Reading list · 12 titles
History & Memoir
Eyewitnesses, autobiographies and the fall of Rome.
History written by people who were there, and by the historians who defined the form. Frederick Douglass and Olaudah Equiano on slavery, Franklin on inventing himself, Thucydides on war, Gibbon on decline, and Mary Seacole's adventures in the Crimea.
Public DomainEbookNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Frederick Douglass
Public DomainEbookThe Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African: Written By Himself
Olaudah Equiano
Public DomainFeaturedEbookAutobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Public DomainEbookThe History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
Public DomainEbookThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes)
Edward Gibbon
Public DomainEbookHistory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1
Edward Gibbon
Public DomainEbookThe History of Herodotus — Volume 2
Herodotus
Public DomainFeaturedEbookGreat Expectations
Charles Dickens
Public DomainEbookAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
Public DomainFeaturedEbookThe Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx
Public DomainFeaturedEbookThe Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
Public DomainFeaturedEbookThrough the Looking-Glass
Lewis Carroll
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