The whole shelf
All free summaries — page 192
47,382 public-domain books, summarised. Page 192 of 988.
Trinity Site
National Atomic Museum (U.S.)
In the remote desert of New Mexico, a top-secret wartime project culminates in an explosion that forever alters human history and technology.
Turkish fairy tales and folk tales
R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet) Bain
In these traditional Anatolian and Roumanian tales, ordinary peasants, cunning fools, and bold princes venture into strange wildernesses where magic mirrors command armies and death lies waiting in forgotten coffers.
Twenty Years' Residence among the People of Turkey: Bulgarians, Greeks, Albanians, Turks, and Armenians
Fanny Janet Sandison Blunt
Observation, insight, and years of residence replace quick judgments to reveal the authentic, multifaceted life of the Ottoman Empire’s diverse populations.
Watchbird
Robert Sheckley
An automated machine designed to eliminate violent crime assumes the role of moral arbiter, gradually expanding its definition of murder until human life itself is held hostage by cold, algorithmic logic.
An inland voyage
Robert Louis Stevenson
Two men paddle small canoes through the canals and swelling rivers of northern France, trading the dull routine of ledger books and respectable offices for wet clothes, roadside inns, and the quiet rhythm of the open stream.
Armour & Weapons
Charles John Ffoulkes
This study provides an essential, technically grounded overview of European defensive equipment, demystifying the development of mail and plate for the non-specialist. It bridges the gap between romanticized fiction and the practical realities of historical warfare.
Beatrix
Honoré de Balzac
A secluded Breton youth falls under the spell of an elusive Parisian noblewoman, plunging his traditional family and devout young wife into a storm of urban intrigue, pride, and romantic rivalry.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
Various
A rare, unvarnished look at an empire built and dismantled from within, where military genius meets the intimate realities of slippers, court intrigue, and ultimate exile.
Einstein and the universe: A popular exposition of the famous theory
Charles Nordmann
A ray of light traverses the cosmos at an unyielding speed, shattering our long-held assumptions about time, space, and the very architecture of reality.
Ernest Maltravers
Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
A gifted young philosopher turns his back on worldly ambition to mold an unsophisticated girl, only to trigger a chain of romantic disillusionments, tragic misunderstandings, and political rivalry across Europe.
Great Musical Composers: German, French, and Italian
George T. (George Titus) Ferris
This historical survey traces the lives, artistic evolutions, and personal struggles of Western Europe’s premier classical composers, illustrating how individual genius reshaped the landscape of opera, symphony, and sacred song.
H. R
Edwin Lefevre
A young bank clerk turns spectacle, advertising, and public sentiment into instruments of personal advancement, conquering New York society by sheer force of personality.
History of the Commune of 1871
Lissagaray
A desperate city, abandoned by its leaders, takes up arms to defend its autonomy and its vision of a democratic republic against a reactionary government.
John Halifax, Gentleman
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
A ragged orphan boy stands in a rain-drenched alley, his eyes fixed on the pavement, possessing nothing in the world save a resolute chin, a strong frame, and a hand hardened by early labor.
Light and Peace: Instructions for devout souls to dispel their doubts and allay their fears
Carlo Giuseppe Quadrupani
Quiet peace replaces anxious scrupulosity when the soul learns to distinguish between uninvited feelings and deliberate consent.
Practical Education, Volume I
Maria Edgeworth
True learning flourishes not through rigid theories or artificial rewards, but through patient observation, practical experience, and the clear, honest engagement of a child's natural curiosity.
The Adventures of Harry Rochester: A Tale of the Days of Marlborough and Eugene
Herbert Strang
An honest young Englishman frames his own destiny through courage and resourcefulness, navigating perilous Jacobite plots and battlefield glory in eighteenth-century Europe.
The Awkward Age
Henry James
An older gentleman re-enters London society only to find that the girl he wishes to save has already been exposed to its compromised world.
The Creation of God
Jacob Hartmann
Demolishing claims of divine revelation with clinical detachment, a nineteenth-century physician scrutinizes sacred history through the unyielding lens of modern science and human biology.
The Doves' Nest, and Other Stories
Katherine Mansfield
A quiet ache runs through these pages, where small daily rituals mask deep emotional distances and sudden, quiet reckonings.
The Fairy Book: The Best Popular Stories Selected and Rendered Anew
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
A curated library of traditional folklore offers young readers classic wonder while preserving the vivid, rustic simplicity of original oral storytelling.
The History of Oswestry: Comprising the British, Saxon, Norman, and English eras
William Cathrall
A border region’s long march from ancient bloodshed to civic routine unfolds across centuries of conflict, law-making, and commercial growth.
The Little Lady of Lagunitas: A Franco-Californian Romance
Richard Savage
A sprawling frontier melodrama gives way to a globe-trotting story of conspiracy, deceit, and rightful inheritance in nineteenth-century California and Europe.
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
da Vinci Leonardo
An unyielding insistence on direct observation transforms the world into a boundless laboratory, mapping the hidden mechanics of light, shadow, form, and nature.
