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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.
Woven with the Ship: A Novel of 1865: Together with certain other veracious tales of various sorts
Cyrus Townsend Brady
A stranded wooden vessel on a lonely point holds an old admiral, a devoted sailor, and a young woman whose rescue of a stranded officer sets off a flurry of romantic and dramatic complications.
Wyoming
Edward Sylvester Ellis
A frantic young soldier rides into a burning valley to save his family, only to find himself trapped in a deadly game of wilderness hide-and-seek.
Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets
Daniel Young
A vast mid-nineteenth-century repository of practical craft knowledge reveals how early industrial workers, artisans, and homemakers solved technical challenges using raw chemical compounds, domestic ingredients, and precise manual methods.
A book of images
Unknown
Seeking to define the boundary where mystical vision meets black-and-white ink, this slim volume pairs twenty-four enigmatic drawings with a seminal essay on the enduring power of symbolic art.
A Breath of Prairie and other stories
Will Lillibridge
These tales of the American prairie capture the raw, desperate, and often tragic intersections of ambition, isolation, and the stubborn persistence of the human heart.
A Crooked Mile
Oliver Onions
A young suburban couple and their avant-garde friends attempt to remake marriage, parenthood, and politics, only to find that their radical grandstanding collapses under the quiet weight of ordinary human nature.
A dreadful temptation
Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.
A young woman sells her youth to an aging millionaire for revenge, only to find that every trick she plays traps her further in her own deceit.
A Georgian Pageant
Frank Frankfort Moore
A vivid portrayal of 18th-century British society, blending biography, social history, and dramatic narratives of love, scandal, and intrigue.
A horse book
Mary Tourtel
Young children learning about the animal world will find here a simple, affectionate taxonomy of equine life.
A Man: His Mark. A Romance: Second Edition
W. C. Morrow
A man and a woman, strangers to each other, are trapped in a mountain cabin after a devastating avalanche.
A Turkish Woman's European Impressions
hanoum Zeyneb
A young Turkish noblewoman risks her life escaping the Sultan's strict regime to find freedom in Western Europe, only to discover that Western progress hides its own spiritual decay and social traps.
Aaron the Jew: A Novel
B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon
An infant secret, born of desperate grief and cold rain, ripples through two decades of English lives to test whether human devotion can survive its own pious lies.
Andreas Hofer: An Historical Novel
L. (Luise) Mühlbach
A simple Tyrolese innkeeper leads his countrymen in a heroic, desperate uprising to restore their land to the Austrian crown.
Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress
Bernard Shaw
A royal fugitive turns a chaotic military headquarters upside down, using raw nerve and a stolen uniform to rally a shattered army for the revolution.
Australia, New Zealand and some islands of the South seas
Frank G. (Frank George) Carpenter
A detailed, firsthand observation of human industry, vibrant settlements, and wild landscapes across the Antipodes reveals how communities adapt to isolated environments and transform untamed lands into modern societies.
Awful Disclosures of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal: Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never before Published
Maria Monk
A sensational nineteenth-century expose detail public accusations of secret abuse, forced obedience, and murder inside a Montreal convent.
Beyond The Rocks: A Love Story
Elinor Glyn
Caught between a mercenary family duty and the pull of forbidden devotion, a gentle young beauty faces the heartache of an impossible choice.
Black Jack
Max Brand
A young man raised under an assumed name discovers he is the son of an infamous outlaw and runs wild to embrace his violent inheritance.
Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846
Various
This Victorian miscellany serves as a diverse literary mirror, blending political commentary, historical analysis, and imaginative fiction into a singular, vibrant portrait of the mid-19th-century British intellectual landscape.
Boy Scouts in Southern Waters
G. Harvey (George Harvey) Ralphson
Out on the open waters of the Gulf, a crew of quick-thinking youths faces fog, treacherous rivals, and sunken fortunes with only their Scout training to steer them true.
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol 1, No. 11, August, 1920: America's Magazine of Wit, Humor and Filosophy
Various
A pocket-sized artifact of Jazz Age irreverence, this 1920 periodical captures the raw, unfiltered appetite of post-war America for snappy humor, Hollywood scandal, combat veteran nostalgia, and unpretentious rural wit.
