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The Poetical Works of Addison
John Gay
A collection of classical translations, courtly panegyrics, instructive fables, and sporting verse captures the changing literary appetites of eighteenth-century Britain.
The Politeness of Princes, and Other School Stories
P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
Schoolboy schemes, late-breakfast dodges, and pitch-level cricket battles collide in an early window onto P. G. Wodehouse's comedic genius.
The Queen Who Flew: A Fairy Tale
Ford Madox Ford
A young queen escapes the cage of her cold, political realm on magical wings, choosing the quiet warmth of a humble life over the weight of a crown.
The Red Year: A Story of the Indian Mutiny
Louis Tracy
Across the dust and fury of the Sepoy Mutiny, two lovers navigate a shattered empire of bloody sieges, daring disguises, and treacherous court intrigues.
The Royal Guide to Wax Flower Modelling
Emma Peachey
A master artisan reveals the intricate, patient craft of transforming plain sheets of wax into astonishingly lifelike floral arrangements, offering a meticulous guide that turns natural observation into enduring home ornaments and delicate royal keepsakes.
The Ruling Passion: Tales of Nature and Human Nature
Henry Van Dyke
A quietly resolute collection of wilderness stories showing how human devotion to music, duty, and affection survives the harshest frontier winters.
The Story of the White Mouse
Unknown
When a monarch's obsession with a green-eyed mouse derails his life, only a magical cat and a dose of harsh reality can save him.
The White Room
Fergus Hume
A corpse in a locked suburban house leads a web of lovers and suspects through hidden lives, false identities, and quiet suburban rot.
They of the High Trails
Hamlin Garland
A world of snow, granite, and sudden violence tests the women and men who make their lives above the line of easy comfort.
Uncle Wiggily's Story Book
Howard Roger Garis
A elderly rabbit in a top hat brings quiet comfort and clever rescue to troubled children and woodland creatures alike.
Under the Hill, and Other Essays in Prose and Verse
Aubrey Beardsley
A singular collection of literary and visual fragments, this volume illuminates the brief, incandescent career of an artist whose wit and aesthetic precision defined the decadent spirit of the late nineteenth century.
Under the Red Crescent: Adventures of an English Surgeon with the Turkish Army at Plevna and Erzeroum 1877-1878
Charles S. (Charles Snodgrass) Ryan
Caught between raw surgical horror and high-society flair, a young Australian doctor finds himself swept into the brutal bloodbaths of the Russo-Turkish War.
Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia?
Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov
Seven peasants meet on a high road and fall into an endless argument over a single question: who can live in Russia with happiness and freedom?
Winning the Wilderness
Margaret Hill McCarter
A young couple settles in the unbroken Kansas prairie, only to discover that building a life on the frontier demands decades of resilience against nature, war, and the slow transformation of the wilderness.
A Study of Association in Insanity
Grace Helen Kent
Words mirror the mind, but in illness, the mirroring shifts from common paths into deeply idiosyncratic landscapes.
Bird Biographies
Alice Eliza Ball
A classic field companion translates the vibrant world of eastern American birds into sharp physical descriptions, engaging behavioral observations, and rich literary appreciation.
Countess Vera
Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.
A wronged heiress returns under a false identity to exact vengeance on the cruel relatives who stole her life and the weak-willed husband who abandoned her.
Deadham Hard: A Romance
Lucas Malet
In a sleepy English coastal village, a young woman discovers a secret about her father's past that dismantles her innocence and alters her future.
Dear Brutus
J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
A moonlit garden on Midsummer Eve becomes the playground for a mysterious host who grants a group of discontented houseguests their deepest wish: a second chance at life.
Diary of a Pilgrimage
Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
Travelling across Victorian Europe to view a sacred spectacle yields a surprisingly modern travelogue filled with luggage misadventures, baffling language barrier mix-ups, and sudden moments of genuine reverence.
Dutch Bulbs and Gardens
Una L. Silberrad
Across the windswept coastal lowlands of Holland, centuries of quiet labor, strict science, and obsessive devotion transformed a modest agricultural enterprise into the world’s premier botanical craft.
History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria: A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions
G. (Gaston) Maspero
A monumental journey across millennia traces how early human settlements along fertile river basins evolved into the mighty empires that shaped ancient civilization.
Light-Fingered Gentry
David Graham Phillips
Behind the shimmering facades of Gilded Age Manhattan, where financial moguls juggle insurance reserves and societal posturing, a bitter corporate war forces two lovers to decide what their integrity is actually worth.
Light on the Path and Through the Gates of Gold
Mabel Collins
An esoteric guide to spiritual transformation, this brief treatise charts the inner discipline needed to transcend ordinary human desire and cross into divine consciousness.
Lo, Michael!
Grace Livingston Hill
A street urchin dives in front of a bullet to save a millionaire’s infant daughter, launching a lifelong transformation from slum boy to crusading attorney.
