Genre: History (26 books)
The best classic books from the History genre.
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
On Friday, 12th June, I woke up at six o' clock and no wonder; it was my birthday
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
How do people get to this clandestine Archipelago?
The Histories
Herodotus
This is the showing forth of the Inquiry of Herodotus of Halicarnassos so that neither the deeds of men may be forgotten by lapse of time, nor the works great and marvellous, which have been produced some by Hellenes and some by Barbarians, may lose their renown; and especially that the causes may be remembered for which these waged war with one another.
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Jung Chang
At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general, the police chief of a tenuous national government of China.
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote
The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call 'out there'.
Angela's Ashes
Frank McCourt
My father and mother should have stayed in New York where they met and married and where I was born.
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
All the states, all the dominions under whose authority men have lived in the past and live now have been and are either republics or principalities.It is customary for those who wish to gain the favour of a prince to endeavour to do so by offering him gifts of those things which they hold most precious, or in which they know him to take especial delight.
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