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The Autobiography of a Quack, and The Case of George Dedlow
S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell
Fraudulent doctors and phantom limbs collision course in this double bill of medical oddities from the nineteenth century.
The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (May 1913): Vol. LXXXVI. New Series: Vol. LXIV. May to October, 1913
Various
An expansive canvas of early twentieth-century American thought, literature, and social reform captures a culture poised on the threshold of the modern world.
The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, March 1884, No. 6
Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle
An ambition to cultivate minds across nineteenth-century America takes physical shape in this comprehensive monthly periodical, where historical drama, scientific discovery, and spiritual instruction intersect to form a self-improvement program for every household.
The Confession: A Novel
Maksim Gorky
Driven by an unquenchable spiritual hunger, an orphaned peasant wanders through the dark heart of Imperial Russia in search of a true, living God—only to discover that divinity resides not in heaven, but within the collective human soul.
The Devil
Tolstoy, Leo, graf
A respectably married estate owner finds himself helplessly consumed by a secret physical obsession with a local peasant woman.
The Entail
John Galt
Obsessive ambition destroys a family when an old Scottish landholder disinherits his capable eldest son to rebuild a vanished ancestral estate, sparking generations of legal scheme, greed, and eventual reckoning across the West of Scotland.
The Escaping Club
A. J. (Alfred John) Evans
A British aviator captured in the First World War treats his captivity not as a sentence, but as a high-stakes game of endurance, strategy, and relentless escape across enemy lines.
The Genius of Scotland
Robert Turnbull
Amid shadowy glens, misty crags, and ancient ruins, a nation's soul reveals itself through its sacred songs, rugged landscape, and enduring heroic faith.
The Girls' Book of Famous Queens
Lydia Hoyt Farmer
Across ages and borders, female rulers have seized power, led armies, survived betrayals, and shaped empires through sheer force of intellect and will.
The Golden Woman: A Story of the Montana Hills
Ridgwell Cullum
A cursed orphan flees to the Montana hills, only to find that the tragedy following her might be built on human greed rather than fate.
The greedy book
Frank Schloesser
A celebration of the table that turns dining into an art, this collection of essays explores the history, literature, and eccentricities of human appetite.
The Harbours of England
John Ruskin
A humble wooden boat resting in the sand holds all the miracle of human navigation, a simple form carved by necessity to weather the ocean's expanse.
The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories
George Gissing
Quiet lives collide with poverty, pride, and compromised dreams in a collection that reveals how the minor struggles of ordinary people shape their entire existence.
The Icknield Way
Edward Thomas
A weary traveller traces the spine of England's oldest road, measuring every footstep against centuries of buried history and the indifferent beauty of the changing countryside.
The Jingle Book
Carolyn Wells
A whimsical world of absurdity, clever rhymes, and playful mischief unfolds through a vibrant collection of rhythmic nursery verse and lighthearted storytelling.
The King of the Mountains
Edmond About
A young German botanist is captured by a ruthless Greek bandit who runs his ransom ring like a joint-stock company.
The Later Renaissance
David Hannay
A shared intellectual impulse swept across Europe in the late sixteenth century, transforming national traditions through a collective wrestling with classical models and native genius.
The Life and Works of Joseph Wright, A.R.A., commonly called "Wright of Derby"
William Bemrose
A dedicated account of a brilliant artist whose masterly handling of light and shadow earned him a lasting place in the story of British painting.
The Mysterious Basket
Anonymous
A stolen infant finds a home in an old violincello, setting off a winding tale of swapped identity, musical passion, and unexpected reunion.
The Navy of the American Revolution
Charles Oscar Paullin
Behind the daring sea battles of the American Revolution lay a chaotic, improvised bureaucratic machine struggling to build, equip, and direct a navy from scratch.
The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain: Nineteenth Century Europe
J. A. (John Adam) Cramb
An ambitious historical argument presents British imperialism not as a mere grab for territory, but as a spiritual destiny rooted in freedom and individual conscience.
The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 2
R. H. (Robert Henry) Newell
A satirical correspondent sends absurd dispatches from the front lines and Washington, sending up military bungling, press censorship, political hypocrisy, and literary melodrama.
The Roman and the Teuton: A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge
Charles Kingsley
A youthfully energetic, boyish race of Germanic tribesmen collides with the decay of an exhausted Roman empire, transforming a continent through brute force, moral vigor, and spiritual discipline.
The Story of General Gordon
Jean Lang
A life measured not by titles or self-preservation, but by total devotion to duty, single-minded faith, and absolute fearlessness in the face of impossible odds.
