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Can You Forgive Her?
Anthony Trollope
A young English woman breaks her engagement to a steadfast country gentleman, convinced she is made for a higher purpose, only to find that liberty is far more perilous than devotion.
Essays in Rebellion
Henry Woodd Nevinson
Rebellion is not a distant historical curiosity, but a living imperative that animates human progress against tyranny, comfortable routine, and spiritual death.
History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 2 (of 12)
G. (Gaston) Maspero
Absolute royal authority and the daily reality of a bureaucratic, agricultural society exist side by side along the ancient Nile. In this exhaustive study, Gaston Maspero traces how Egypt’s early dynasties organized power, labor, and belief to build a civilization that endured for millennia.
Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good
Victor Cousin
Humanity searches constantly for enduring truth, elevated beauty, and absolute moral goodness, yet our explanations often fragment into narrow, competing doctrines. These lectures construct a unified spiritual philosophy that synthesizes history's greatest insights without losing sight of human nature.
New Italian sketches
John Addington Symonds
A traveler moves across the Italian peninsula with an eye for quiet landscapes, ancient architecture, and forgotten history, transforming regional journeys into vivid reflections on art, culture, and human memory.
Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.)
C. A. Toledano
Designed for early twentieth-century British students preparing for international trade, this practical textbook systematically balances fundamental Spanish grammar with the exact, daily vocabulary of global commerce.
The Argonauts of California: being the reminiscenses of scenes and incidents that occurred in California in the early mining days
Charles Warren Haskins
A snowbound veteran sits indoors during an Idaho winter and sets down his recollections of the California Gold Rush, creating both a raucous memoir and a massive registry of the thousands who dared to venture West.
The Jolly Corner
Henry James
A long-absent expat stalks the empty rooms of his New York birthplace, desperate to confront the ghostly specter of the man he would have become had he stayed.
The Kacháris
Sidney Endle
A missionary's lifelong devotion to a rural mountain folk becomes a vivid, affectionate portrait of a vanishing world.
A Collection of Beatrix Potter Stories
Beatrix Potter
Underneath a quiet surface of English hedgerows and domestic interiors lies a world of sly, resilient creatures constantly negotiating survival, propriety, and their own worst impulses.
A Text-Book of the History of Painting
John C. Van Dyke
A sweep of artistic tradition unfolds across centuries, tracing how human hands shifted from mere architectural ornament to luminous, expressive canvases.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language": Volume 12, Slice 4
Various
Across landscape, history, art, and language, this volume captures a civilization’s evolving terrain through meticulous, highly structured Victorian scholarship.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Lefebvre, Tanneguy" to "Letronne, Jean Antoine": Volume 16, Slice 4
Various
An expansive survey of human knowledge spans mathematical proof, botanical classification, royal intrigue, and ancient architecture. It captures an era's relentless urge to measure, record, and comprehend the entirety of the natural and historical world.
Joseph Bonaparte: Makers of History
John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
A gentle, steady portrait of an older brother living in the shadow of a legend, trying to rule with conscience in a world ruled by the sword.
Kentucky in American Letters, 1784-1912. Vol. 1 of 2
John Wilson Townsend
A rich green pasture of bluegrass literature stretches across more than a century of American creation, gathering forgotten frontier voices and famous native sons under one roof.
Life and Matter: A Criticism of Professor Haeckel's "Riddle of the Universe"
Lodge, Oliver, Sir
A prominent British physicist challenges the dogmatic materialists of his era, arguing that physical law cannot explain human consciousness or the existence of life.
Life of Johnson, Volume 4: 1780-1784
James Boswell
A formidable intelligence faces the final decline of the body, meeting physical decay with unyielding mental sharpness and a stubborn commitment to human society.
Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt
G. (Gaston) Maspero
An exhaustive, systematic tour of the Nile's architectural and artistic legacy, this classic manual reveals how ancient Egyptians actually lived, built, worshipped, and buried their dead.
Motion pictures and filmstrips, 1972
Library of Congress. Copyright Office
A mid-century federal registry captures the vibrant spectrum of American moving-image culture, recording thousands of educational filmstrips, Hollywood feature films, television broadcasts, and renewed classic cartoons under statutory copyright protection.
Old Mother West Wind
Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess
A mother’s wind releases her breezes, sparking daily misadventures among meadow creatures whose vanity, mischief, and greed are gently undone by nature’s enduring lessons.
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 11 of 12)
James George Frazer
Across Europe and beyond, human communities have long leaped through midsummer fires, gathered magical herbs before dawn, and hidden their vital spirits in animals or plants. These ritual acts share a single underlying conviction: that the invisible forces driving nature and human mortality can be bound,…
The Human Aura: Astral Colors and Thought Forms
William Walker Atkinson
Every living human being moves inside an invisible, egg-shaped cloud of radiant energy that reflects their thoughts, emotions, and physical vitality. This classic manual reveals how to perceive, interpret, and shape these subtle personal atmospheres.
The Victim: A Romance of the Real Jefferson Davis
Dixon, Thomas, Jr.
A fiery defender of Southern honor faces impossible odds, guiding a nation through war only to discover that the heaviest burdens are borne in silence after the cause is lost.
The Young Alaskans in the Rockies
Emerson Hough
Three young companions and their guides traverse the wild Canadian Rockies by trail and river, measuring their endurance against raw wilderness, treacherous rapids, and big game as they forge a path across the continental divide.