Children and their books
James Hosmer Penniman
Early childhood presents a brief, urgent window where a child's imagination and character are shaped through the literature they encounter.
Colorado—The Bright Romance of American History
F. C. Grable
A vast, untamed wilderness undergoes centuries of Spanish exploration, indigenous defense, military surveying, and pioneer ambition to emerge as a vibrant American state.
Corporal Sam and Other Stories
Arthur Quiller-Couch
Cruelty and unexpected mercy cross paths along bleak roads, inside torn uniforms, and beneath the quiet roofs of old English towns.
Cupid in Africa
Percival Christopher Wren
Unprepared for military life, an artistic young Englishman leaves for the East African theater of World War I, where hardship and romance transform him into a hardened soldier.
Fors Clavigera (Volume 2 of 8): Letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain
John Ruskin
This personal series of direct epistles blends sharp social criticism, classical mythology, and aesthetic theory into an urgent call for moral and economic reform.
From London to Land's End: and Two Letters from the "Journey through England by a Gentleman"
Daniel Defoe
This account traces the physical landscape and civic character of southern England, capturing a society defined by industrial resourcefulness, maritime trade, and local customs.
Funny stories told by the soldiers
Carleton B. (Carleton Britton) Case
Military absurdity, absurd miscommunications, and quick-witted insubordination fill a relief-seeking collection gathered right as the First World War drew to a close.
Geoffrey the Lollard
Frances Eastwood
Two Lollard brothers flee persecution into hiding, bearing the heavy cost of faith and exile as their family breaks under the relentless hand of the medieval English Church.
Geological Contemporaneity and Persistent Types of Life
Thomas Henry Huxley
A scientific discipline must occasionally audit its intellectual inventory to ensure its paper currency is backed by the solid gold of truth.
George Washington
John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
From early wilderness expeditions across rugged mountain passes to the desperate winter crossing of the ice-choked Delaware River, this nineteenth-century biography charts the forging of a general and the birth of a republic.
Gullible's Travels, Etc
Ring Lardner
A middle-class Chicago couple spends every spare dime chasing high society, only to find that every velvet rope leads to an even more expensive room.
Her Infinite Variety
Brand Whitlock
A young Illinois state senator impulsively champions woman suffrage to impress a brilliant female lawyer, only to ignite a war with his formidable future mother-in-law.
How Paper Boxes Are Made: A practical and instructive book telling how the beginner may manufacture all kinds of paper boxes, with special chapters on the printing department for paper box plants, embossing, gold-leafing, label work, etc
Robert F. Salade
A sturdy paper box requires far more than mere cardboard and glue; it demands precise geometry, careful chemistry, and the mechanical choreography of an entire factory floor.
In a Green Shade: A Country Commentary
Maurice Hewlett
A retired man of letters sits in his Wiltshire garden, reflecting on the altered world after the First World War.
Jerry's Reward
Evelyn Snead Barnett
When a group of city children cruelly mock a hunchbacked ash-collector, they have no idea that the lonely man and his bedridden wife hold the key to saving their homes from a midnight tragedy.
Juvenile Delinquent
Edward W. Ludwig
A young boy's illegal love for the written word threatens to tear his hyper-conformist family apart.
Kings in Exile
Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir
A collection of short narratives, this volume chronicles the lives of wild creatures forced into captivity. It offers an unflinching look at the collision between the untamed instincts of the wilderness and the rigid constraints of human confinement.
Kit and Kitty: A Story of West Middlesex
R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
A quiet Middlesex market garden becomes the arena for a young grower’s devoted pursuit of his true love, as simple rustic honesty faces down urban deceit, malice, and a cold-hearted conspiracy to tear a couple apart.
Life of Luther: with several introductory and concluding chapters from general church history
Gustav A. Just
Faith is forged in the crucible of persecution, refined by trial, and secured only through a relentless defense of the plain truth.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, September, 1880
Various
Wandering through nineteenth-century wildernesses, European high society, and urban tenements, a broad cultural tapestry captures the restless ambition and quiet transformations of a changing era.