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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Various
A world of intellectual tumult opens in this vibrant early Victorian miscellany, where high literary culture and popular entertainment crash together in the pages of a single journal.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 65, No. 399, January 1849
Various
This nineteenth-century literary miscellany captures a mid-Victorian society wrestling with its past and future through sharp political commentary, foreign exploration, artistic scholarship, and serialized fiction.
Byways Around San Francisco Bay
William E. Hutchinson
Beneath the restless surge of city growth lie wild canyons, mist-swirled peaks, and quiet trout streams waiting for anyone willing to take the trail.
Cap'n Eri
Joseph Crosby Lincoln
An aged sea captain takes on household chores and local troubles in a small Cape Cod town, only to find himself navigating love and unexpected community duties.
Carlo Dolci
George Hay
A tender, meticulous brush can offer solace even when it falls short of greatness. Carlo Dolci brought a gentle, unshakeable devotion to an era that had already seen art's highest peaks.
Chicken Little Jane
Lily Munsell Ritchie
Intense, warm-hearted, and endlessly curious, seven-year-old Jane Morton—better known as Chicken Little—navigates the high-stakes small-town adventures of childhood with a fierce sense of justice and a talent for getting into trouble.
Chit-Chat
Mathew Joseph Holt
An eccentric tapestry of Kentucky legal life, global wanderings, and historical dreams, blending small-town domesticity with wild, speculative excursions.
Dreadnoughts of the Dogger: A Story of the War on the North Sea
Robert Leighton
A young Sea Scout’s wartime vigilance on the North Sea leads to a series of confrontations with enemy infiltrators and naval raiders.
East Angels: A Novel
Constance Fenimore Woolson
Against the backdrop of a languid post-Civil War Florida, a woman bound by rigid Northern duty must navigate the silent, heartbreaking boundary between personal desire and unyielding moral obligation.
Ferns of Hawaii National Park
Douglass H. Hubbard
A field guide to the volcanic slopes and lush rainforests of Hawaii National Park, this text reveals how tiny airborne spores transformed barren lava flows into vibrant, complex fern sanctuaries.
Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders: Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician
William A. (William Andrus) Alcott
A veteran 19th-century doctor reflects on a lifetime of patients, medical follies, and the quiet healing power of nature over toxic remedies.
From Boyhood to Manhood: Life of Benjamin Franklin
William Makepeace Thayer
This biography chronicles the ascent of a quintessential American figure, tracing his trajectory from a humble candle-maker’s son in Boston to a statesman of global influence. It serves as an earnest portrait of industry and self-improvement, framing his life as a moral blueprint for the aspiring youth of a…
General Bounce
G. J. (George John) Whyte-Melville
A young heiress's world breaks apart under societal expectations, financial deception, and the harsh realities of Victorian life, testing whether love can survive ambition and loss.
Government and Administration of the United States
Westel Woodbury Willoughby
A structured examination reveals how the mechanics of American democracy operate, tracing the evolution from loosely connected British colonies into a sovereign federal republic bound by Constitutional law.
Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848
Various
A vivid window into antebellum American tastes, this periodical captures a culture balancing gothic romance, naval adventure, and domestic moralizing.
Greece: Painted by John Fulleylove
J. A. (James Alexander) M'Clymont
A walk through sun-drenched ruins and mountain passes bridges ancient myth with modern reality, showing how a nation’s storied landscape shaped its history, art, and enduring spirit.
Hair-Breadth Escapes: The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa
H. C. (Henry Cadwallader) Adams
Left behind on the African coast by a sudden turn of fate, three English schoolboys must navigate a wilderness of wild beasts, hostile tribes, and unforgiving terrain to find their way back to civilization.
Historical record of the Ninety-second Regiment, originally termed "The Gordon Highlanders" and numbered the Hundredth Regiment
Richard Cannon
A meticulous recording of march routes, bloody engagements, and administrative transitions forms a vivid portrait of a famed British unit.
Home Fun
Cecil Henry Bullivant
An inventive guide to homemade amusements transforms simple household items into extraordinary theatrical props, scientific marvels, and parlour tricks.
Household Gods: A Comedy
Aleister Crowley
A husband's domestic despair leads him on a wild, moonlit night of wilder revelations, where every sacred affection and base desire is completely upended.
In a Glass Darkly, v. 3/3
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
A predator in beautiful form draws her victim into an intimate, suffocating bond while preying on the life force of isolated young women.
Italy at war and the Allies in the West
E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) Powell
A swift journey across the Allied lines reveals the staggering logistics, brutal landscapes, and human endurance that defined the Allied war effort.
John Forster: By One of His Friends
Percy Fitzgerald
A domineering Victorian man of letters climbs from obscure journalism to London's literary pinnacle through raw intellect, loud bluster, and fiercely loyal friendships.
La Fiammetta
Giovanni Boccaccio
A privileged woman surrenders to an intoxicating extramarital affair, only to be cast into a long, agonizing descent when her lover departs and leaves her to grieve in secret.