The Russian Turmoil
Anton Ivanovich Denikin
A high-ranking general provides a front-line autopsy of the collapse of the Imperial Russian Army, tracing how institutional decay, political vacillation, and relentless radical propaganda unraveled a nation's military power during the turbulent months of 1917.
The Student's Elements of Geology
Lyell, Charles, Sir
A physical history of the earth written from its rock layers, watercourses, and fossil remains.
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 09 (of 12): Dresden Edition—Political
Robert Green Ingersoll
Democracy relies upon unyielding personal independence, where the right to think and speak freely surpasses all political power.
Turgenev: A Study
Edward Garnett
A delicate, masterful mind turns its gaze upon Russian life, catching the subtle human truths and national shifts hidden within a changing world.
A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance: With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism
Joel Elias Spingarn
The Renaissance transformed the ancient Greek understanding of poetry into a rigid system of rules, a shift that defined the literary standards of the modern world for centuries to come.
A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis: Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention
Patrick Colquhoun
An examination of urban disorder reveals how unchecked petty crimes enable larger networks of theft, fraud, and civic decay. To protect both property and public safety, society requires a coordinated, preventive system of law enforcement rather than reliance on severe, occasional punishments.
Anson's Voyage Round the World: The Text Reduced
Richard Walter
A harrowing eighteenth-century naval expedition battles violent storms, rampant scurvy, shipwreck, and fierce geopolitical rivals while attempting to circumnavigate the globe and disrupt Spanish empire trade.
Chaucerian and Other Pieces: Being a Supplement to the Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
Unknown
The work presented here is not a single narrative text, but a massive scholar’s collection gathering poetry, political prose, and theological commentary attributed—erroneously or contextually—to the legacy of Geoffrey Chaucer.
Christianity as Mystical Fact, and the Mysteries of Antiquity
Rudolf Steiner
Ancient mystery cults, Greek philosophy, and Christian revelation meet in a singular evolutionary path. Secret ancient wisdom does not vanish, but transforms into an historical reality open to all humanity.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady
Samuel Richardson
Driven away from her family by an arranged marriage and trapped by a scheming libertine, a dutiful young woman fights to preserve her independence and virtue against relentless deception.
Cocoa and Chocolate: Their History from Plantation to Consumer
Arthur William Knapp
An engaging, technical survey reveals how a tropical crop travels from indigenous Mexican roots and equatorial groves into modern factory machinery and English teacups.
Distributive Justice: The Right and Wrong of Our Present Distribution of Wealth
John A. (John Augustine) Ryan
An ethical framework balances economic realism with moral duty, seeking to evaluate how society distributes its wealth among landowners, capitalists, business managers, and wage-earning workers.
Dutch and Flemish Furniture
Esther Singleton
Spanning medieval carpentry, Renaissance elegance, and Golden Age prosperity, the domestic Arts of the Low Countries reveal how trade, craft, and cross-cultural exchanges transformed everyday wooden objects into magnificent historic treasures.
Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions
Slason Thompson
A vibrant portrait of a legendary American newspaperman, this biography reveals how a child's imagination and a rogue's sense of mischief combined to shape a unique figure in nineteenth-century letters.
His Most Gracious Majesty King Edward VII
Marie Belloc Lowndes
Trace the long, methodical preparation of a modern monarch from a cheerful boyhood in the Scottish Highlands to the quiet mastery of statecraft.
Kotto: Being Japanese Curios, with Sundry Cobwebs
Lafcadio Hearn
An intimate, reflective collection of folk stories, ghostly legends, and personal essays that captures the subtle spiritual currents of traditional Japanese life.
Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution: His Life and Work
A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard
Long before Charles Darwin revolutionized biology, a visionary French naturalist laid the foundational framework for evolutionary thought, only to be buried in obscurity and mischaracterized by subsequent generations of scientists.
Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 06 (of 10): Fra Giocondo to Niccolo Soggi
Giorgio Vasari
Celebrated masters and obscure artisans alike vie for patronage, immortality, and technical perfection across Renaissance Italy's bustling workshops, papal courts, and civic halls.
Loafing along Death Valley trails
William Caruthers
A sun-bleached travelogue and historical memoir, this volume captures the eccentric prospectors, boomtown frauds, and stark landscapes that defined America’s lowest point.
Locke
Thomas Fowler
A quiet scholar navigates political exile, fiscal crisis, and deep philosophical debates to construct a groundbreaking theory of human knowledge and civil liberty.
Michael Field
Mary Sturgeon
Two Englishwomen, aunt and niece, melded their creative spirits into a single authorial voice to fashion an enduring body of tragic and devotional verse.
Parables of the Cross
I. Lilias (Isabella Lilias) Trotter
By mapping the quiet transformation of flora to the spiritual life, this devotional work shows how genuine renewal requires a repeated, courageous surrender to death before a soul can truly blossom.
Psychology: an elementary text-book
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Human consciousness rests upon an intricate physical engine, yet its highest achievements transform raw sensation into art, belief, and purpose.
Rodin: The Man and His Art, with Leaves from His Note-book
Judith Cladel
A captivating exploration of the life, art, and philosophy of Auguste Rodin, one of the most influential sculptors of the 19th century.