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The Triumph of Virginia Dale
John Francis
A wealthy young woman sets out to improve the lives of others, creating chaos in her small town until her stubborn, wealthy father learns to compromise.
The windfairies, and other tales
Mary De Morgan
Magic carries a quiet, exacting tax: true gifts require faithful keeping, selflessness exacts an ultimate cost, and shallow vanity turns every blessing sour.
The Wizard
H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard
A missionary's faith is tested in a land of wizards and kings.
The Women Who Came in the Mayflower
Annie Russell Marble
Before Plymouth became a monument, it was a fragile collection of homes kept alive by ordinary women whose fortitude and practical labor shaped the survival of a new society.
The Works of Charles James Lever: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Lever
Charles Lever
A master key unlocks the sweeping panorama of Victorian popular fiction, organizing military exploits, romantic misadventures, social satire, and high drama into an elegant structure.
The Works of Thomas Hood
Thomas Hood
A brilliant mix of slapstick, social observation, and verbal dexterity turns the absurdities of nineteenth-century English life into an unsparingly funny, unexpectedly tender portrait of human frailty.
Treatise on the Diseases of Women
Lydia Estes Pinkham
A straightforward guide to Victorian women’s health turns direct physiological instruction into a passionate pitch for proprietary patent medicines.
Uncle William: The Man Who Was Shif'less
Jennette Lee
A laid-back Nova Scotia fisherman teaches a struggling young artist that life is measured not by money made, but by time, peace, and human connection.
Winnetou, the Apache Knight
Karl May
A young surveyor journeys into the dangerous American West, only to find his life transformed by an extraordinary friendship with an Apache leader.
A Grammar of Freethought
Chapman Cohen
Human intellect thrives on unrestricted exchange, but dogma consistently seeks to chain expression to obsolete traditions. Breaking free requires treating critical inquiry as a fundamental duty rather than a dangerous sin.
A History of Sculpture
Ernest Henry Short
Sculpture flourishes when an entire community pours its collective ideals into bronze and stone, rather than when lonely geniuses work in isolation.
A Magnificent Fight: Marines in the Battle for Wake Island
Robert Cressman
Caught on a tiny Pacific atoll at the dawn of the Pacific War, a handful of American Marines, sailors, and civilian contractors mount a desperate, heroic defense against an overwhelming Japanese invasion force.
A Prefect's Uncle
P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
A new arrival at Beckford College discovers that his fourteen-year-old uncle is also joining the school, bringing sharp wit, cash, and endless trouble.
A Short History of the Salem Village Witchcraft Trials: Illustrated by a Verbatim Report of the Trial of Mrs. Elizabeth Howe
M. V. B. Perley
This historical study examines the mechanisms of the 1692 Salem witchcraft crisis, centering on the tragic legal entanglement of a woman accused by her neighbors of supernatural malice.
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Adrift on the Pacific: A Boys [sic] Story of the Sea and its Perils
Edward Sylvester Ellis
Separated from her guardians in San Francisco, six-year-old Inez Hawthorne embarks on an unexpected voyage across the Pacific, becoming the central light in a web of lost connections, mutiny, pearl-hunting, and ocean pursuit.
Adventures of a Soldier, Written by Himself: Being the Memoirs of Edward Costello, K.S.F. Formerly a Non-Commissioned Officer in the Rifle Brigade, Late Captain in the British Legion, and Now One of the Wardens of the Tower of London
Edward Costello
A soldier of the 95th Rifles reflects on decades of combat across Europe, capturing the brutal reality, dark comedy, and unvarnished humanity of life in the ranks.
Anything You Can Do
Randall Garrett
A heavily modified human agent descends into the dark, ruined subways of Manhattan to face a formidable alien predator on equal physical terms.
Arabella Stuart: A Romance from English History
G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
A secret royal marriage brings brief joy, swift wrath, and ultimate tragedy under the suspicious eye of King James I.
Astronomy and General Physics Considered with Reference to Natural Theology
William Whewell
A vast, delicate mechanism binds the distant stars to the daily rhythm of living things, revealing a single designing mind behind the physical laws of the universe.
Bird Stories from Burroughs: Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs
John Burroughs
Keen human eyes trace the wild dramas unfolding in local fields and treetops throughout the changing seasons.
Boy Woodburn: A Story of the Sussex Downs
Alfred Ollivant
A young woman raised among Sussex horse trainers leads her orphan colt to unlikely victory at the Grand National while navigating love and local rivalries.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume 10 (of 10): Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de
A sweeping survey of the material world traces how life, fire, and time shape the physical earth and all its creatures.
Capitals: A Primer of Information about Capitalization with some Practical Typographic Hints as to the Use of Capitals
Frederick W. (Frederick William) Hamilton
This practical guide explores the exact functions of capital letters, offering clear rules and typographical principles to turn confusing composition into clean, readable text.
Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 07 (of 20)
Charles Sumner
Threats of disunion are empty ploys that lose all power the moment an unyielding people decides to stand firm. True sovereignty belongs to human rights, not to local tyrannies that attempt to convert fellow men into property.