Living Alone
Stella Benson
A quiet, whimsical world opens where magic brushes against the gray edges of wartime England, offering a sanctuary for those who do not fit.
Margaret Brown's French Cookery Book
Margaret Brown
Fine nineteenth-century dining balances rustic regional staples with elaborate French technique in a practical guide to the Gilded Age table.
Moxon's mechanick exercises, volume 1 (of 2)
Joseph Moxon
A hand-carved piece of wood, a measure of melted lead, and a millimeter of brass become the quiet foundation of human knowledge.
Murder Point: A Tale of Keewatin
Coningsby Dawson
A solitary trader in the frozen north lies to shield a runaway killer who once saved his life, only to find himself entangled in a web of murder, debt, and betrayal.
My study windows
James Russell Lowell
A crisp view from a New England window opens onto both the tranquility of nature and the sprawling landscape of English literature.
Naudsonce
H. Beam Piper
A peaceful survey mission on an unexplored world founders when the human crew discovers that the native inhabitants do not hear sound—they feel it directly as physical emotion.
Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay
Emma Roberts
Bridging Europe and Asia during the dawn of steam power, a nineteenth-century Englishwoman chronicles her transcontinental voyage across landscapes, cultures, and empire.
Oratory Sacred and Secular
William Pittenger
Mastering the art of public speech requires far more than physical bravery or sudden inspiration. It demands a rigorous foundation of inner conviction, methodical mental preparation, and total control over one's own voice and body.
Peter Simple
Frederick Marryat
The sea takes a fool and tempers him into a man through cannon fire, French prisons, and the absurdity of naval command.
Philothea: A Grecian Romance
Lydia Maria Child
An ancient Athenian world of marble temples and philosophical inquiry serves as the backdrop for this story, which finds the quiet beauty of human devotion amidst a landscape of political upheaval and fading gods.
Police Your Planet
Lester Del Rey
Corruption rules the red planet, and the line between law and outlaw is paper-thin.
Right Above Race
Otto H. Kahn
A foreign-born financier confronts the tragic transformation of his former homeland, urging his fellow naturalized citizens to choose the moral demands of liberty over the emotional pulls of ancestral lineage during a world-shattering conflict.
Sally Bishop
E. Temple (Ernest Temple) Thurston
A young working woman in Edwardian London stakes her heart on a romance beyond conventional marriage, only to discover how ruthlessly society and selfish men punish a woman who gives everything without a legal claim.
Samba: A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo
Herbert Strang
An English teenager in the turn-of-the-century Congo steps into the middle of a brutal colonial rubber regime, organizing native resistance alongside a rescued boy named Samba to defend local villagers from rubber-tax enforcers.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883
Various
A single issue of a nineteenth-century technical journal captures a world in motion, where heavy civil engineering, early electrical networks, and microscopic biology converge.
Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891
Various
A single weekly issue of a nineteenth-century journal captures an era's relentless urge to measure the heavens, industrialize manufacture, and master the physical world.
Sea-Hounds
Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman
Bound in cold steel, riding through blinding spray, and hunting invisible enemies under constant threat of instantaneous death, the men of the Allied naval forces face World War I not in grand fleet actions, but in relentless, small-craft skirmishes across the North Sea, the Atlantic, and the Mediterranean.
Six modern women: Psychological sketches
Laura Marholm
An unnatural breach opens when a woman's intellectual ambition clashes with the deep requirements of her heart.
Sniping in France: With notes on the scientific training of scouts, observers, and snipers
H. (Hesketh) Hesketh-Prichard
A deadly German advantage in long-range rifle fire forces the British Expeditionary Force to adapt, organizing a specialized school that turns observation and marksmanship into an exact science.
The Air Trust
George Allan England
A ruthless billionaire and his partner attempt to monopolize the planet’s atmosphere, triggering an underground worker revolution and a bloody war for human survival.
The Alleged Haunting of B—— House: Including a Journal Kept During the Tenancy of Colonel Lemesurier Taylor
Unknown
A nineteenth-century Scottish manor becomes an unlikely laboratory as investigators, skeptics, and curious guests attempt to record the unexplainable behind closed doors.
The Case of the Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study
Auguste Groner
A hidden passage behind a bookcase leads from a quiet country study directly into the crypt of an ancient church. When a beloved clergyman vanishes leaving only a massive pool of blood, a unassuming Austrian detective must untangle a mystery of cold calculation and exploited madness.
The Confutatio Pontificia
Unknown
A stern imperial response lays down the doctrinal boundary lines between Catholic tradition and Protestant reform in the high-stakes arena of sixteenth-century Europe.
The Conquest of Canada, Vol. 2
George Warburton
Greed and administrative corruption corrode the defenses of New France, leaving a fractured colony vulnerable to the relentless, disciplined advance of British imperial power along the American frontier.