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Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, Vol. 3 (of 5)
Plutarch
The ancient mind reaches across time, inviting us to examine the nature of the soul, the hidden logic of the cosmos, and the small, vital arts of living well.
Poems of James McIntyre
James McIntyre
A proud, earnest local chronicler turns the day-to-day realities of rural Ontario—from the intricacies of cheese production to the majesty of the Great Lakes—into sincere, unpretentious verse.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 10, 1892
Various
A razor-sharp mirror of late-Victorian life, this collection captures the skepticism, absurdity, and political maneuvering of 1892 through the eyes of London’s premier satirical voice. It is a portrait of an empire caught between rigid tradition and the frantic, noisy birth of the modern age.
Records, by Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Fisher
Fisher, John Arbuthnot Fisher, Baron
A restless, opinionated, and highly energetic memoir, this work captures the internal machinations of the British Admiralty during a period of profound technological upheaval. It serves as a personal manifesto for naval modernization, written by an architect of the Dreadnought era who valued efficiency and audacity…
Red Hunters and the Animal People
Charles A. Eastman
The wild world holds a mirror to the human soul, revealing a kinship between the hunter and the hunted that transcends the simple struggle for survival.
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Roberts' Chester Guide [1858]
Hugh Roberts
This mid-nineteenth-century manual provides a comprehensive, scholarly, and practical survey of Chester, meticulously curated to guide the Victorian visitor through the city’s profound architectural and historical layers.
School-days in 1800
Lucy Ellen Guernsey
This narrative chronicles the formative years of a young woman named Olivia at the dawn of the nineteenth century. It is a quiet, reflective account of a life shaped by the discipline of early American schooling, the loss of family wealth, and the rigors of an upbringing governed by faith and duty.
Selections from the Prose Writings of John Henry Cardinal Newman: For the Use of Schools
John Henry Newman
These selections offer a rare, intimate encounter with one of the nineteenth century’s most luminous minds, blending historical portraiture, theological reflection, and educational philosophy into a singular, enduring voice.
Sight Unseen
Mary Roberts Rinehart
The Neighborhood Club, an informal group of acquaintances, stumbles into a dark mystery when their amateur seances begin to mirror the real-life murder of a local businessman. This chilling exploration probes the tension between skepticism and the unknown.
Slipstream: the autobiography of an air craftsman
Eugene E. Wilson
The rise of American air power is not merely a tale of flying machines, but a story of the men, markets, and political maneuvering that forged a new industrial age.
Southern Lights and Shadows
Unknown
This collection of tales captures the raw, shifting texture of post-Civil War life in the American South, where the old romanticism of the past collided with the stark, unvarnished realities of the present. It is a work of quiet observation and local color, documenting the struggle to find meaning and stability in…
Studies of childhood
James Sully
A psychologist examines the hidden landscape of the early years, blending scientific observation with the tender, often humorous reality of watching a child’s mind unfold.
The Bondman: A New Saga
Caine, Hall, Sir
The ghosts of old Iceland and the Isle of Man collide when two men, bound by blood and separated by a sea of secrets, find their lives tethered to the same woman’s fate.
The Case of Jennie Brice
Mary Roberts Rinehart
A boardinghouse keeper in a flood-stricken city becomes the reluctant witness to a possible murder, only to find the truth buried beneath layers of theatrical deception and river debris.
The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley
James Whitcomb Riley
The human heart thrives on the small, unvarnished truths of daily life, where a simple rhyme or a neighbor’s eccentricity reveals more than the grandest epic.
The Divine Comedy, Volume 3, Paradise
Dante Alighieri
A soul ascends through the celestial spheres, moving from the moon to the blinding center of light, in search of ultimate truth. This final movement of the epic journey captures the architecture of divine love.
The Divine Vision, and Other Poems
George William Russell
The ancient gods of the Celtic landscape stir within these verses, bridging the gap between the mundane rhythm of human life and the burning, eternal light of the spirit.
The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus
G. A. (George Alexander) Chadwick
This exposition breathes new life into ancient narrative, treating the events of Exodus not as distant myths, but as a living, urgent history of divine intervention. It invites the reader to look past the literal surface of the text to find the bedrock of faith beneath.
The Forest Exiles: The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon
Mayne Reid
Adventure awaits in the deepest, most dangerous stretches of the Amazon, where a family must abandon everything they know to survive.
The Golden Calf, Which the World Adores, and Desires: In Which Is Handled the Most Rare and Incomparable Wonder of Nature, in Transmuting Metals
Johann Friedrich Helvetius
A physician recounts the impossible: a mysterious stranger visits his home, demonstrates the transmutation of lead into gold using a secret powder, and leaves behind a story that challenges the limits of natural philosophy.
The Hungry Tiger of Oz
Ruth Plumly Thompson
HOOK A gentle, oversized beast finds himself caught in a royal coup and a series of absurd, magical misadventures that threaten to turn him from a hero into a house pet.
The Iroquois
Anna C. (Anna Cummings) Johnson
This nineteenth-century inquiry into Iroquois life challenges the prevailing prejudices of its era by documenting the sophisticated social, religious, and political structures of a people long misunderstood. It serves as an earnest, humanizing portrait of a culture often maligned by the historical record.
The Life and Times of Queen Victoria
Robert Wilson
The Victorian era is often remembered as a monolith of stability, but this account reveals a turbulent period of shifting political alliances, bitter parliamentary obstruction, and the constant, uneasy friction between royal tradition and a changing world.