Commodore Paul Jones
Cyrus Townsend Brady
A relentless quest for personal honor and naval glory drives the father of the American navy across stormy oceans, bitter political infighting, and the blood-soaked decks of history.
Cornwall
G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton
On the far southwestern tip of England, where battered granite cliffs drop away into the Atlantic, the land feels less like a county and more like the edge of the world.
Daybreak: A Romance of an Old World
James Cowan
A single moon-quake unmoors a satellite, launching two travelers into the depth of the cosmos to discover a world where spiritual purity and utopian order have triumphed over human greed.
Dream Life: A Fable of the Seasons
Donald Grant Mitchell
An intimate journey through a man’s inner world traces how boyhood reveries fade into worldly ambitions, only to yield to quiet grace.
Earth Alert!
Kris Neville
An unassuming heiress and a telepathically brainwashed mutant clash in a covert battle for the fate of humanity when an alien space station threatens to conquer Earth.
Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, March 1885
Various
High above frozen forests and beneath quiet domestic lamps, these pages map the sudden risks of flight and the subtle weight of human obligation.
English Jests and Anecdotes, Collected from Various Sources
Various
Sharp, unpredictable, and fiercely brief, this collection captures the irreverent pulse of historical English banter.
From Paris to Pekin over Siberian Snows: A Narrative of a Journey by Sledge over the Snows of European Russia and Siberia, by Caravan Through Mongolia, Across the Gobi Desert and the Great Wall, and by Mule Palanquin Through China to Pekin
Victor Meignan
An audacious mid-winter crossing across two continents reveals a land of blinding light, treacherous ice, and enduring human resilience.
Fun for the Household: A Book of Games
Emma J. Gray
This nineteenth-century guide turns everyday domestic life into a grand stage, transforming quiet parlors, summer lawns, and holiday gatherings into vibrant arenas of communal play, innocent mischief, and gentle moral instruction.
Granada and the Alhambra: A brief description of the ancient city of Granada, with a particular account of the Moorish palace
Albert Frederick Calvert
High on the spur of the Sierra Nevada, a red fortress stands as the final, exquisite monument to a vanished kingdom.
High society
George S. (George Shepard) Chappell
A swift, satirical spin through the rituals, eccentricities, and gilded absurdities of high society at the turn of the 1920s.
Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern
Edgar Saltus
Human affection began not in the warmth of Eden, but as a late, delicate fever emerging slowly out of primordial fear.
Historic Shrines of America: Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who Made Them Notable
John T. (John Thomson) Faris
A nationwide survey reveals how early American identity was built brick by brick through its most memorable homes, churches, and meetinghouses.
I.N.R.I.: A prisoner's Story of the Cross
Peter Rosegger
In a dark prison cell, a condemned man writes his way toward light, re-imagining the life of Christ not through dogma, but through the tender, wounded eyes of a soul seeking ultimate redemption.
Israel in Europe
G. F. (George Frederick) Abbott
Centuries of dispersal, persecution, and resilience across the European continent reveal a persistent cultural dialogue between a wandering, conservative faith and the Western nations that alternately protected, exploited, and cast it out.
Jack at Sea: All Work and No Play Made Him a Dull Boy
George Manville Fenn
A soft-spoken lad is dragged away from his Latin books and deposited aboard a globe-trotting yacht, where high-seas peril and tropical wilderness force him to exchange pale exhaustion for raw resilience.
Jane Allen, Center
Edith Bancroft
A high-spirited Western ranch girl heads East for her junior year, where campus politics, mysterious foreign origins, and high-stakes basketball collide.
Japhet, in Search of a Father
Frederick Marryat
Abandoned on the steps of the Foundling Hospital as an infant, a sharp-witted young man sets out across Regency England to track down his unknown origins, blundering through high society and low company to discover his true place in the world.
King Richard II
William Shakespeare
A fragile monarch misjudges his own divinely sanctioned power, precipitating a bitter rift among his noblemen that ultimately leads to his own downfall and a national crisis of legitimacy.
Leon Roch: A Romance, vol. 1 (of 2)
Benito Pérez Galdós
A high-minded husband and a fanatically pious wife locked in a bitter marriage find their ideals disintegrating under the pressures of Madrid society.
Leonora
Arnold Bennett
A quiet woman of forty, bound to a reckless, indifferent husband in the industrial English Midlands, discovers that her capacity for deep passion has not died.
Lessons in the Art of Illuminating: A Series of Examples selected from Works in the British Museum, Lambeth Palace Library, and the South Kensington Museum. With Practical Instructions, and a Sketch of the History of the Art
W. J. (William John) Loftie
A master class in medieval manuscript decoration pairs precise historical analysis with direct, step-by-step instructions for reproducing original colors, lines, and gilding.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873
Various
A landscape of nineteenth-century curiosity unfolds across these pages, moving seamlessly from the structural mechanics of American iron bridges to the rugged trails of South American foliage hunters.
Literary New York: Its Landmarks and Associations
Charles Hemstreet
Behind New York’s modern facade of stone and steel lies a lost world of quiet lanes, shaded orchards, and bustling tavern parlors where American literature first found its voice.