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Angelot: A Story of the First Empire
Eleanor C. (Eleanor Catherine) Price
In the shadow of Napoleon's empire, a young man's love and loyalty are tested amidst political intrigue and personal danger.
Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1913
Unknown
A year of verse published in American magazines moves from quiet personal reflection to the clamor of industrial towns and classical myth.
Aunt Crete's Emancipation
Grace Livingston Hill
A unappreciated, middle-aged maiden aunt receives an unexpected visit from her Western nephew, opening the door to an astonishing transformation.
Barnaby: A Novel
Rina Ramsay
To step into the estate houses of Rina Ramsay’s Edwardian fox-hunting country is to enter a world of high-spirited mischief, reckless midnight steeplechases, and fiercely guarded family pride.
Barriers Burned Away
Edward Payson Roe
In a city built on raw ambition, a proud artist and an earnest clerk find that their strongest prejudices cannot survive the flames that consume everything around them.
Black Caesar's Clan
Albert Payson Terhune
A high-stakes game of deception in the Florida Everglades forces an undercover agent to choose between his sworn duty and the woman he loves.
Black Ivory
R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Two castaways traverse the nineteenth-century East African coast and interior, witnessing the horrors of the illegal slave trade while fighting to protect native survivors and survive the wilderness.
Bread
Charles G. (Charles Gilman) Norris
The working woman’s struggle for independence is a relentless, lifelong labor. This narrative follows a woman’s attempt to balance professional ambition with the demands of a traditional marriage, ultimately examining the cost of autonomy.
Canada in Flanders, Volume I
Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Baron
A swift mobilization across the prairie transforms Canadian civilians into an unyielding frontline force, holding the fate of the Western Front in the muddy trenches of Flanders.
Castara: The Third Edition of 1640
William Habington
A devotion to chaste, earthly affection transforms over time into a total surrender to divine transcendence.
Cavalry: A Popular Edition of "Cavalry in War and Peace"
Friedrich von Bernhardi
A mounting shadow falls over the traditional horseman as rapid-fire weaponry and technical communications redefine the modern battlefield.
Cowley's Talks on Doctrine
Matthias F. (Matthias Foss) Cowley
A plain-spoken framework for Latter-day Saint theology, defending restored revelation and the order of the primitive Church through rigorous Biblical reference.
Cudjo's Cave
J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge
Caught in the fierce crossfire of the American Civil War in East Tennessee, an idealistic Quaker schoolmaster must choose between non-violent principles and the fight for human liberty against ruthless local secessionists.
Daddy Jake the Runaway, and Short Stories Told after Dark
Joel Chandler Harris
A runaway slave’s escape into a cypress swamp sparks a desperate river journey by two young children seeking to bring him safely home.
Diamond Dyke: The Lone Farm on the Veldt - Story of South African Adventure
George Manville Fenn
A young Briton and his older brother battle loneliness, hostile wildlife, and a treacherous farmhand while attempting to build a new life as ostrich farmers in the sun-bleached expanse of the South African veldt.
Elements of agricultural chemistry and geology
Jas. F. W. (James Finlay Weir) Johnston
A silent, invisible cycle connects the soil beneath our feet to the living bodies of animals and men, tied together by the transformative chemistry of the growing plant.
Etruscan Tomb Paintings, Their Subjects and Significance
Frederik Poulsen
The painted walls of ancient Etruscan tombs capture a vanished culture through vivid scenes of aristocratic feasts, violent funeral games, and sinister underworld demons.
Every-Day Errors of Speech
L. P. Meredith
A strict line separates clear language from careless habit, and crossing it costs more than most speakers realize.
Fénelon: The Mystic
James Mudge
An exploration of divine love, high-minded devotion, and ecclesiastical intrigue, this portrait traces how a gentle seventeenth-century archbishop maintained an unshakeable inner peace through exile, bitter theological warfare, and the shifting favors of the French crown.
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Flytraps and Their Operation [1921]
F. C. (Fred Corry) Bishopp
Screen cylinder traps, wooden hoop frames, and fermenting molasses offer an unexpectedly rigorous defense against seasonal fly invasions.
