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The Adventures of a Widow: A Novel
Edgar Fawcett
A young, wealthy widow attempts to build a serious intellectual salon in Gilded Age New York, only to find herself caught between shallow high society and the vanity of self-absorbed Bohemians.
The American Baron: A Novel
James De Mille
A helpless English heiress ricochets through Italy, unwittingly collecting devoted fiances at every turn, while her exhausted traveling companions fight off duels, brigands, and sheer exasperation.
The American family Robinson
D. W. (David W.) Belisle
Driven into the western wilderness by discontent, an American family faces captivity, desert hazards, and mysterious ancient ruins as they fight to survive.
The Ancient Law
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
A disgraced man wanders into a small Virginia town under an assumed name, seeking redemption through humble labor, only to learn that escaping his past requires a far deeper sacrifice.
The Blacksmith's Hammer
Eugène Sue
A sharp-edged tale of privilege, revolt, and blood under the shadow of the Sun King.
The Camp Fire Girls on Ellen's Isle
Hildegard G. Frey
A scorched June heatwave sends a band of lively friends escaping to a northern island for a summer of wilderness camping, high-spirited practical jokes, unexpected rescues, and subtle personal growth.
The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, June 1885, No. 9
Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle
A vibrant tapestry of nineteenth-century self-education, this magazine issue captures an era when ordinary citizens eagerly pursued science, literature, and practical community reform to expand their world.
The Circassian Chief: A Romance of Russia
William Henry Giles Kingston
A young noble raised in the heart of the Russian empire discovers that his true blood belongs to the wild, unconquered peaks of the Caucasus, where he must choose between imperial power and his people’s freedom.
The Cowardly Lion of Oz
Ruth Plumly Thompson
A bizarre magic trick hurls an American circus clown and an orphan into a fantastical realm, setting off a wild chain of events that threatens the peace of Oz and tests the true nature of courage.
The Disputed V.C.: A Tale of the Indian Mutiny
Frederick P. Gibbon
A young British ensign fights through the horrors of the 1857 Indian Mutiny while a deceitful rival attempts to steal his military honors.
The Enjoyment of Art
Carleton Eldredge Noyes
A newly minted university graduate stands bewildered in Europe’s famous art galleries, asking why human beings struggle so fiercely to paint canvases and carve stone.
The Fantasy Fan, February 1934: The Fans' Own Magazine
Various
An early science fiction fanzine captures a nascent community debating cosmic horror, space exploration, and gothic scholarship.
The Film of Fear
Frederic Arnold Kummer
A famous screen star receives terrifying threats targeting her face, forcing a famed detective to race against time.
The Flower-Fields of Alpine Switzerland: An Appreciation and a Plea
G. (George) Flemwell
Vast expanses of wild blossoms carpet the Swiss mountainsides before the scythes arrive. This forgotten work makes a passionate case for the fragile beauty of the high pastures.
The Flying Legion
George Allan England
A band of war-weary veterans steals an advanced experimental airship to conquer the world’s last unexplored fastness, only to find that total freedom demands a far heavier price than any war they ever fought.
The four Corners
Amy Ella Blanchard
In a quiet Virginia mountain town, four sisters navigate small-town routines, family rivalries, and sudden financial strain while their mother travels to recover her health.
The Garden of Survival
Algernon Blackwood
A grieving soldier discovers that his dead wife’s unrequited love persists as an invisible, uplifting force of beauty.
The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight
J. Cecil (John Cecil) Hughes
The vertical white cliffs and multicolored sands of the Isle of Wight contain an accessible record of Earth’s deep past. Written as a guide for beginners, this survey demonstrates how simple fieldwork can illuminate millions of years of structural change.
The Gilded Man: A Romance of the Andes
Clifford Smyth
A hidden kingdom, an ancient treasure, and a psychological mystery collide beneath the high peaks of the South American Andes.
The Great Revival of the Eighteenth Century: With a supplemental chapter on the revival in America
Edwin Paxton Hood
Eighteenth-century England sits frozen in moral decay, its churches dormant and its public life cynical, until a spontaneous spiritual lightning bolt strikes the nation from the field, the inn, and the university.
The Jew
Józef Ignacy Kraszewski
A solitary voice can pull a nation back from the edge of its own madness.
The Lilac Girl
Ralph Henry Barbour
A chance meeting in the mountains leaves a lone prospector haunted by the fleeting sight of a woman in a lilac-scented garden, sparking a gentle quest through an old New England town to find her.
The Microscope
Andrew Ross
A precise lens allows the human eye to transcend its biological limits, converting subtle shifts in distance and light into clear visual revelations.
The Mystery of the Downs
John R. (John Reay) Watson
A sudden coastal storm forces a lone rider to seek shelter at an isolated farm, where he discovers a body and a web of wartime secrets.
