Houston Masonic Library and Museum

Selected Reading
This beginning selection of online books were written by or about Masons..  These works are all in the public domain and our grateful thanks goes to the many organizations whose hard work makes this collection possible. 

   Non-Fiction

   William Fairfax Gray

• The Diary of William Fairfax Gray From Virginia to Texas 1835-1837 (SMU)

   George Washington

• The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources (UVA)

Fiction

Samuel Clemons (Mark Twain)

• The $30,000 Bequest, and Other Stories (Gutenberg text)
• 1601 (Gutenberg text)
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (lm.com)
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• The American Claimant (Gutenberg text)
• The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches (1867 edition) (HTML at boondocksnet.com)
• Chapters From My Autobiography (HTML at boondocksnet.com)
• Christian Science (Gutenberg text)
• Christian Science: With Notes Containing Corrections to Date (HTML at GeoCities)
•  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1889) (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Mark: The Curious Republic of Gondour, and Other Whimsical Sketches (Gutenberg text)
• A Dog's Tale
• A Double-Barrelled Detective Story (Gutenberg text)
• Eve's Diary, illust. by Lester Ralph (HTML with commentary at boondocksnet.com)
• Extract From Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven
• Extracts From Adam's Diary (Gutenberg text)
• Extracts From Adam's Diary, illust. by Frederick Strothmann (illustrated HTML at boondocksnet.com)
• Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World (Gutenberg text)
• The Gilded Age, also by Charles Dudley Warner (Gutenberg text)
• A Horse's Tale (Gutenberg text)
• A Horse's Tale (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1907), illust. by Lucius Hitchcock (illustrated HTML at boondocksnet.com)
• How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays (text and HTML at Gutenberg and Boondocksnet)
• The Innocents Abroad (Gutenberg text)
• Is Shakespeare Dead? From My Autobiography
• Leopold's Soliloquy: A Defense of His Congo Rule (HTML with commentary at boondocksnet.com)
• Life on the Mississippi (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883) (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (Gutenberg text)
• The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, and Other Stories (Gutenberg text)
• Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography, and First Romance (Gutenberg text)
• Mark Twain's Speeches (expanded edition, 2001), ed. by Jim Zwick (HTML at boondocksnet.com)
• Merry Tales (HTML at boondocksnet.com)
• Twain, Mark: The Mysterious Stranger  (Gutenberg text)
• Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc  (litrix.com)
• The Prince and the Pauper
• Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion (Gutenberg text)
• Twain, Mark: Roughing It
• Twain, Mark: Sketches New and Old (Gutenberg text)
• Twain, Mark, trans.: Struwwelpeter (in German, English, and French), by Heinrich Hoffmann (illustrated HTML at struwwelpeter.com)
• Twain, Mark: Tom Sawyer, Detective (Gutenberg text)
• Twain, Mark: Tom Sawyer Abroad (Gutenberg text)
• Twain, Mark: The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (Gutenberg text)
• Twain, Mark: A Tramp Abroad (Gutenberg text)
• Twain, Mark: What is Man? (New York: The De Vinne Press, 1906) (HTML at boondocksnet.com)
• Twain, Mark: What is Man? and Other Essays

   Arthur Conan Doyle

• The Adventures of Gerard (Gutenberg text) SDAS
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Gutenberg text)
• The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Gutenberg text)
• Rodney Stone (Gutenberg text)
• Round the Red Lamp (HTML at Virginia)
• The Sign of the Four (Gutenberg text)
• Sir Nigel (Gutenberg text)
• Songs of Action (Gutenberg text)
• The White Company (Gutenberg text)