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Travels in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth; with Fragmenta regalia
Paul Hentzner
This dual volume captures the fading twilight of the Elizabethan age, blending a foreigner’s detached observations of English life with an insider’s shrewd, often cynical portraits of the Queen’s powerful circle.
Tutankhamen and the Discovery of His Tomb by the Late Earl of Carnarvon and Mr. Howard Carter
Grafton Elliot Smith
The discovery of a pharaoh’s final resting place bridges the gap between the distant past and our own modern sensibilities, revealing how deeply ancient rituals still influence the human story.
Twelfth Night
William Shakespeare
A shipwreck separates twins, leading to a cascade of mistaken identities and romantic entanglements in a land where love, like the tides, is both relentless and unpredictable.
Twenty-Four Unusual Stories for Boys and Girls
Anna Cogswell Tyler
These stories offer a bridge between the familiar and the strange, gathering timeless folk wisdom and legend into a single volume designed for young listeners and readers.
Uncle Terry: A Story of the Maine Coast
Charles Clark Munn
A solitary lighthouse keeper rescues a baby from a shipwreck, setting in motion a multi-generational tale of devotion, sacrifice, and the quiet beauty of the Maine coast.
What Answer?
Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth) Dickinson
This 1868 novel functions as a searing indictment of American prejudice, charting the impossible collision between a high-born white man and an educated woman of color against the backdrop of the Civil War.
With Rimington
L. March (Lisle March) Phillipps
A first-hand account of the South African War, this narrative captures the transition from the idealism of early colonial combat to the grim, grinding reality of a protracted guerrilla insurgency.
50 years at ringside
Nat Fleischer
This memoir captures the golden age of boxing through the eyes of a ringside reporter who spent fifty years chronicling the sport’s most iconic figures, brutal rivalries, and behind-the-scenes machinations.
A Daughter of the Sioux: A Tale of the Indian frontier
Charles King
The frontier is a place where loyalties shift like sand, and a single woman’s arrival can unravel the rigid order of an army post. Amid the tension of Indian warfare, the heart proves as dangerous a territory as the open plain.
A Doctor in France, 1917-1919: The Diary of Harold Barclay
Harold Barclay
The diary of a physician serving in the American Expeditionary Forces captures the chaotic, unglamorous, and deeply human reality of medical service during the final years of the First World War.
A Gentleman Vagabond and Some Others
Francis Hopkinson Smith
A collection of sketches and short stories, this volume captures the transient, human lives of travelers and laborers in the late 19th century. Through intimate observations and encounters, it explores themes of dignity, social pretension, and the quiet heroism of the forgotten.
A Guide to Men: Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl
Helen Rowland
Marriage is a comedy of errors where men are reluctant participants and women are the architects of the ceremony, navigated with sharp wit and relentless, cynical observation.
A Narrative of some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller. Part 3
George Müller
Faith is not a feeling, but a daily, practical reliance on the unseen hand of a provider. This account chronicles the humble, rigorous, and often miraculous sustenance of a Victorian orphanage built entirely upon the foundation of prayer.
A Tatter of Scarlet: Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871
S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Two young men leave their studies to participate in the volatile, shifting conflicts of the 1871 Paris Commune, finding themselves caught between youthful idealism and the brutal realities of civil war.
A theory of pure design
Denman Waldo Ross
This rigorous inquiry treats art not as a mysterious byproduct of inspiration, but as a language of order, balance, and rhythm that anyone can learn to speak and understand.
Abolition Fanaticism in New York: Speech of a Runaway Slave from Baltimore, at an Abolition
Frederick Douglass
This address offers an unflinching, firsthand account of the struggle for human dignity in the face of institutionalized bondage. It serves as a powerful record of a pivotal moment in the American antislavery movement.
An Eye for an Eye
Anthony Trollope
An impulsive young nobleman’s refusal to marry the woman he has dishonored sets off a chain of ruinous consequences that destroys an aristocratic house and leaves a mother shattered by grief and vengeance.
