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Stories by English Authors: The Orient (Selected by Scribners)
Unknown
An empire's distant margins transform Western wanderers, orientalists, and women into seekers who risk their reason, their lives, or their solemn honor for power and belonging.
The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A wandering young idealist flees every steady path laid out for him, driven by an unquenchable inner life and an uncanny talent for self-sabotage.
The Covenant of Salt: As Based on the Significance and Symbolism of Salt in Primitive Thought
H. Clay (Henry Clay) Trumbull
A shared pinch of salt can bind two mortal enemies in a sacred, life-and-death pact that neither dares to break.
The Death of the Lion
Henry James
A brilliant writer is slowly devoured by the very society that claims to worship his genius.
The Girl from Keller's
Harold Bindloss
In the shadow of a changing Canadian frontier, two mismatched couples navigate pride, sacrifice, and the grueling trial of self-determination.
The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi
Candide Chalippe
A devotion so radical it transforms an ordinary man into an iconic vessel of absolute poverty, mystical visions, and complete self-renunciation.
The Mountains
Stewart Edward White
An invitation to throw off the constraints of civilised life and ride deep into the raw, soaring wilderness of the California Sierra Nevada.
The Pleasures of England: Lectures given in Oxford
John Ruskin
A impassioned call for spiritual and artistic renewal, this work challenges modern notions of progress by examining the historical foundations of English culture, faith, and imagination.
The Trampling of the Lilies
Rafael Sabatini
A clerk's forbidden love for a noblewoman collides with the violent fury of the French Revolution, forging a path through terror and betrayal to a devotion that triumphs over the blade.
The Turmoil: A Novel
Booth Tarkington
A sickly young idealist is pushed into his father’s industrial empire, where he must choose between the poetry he loves and the brutal, smoke-choked world of Midwestern wealth.
The U. P. Trail
Zane Grey
A young surveyor battles brutal wilderness, corrupt land-grabbers, and personal despair as the Union Pacific Railroad carves its fiery path across nineteenth-century America.
The Village Watch-Tower
Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
A collection of quiet, observational stories captures the small-town lives, eccentricities, and emotional quietures of 19th-century rural Maine.
Ulster's Stand For Union
Ronald McNeill
When the British Parliament attempts to force Home Rule upon Ireland, the Protestant majority in the northern province of Ulster mounts a fierce, highly organized campaign to remain inside the United Kingdom.
Wreaths of Friendship: A Gift for the Young
T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
Everyday actions carry quiet moral weights, shaping character through subtle choices made in youth.
A Book of Jewish Thoughts
Unknown
An enduring faith shines through centuries of struggle to reveal a rich tapestry of spiritual wisdom and unyielding hope.
History of a literary radical, and other essays
Randolph Silliman Bourne
A rebellious American intellectual challenges the calcified orthodoxies of classic literature, puritanical morals, and narrow nationalism to champion a dynamic, open-minded culture driven by youth.
Mga Paquigpulong sa Iningles ug Binisaya
Gregorio de Santiago Vela
A practical tool designed for communication across cultures, this volume opens a window into the everyday interactions of a transitional era. Written as a guide for young native speakers, it bridges the gap between local speech and global dialogue.
Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2
Nathaniel Hawthorne
An artist’s private journal offers an extraordinary portal into the mechanics of creation, capturing the daily friction between domestic necessity and the quiet pursuit of imaginative genius.
Reminiscences: The Story of an Emigrant
Hans Mattson
From a teenage immigrant in untamed Minnesota to an American consul general navigating the high society and sacred rivers of India, Hans Mattson lives the full promise of the nineteenth-century frontier.
Seven Mohave Myths
A. L. (Alfred Louis) Kroeber
In vast, ancient landscapes along the Colorado River, ancestral beings shape the world through song, conflict, dream, and divine decree.
A History of Pantomime
R. J. Broadbent
Across centuries, theatrical history reveals how silent gesture and spectacle evolved from ancient religious rites into modern stage craft.
Alexander Pope
Leslie Stephen
A delicate, physically frail man uses razor-sharp wits and endless literary scheming to rule eighteenth-century English poetry from his suburban retreat, turning personal grudges and physical pain into timeless, brilliant verse.
An English Garner: Critical Essays & Literary Fragments
Unknown
Eloquence tamed primitive humanity into social order, yet the public sphere remains a chaotic arena of literary feuds, economic anxiety, and intellectual pretension.
Beauty and the beast
Unknown
A gentle maiden’s selfless love breaks a terrible enchantment, proving that true beauty lies within the soul and that kindness holds the ultimate power to redeem.
Christopher and Columbus
Elizabeth Von Arnim
Fleeing anti-German sentiment during World War I, two seventeen-year-old orphaned Anglo-German twins voyage to America under the care of a well-meaning bachelor, only to face social suspicion, eccentric chaperones, and the misadventures of starting an English tea-house.
Convict Life at the Minnesota State Prison, Stillwater, Minnesota
William Casper Heilbron
An insider's tour of a turn-of-the-century penitentiary reveals how modern administrative discipline, industrialized labor, and institutional reform transformed the grim reality of criminal punishment.
