly literary spirit I was when I went to make my home in Cambridge, I do not see how I could well have been more content if I had found myself in the Elysian Fields with...
- Dhs. 24.80 AED
Dhs. 49.62 AED- Dhs. 24.80 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
A Belated Guest (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)A Belated Guest (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)It is doubtful whether the survivor of any order of things finds compensation in the privilege, however undisputed by his contemporaries, of recording his memories of it. This is, in the first two or three instances, a...
- Dhs. 24.80 AED
Dhs. 49.62 AED- Dhs. 24.80 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
My Mark Twain (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)My Mark Twain (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)It was in the little office of James T. Fields, over the bookstore of Ticknor & Fields, at 124 Tremont Street, Boston, that I first met my friend of now forty-four years, Samuel L. Clemens. Mr. Fields...
- Dhs. 24.80 AED
Dhs. 49.62 AED- Dhs. 24.80 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to NewfoundlandSir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland Sir Humphrey Gilbert, the founder of the first English colony in North America, was born about 1539, the son of a Devonshire gentleman, whose widow afterward married the father of Sir Walter Raleigh. He was educated at Eton...
- Dhs. 24.80 AED
Dhs. 49.62 AED- Dhs. 24.80 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
Theodore Roosevelt: An AutobiographyTheodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII APPENDIX A APPENDIX B CHAPTER VIII APPENDIX A APPENDIX B CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII APPENDIX CHAPTER XIV APPENDIX CHAPTER XV...
- Dhs. 24.80 AED
Dhs. 49.62 AED- Dhs. 24.80 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
Drake's Great ArmadaDrake's Great Armada Nearly five years elapsed between Drake's return from his Famous Voyage and the despatch of the formidable armament commemorated in the following pages. During the last of these years the march of events had been remarkably rapid. Gilbert, who had been...
- Dhs. 24.80 AED
Dhs. 49.62 AED- Dhs. 24.80 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
The Diary of Samuel PepysThe Diary of Samuel PepysIn submitting the following pages to the Public, I feel that it is incumbent upon me to explain by what circumstances the materials from which the Work has been compiled were placed at my disposal. The original Diary, comprehending six...
- Dhs. 24.80 AED
Dhs. 49.62 AED- Dhs. 24.80 AED
- Unit price
- per
-
The Ward of King Canute: A Romance of the Danish ConquestThe Ward of King Canute: A Romance of the Danish Conquest For the facts of this romance I have made free use of the following authorities: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle; The Venerable Bedes Ecclesiastical History of England; Ingulphs History of the Abbey of Croyland; William...
- Dhs. 24.80 AED
Dhs. 49.62 AED- Dhs. 24.80 AED
- Unit price
- per