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The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Hell, Volume 08
Dante Alighieri
A living traveler descends into the deeper, darker abysses of the dead, guided by a classical master through horrors where physical torment matches earthly corruption.
The End of the World: A Love Story
Edward Eggleston
A tender, sharp-eyed romance of 1840s Indiana, where religious fanaticism and petty greed threaten to tear two young lovers apart before the world even comes to an end.
The Exiles
Honoré de Balzac
Two mysterious outcasts lodge beneath Notre-Dame, bound by a vision of home that transcends the earth itself.
The Future Belongs to the People
Karl Paul August Friedrich Liebknecht
A solitary voice speaks out against an entire nation's war machine, risking prison and dishonor to insist that the true enemy of the working person is never the worker across the border.
The Healing of Nations and the Hidden Sources of Their Strife
Edward Carpenter
A tragic collision of empires reveals the deep-rooted economic greed and militaristic pride that drive working-class citizens to slaughter one another on behalf of their rulers.
The King of Gee-Whiz
Emerson Hough
Two mismatched twins set sail on an enchanted submarine, landing on a far-off island where nonsense rules, magic is real, and trouble follows.
The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope
Unknown
A grand family archive opens its leaves to reveal the vibrant chatter, geopolitical anxieties, and social maneuvering of Regency and early Victorian England.
The Life of George Washington. In Words of One Syllable
Josephine Pollard
Written entirely in words of a single syllable, this unique biography turns the foundation of American history into a simple, rhythmic, and surprisingly moving portrait of leadership, duty, and quiet resilience.
The Makers of Canada: Bishop Laval
Adrien Leblond
A solitary churchman shapes a wild continent through absolute faith, opposing merchants and governors to establish an enduring Catholic society in the wilderness of New France.
The Master of Greylands: A Novel
Wood, Henry, Mrs.
A quiet English coastal village becomes a shadow-land of missing heirs, nocturnal smuggling, and ruined cloisters when a young Frenchman arrives to claim his ancestral estate.
The Old Soak, and Hail And Farewell
Don Marquis
A hilarious, heart-wrenching lament for the saloon, this book captures an era when Prohibition turned ordinary drinkers into nostalgic philosophers overnight.
The Recollections of a Drummer-Boy
Henry Martyn Kieffer
A boy slips away from school to join the Union army, carrying a drum into the bloodiest fields of the American Civil War.
The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible
Richard Heber Newton
An urgent call for a rational, reverent approach to sacred text, this collection of sermons challenges rigid, literalist views of Scripture to reveal a dynamic, evolving record of human spiritual growth.
The Silver Poppy
Arthur Stringer
Driven by ambition and a hunger for artistic prestige, a young Southern woman in New York repeatedly steals an unsophisticated author's original manuscripts to publish under her own name, leaving them both entangled in deceit.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912
Roald Amundsen
A white, frozen plain stretches to the horizon, broken only by towering blue glaciers, yawning crevasses, and a tiny line of men and dogs moving steadily toward the southernmost point on Earth.
The Tinder-Box
Maria Thompson Daviess
A young woman returns from Europe to her small Tennessee town pledged to court men on equal terms, setting off a quiet revolution in her romantic community.
The Training of Wild Animals
Frank Charles Bostock
A man holds a chair before a raging lion in a narrow cage, counting on a few inches of wood and two taps to the nose to keep himself alive.
The Tribune of Nova Scotia: A Chronicle of Joseph Howe
W. L. (William Lawson) Grant
A young printer’s apprentice in nineteenth-century Halifax rises to become the undisputed voice of his native province, fighting for self-government before navigating the complex promises and perils of Canadian Confederation.
The tunnel
Dorothy M. (Dorothy Miller) Richardson
A young woman navigates the noise, independence, and quiet interior light of turn-of-the-century London, finding her identity in the routine of self-support.
The Undercurrent
Robert Grant
A abandoned wife struggles against poverty and strict religious dogma in early-twentieth-century industrial America, choosing human love and real life over an unyielding, high-society ideal.
The Veterinarian
Charles James Korinek
When livestock fall ill, swift practical action separates recovery from ruin; this comprehensive 1912 manual offers direct, no-nonsense medical directives for keeping farm animals alive.
The White Rose of Langley: A Story of the Olden Time
Emily Sarah Holt
A orphan child and a royal princess navigate the treacherous courtyards of medieval England, where faith and dynastic ambition clash.
Third biennial report of the Oregon State Highway Commission
Simon Benson
Over rugged mountain passes, across wide rivers, and through dense coastal rain forests, a burgeoning state struggles to carve out a modern transportation system amid the severe labor and resource shortages of the First World War.
Three Prayers and Sermons
Jonathan Swift
Grounded in religious duty and civic necessity, these writings weigh the fragility of human life against the structural demands of moral order.