Corinne
Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine) Staël
When a grieving Scottish nobleman meets Rome’s most celebrated artist and improvisational poet, their passionate connection forces a choice between duty, cultural expectation, and the demands of artistic genius.
Crooked Trails
Frederic Remington
When the frontier was fading into history, a famous artist set down the rough reality of its survivors, soldiers, and scouts. The result is a vivid, unvarnished portrait of an America forged in dust, snow, and blood.
De Soto, Coronado, Cabrillo: Explorers of the Northern Mystery
David Lavender
Driven by eight centuries of crusading zeal and rumors of unimaginable wealth, Spanish conquistadores pushed far beyond their Central American strongholds to map the vast, unpredictable northern wilderness of the sixteenth-century American continent.
Early American Plays, 1714-1830: A Compilation of the Titles of Plays and Dramatic Poems Written by Authors Born in or Residing in North America Previous to 1830
Oscar Wegelin
A meticulously organized record of early North American drama reveals how a fledgling nation sought its voice through patriotic pageantry, satirical farces, and European adaptations.
Eric
F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar
A vibrant, warm-hearted schoolboy enters a strict boarding school, only to find his integrity slowly chipped away by the quiet temptations of bad company and compromise.
George Washington
William Roscoe Thayer
Behind the myth of the nation’s founding father lies a flesh-and-blood Virginian whose extraordinary self-command, physical stamina, and quiet determination shaped a fledgling republic through sheer strength of character.
German Culture Past and Present
Ernest Belfort Bax
The social order of medieval Europe unravels as new financial systems, peasant revolts, and religious schisms reshape the daily life and cultural trajectory of the German nation.
Heroines of the Crusades
C. A. (Celestia Angenette) Bloss
In their devotion and their daring, six royal women shape the fate of Europe and the Holy Land across two turbulent centuries of holy war.
Historical Parallels, vol. 1 (of 3)
Arthur Thomas Malkin
History repeats itself, providing a mirror in which the triumphs and failures of the past illuminate the struggles of our own time. By placing ancient narratives alongside medieval and modern accounts, these pages reveal the enduring patterns of human behavior.
Holinshed's Chronicles, vol. 2 of 6, slice 12 of 12: England, 1377-1399, Richard II
Raphael Holinshed
A young king's fragile reign falls apart under the weight of peasant rebellion, aristocratic feud, and his own flawed judgment, culminating in his quiet surrender of the crown to his ambitious cousin.
Home as Found: Sequel to "Homeward Bound"
James Fenimore Cooper
A returned family discovers that their beloved homeland has traded its high ideals for democratic vulgarity, wild speculation, and petty provincial tyranny.
Korean Buddhism: History—Condition—Art
Frederick Starr
Centuries of exile in mountain sanctuaries have not extinguished Korean Buddhism; it is quietly reawakening to shape its nation's cultural and spiritual future.
Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch
H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard
A young Dutch woman’s fateful encounter with a ruthless Spanish officer binds her family’s destiny to the bloody struggle for religious and political freedom in the sixteenth-century Netherlands.
Pleasure & Profit in Bible Study
Dwight Lyman Moody
To unlock the scriptures, one must move past casual reading and approach the text with intentional, active engagement. Transforming the Bible from a dusty volume into a lifelong source of vigor requires structured methods, persistent curiosity, and personal application.
Pottery, for Artists, Craftsmen & Teachers
George James Cox
To shape raw earth into enduring beauty, one must learn where the artist's intuition meets the rigid truths of chemistry and fire.
Prehistoric Men
Robert J. (Robert John) Braidwood
A accessible study tracing humanity's rise from early toolmakers to settled farmers, grounding deep history in material evidence rather than speculative myth.
Recollections of a Military Life
Adye, John, Sir
A professional gunner charts the evolution of Victorian imperial warfare across forty years, recording the transition from Crimean mud and Indian insurgencies to administrative reform and desert engagements.
Selected English Letters (XV-XIX Centuries)
Unknown
A small, quiet window opens into five centuries of private lives, showing how the art of writing to one another changed from a grave necessity to a joyful, intimate pastime.
Tales from Gorky
Maksim Gorky
Across desolate steppes, subterranean bakeries, and wind-scoured harbors, wandering outcasts, broken laborers, and petty thieves barter their bodies and souls for a mouthful of bread, discovering that freedom and cruelty share the very same road.
The Evolution Theory, Vol. 2 of 2
August Weismann
A landmark work of evolutionary biology, this second volume presents a bold defense of selectionism through a vast survey of animal life, cellular mechanics, and inherited variation.
The Fairy Godmothers and Other Tales
Gatty, Alfred, Mrs.
Childhood mischief and quiet grace meet in this collection of Victorian fables that explore how ordinary human efforts shape the soul.
The Homosexual Neurosis
Wilhelm Stekel
Early psychoanalytic practice meets the clinical study of sexual variance in this ambitious work, which attempts to map the human psyche through detailed case histories of compulsion, family conflict, and repressed desires.