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Chapters of Opera: Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time
Henry Edward Krehbiel
Behind the velvet curtains and sparkling box tiers of New York’s operatic history lies a turbulent chronicle of cultural ambition, financial ruin, and artistic battle.
The Automobile Storage Battery: Its Care And Repair
Otto A. Witte
A comprehensive manual for twentieth-century mechanics, this guide illuminates the inner workings, chemical logic, and physical repair of early lead-acid storage batteries.
Where Angels Fear to Tread
E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster
A poignant tale of love, loss, and cultural clash, set against the backdrop of Italy's beauty and England's social norms.
A Social History of the American Negro: Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States. Including A History and Study of the Republic of Liberia
Benjamin Griffith Brawley
A sweeping study of African American history traces a journey from the arrival of early African captives to the violent aftermath of the First World War.
An Outline of Russian Literature
Maurice Baring
Russian prose and poetry emerge from centuries of isolation to transform the modern imagination through a sudden, incandescent explosion of creative power.
Bygone Punishments
William Andrews
Centuries of English penal history reveal how societies enforce order through public spectacle, physical torment, and community humiliation.
Cinderella
Anonymous
A gentle heart finds magic in unexpected places, while the everyday world turns out to be full of small, surprising wonders.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux": Volume 13, Slice 8
Various
An ambitious attempt to encompass human knowledge, this volume reveals a world shaped by imperial conflicts, philosophical debates, and the rigorous mapping of local history.
From the Earth to the Moon, Direct in Ninety-Seven Hours and Twenty Minutes: and a Trip Round It
Jules Verne
A massive cannon built in the Florida dirt fires three men into the sky, sending them on a thrilling, mathematically precise journey to orbit the moon.
Skylark Three
E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith
Driven by runaway power and genocide across deep space, two Earthmen and their wives cross galaxies to stop an alien species that plans the total extermination of all other life in the universe.
The King's Mirror (Speculum regale-Konungs skuggsjá)
Laurence Marcellus Larson
A young man seeks his father's counsel to master the practical arts of trade, ocean navigation, and courtly statecraft.
The Living Animals of the World, Volume 1 (of 2): A Popular Natural History
Unknown
A grand survey of global animal life showcases nature's boundless inventiveness, moving across continents through striking field observations, technical anatomical notes, and vivid human encounters.
The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections
Ellen Terry
A childhood spent climbing stage poles and floating as a ceiling angel gives way to a lifetime of grueling rehearsals, enduring creative partnerships, and the quiet realization that art demands everything a performer has to give.
Venus in Boston: A Romance of City Life
George Thompson
A innocent orphan girl struggles to maintain her virtue as she is hunted across mid-nineteenth-century Boston by corrupt politicians, cunning swindlers, and violent criminals.
All about Battersea
Henry S. Simmonds
A topographically exhaustive, deeply affectionate portrait of a London parish in the crucible of Victorian industrialization, recording every boundary, brick, and burial ground before the quiet village vanishes forever.
Essentials of Economic Theory: As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy
John Bates Clark
An evolving industrial society can enrich every class if the underlying laws of capital, labor, and dynamic market forces are allowed to work.
Original Short Stories
Guy de Maupassant
Shadows of human vanity, longing, and sudden horror flicker through these crisp vignettes of nineteenth-century French life.
Rural architecture
Lewis F. (Lewis Falley) Allen
A properly designed rural dwelling is neither a grand, empty palace nor a crude shelter, but a thoughtful harmony of proportion, utility, and natural setting. Lewis F. Allen offers a clear, practical vision for creating American farmsteads that balance everyday convenience with quiet, unpretentious beauty.
Some Chinese Ghosts
Lafcadio Hearn
Sacrifice, ghostly devotion, and supernatural beauty bind these traditional Chinese legends together, showing how mortal hearts interact with the divine and the terrifying.
The Heart Line: A Drama of San Francisco
Gelett Burgess
Beneath the vibrant surface of pre-earthquake San Francisco, a charismatic palmist and a free-spirited bohemian girl navigate a web of spiritualist charlatans, high-society romance, and fatal choices.
The King of the Golden River
John Ruskin
When three brothers hold a fertile valley, cruelty transforms their rich fields into a wasteland, leaving redemption to depend entirely on mercy rather than greed.
A History of Freedom of Thought
J. B. (John Bagnell) Bury
The long struggle to secure the right to think and speak freely is a history of reason gradually breaking the shackles of authority.
Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare
David Nichol Smith
Long before romantic critics claimed to rediscover the English playwright, an earlier century waged fierce battles over his text, his learning, and his human genius. This anthology uncovers how those foundational debates built modern literary criticism.
History of the settlement of Upper Canada (Ontario,): with special reference to the Bay Quinté
William Canniff
Driven by a deep devotion to the British Crown, displaced American Loyalists clear the dense wilderness around the Bay of Quinté to lay the foundations of a new northern nation.
