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Physician and patient
Worthington Hooker
Navigating the medical landscape requires separating genuine clinical judgment from popular delusions, blind experimentation, and deceit. This nineteenth-century classic outlines the ethical boundaries, quiet skill, and candid communication necessary to build true trust between doctor and patient.
Poems and Songs
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Through vibrant lyrics of national pride, tender country romances, and fierce political battle cries, this collection captures the awakening soul of modern Norway.
Poems of Experience
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A earnest voice confronts the restless soul, urging it to drop its defensive pride and yield to a higher spiritual purpose.
Poetical Ingenuities and Eccentricities
Unknown
Boundless linguistic cleverness meets cheerful absurdity in a collection that transforms verse into an intricate playground of echoes, puns, puzzles, and unexpected cross-language rhymes.
Ptomaine Street: The Tale of Warble Petticoat
Carolyn Wells
A middle-class girl with an insatiable appetite marries a wealthy specialist, moves to an elite enclave, and wages a hilarious, futile war against highbrow pretension.
Quest of the Golden Ape
Paul W. Fairman
A lost heir to an alien throne awakens with no memory inside a hidden Earth mansion, pulled across space to right a centuries-old betrayal.
Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes
J. M. Judy
A practical guide to personal morality that insists Christians must offer vibrant, joyful alternatives to the sins they condemn.
Rome in 1860
Edward Dicey
Behind the postcard beauty of the Eternal City lies the grim reality of a populace ground down by an antiquated, stifling autocratic government.
Sand Doom
Murray Leinster
Surrounded by miles of searing yellow sand, a stranded survey officer must outthink a lethal world before his air and options run out.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882
Various
A late-nineteenth-century window into applied science captures an era when industrial ingenuity and precise observation were actively reshaping daily life, manufacturing, and trade.
Sermons to the Natural Man
William G. T. (William Greenough Thayer) Shedd
Natural human self-reliance crumbles under the absolute, unrelenting scrutiny of divine law, leaving the soul helpless until it abandons its own moral pretenses.
Silver .41
W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle
A rookie Western sheriff and his deputy use plain sense and small clues to unravel a counterfeiting syndicate and clear an innocent man of murder.
Sketch of Grammar of the Chippeway Languages: To Which is Added a Vocabulary of some of the Most Common Words
John Summerfield
A early nineteenth-century effort to map the mechanics of the Ojibwe language, this work pairs schoolroom spelling lists with an ambitious attempt to formalize Indigenous grammar using Classical and English structural frameworks.
Sketches of the East Africa Campaign
Robert Valentine Dolbey
Men fight and fall under a equatorial sun, but the deadliest enemies in this remote theatre of the Great War are the microscopic organisms in the water and the relentless insects in the air.
Smeaton and Lighthouses: A Popular Biography, with an Historical Introduction and Sequel
Anonymous
Striking off the dangerous rocks of the English Channel, an early network of masonry and light tamed the waters for mariners who had long navigated in deadly dark.
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Social Rights And Duties: Addresses to Ethical Societies. Vol 2 [of 2]
Leslie Stephen
A cool, skeptical intelligence systematically dismantles the moral panics of the late nineteenth century, demonstrating how modern scientific theories can serve human welfare without destroying ethical responsibility.
Sunny Slopes
Ethel Hueston
A young, spirited woman marries a minister, only to find their quiet parish life upended when he contracts tuberculosis.
Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia: Being a Narrative of Events in Matabeleland Both Before and During the Recent Native Insurrection Up to the Date of the Disbandment of the Bulawayo Field Force
Frederick Courteney Selous
A veteran big-game hunter turned corporate land manager takes up arms when a sudden native uprising shatters the peace of colonial Matabeleland.
Synthetic resins and their raw materials: A survey of the types and uses of synthetic resins, the organization of the industry, and the trade in resins and raw materials, with particular references to factors essential to tariff consideration. Under the general provisions of section 332, title III, part II, Tariff act of 1930
United States Tariff Commission
An exhaustive government survey traces how laboratory chemistry transformed raw coal, gas, and agricultural byproducts into the ubiquitous synthetic materials of modern life.
The Adventures of A Brownie: As Told to My Child by Miss Mulock
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
A coal-cellar elf brings gentle mischief and quiet corrections to a Devonshire family, paired with verse on nature and childhood.
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.