Towards an enduring peace
Unknown
A collection of wartime essays and peace manifestos reveals how statesmen, publicists, and ordinary citizens attempted to construct a permanent global order before the first World War had even drawn to a close.
Travels in Morocco, Volume 1
James Richardson
A solitary traveler moves through a land protected by snow-capped mountains and sea-swept sand dunes, where imperial pride resists the encroaching influence of Christian Europe.
Twenty-Two Goblins
Arthur W. (Arthur William) Ryder
A nocturnal king, a hanging corpse, and twenty-two unanswerable riddles where a single mistake guarantees a shattered skull.
Under Lock and Key: A Story. Volume 2 (of 3)
T. W. (Thomas Wilkinson) Speight
Behind the quiet facade of Dupley Walls, a twenty-year-old deathbed curse collides with a stolen Indian diamond, entangling a mistreated orphan, a secretive Russian, and an unscrupulous father-son pair of sleuths.
Wanted: A Cook: Domestic Dialogues
Alan Dale
Newly married and determined to preserve their refined lifestyle, Archie and Letitia Fairfax discover that no amount of classical scholarship can save them from the brutal realities of hiring a competent cook.
Waste Not, Want
Dave Dryfoos
An eighty-six-year-old widower struggles to preserve his autonomy in a future society where citizens are legally forced to consume vast surpluses of goods.
A Collection of Kachári Folk-Tales and Rhymes
J. D. (James Drummond) Anderson
Tricksters, foolish villagers, talking animals, and ancient gods wander through a rustic landscape of rice fields and dense jungle, showing how a community makes sense of its world.
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents. Volume 3, part 2: Martin Van Buren
Unknown
A young lawyer from Kinderhook fights his way to the White House, only to find his presidency consumed by a crushing financial panic and escalating border crises.
A forgotten Prince of Wales
Henry Curties
Caught between a cruel royal household and the cold politics of eighteenth-century London, a forgotten heir attempts to carve out a life of warmth, principle, and personal dignity.
A Picture-book of Merry Tales
Anonymous
Rogues, fools, and farmyard beasts outwit their betters in a collection where quick wits always beat high authority.
A Prince of Bohemia
Honoré de Balzac
A penniless count rules Parisian boidom with razor-sharp wit, compelling an ambitious former dancer to conquer high society just to satisfy his absurd, shifting demands.
A voyage to Guinea, Brasil and the West Indies
John Atkins
A Royal Navy surgeon takes to the sea in 1721, recording the currents, coastlines, and human cruelties of the transatlantic trade with an uncommonly sharp and questioning eye.
Alexander Hamilton
Charles A. (Charles Arthur) Conant
Centralizing national power through financial genius, a brilliant strategist lays down the enduring structural foundations of American governance.
An American tragedy, v. 2
Theodore Dreiser
A young man's desperate ambition collides with a fatal secret, triggering a relentless search for truth in the shadow of American high society.
An Outcast
F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams
Beneath the gloss of antebellum respectable society lies a dark network of hypocrisy, where the vulnerable are cast aside and vice finds protection behind wealth and status.
Berry and Co
Dornford Yates
High-spirited English gentry, accompanied by an indomitable Sealyham terrier, drift from absurdity to absurdity across leafy shires, motorways, and law courts with unfailing poise and bright-eyed banter.
Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 4: October, 1897
Various
A gentle call to awaken human empathy toward wild creatures, this issue blends ornithological facts with spirited stories to defend nature's songsters from human cruelty.
Candy Medication
Bernard Fantus
A pioneer of pediatric medicine transforms unpleasant treatments into palatable treats, offering pharmacists a practical, step-by-step blueprint to make bitter remedies appealing to sick children.
Carter, and Other People
Don Marquis
A shadow falls between who people are and what they present to the world.
Catalogue of a collection of early drawings and pictures of London: With some contemporary furniture
Burlington Fine Arts Club
A curated assembly of historical views and physical artifacts reveals how London transformed from an idealised Tudor capital into a bustling, masonry-bound metropolis of the nineteenth century.
Cats and kittens
Unknown
A vast chorus of purrs, mews, and domestic chaos unfolds across a century of verse, fable, performance scripts, and practical lore. It captures the complex bond between human household routine and feline caprice.
Crusoe in New York, and other tales
Edward Everett Hale
A solitary man builds a secret homestead on a hidden New York lot, carving out an island of self-reliance inside the bustling city.
Dawn in darkest Africa
John H. (John Hobbis) Harris
Against the backdrop of early twentieth-century West Africa, a humanitarian reformer delivers an urgent, sweeping assessment of European empire, indigenous life, and the brutal economic machinery extracting the continent's wealth.
Dry fish and wet
Anthon Bernhard Elias Nilsen
In a small Norwegian port where old shipping fortunes slowly fade, every neighbor's public boast conceals a very private, unpredictable ambition.