As It Was Written: A Jewish Musician's Story
Henry Harland
A musician discovers the terrifying truth behind his own haunted past and the unexplained death of the woman he loved. This psychological narrative explores the crushing weight of ancestral curses and fractured identity.
Betty Gordon in the Land of Oil
Alice B. Emerson
Young Betty Gordon arrives in the American West to visit her uncle, only to find herself embroiled in a high-stakes struggle for land and oil riches.
Big Game: A Story for Girls
Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.
The aspirations of a young poet and the matchmaking instincts of his sister collide in the Scottish Highlands. This turn-of-the-century tale explores the tension between family duty, professional ambition, and the quiet power of personal influence.
Blacksheep! Blacksheep!
Meredith Nicholson
HOOK An idle, affluent bachelor finds his predictable life upended when he is mistaken for a fugitive, plunging him into a high-stakes game of shadows, aliases, and family secrets.
Brook Farm: Historic and Personal Memoirs
John Thomas Codman
The pursuit of a more perfect society is often dismissed as a naive dream, yet this account reveals the profound human reality found when people attempt to live by their highest ideals.
Canterbury
Gordon Home
This atmospheric guide offers an immersive journey through the historical layers of England’s most famous cathedral city, blending architectural observation with the dramatic events that shaped its spiritual and cultural identity.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 439: Volume 17, New Series, May 29, 1852
Various
This mid-19th-century periodical invites readers into a diverse world of Victorian intellectual curiosity, blending rigorous moral instruction with lighthearted anecdotes and global scientific observation. It captures a moment of rapid transition, where steam-navigation, colonial expansion, and industrial progress…
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 450: Volume 18, New Series, August 14, 1852
Various
A wide-reaching Victorian miscellany, this periodical blends practical social philosophy, scientific inquiry, and human-interest storytelling to educate and entertain a mid-nineteenth-century public.
Coal, and What We Get from It
Raphael Meldola
Coal holds within its dark, earthy heart a hidden world of vibrant dyes, potent medicines, and industrial marvels. This exploration reveals how the waste of gas-works became the foundation for a scientific revolution.
Conference of Officers in Charge of Government Hospitals Serving Veterans of the World War
Unknown
The administrative gears of a nation grind publicly as medical officers struggle to standardize the care of thousands of veterans returning from the Great War.
Critical Examination of the Life of St. Paul
Peter Annet
The search for truth often requires setting aside the comfort of tradition. This polemic argues that the foundations of established religion rely not on divine inspiration, but on the calculated ambitions of a singular, highly influential figure.
Danny's Own Story
Don Marquis
A foundling’s search for his own history leads him into the bizarre, itinerant world of a medicine-show huckster. This picaresque tale unfolds through the eyes of a narrator whose lack of a surname is matched only by his lack of a formal education.
Daring Deeds of Famous Pirates: True stories of the stirring adventures, bravery and resource of pirates, filibusters & buccaneers
E. Keble (Edward Keble) Chatterton
The open sea has long been a theater for men who chose to defy the law for gold and glory, and this history chronicles their most daring, violent, and desperate hours.
Dartmoor
Arthur L. (Arthur Leslie) Salmon
Dartmoor is a rugged, timeless landscape, described as a "cradle-land of rivers" and a place where ancient history and natural beauty collide in the heart of Devon. It offers a glimpse into a world that feels both untamed and deeply connected to the past.
Dress as a Fine Art, with Suggestions on Children's Dress
Mary P. (Mary Philadelphia) Merrifield
This instructional work serves as a reasoned manifesto for the reform of nineteenth-century fashion, advocating for a return to the natural lines of the human form over the dictates of arbitrary style. It offers a critical perspective on how clothing, when divorced from principles of health and anatomy, becomes a…
Ecclesiastical History of England, Volume 5—The Church of the Revolution
John Stoughton
The Glorious Revolution is often remembered as a political triumph, but it was also a profound, messy, and unresolved crisis of conscience for the English Church. This history restores the theological pulse to those monumental events.