The tale of Buster Bumblebee
Arthur Scott Bailey
A lazy, handsome drone navigates the gentle perils and absurd misunderstandings of meadow life, blissfully unaware of his own comic uselessness.
The Valuation of Public Service Corporation Property: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Henry Earle Riggs
An authoritative early twentieth-century survey of public service valuation, framing infrastructure assessment as a crucial balance between corporate solvency and public accountability.
The West Indies and the Spanish Main
James Rodway
Centuries of conquest, piracy, and human exploitation transform the Caribbean basin from a quiet archipelago into the bloody crossroads of global empire.
The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted
Katharine Ellis Barrett
A summer of ambition turns into a year of deepening ties as four young women navigate small-town projects, international travel, and the shared joys of early adulthood.
The world's navies in the Boxer rebellion (China 1900)
Charles Cabry Dix
A firsthand account of the Boxer Rebellion, offering a detailed look at the international naval forces that intervened in China during this tumultuous period.
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Truth [Vérité]
Émile Zola
A child is found murdered in a small French village, and the suspicion cast upon a Jewish schoolmaster tears the town apart, exposing the dark machinery of bigotry, institutional corruption, and the long struggle for the soul of a secular nation.
Twenty-Five Cent Dinners for Families of Six
Juliet Corson
Practical frugality meets culinary discipline in this classic guide, which proves that nutritious, flavorful meals can be served on the thinnest of household budgets.
Uncle Sam, Detective
William Atherton DuPuy
A sleek, early-twentieth-century federal agent matching wits with clever swindlers, gun-toting moonshiners, and global smugglers reveals the unglamorous, methodical reality of true American criminal investigation.
Under the Redwoods
Bret Harte
Rough-hewn mining camps, coastal solitudes, and urban shadows frame a striking gallery of California originals, where sudden shifts of fate constantly test the limits of human resilience, affection, and pride.
Vandover and the Brute
Frank Norris
A young artist's soul slowly dissolves as he trades his talent and moral compass for the fleeting pleasures of San Francisco’s gilded nightlife.
Wanted: A Husband. A Novel
Samuel Hopkins Adams
A plain, forgotten woman uses sheer grit, a fictional British fiancé, and a physical makeover to transform her life, finding unexpected love in the process.
Washington Irving
Charles Dudley Warner
A boy touched on the head by his presidential namesake grows into the first American writer to charm Europe without sacrificing his quiet national pride.
What's Mine's Mine
George MacDonald
A young Highlander and an English heiress must bridge the chasm between ancestral duty, spiritual awakenings, and the harsh realities of Victorian land clearance in the Scottish mountains.
With Moore at Corunna
G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
An Irish officer’s quick wits save a regimental wing at sea and launch him into the heart of the Peninsular War.
A Bird of Passage, and Other Stories
Beatrice Harraden
A transient encounter with an enigmatic outsider can awaken quiet lives to new possibilities, but it rarely leaves everything unbroken when it passes.
A Book of the Cevennes
S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
High above the rivers of southern France, a rugged wilderness of limestone and granite preserves the memory of fiery ancient volcanoes, bloody religious wars, and the stubborn peasants who carved their lives from its rocky soil.
A Man of Means
P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
A modest bank balance can secure a comfortable life, but an unexpected fortune brings only chaotic entanglements, absurdity, and the constant, desperate desire to be poor again.
A Persian Pearl, and Other Essays
Clarence Darrow
To look directly into the eyes of human flaw, fate, and mortality without turning to rigid dogma is the first step toward genuine compassion.
All along the River: A Novel
M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
A young wife’s fatal misstep during her husband’s prolonged absence in Burmah leads to a harrowing legacy of secret guilt, broken health, and devastating remorse.
Beltane the Smith
Jeffery Farnol
A gentle giant bred to forge iron finds himself thrust into a bloody struggle to reclaim his birthright and deliver a oppressed duchy from tyranny.
Captivity
Leonora Eyles
A young Scottish woman marries a weak-willed medical student, enduring his alcoholism across two continents before discovering that self-sacrifice alone cannot save another soul.
Chancellorsville and Gettysburg: Campaigns of the Civil War - VI
Abner Doubleday
A veteran commander pulls back the curtain on the pivotal battles of the Civil War, revealing how miscommunications, stubbornness, and raw human courage reshaped a fractured nation.
Colin Clink, Volume 2 (of 3)
Charles Hooton
An illegitimate son seeking his way, a ruthless country doctor hiding a secret, and the dark underbelly of nineteenth-century England frame this forgotten Victorian tale of greed and vengeance.
Cornish Feasts and Folk-lore
M. A. (Margaret Ann) Courtney
A rich local record gathers the seasonal gatherings, ancient superstitions, and lived practices of a county steeped in regional memory.