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
Escaping the oppressive monotony of a charity institution, a desperate orphan accepts a post as governess, only to find herself embroiled in the dark secrets and passionate conflicts of a gloomy country estate.
Letters from Egypt
Duff Gordon, Lucie, Lady
Living along the Nile to ease her failing lungs, a 19th-century Englishwoman sets aside colonial distance to record the daily lives, suffering, and quiet dignity of her Arab and Coptic neighbors.
Letters of Samuel Rutherford: (Third Edition)
Samuel Rutherford
An exile’s letters turn an isolated Galloway parish into the center of a cosmic struggle, transforming political banishment into an intense, ecstatic exploration of divine love and human vulnerability.
Moral Philosophy: Ethics, Deontology and Natural Law
Joseph Rickaby
A rigorous scholastic investigation into how human beings ought to live, grounding moral duty in reason, human nature, and natural law rather than mere social utility.
Shadows of Flames: A Novel
Amélie Rives
A woman's youth is burned away by two bad marriages before she learns that love without freedom is only a trap.
Spanish colonial literature in South America
Bernard Moses
True history survives not in the polished summaries of modern scholars, but within the vibrant, self-interested, and eyewitness writings of the men and women who lived it.
Stage-coach and Tavern Days
Alice Morse Earle
Travel in early America unfolds not through grand monuments, but across rutted turnpikes, inside crowded taprooms, and over the creaking footboards of Concord stage-coaches.
The Woodlanders
Thomas Hardy
Deep in the Dorset woodlands, a young woman returned from her fine schooling is caught between three men and two social classes, while the ancient trees above them measure every human mistake.
Traditions, Superstitions and Folk-lore: (Chiefly Lancashire and the North of England:) Their Affinity to Others in Widely-Distributed Localities
Charles Hardwick
Centuries of rural English magic, ancient fires, and eerie parish lore reveal their surprising roots in the forgotten myths of the distant East.
Adventures on the Roof of the World
Le Blond, Aubrey, Mrs.
High above the timberline, where sheer rock meets shifting ice, the margin between triumph and catastrophe is razor-thin. This collection captures the stark reality of early mountaineering, where a single misstep, a damp match, or a sudden roar can rewrite a life in seconds.
Artificial Light: Its Influence upon Civilization
Matthew Luckiesh
From fireflies and resinous pine knots to carbon filaments and tungsten floodlights, human progress has always been tethered to our ability to dispel the dark.
"Captains Courageous": A Story of the Grand Banks
Rudyard Kipling
A spoiled millionaire’s son falls off an ocean liner and is saved by working cod fishermen who force him to earn his keep.
Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 10 (of 20)
Charles Sumner
Deliberated in the furnace of the American Civil War, these legislative addresses and essays confront foreign interference, state destruction, and the imperative of human equality. They map a republic fighting to redefine its constitutional soul.
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John: With an Historical Introduction
William Sharp McKechnie
Before 1215, English kings ruled through absolute precedent and flexible power; Magna Carta forced a despotic monarchy to submit to written law.
Nursery Comedies: Twelve Tiny Plays for Children
Bell, Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe, Lady
Cleverly calculated to solve the problem of rainy-day domestic entertainment, these twelve brief plays turn children's ordinary nursery misbehaviour and familiar fairy-tale logic into quick-witted, easy-to-stage comedy.
The Lifted Veil
George Eliot
To know the human heart completely is not a power, but a sentence. Driven by an unwanted gift of foresight and telepathy, a sickly young man watches his life unravel toward a lonely death he has already witnessed down to the final second.
The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2: Assyria: The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire
George Rawlinson
A sweeping nineteenth-century examination of ancient Assyria reveals a civilization forged by mountain borders, religious devotion, innovative architecture, and relentless military ambition.
The wisdom of Cyclops
W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle
A tongue-in-cheek tale of ranch hands, mistaken identities, and a coarse-mouthed magpie, where every attempt to avoid trouble brings a fresh layer of chaos.
Whitman: A Study
John Burroughs
A critical defense of an unconventional poet turns into a sweeping celebration of the human body, the American landscape, and the democratic spirit.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1
François Guizot
History unfolds as a living drama driven by immutable natural laws and the uncoerced choices of human beings.
English Literature for Boys and Girls
H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth) Marshall
A grand tapestry of storytellers spans the centuries, turning ancient legends, monkish chronicles, and quiet personal reflections into a shared national voice.
Glinda of Oz: In Which Are Related the Exciting Experiences of Princess Ozma of Oz, and Dorothy, in Their Hazardous Journey to the Home of the Flatheads, and to the Magic Isle of the Skeezers, and How They Were Rescued from Dire Peril by the Sorcery of Glinda the Good
L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
A isolated war between magic-wielding mountain dwellers and submerged islanders threatens the peace of Oz, forcing its ruler into a trap that only a grand rescue mission can undo.
Life of Chopin
Franz Liszt
A poet of the keyboard finds his truest likeness not in dates or documents, but in the aristocratic pride, tender melancholy, and fierce national spirit of his native Poland.
Stories of Inventors: The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers
Russell Doubleday
A machine's quiet gears, a spark leaping across miles, a hull descending into green ocean light—human ingenuity continually rewires the physical world to match its imagination.