England and Canada: A Summer Tour Between Old and New Westminster, with Historical Notes
Sandford Fleming
A transcontinental journey through the rugged wilderness of the 1880s, this travelogue chronicles the ambitious expansion of Canada, bridging the vast distance from Nova Scotia to the shores of the Pacific.
Famous Authors (Men)
E. F. (Edward Francis) Harkins
This collection of biographical sketches offers an intimate glimpse into the lives and working habits of late nineteenth-century American literary figures, capturing the transition from the frontier to the refined parlor.
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Flytraps and Their Operation [1930]
F. C. (Fred Corry) Bishopp
A single properly placed wire cylinder can strip thousands of dangerous flies from a farmstead before they ever touch a threshold. F. C. Bishopp’s 1930 revised bulletin delivers an exact, uncompromising manual for building and deploying these simple machines.
Forward from Babylon
Louis Golding
The story of a young man’s painful journey toward self-definition, this novel captures the clash between an immigrant father’s rigid, tradition-bound world and a son’s yearning for the wider horizons of modernity.
Fridthjof's Saga
Esaias Tegnér
A legendary hero struggles to reconcile his fierce, independent spirit with the rigid demands of honor and the loss of the woman he loves.
Gimp Braiding Projects
Charles E. White
Mastering the rhythm of tension and fold, one can transform simple, utilitarian strands of plastic tape into durable, colorful accessories. This guide offers a meticulous entry point into the tactile geometry of mid-century craft.
Grim: The Story of a Pike
Svend Fleuron
A pike’s existence is defined by a singular, cold-blooded imperative: to consume everything that moves before becoming prey herself. This narrative follows one such predator from her hatching in a ditch to her eventual, legendary end.
Grounds of Natural Philosophy: Divided into Thirteen Parts: The Second Edition, much altered from the First, which went under the Name of Philosophical and Physical Opinions
Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of
This expansive work of seventeenth-century natural philosophy functions as a private, meditative laboratory where the movements of the mind and the physical world are analyzed with startling, personal intensity.
In the Wilds of Africa
William Henry Giles Kingston
A harrowing maritime disaster leaves a group of castaways to navigate the perilous, uncharted interior of the African continent. Survival depends entirely on their ability to master the wilderness and each other.
In Times Like These
Nellie L. McClung
This is a spirited and sharp-witted manifesto for women’s equality, written at the height of the suffrage movement in Canada. It serves as a call to justice, demanding that society replace exclusionary chivalry with a fair deal for all human beings.
Kitty Canary: A Novel
Kate Langley Bosher
Falling in love is a messy, exhilarating business, especially for a sixteen-year-old girl who would rather face the world with grit than with the polite, performative grace expected of her. She finds herself in a small town that watches every move, proving that the most dangerous thing one can do is to be oneself.
Land of play: Verses, rhymes, stories
Unknown
A collection of classic verse, nursery rhymes, and short prose, this volume serves as a curated introduction to the childhood imagination, weaving together the timeless rhythms of nature, morality, and play.
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Little Lord Fauntleroy [abridged]: Für den Schulgebrauch bearbeitet
Frances Hodgson Burnett
A young American boy, living in humble surroundings, discovers he is the sole heir to a British earldom and must bridge the vast divide between his simple life and the rigid, aristocratic world of his grandfather.
Little Prudy's Sister Susy
Sophie May
The Parlin sisters navigate the joys and sudden, life-altering sorrows of childhood, discovering that even the most painful seasons are woven into the fabric of growing up.
Little Travels and Roadside Sketches
William Makepeace Thackeray
A witty and acerbic observer navigates the Low Countries, dissecting the manners, superstitions, and travel habits of the mid-nineteenth-century British tourist with sharp, irreverent precision.