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13 Days: The Chronicle of an Escape from a German Prison
John Alan Lyde Caunter
An officer plots his bid for freedom from deep within enemy territory, enduring grueling night marches, dangerous river crossings, and constant evasions to reach the border.
A Christmas Mystery: The Story of Three Wise Men
William John Locke
Three worldly, cynical men of renown are inexplicably drawn to a remote corner of England on Christmas Eve, only to find themselves delivered to a humble cottage where a child is born.
A Treatise on Gunshot Wounds
Longmore, T. (Thomas), Sir
High-velocity lead and heavy iron shatter human bone, tearing skin and driving dirty uniform fabric deep into bleeding flesh.
Alone on an Island
William Henry Giles Kingston
Left stranded on an isolated Pacific outcrop after a deadly mutiny, a young midshipman turns to labor, practical ingenuity, and a pocket Testament to survive both nature and despair.
An essay towards a natural history of serpents
Charles Owen
A blend of natural history, theology, and folk legend, this eighteenth-century treatise catalogs the world’s most dangerous reptiles while examining why humanity chose to worship them.
Backlog Studies
Charles Dudley Warner
A warm hearth, a crackling wood fire, and good company form the ultimate vantage point for reflecting on a changing, fast-paced world.
Beethoven's Symphonies Critically Discussed
Alexander Teetgen
A passionate 19th-century journey through Beethoven’s music reveals how hero-worship, spiritual struggle, and raw artistic power transformed the classical symphony into an immortal force.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845
Various
A nineteenth-century journal offers a sweeping portrait of European culture, mixing grave moral philosophy, political journalism, dramatic fiction, and sharp literary satire.
Bolivia
Marie Robinson Wright
A multi-faceted portrait of a South American republic at a pivotal turning point, blending rich historical analysis, travel observation, and economic evaluation.
Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 10 (of 20)
Charles Sumner
Deliberated in the furnace of the American Civil War, these legislative addresses and essays confront foreign interference, state destruction, and the imperative of human equality. They map a republic fighting to redefine its constitutional soul.
Color mixing guide: For artists, painters, decorators, printing pressmen, show card writers, sign painters, color mixers. Gives color mixtures by parts
John L. King
Light reflecting in specific wavelengths forms the foundation of all visual craft, where three simple primary pigments yield thousands of precise, usable shades.
Cressy & Poictiers
John G. (John George) Edgar
A young page rises from obscurity into the shadow of royalty, witnessing the grandest, bloodiest clashes of the Hundred Years' War.
Doctor and Patient
S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell
A wise nineteenth-century physician reclaims medicine as an art of character, prescription, and human understanding, offering guidance for both the sickbed and the outdoors.
Dooryard Stories
Clara Dillingham Pierson
A quiet backyard turns into a vibrant universe where birds, insects, and house pets conduct their daily lives with surprising drama.
Dot and the Kangaroo
Ethel C. Pedley
A little girl lost in the Australian wilderness finds an unexpected protector in a grieving kangaroo, learning the language of the bush as she searches for her home.
Experiments upon magnesia alba, Quicklime, and some other Alcaline Substances
Joseph Black
By measuring precise weight loss during chemical reactions, a quiet eighteenth-century Scottish doctor reveals that a invisible, elastic air lives bound inside solid stone, forever changing how science views matter.
Flower of the Dusk
Myrtle Reed
A devotion born in darkness faces the light, where a father’s long-treasured lie, a daughter’s sacrifice, and a sudden medical miracle converge upon a fragile quiet.
Further nonsense verse and prose
Lewis Carroll
A quiet Oxford don turns strict logic inside out to create a world of play where words, numbers, and social etiquette obey their own hilarious laws.
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Geology, Vol. 1 [of 3]
Rollin D. Salisbury
The constant movement of water, ice, and air slowly reshapes the solid earth, wearing down mountains and filling basins in a continuous cycle of change.
Gritli's Children
Johanna Spyri
A quiet home on the banks of the Rhine becomes a sanctuary for two mountain children, where grief, ambition, and youthful schemes collide under the gentle guidance of an affectionate aunt.
Guy Livingstone
George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence
An untamed, physically overpowering aristocrat sweeps through high society, leaving broken hearts, fractured bones, and shattered lives in his wake.
Harper's Young People, May 4, 1880: An Illustrated Weekly
Various
An engaging slice of late nineteenth-century youth culture, this weekly issue balances seafaring adventures and historical profiles with hands-on crafts, seasonal poetry, and vivid correspondence from child readers across the globe.
He Fell in Love with His Wife
Edward Payson Roe
An unpolished farmer and a ruined woman form a practical union of convenience on a lonely hill farm, only to find an enduring, unexpected devotion growing between them.