Military schools and courses of instruction in the science and art of war,: in France, Prussia, Austria, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Sardinia, England, and the United States. Drawn from recent official reports and documents. Revised Edition
Unknown
Nationhood depends on whether an army relies on unstudied brute force or systematically cultivates technical intellect, professional discipline, and scientific mastery across every rank.
Polish Fairy Tales
A. J. (Antoni Józef) Gliński
In a realm where enchanted frog skins burn, iron-walled castles crumble before magical steeds, and simple kindness to a field mouse turns deadly trials into triumph, ancient Slavic folklore weaves wonder with severe moral clarity.
Premo Cameras, 1914
Canadian Kodak Company
Detailed technical specifications, worldwide distribution networks, and precise mechanical adjustments converge to make amateur photography effortless, portable, and reliable for every user.
Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights
Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Nightly rambles of a disguised Caliph, airborne journeys on giant birds, and scholarly disputes over medieval tales weave together in this expansive narrative.
The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 2 (of 3): or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times
William Hone
A year unfolds through forgotten country customs, eccentric town characters, ancient Roman rites, and the quiet rhythms of the English countryside.
The Folk-Tales of the Magyars: Collected by Kriza, Erdélyi, Pap, and Others
Unknown
In the dark forests and sprawling steppes of 19th-century Hungary, a rich tradition of magic, devilry, and triumphant underdogs took deep root in the popular imagination.
The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, and Other East African Adventures
J. H. (John Henry) Patterson
A predatory terror halts the construction of the Uganda Railway until an engineer steps up to hunt the beasts down.
Ecclesiastical Vestments: Their development and history
Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister
Stripping away theological dogma reveals the plain historical truth: sacred garments began not as divine commands, but as everyday civilian clothes.
Japanese Fairy World: Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan
William Elliot Griffis
A vibrant tour through Japan's folk imagination reveals a world where teakettles turn into badgers, warriors battle mountain demons, and the gods themselves shape the islands.
King Richard II
William Shakespeare
When a monarch misjudges his absolute power, the foundation of an entire kingdom fractures under the weight of his excess.
Life and Correspondence of David Hume, Volume 1
John Hill Burton
A young Scottish scholar sets out to map the human mind, charting a path through philosophical audacity, military adventure, and intellectual stardom.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
A sprawling family dynasty splits across opposing borders, forcing kin to face one another on the devastated battlefields of World War I.
The Life of a Regimental Officer During the Great War, 1793-1815
A. F. (Augustus Ferryman) Mockler-Ferryman
A modest, steady officer marches through two decades of global warfare, recording the grueling mechanics of an army transforming itself from brutal inefficiency into a disciplined force.
The Phoenix and the Carpet
E. (Edith) Nesbit
When four London siblings accidentally acquire a magic carpet and a mythic bird, their ordinary Victorian nursery becomes the launching pad for wild, unpredictable adventures.
The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)
Origen
A third-century scholar confronts a fierce pagan philosopher to defend a burgeoning faith against accusations of subversion, sorcery, and intellectual foolishness.
Trials of war criminals before the Nuernberg military tribunals under control council law no. 10, volume I
Various
Chilling transcript evidence exposes the systemic medical atrocities and state-sanctioned human experimentation carried out in German concentration camps during the Second World War.
Twenty Drawings
Unknown
Through twenty delicate wash drawings and an illuminating introductory essay, a modern Syrian master bridging Eastern mysticism and Western technique offers a profound visual meditation on the timeless, elemental realities of human existence.
A Child's Garden of Verses
Robert Louis Stevenson
Transforming routine daily domestic boundaries into vast, uncharted realms of imagination, this collection captures the internal life of childhood with rare precision.
Gleanings from the Harvest-Fields of Literature: A Melange of Excerpta
Unknown
A curious, eccentric cabinet of literary oddities captures how human ingenuity, playfulness, and obsession manifest in the printed word.
Great Britain and the American Civil War
Ephraim Douglass Adams
A young, powerful nation splits in two, and the world’s preeminent empire must decide whether to watch, intervene, or profit from the ruin.
How to Study Fiorillo: A detailed, descriptive analysis of how to practice these studies, based upon the best teachings of representative, modern violin playing
Edith Lynwood Winn
To master the violin, a student must transform mechanical strain into effortless, expressive art through disciplined, analytical practice.
The historians' history of the world in twenty-five volumes, volume 09
Unknown
Urban fortified walls rebuild, factional feuds erupt across Tuscan hills, and an entire peninsula transforms from a mosaic of vulnerable city-states into a unified modern nation.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 05
Robert Louis Stevenson
Boundless human foolishness and dark moral compromise collide when ordinary people dabble in double lives, violent political conspiracies, and unholy scientific transformations.
A collection of Latin maxims & rules, in law and equity
Peter Halkerston
A system of law cannot stand on fluctuating whims; it requires foundational truths to guide every judgment. This 1823 reference brings together centuries of Latin legal principles, translating timeless maxims into clear English to store the practitioner’s memory with the essential pillars of law and equity.