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The Affair at the Inn
Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
A sharp-tongued American heiress and a solemn Scottish baronet collide at a misty Devonshire hotel, each stubbornly pretending to dislike the other.
The American Missionary
Various
A window into late nineteenth-century American reform, this collection reveals how missionary labor, northern philanthropy, and local initiative intersected to build educational institutions across the South and West.
The art of courtship
Clement Wood
A practical, mid-1920s guide to romance frames romantic attraction not as a mysterious fate, but as an evolutionary drive requiring candid communication, mutual effort, and thoughtful personal growth.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
Various
An energetic mid-nineteenth-century intellectual repository captures a nation on the brink of profound transformation, blending historical revisionism, vivid fiction, and sharp cultural commentary into a rich tapestry.
The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast
William Roscoe
Beneath the sprawling branches of an ancient oak, tiny creatures gather for an evening of music, feast, and playful acrobatic displays.
The Children's Book of Stars
G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton
A vast universe of fiery suns, floating worlds, and silent dark gulfs opens to any child who steps outside and simply looks up.
The Circle: A Comedy in Three Acts
W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
Thirty years after running off together, an scandalous pair of aging lovers returns to the estate they abandoned, only to watch history repeat itself in the exact same drawing room.
The collected works of Henrik Ibsen, Vol. 06 (of 11)
Henrik Ibsen
Small-town ambition clashes with moral compromise when public posturing hides private rot, forcing two men to choose between reputation and truth.
The Dead Men's Song: Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison
Champion Ingraham Hitchcock
A deaf journalist takes four famous lines of piratical verse left behind by Robert Louis Stevenson, builds a gripping deep-sea ballad around them, and quietly creates an enduring piece of American popular lore.
The discarded daughter
Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
A young woman's steadfast devotion to her true love triumphs over paternal tyranny, disinheritance, and years of exile in the wild tidewater country of Maryland.
The Invention of a New Religion
Basil Hall Chamberlain
What happens when a modern state invents an ancient tradition to unify its people? This sharp 1912 tract exposes how Japan's ruling class manufactured Emperor-worship to consolidate power at home and project strength abroad.
The Laws of Euchre: As adopted by the Somerset Club of Boston, March 1, 1888
Herbert Corey Leeds
A strict, definitive rulebook and tactical manual for Euchre.
The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli
Johann Jakob Hottinger
A giant of the Swiss Reformation steps onto the historical stage, carrying both the scholar's pen and the soldier's sword. His radical vision for church and society pits neighbor against neighbor across the Alps, culminating in a tragic, inevitable clash.
The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume IV
Theophilus Cibber
Eighteenth-century literary life appears not as a serene hall of classics, but as a crowded, noisy arena where genius, vanity, and sudden poverty wrestle for survival.
The man with the broken ear
Edmond About
A frozen Napoleonic officer wakes up into the prosperous, practical world of Second Empire France.
The Man Without a Country
Edward Everett Hale
A young army officer curses his country in a moment of reckless swagger, only to be granted his exact wish: to spend the rest of his natural life at sea without ever hearing the name of the United States again.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 15: With Voltaire
Giacomo Casanova
A roving Venetian adventurer crosses swords with enlightenment intellectuals, gambles away fortunes in provincial spa towns, and orchestrates illicit romances with runaway nuns across eighteenth-century Europe.
The Mutable Many: A Novel
Robert Barr
A hard-driven London factory manager and a passionate young labor leader clash over a strike, testing the limits of duty, ambition, and love.
The Other Side of the Sun: Fairy Stories
Evelyn Sharp
Magic is never a simple convenience in these eight enchanted tales; it is a lively, unpredictable partner to children who must navigate stubborn adults, impossible quests, and their own misgivings.
The Popular Story of Blue Beard
Charles Perrault
Trapped in a luxurious castle by a villainous husband, a young bride faces horrific consequences after yielding to curiosity, leading to a desperate race against time for her rescue.
The Ranch at the Wolverine
B. M. Bower
A young woman raised on an Idaho cattle ranch must navigate the harsh realities of frontier survival, cattle rustling, and family tragedy while discovering her own heart.
The Republic of the Future
Anna Bowman Dodd
Beneath a polished veneer of automated comfort lies a world so perfectly equalized that humanity has forgotten how to feel, strive, or create.
The Romantic Settlement of Lord Selkirk's Colonists: The Pioneers of Manitoba
George Bryce
Out on the northern plains, displaced Scottish crofters, fur traders, and indigenous people clash over land, trade, and survival in the shaping of modern Manitoba.
The Round-Up: A Romance of Arizona
John Murray
Bound by torture to a blazing cactus in the Arizona wasteland, a prospector sets in motion a web of crime, hidden identity, and sacrifice that threatens to tear two lovers apart.
The Seven Poor Travellers
Charles Dickens
A chance encounter with an old Elizabethan almshouse on Christmas Eve inspires a roving narrator to host a feast, prompting a moving tale of military redemption and reconciliation.