Imperial Federation: The Problem of National Unity
George R. (George Robert) Parkin
Global power requires political cohesion, and a vast empire scattered across oceans cannot endure as a loose collection of colonies without a unified mechanism for defense and representation.
Insect Stories
Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman) Kellogg
A young girl and a university professor explore the hidden world of back-garden dirt, observing tiny creatures engaged in complex struggles for survival.
James's Account of S. H. Long's Expedition, 1819-1820, part 2
Edwin James
Across dusty plains and uncharted river valleys, an American expedition sets out to map the vast expanse between the Missouri River and the glittering wall of the Rocky Mountains.
Jan and Her Job
L. Allen (Lizzie Allen) Harker
An unselfish woman steps in to raise her orphaned relatives, discovering that true devotion requires both fierce resilience and the humility to let herself be loved.
Jerry of the Islands
Jack London
A young Irish terrier born into the brutal colonial frontier of the Solomon Islands must navigate headhunters, shipwrecks, and hostile jungles to find a master worthy of his boundless devotion.
Life and Remains of John Clare, The "Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"
John Clare
A peasant poet struggles against poverty, madness, and patron censorship to capture the vanishing English countryside in verse before fading into asylum obscurity.
Life in the Backwoods
Susanna Moodie
A middle-class family trades English comforts for Canadian timber, finding that nature yields less easily than their romantic expectations promised.
Little Masterpieces of Science: The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer
Unknown
An unseen architecture binds the natural world together, turning random observations into a single coherent story of descent, adaptation, and survival.
Little Mitchell: The Story of a Mountain Squirrel
Margaret Warner Morley
A tiny orphaned gray squirrel, rescued from the slopes of a North Carolina mountain, finds safety and an affectionate home in the care of an attentive traveler.
Loyal to the School
Angela Brazil
A schoolgirl faces sudden poverty and a choice between her own creative ambitions and her loyalty to family and school.
"Martin of Nitendi"
Louis Becke
A disgraced outcast fights to survive the violent fallout of his own bloody past upon a remote Pacific island.
Mediæval London, Volume 2: Ecclesiastical
Walter Besant
A vast network of churches, monasteries, and religious rites forms the quiet backbone of medieval London's daily civic and spiritual life.
Men in the Making
Ambrose Shepherd
The choice between passive drift and deliberate integrity determines the shape of a man's future.
Monsieur Bergeret in Paris
Anatole France
An ironical portrait of fin-de-siècle Paris, where political conspirators, urban intellectuals, and domestic pets all navigate the ridiculous, fractured realities of a society undergoing intense ideological upheaval.
My Japanese Wife: A Japanese Idyl
Clive Holland
An English expatriate marries a young Japanese woman in Nagasaki and navigates the subtle, charming, and precarious dynamics of their cross-cultural love before bringing her back to England.
Nooks and Corners of Shropshire
H. Thornhill (Henry Thornhill) Timmins
A lone wanderer traverses forgotten borderlands, mapping the quiet corners where ancient stone, timbered manors, and wild hills whisper the enduring secrets of Old England.
Old Man Savarin Stories: Tales of Canada and Canadians
Edward William Thomson
A collection of short stories capturing the frontier grit, quiet heroism, and dry humor of nineteenth-century Canadian life.
Our Army at the Front
Heywood Broun
A sudden leap across an ocean turns an untried civilian nation into a decisive force on the Western Front.
Personal sketches of his own times, Vol. 2 (of 3)
Barrington, Jonah, Sir
An Irish judge watches high society duel, starves, and collapse before fleeing to France just in time to witness Napoleon's brief, electrifying hundred days.
Poison mysteries in history, romance and crime
C. J. S. (Charles John Samuel) Thompson
A drop of hemlock, a pinch of white arsenic, or a stray phial of bacteria: the history of human malice is written in quiet, tasteless lethal doses.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 29, 1914
Various
A razor-sharp snapshot of Edwardian society laughing past the graveyard, capturing British domestic absurdities and high-stakes political anxieties on the literal eve of the First World War.
Recollections of a Peninsular Veteran
Joseph Jocelyn Anderson
A lifetime of military service comes down to sheer survival, quiet discipline, and the unpredictable turns of imperial duty.
Revolutionary Heroes, and Other Historical Papers
James Parton
A nation's founding requires more than abstract ideals; it demands individuals willing to risk their fortunes, reputations, and lives to transform those principles into reality.
Rose à Charlitte
Marshall Saunders
An American traveler seeks to make amends in coastal Canada, where a beautiful Acadian widow guards her heart behind quiet devotion.
Science and Practice in Farm Cultivation
James Buckman
A rigorous scientific guide to mid-Victorian agriculture demonstrates how empirical experimentation elevates practical farming from mere tradition into an exact, highly profitable discipline.