The Parenticide Club
Ambrose Bierce
A dark, satirical masterpiece of patricide, matricide, and legal absurdity, this collection dismantles the sanctity of the American family through cold, deadpan comedy.
The Pennycomequicks, Volume 3 (of 3)
S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
Money, pride, and Victorian propriety collide when a presumed-dead industrialist reappears, unraveling the lives, marriages, and fortunes of his self-interested heirs across England and the Swiss Alps.
The Pirate Island: A Story of the South Pacific
Harry Collingwood
A sunken ship off the English coast sets off a long chain of rescues, fires, pirate captivities, and subterranean perils across the Pacific.
The Portal of Dreams
Charles Neville Buck
A man flees life only to be pursued by a face that haunts him across oceans, through island reefs, and into a bloody mountain feud.
The Quest of the Golden Pearl
J. R. (John Robert) Hutchinson
A pair of British teenagers on a Ceylon pearl-schooner suspect a native shark-charmer of theft and launch a hot-headed chase across dangerous waters, discovering along the way that courage counts for little without humility.
The Rebirth of Turkey
Clair Price
A nation collapses, is carved up by distant powers, and fights its way back into existence under a commander who demands total Westernization. Clair Price chronicles the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the unexpected rise of modern Turkey.
The Repairman
Harry Harrison
Fixing an interstellar beacon requires an engineer who can out-talk a boss, out-think a priesthood, and walk away with his skin intact.
The Reverberator
Henry James
Unvarnished American innocence collides with rigid Parisian aristocratic decorum when a young woman unwittingly exposes a family's private secrets to a tabloid journalist.
The silent places
Stewart Edward White
A lone traitor vanishes into the frozen wilderness, pursued by two fur-trade trackers who will follow his trail to the edge of death.
The Six Fingers of Time
R. A. Lafferty
A sudden fracture of time grants a quiet clerk total freedom, only to reveal the terrifying cost of living at sixty times the speed of the world.
The Story of Milk
Johan Ditlev Frederiksen
An expert manual on dairy science and home economics transforms a ubiquitous kitchen staple into a marvel of biological engineering and industrial precision.
The Travels and Adventures of James Massey
Simon Tyssot de Patot
A castaway, a hidden empire, and a rational mind adrift in an irrational world combine to turn a high-seas adventure into a trenchant critique of European religion and power.
The Trial of Aaron Burr
Joseph P. (Joseph Plunkett) Brady
A towering political figure stands accused of high treason, while a sitting president directs the prosecution from afar and a resolute chief justice enforces strict constitutional boundaries inside a packed Virginia courtroom.
The triumphs of perseverance and enterprise, recorded as examples for the young
Thomas Cooper
Self-taught scholars conquer dozens of languages, sculptors toil over colossal stone, and travelers march through frozen arctic wastes. True greatness belongs to those who turn stubborn effort into lasting achievement.
The Violin and Old Violin Makers: Being a Historical & Biographical Account of the Violin, with Facsimiles of Labels of the Old Makers
A. Mason Clarke
From raw timber and delicate varnish to the grandest concert halls, the violin’s transformation is a story of craftsmanship, changing tastes, and musical genius.
The Winds of Chance
Rex Beach
An inexperienced young traveler gets swept up in the Klondike Gold Rush, discovering that surviving the trail and its characters requires more than raw optimism.
The Young People's Wesley
W. (William) McDonald
A spiritual deadness settled over eighteenth-century England, but a single parish child, snatched from a burning home, grew to kindle an unquenchable movement of faith, warm hearts, and transform millions across continents.
Thirty Years on the Frontier
Robert McReynolds
A wide-eyed Kentucky boy goes west for gold, stays to chase wild mustangs and outlaws, and ends up reflecting on a vanishing wilderness.
Two Dramatizations from Vergil: I. Dido—the Phœnecian Queen
Virgil
Fate, divine intervention, and human vulnerability clash when exiled leaders strive to build new homes from the ashes of war.
Victorian Poetry
John Drinkwater
Centuries of technical discovery and historical change shaped the tools available to nineteenth-century writers, forcing them to balance tradition against an expanding modern world.
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 06
Unknown
A mother leads a peasantry revolt against an invading garrison to save her town and claim her daughter's happiness.
With Our Soldiers in France
Sherwood Eddy
Amid the mud and artillery fire of the Western Front, an unseen battle for the souls and sanity of millions of young soldiers rages in the shadows of the trenches.
With Sully into the Sioux Land
Joseph Mills Hanson
Driven from his Minnesota homestead by the Dakota outbreak of 1862, a teenage boy joins General Sully’s western campaign to search the Northern Plains for his stolen younger brother.
Woman free
Ellis Ethelmer
A sweeping nineteenth-century poetic argument charts humanity's journey from primeval tyranny to an enlightened future of total equality, framed by scientific progress and moral law.