The Soldier Boy
Oliver Optic
Driven by duty and personal resolve, a young New Englander marches straight from his quiet village into the bloody chaos of the American Civil War.
The Story of Dutch Painting
Charles H. (Charles Henry) Caffin
Light across a damp canal, face after face carved out of shadow, and an entire nation discovering its own reflection in paint.
The Trail of the Axe: A Story of Red Sand Valley
Ridgwell Cullum
In a Canadian wilderness of red sand and soaring pine, an unyielding timber boss must rebuild a life, outmaneuver a strike, and claim the woman he loves.
The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs
Harold Avery
Bound by an oath, three English schoolboys face bullies, mysterious crimes, and testy masters as they navigate the shift from a cozy preparatory school to a sprawling public college.
The War of the Wenuses
E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
A brilliant, biting satire skewers Victorian society, retail culture, and late-nineteenth-century literary conventions under the thin guise of a sci-fi invasion.
The Western Front: Drawings by Muirhead Bone
Unknown
A series of pencil drawings and short commentaries captures the landscape of the Western Front and the quiet resilience of the men and women sustaining the British effort.
The Window at the White Cat
Mary Roberts Rinehart
A young woman's middle-of-the-night visit to a bachelor lawyer's office launches a maze of missing pearls, municipal graft, and a body found in an exclusive political club.
The Wishing-Ring Man
Margaret Widdemer
Sheltered by her elderly grandfather—a famous, gently tyrannical poet—young Joy Havenith lives in a house filled with dead ancestors and literary grandees, starved for youth, color, and a life of her own.
The Witch's Head
H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard
An early love shattered by deceit gives way to violent exile in South Africa, where battle and loss shape a man's return to England to reclaim his home.
Through India and Burmah with pen and brush
A. Hugh (Alfred Hugh) Fisher
A torrential downpour drenches vulnerable travelers at sea, signaling an immersive journey into the vast, luminous landscapes and intricate cultural tapestries of the East.
Time's Laughingstocks, and Other Verses
Thomas Hardy
A volume of poetic dramatic monologues and introspective verse exploring the friction between human passion, relentless time, and the unheeding natural world.
Victory out of Ruin
Norman Maclean
A passionate post-World War I plea for moral renewal, this essay collection argues that social political fixes fail without an underlying spiritual transformation.
Westminster
Walter Besant
Before London became a great metropolis, a marshy island in the Thames was already a thriving center of trade, royal power, and monastic life.
With the one coin for fee
Helen R. (Helen Rose) Hull
A bitter rivalry between two aging New England women reaches its terrifying, exhilarating climax when a devastating hurricane strikes their coastal town.
Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him
Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick) Tumulty
A dedicated private secretary records the inner life and political trials of a president, revealing a idealist fighting to reshape American governance and global diplomacy.
Zionism and Anti-Semitism
Max Simon Nordau
Two distinct voices merge into a single, resolute inquiry into modern Jewish identity, exposing the falsity of European hostility while demanding a self-determined national future.
A Golden Book of Venice
Turnbull, Lawrence, Mrs.
A high-born noble and a glassmaker's daughter marry in Renaissance Venice, only to be torn apart when papal interdicts, religious devotion, and state politics force a tragic conflict between faith and country.
A Profitable Instruction of the Perfite Ordering of Bees: With the Maruellous Nature, Propertie, and Gouernemente of Them: and the Necessarie Vses Both of Their Honie and Waxe, Seruing Diuersly, as Well in Inward as Outward Causes: Gathered Out of the Best Writers
Thomas Hill
A sixteenth-century practical manual offers a rare, detailed window into Elizabethan beekeeping, blending ancient natural history, everyday farm management, and medicinal alchemy into a unified guide for self-sufficiency.
A short history of the Norman Conquest of England
Edward A. (Edward Augustus) Freeman
A sudden influx of foreign ambition transforms an isolated island nation, bending its native customs into the permanent framework of a unified medieval kingdom.
A Son of the Gods, and A Horseman in the Sky
Ambrose Bierce
A single snap of a trigger or a lone gallop across a field collapses the distance between heroic ideal and brutal carnage.
America's Black and White Book: One Hundred Pictured Reasons Why We Are At War
W. A. (William Allen) Rogers
Through stark visual satire and scathing commentary, a veteran political cartoonist documents the escalating provocations, diplomatic duplicities, and horrific sea crimes that forced a reluctant nation onto the world stage of global conflict.
America, Volume 1 (of 6)
Joel Cook
A traveler’s path across a vast nation is never merely geographical; it traces the layered memories, contested grounds, and quiet beauty of an expanding land.
An Account of the Battle of Chateauguay: Being a Lecture Delivered at Ormstown, March 8th, 1889
W. D. (William Douw) Lighthall
A handful of outnumbered, barefoot militia hide along a heavily wooded Canadian river, using felling axes, tactical ruses, and bugle calls to turn back an invading army.