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Massacre at Paris
Christopher Marlowe
An unsparing portrait of political violence, Christopher Marlowe's historical drama turns the religious wars of sixteenth-century France into a breathless sequence of treachery, ambition, and sudden slaughter.
No Defense, Volume 1
Gilbert Parker
Irish pride, political intrigue, and a murder charge collide in a sprawling tale of chivalry, honor, and sacrifice.
One Basket
Edna Ferber
A collection of twelve short stories captures the quiet heartbreaks and sudden triumphs of everyday Americans coming of age alongside a rapidly transforming twentieth-century nation.
Plays: Comrades
August Strindberg
An ambitious marriage crumbles under the weight of false ideals, while a ruined family learns to endure the slow, painful work of forgiveness.
Queen Hortense: A Life Picture of the Napoleonic Era
L. (Luise) Mühlbach
A childhood forged in the shadow of the guillotine gives way to a glittering, tragic crown for a woman destined to stand at the heart of Napoleonic Europe.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Bahaism and Its Claims: A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Ullah and Abdul Baha
Samuel Graham Wilson
This polemical survey investigates the origins, theological claims, and internal history of a religious movement emerging from nineteenth-century Persia, challenging its self-presentation as a universal faith for the modern age. It acts as a critical counter-narrative, scrutinizing the movement's growth and its…