Prince and Heretic
Marjorie Bowen
Two brothers, a fragile marriage, and the shadow of an empire converge as a young prince stakes everything to challenge the world's most terrifying tyranny.
Prose Fancies (Second Series)
Richard Le Gallienne
To find wonder in a world choked with routine, one must look past the grey roofs of the everyday and learn to see with the luminous, defiant eyes of an artist.
St. Bernard's: The Romance of a Medical Student
Edward Berdoe
Behind the grand facade of Victorian charity lies a chilling reality: public hospitals where impoverished patients are treated as mere disposable material for medical experimentation.
St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
William Godwin
A French nobleman sacrifices his family and peace of mind when he accepts the double-edged gift of the philosopher’s stone and eternal youth from a dying stranger.
Strange Stories of the Great River: The Adventures of a Boy Explorer
Abbie Johnston Grosvenor
A spirited French boy traverses the unmapped wilderness of the Mississippi River, serving explorers, surviving capture, and witnessing the birth of a continental empire.
The Adventures of Bob White
Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess
When a clear, persistent whistle echoes across the Green Meadows, it signals both a cheery worker helping in the fields and a wary prey target dodging lurking predators.
The Art of Bookbinding: A practical treatise, with plates and diagrams
Joseph William Zaehnsdorf
Mastering the craft of binding printed pages into enduring, beautiful volumes demands meticulous attention to structural integrity, material selection, and decorative precision.
The Athelings
Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
Three siblings in a modest 19th-century London suburb navigate unexpected fame, mysterious aristocrats, and a life-changing inheritance case that tests their loyalties, romantic devotion, and family bonds.
The Babylonian Story of the Deluge as Told by Assyrian Tablets from Nineveh: The Discovery of the Tablets at Nineveh by Layard, Rassam and Smith
Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir
Unburied clay tablets from ancient Assyria reveal humanity’s oldest preserved myth of a world-ending flood and a hero’s desperate search for eternal life.
The Barbarism of Berlin
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
When a nation tears up its own solemn pledges, it abandons not just its honour, but the foundational principles that allow civilized society to exist.
The battles of the British Army
Robert Melvin Blackwood
Men march across continents to expand and hold an empire, facing horrific fusillades, hand-to-hand combat, and crushing losses in a centuries-long succession of bloody campaigns that shaped Great Britain's global domain.
The Black Box
E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
A trail of mysterious thefts, missing bones, and sudden violence draws an urban criminologist into a shadowy web where no suspect is quite what they seem.
The Captain's Story
Unknown
A wandering son flees his father's godly authority, suffers terrible maritime disasters, and spends decades believing he is cursed before finding divine grace and unexpected reconciliation.
The Culprit Fay, and Other Poems
Joseph Rodman Drake
A disgraced fairy battles river imps and storm demons across the Hudson Valley to restore his glowing wings and reclaim his place among the stars.
The First Quarter-Century of Steam Locomotives in North America: Remaining Relics and Operable Replicas with a Catalog of Locomotive Models in the U. S. National Museum. United States National Museum Bulletin 210
Smith Hempstone Oliver
An essential reference work for transit history enthusiasts, this catalog meticulously surveys the earliest surviving steam engines and operable replicas that forged North America's pioneer rail network.
The Girls of Chequertrees
Marion St. John Webb
Four young women are given fifty pounds, a country house, and six months without supervision, subject to a single rule: leave the locked room untouched.
The Heavenly Twins
Sarah Grand
Her rebellious mind was shaped by books her parents never thought to supervise, but her heart was broken by the quiet, accepted corruptions of the men her world insisted she must honor.
The Point Of Honor: A Military Tale
Joseph Conrad
Driven by an absurd, unyielding grudge, two French officers pursue a private duel across two decades of the Napoleonic Wars. They fight between grand battles, through ice and dust, transforming a trivial insult into a lifelong obsession.
The Quadroon: Adventures in the Far West
Mayne Reid
A sweeping tale of love, legal treachery, and flight across the Antebellum South, Mayne Reid’s 1856 novel pits romantic devotion against the cruel machinery of human chattel slavery.
The Quest of the Sacred Slipper
Sax Rohmer
A stolen Islamic relic unleashes a blood-drenched trail of unseen assassins across London, drawing an ordinary pressman into a deadly clash of faith and greed.
The Story of Ireland
Emily Lawless
A murky path beset with hidden pitfalls and fierce controversies invites only those willing to navigate its turns without total certainty. To guide others down it requires accepting that some histories retain their darkness despite every effort to illuminate them.
The Surgeon's Daughter
Walter Scott
A young Scottish surgeon travels from the quiet streets of his village to the dangerous, gilded courts of India in search of the woman he loves, battling treachery and betrayal to save her from a horrifying fate.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
William Shakespeare
Two lifelong friends venture out into the world only to find their devotion fractured by the sudden spell of love, betrayal, and disguise.