The Lonely Stronghold
Reynolds, Baillie, Mrs.
A young woman accepts a mysterious job at a remote, ancient fortress, only to find herself ensnared in the complex psychological games of two enigmatic brothers.
The manufacture of mineral and lake pigments
Josef Bersch
Precise chemical knowledge transforms the messy, empirical traditions of color-making into a reliable industrial science. This comprehensive guide details the precise synthesis of pigments, ensuring consistency, permanence, and brilliance for the professional manufacturer.
The Mental Life of Monkeys and Apes: A Study of Ideational Behavior
Robert Mearns Yerkes
This 1916 study pioneers the use of multiple-choice experiments to measure the cognitive abilities and ideational behavior of monkeys and an orangutan.
The Place of Animals in Human Thought
Martinengo-Cesaresco, Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington, contessa
The history of human civilization is inextricably linked to our evolving relationship with the animal kingdom, revealing as much about our own souls as it does about the creatures we have long sought to understand.
The Sepoy
Edmund Candler
These intimate portraits of the Indian soldier capture the diverse character, traditions, and quiet bravery of the men who served in the British Indian Army during the First World War.
The Shoes of Fortune
Neil Munro
The hand of chance often ruins the best-laid plans, turning a simple errand or a minor household mishap into a lifelong journey of flight, danger, and unexpected grace.
The Short Line War
Samuel Merwin
The battle for a small railroad becomes a crucible for character, where the ruthless efficiency of modern business collides with the messy, human weight of love and regret. It is a sharp, atmospheric study of power and the men who wield it.
The Silent Isle
Arthur Christopher Benson
A man trades the frantic pace of professional life for a quiet, deliberate existence, only to find that contentment is not a destination one reaches, but a fragile, shifting state of mind. This meditative work explores the tension between the call of the world and the deep, often isolating, necessity of the inner life.
The Stories of the Three Burglars
Frank R. Stockton
A homeowner captures three burglars in his library, only to find them eager to justify their criminal careers through increasingly elaborate and improbable tales of woe.
The stranger in France
Carr, John, Sir
A traveler’s candid, observational account of post-revolutionary France, written at the dawn of the nineteenth century when the peace between England and the Napoleonic Republic was still fresh, fragile, and full of curiosity.
The Sun Dance of the Blackfoot Indians
Clark Wissler
A ceremony of profound sacrifice and community, the Sun Dance stands as the spiritual cornerstone of the Blackfoot people. This record captures the intricate rituals and internal life of a tradition once central to Plains Indian existence.
The Tempting of Tavernake
E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
A solitary, rigid Englishman finds his orderly life shattered when he becomes the guardian of a mysterious, desperate woman, leading him into a web of international intrigue and moral discovery.
The Turk and his lost provinces
William Eleroy Curtis
This work serves as a window into the volatile, shifting landscape of the Balkan Peninsula at the dawn of the twentieth century, capturing a region poised on the brink of profound historical change.
The Wonder of War on Land
Francis Rolt-Wheeler
The world shifts as a young boy witnesses the opening fires of the Great War, discovering that the machinery of global conflict spares neither the innocent nor the dreamer.
The Young Explorer
Alger, Horatio, Jr.
A young orphan leaves his country home to seek his fortune in the Gold Rush, only to find that the journey to adulthood requires more integrity than gold.
Unravelled Knots
Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
An eccentric, string-twisting recluse solves the most baffling criminal mysteries of his day from the quiet isolation of a corner table in a London teashop.
Weird Tales, Volume 1, Number 3, May, 1923: The unique magazine
Various
A singular collection of pulp-era fiction and earnest vocational advertisements, this volume captures the breathless, sensational spirit of early twentieth-century genre magazines.
Who goes there?
B. K. (Blackwood Ketcham) Benson
The fog of war is profound, but for a soldier plagued by recurring amnesia, the greatest battle is the one he fights to reclaim his own name and identity.
Wood Carvings in English Churches: I. Stalls and Tabernacle Work. II. Bishop's Thrones and Chancel Chairs
Francis Bond
Wood and stone speak of the past, capturing the quiet dignity of ritual and the precise craftsmanship of centuries gone by. These remnants of devotion offer a window into the artistic evolution of the English church.
Wulf the Saxon: A Story of the Norman Conquest
G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
This historical narrative follows a young Saxon thane caught in the turbulent clash of cultures during the Norman Conquest, charting his journey from loyal page to a man navigating a transformed England.
A Hundred Anecdotes of Animals
Percy J. Billinghurst
This collection gathers one hundred curious tales of animal behavior, ranging from the domestic to the exotic, to challenge our assumptions about the creatures that share our world.
A Short History of English Liberalism
W. Lyon (Walter Lyon) Blease
This analysis traces the evolution of British political life, interpreting 150 years of legislative shifts through the lens of a philosophy that prizes individual liberty and state accountability.
A Short Narrative of the Life and Actions of His Grace John, D. of Marlborogh
Daniel Defoe
A brilliant general faces the shifting tides of political favor in this urgent defense of England’s most celebrated military commander, written by a master of polemical prose.
America, Through the Spectacles of an Oriental Diplomat
Tingfang Wu
An observant Chinese diplomat offers a candid, cross-cultural critique of early 20th-century American life, balancing admiration for democratic energy with skepticism toward Western habits and social conventions.
April Hopes
William Dean Howells
The polished surface of Boston society hides a nervous, shifting instability that young lovers must navigate with more sincerity than they possess. This study of courtship exposes the fragile illusions that govern the most important of human choices.