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Mary Lamb
Anne (Anne Burrows) Gilchrist
This biography offers an intimate, compassionate portrait of a writer whose brilliance was inseparable from the crushing weight of her mental illness and the lifelong devotion of her brother.
Modern educators and their ideals
Tadasu Misawa
A sweeping study of modern pedagogical thought traces how major European and American thinkers reshaped the way societies cultivate the minds and bodies of the young.
My Friends the Savages: Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula)
Giovanni Battista Cerruti
A wanderer abandons the comforts of civilization to live among the indigenous peoples of the Malay Peninsula, trading the known world for the unpredictable, shadowed depths of the jungle. This account captures the delicate, often perilous boundary between a colonial observer and the remote forest dwellers he calls…
My War Experiences in Two Continents
S. (Sarah) Macnaughtan
A woman of deep reserves and sharp observation leaves the comforts of London to confront the visceral reality of a world at war. She finds herself not in the halls of power, but in the mud of the front.
On Compromise
John Morley
The struggle for personal integrity requires a willingness to stand apart from the crowd, even when the path to truth demands the sacrifice of social comfort and conventional approval.
Penelope's Experiences in Scotland: Being Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton
Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
A trio of American friends traverses the landscape and culture of late 19th-century Scotland, finding their own romantic and personal lives transformed by the country’s rugged charm.
Personal Friendships of Jesus
J. R. (James Russell) Miller
This meditation explores the intimate, human side of a divine figure, examining the bonds he forged and the transformative power of his companionship. It serves as a devotional guide for those seeking to mirror that same grace in their own relationships.
Raemaekers' Cartoons: With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers
Louis Raemaekers
A collection of searing political cartoons from the First World War, this volume documents the moral outrage of a neutral observer witnessing the systematic dismantling of European civilization. Each image serves as an unflinching indictment of state-sanctioned violence and the erosion of human decency.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume IX, Mississippi Narratives
United States. Work Projects Administration
These direct testimonies from former enslaved people in Mississippi record the lived textures of bondage, the upheaval of emancipation, and the complex realities of life in the post-Civil War South.
Some Reminiscences
Joseph Conrad
A master of the sea and the pen reveals the origins of his dual life, reflecting on how a sailor becomes a writer and how the right word can alter the world.
Southern War Songs: Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental
Unknown
The cadences of a lost nation echo through these verses, capturing the fierce pride, the domestic grief, and the defiant humor of a people at war. This collection serves as a rhythmic ledger of the Southern experience during the American Civil War.
Stair-building and the steel square
Fred T. (Frederick Thomas) Hodgson
Whether you are restoring a historic home or simply curious about the geometry of the built world, this guide offers an essential, hands-on look at the foundational craft of traditional stair-building and timber framing.
The American Indians: Their History, Condition and Prospects, from Original Notes and Manuscripts
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
In the wilderness of early America, an observant traveler listens to a vanishing world and records its voices, traditions, and enduring spirit before time alters them forever.
The Art of the Story-Teller
Marie L. Shedlock
This guide treats the oral tradition not as a classroom chore, but as a high art form that demands both rigorous preparation and the intuitive soul of an artist. It reveals how to hold a child’s attention through the power of the spoken word.
The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays
John Joly
The Earth is a vessel of hidden clocks, from the salt in the sea to the radioactive decay within its very stones, all ticking toward a vast and ancient understanding.
The Driver
Garet Garrett
A visionary industrialist fights to build a railroad empire in the shadow of the 1894 economic collapse, facing both the hostility of Wall Street and the crushing weight of his own family’s resentment.
The etiquette of engagement and marriage
G. R. M. Devereux
Navigating the delicate social minefield of Victorian courtship and marriage requires both tact and tradition. This guide offers a comprehensive manual for those seeking to secure a partner while upholding the rigorous standards of the era.
The Grotesque in Church Art
T. Tindall (Thomas Tindall) Wildridge
The grotesque figures staring from ancient church wood and stone remain mysterious, hiding profound mythic origins beneath their strange, distorted features. This exploration invites readers to look past the surface of medieval carvings to discover the remnants of forgotten belief systems preserved in our cathedrals.
The Jacquard Machine Analyzed and Explained: With an appendix on the preparation of jacquard cards, and practical hints to learners of jacquard designing
E. A. (Emanuel Anthony) Posselt
This technical treatise serves as an essential manual for understanding the mechanics and design theory of the Jacquard loom, a pivotal invention in industrial textile manufacturing. It functions as both a blueprint for machine operation and a guide for the aspiring designer.
The Keepsake
Anonymous
Clear moral instruction meets the vivid domestic world of Regency-era childhood in a sequence of verse vignettes that balance parental discipline with outdoor play.
The Log School-House on the Columbia
Hezekiah Butterworth
This evocative tale of the Pacific Northwest follows a young woman and a devoted teacher as they navigate the volatile landscape of pioneer settlement, indigenous relations, and the encroaching dangers of the 1840s.
The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I: Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns
Pöllnitz, Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von
A refined, wandering nobleman offers an intimate look at the shifting political alliances and private lives of eighteenth-century European courts, blending travelogue with the sharp-eyed gossip of a seasoned insider.
The Poetical Works of John Skelton, Volume 2 (of 2)
John Skelton
A riotous, sharp-tongued parrot holds court for Tudor England, unleashing a torrent of multilingual satire against corrupt prelates, courtly fools, and foreign rivals.
The Student-Life of Germany
William Howitt
A vibrant, unruly, and often dangerous world emerges from these pages, capturing the singular, fleeting epoch of German university life during the early nineteenth century.
The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron
The discarded verses of a master poet reveal the restless, searching spirit beneath the polished surface of his later, celebrated works.
The Wolf's Long Howl
Stanley Waterloo
This collection of stories explores the collision between ancient human instincts and modern civilization, capturing the strange, often turbulent evolution of the human spirit across vast stretches of time.
Turrets, towers, and temples
Unknown
A grand monument is never merely stone; it is the living memory of human faith, imperial triumph, and inevitable ruin.
Walking Shadows: Sea Tales and Others
Alfred Noyes
The shadows cast by the Great War define this collection, revealing the quiet, unreckoned lives caught in the machinery of a world gone dark. These stories find dignity and sudden clarity in the face of an encroaching, mechanized terror.
War Days in Brittany
Elsie Deming Jarves
The Great War is a tragedy of blood and iron, yet in the quiet corners of Brittany, it reveals a resilient humanity that refuses to be extinguished by the shadow of the trenches.
Watched by Wild Animals
Enos A. Mills
The wilderness is rarely a silent place, but rather a theater where the observer is constantly being watched by the very creatures he seeks to study.
A guide to the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in the city of New York: Fifth Edition
Edward Hagaman Hall
A monumental American structure rises slowly through faith and stone, transforming ancient Gothic architectural traditions into a living, democratic sanctuary for a modern metropolis.
A History of the Durham Miner's Association 1870-1904
John Wilson
How a fragile union of British coal miners transformed into a powerful industrial force through thirty-five years of patient organization, fierce strikes, and reasoned conciliation.
A Lady of England: The Life and Letters of Charlotte Maria Tucker
Agnes Giberne
A clever, spirited English woman resolves in girlhood to overcome her plain looks through goodwill, only to reinvent herself in middle age as a prolific author and intrepid missionary in northern India. <Image alt="Portrait of Charlotte Maria Tucker" caption="Charlotte Maria Tucker (A. L. O. E.)"…
A New Witness for God (Volume 1 of 3)
B. H. (Brigham Henry) Roberts
When institutional religions fracture and abandon their initial spark, a solitary voice must step forward to claim that divine revelation has returned to repair a broken world.
Adventures in Friendship
David Grayson
A quiet journey through the Massachusetts countryside reveals that the deepest human connections and most profound truths are hiding in plain sight along everyday dirt roads.
Akbar: An Eastern Romance
P. A. S. van (Petrus Abraham Samuel) Limburg Brouwer
This historical romance offers an immersive portrait of the Mughal Emperor Akbar, blending the intrigue of a sprawling imperial court with the philosophical struggles of a ruler seeking truth in a world of clashing faiths.
Alec Forbes of Howglen
George MacDonald
A boy’s reckless vitality and a girl’s quiet devotion navigate the harsh pieties, frozen rivers, and sudden drownings of a small Scottish town.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 12: American Leaders
John Lord
Great leaders do not shape history in a vacuum; they are forged by the fierce economic, legal, and regional friction of their eras.
Black Rock: A Tale of the Selkirks
Ralph Connor
A small band of men and women wage a fierce, high-stakes battle for the souls and sanity of rough timber-cutters and miners trapped in the lawless wilderness of Western Canada.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume 09 (of 10): Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de
Nature's intricate variety emerges through rigorous observation, tracing the fine boundaries where species meet, diverge, and adapt.
Cape Cod Stories
Joseph Crosby Lincoln
A crusty Cape Cod sea captain stumbles into hospitality, where eccentric summer tourists, runaway heiresses, and slippery local prophets prove far harder to navigate than any Atlantic gale.
Castle Richmond
Anthony Trollope
A quiet Irish estate becomes a battlefield of extortion, where an old fraud threatens to erase an entire family’s name, land, and future.
Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture
William Saunders
This guide serves as a practical, encyclopedic inventory of the diverse botanical specimens maintained by the United States Department of Agriculture in the late nineteenth century. It provides a crisp, descriptive survey of plants valued for their utility, medicinal properties, or industrial applications.
Donal Grant
George MacDonald
A young man takes a tutoring job at a remote castle, where he uncovers dark family secrets, a hidden chapel, and a love that transforms his life.
Europe After 8:15
H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
Three American travel writers strip away the romanticized myths of pre-war Europe, revealing a continent of artificial night life, provincial absurdities, and carefully manufactured pleasure.
Every Man in His Humour
Ben Jonson
An eccentric circle of Londoners spends a chaotic day chasing their absurd obsessions, false reputations, and misguided suspicions.
Flora
A. L. O. E.
A gentle young woman believes her life is built on pure Christian virtue, until a charismatic, unbelieving baronet tests her quiet countryside home and reveals the hidden pride of her own heart. <Image alt="Vintage Victorian red book cover with gold foil decorations" caption="Victorian edition of Flora"…
From Dan to Beersheba: A Description of the Wonderful Land, with Maps and Engravings and a Prologue by the Author Containing the Latest Explorations and Discoveries
John Philip Newman
This nineteenth-century travelogue conducts a rigorous, reverent journey across Palestine, blending precise geographic measurements with vivid historical and biblical commentary.