Frank Mildmay
Frederick Marryat
A boy's boundless arrogance matures into an officer's battle-hardened wisdom through the brutal realities of the nineteenth-century Royal Navy.
Good housing that pays
Fullerton L. (Fullerton Leonard) Waldo
Urban housing reform can yield solid financial returns while treating working-class tenants with dignity.
Handbook of fictitious names
Olphar Hamst
The world of letters is riddled with masks, and this compendium serves as a meticulous map to the true identities hidden behind the pseudonyms, initials, and playful aliases of the nineteenth century. It acts as an essential, if eccentric, key for any reader seeking to unmask the authors of anonymous literary works.
Hieroglyfic
Rowland Jones
The quest for a primordial tongue occupies this singular inquiry, which proposes that all human speech descends from a universal, hieroglyphic system rooted in the anatomy of the human form and the observation of nature.
Historic Girlhoods, Part One
Rupert Sargent Holland
These stories follow historical records to trace how ten young girls—from medieval saints to London authors—navigated the expectations, perils, and ambitions of their youth to become influential women.
History of the War Between Mexico and the United States, with a Preliminary View of its Origin, Volume 1
Brantz Mayer
A study of national ambition and diplomatic failure, this volume traces how deep-seated cultural misunderstandings and political instability transformed border disputes into an open, bloody conflict.
Holinshed's Chronicles, vol. 1 of 6, slice 6 of 9. England, early history
Raphael Holinshed
An ancient kingdom fracture, foreign conquerors claim the soil, and rival chroniclers fight over every line of history.
In Search of Mademoiselle
George Gibbs
An English seaman braves Spanish blades and Florida wilderness to rescue his French love from historic slaughter.
In the Early Days along the Overland Trail in Nebraska Territory, in 1852
Gilbert L. Cole
A single summer on the trail across the American West transforms a young traveler into a eyewitness to history, tragedy, and the quiet resilience of ordinary people.
Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Charles A. Eastman
Charles A. Eastman
Through a comprehensive gathering of Dakota life, history, and philosophy, these collected works present an authentic portrait of Native American culture as told from the inside.
Jack the Young Explorer: A Boy's Experiances in the Unknown Northwest
George Bird Grinnell
In the shadow of Montana’s jagged Northern Rockies, a young easterner joins an old mountain guide for a summer of high-altitude exploration, big-game hunting, and quiet wilderness camaraderie.
John Herring: A West of England Romance. Volume 3 (of 3)
S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
In a bleak coastal landscape defined by bone-chilling granite and relentless Atlantic gales, a young idealist discovers that doing the honorable thing offers no protection against heartbreak, deceit, or the devastating consequences of misplaced devotion.
Kenneth McAlpine: A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea
Gordon Stables
A young Highland shepherd travels from the Scottish hills to remote global frontiers, enduring shipwreck, captivity, and winter wilderness to claim his inheritance and win his childhood love.
Kindness to Animals
Charlotte Elizabeth
Grounded in scripture and personal memory, a nineteen-century lesson in kindness reminds us that every living creature is a divine trust placed under human care.
London and Its Environs Described, vol. 3 (of 6): Containing an Account of Whatever is Most Remarkable for Grandeur, Elegance, Curiosity or Use, in the City and in the Country Twenty Miles Round It
Anonymous
A vast gazetteer documents the mid-eighteenth-century metropolis, cataloging every alley, art collection, and civic institution across London and its surrounding countryside.
M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur."
G. J. (George John) Whyte-Melville
In a dark, stormy night on the English Channel, human passions burn as recklessly as the sea itself, igniting a tale of hidden parentage, deceptive hearts, and fatal misunderstandings.
Mademoiselle Fifi
Guy de Maupassant
Occupied France exposes the fragile nature of human morality when war strips away the comfortable illusions of social class and respectable patriotism.
Marriage as a Trade
Cicely Hamilton
A sharp, pragmatic examination of women's primary historic vocation exposes the physical, moral, and intellectual tolls of enforced financial dependency upon men.
Master tales of mystery, Volume 1 (of 3)
Unknown
In high-stakes games of deception and mystery, the truth hides in unexpected corners and the most innocent observers often hold the master key.
McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 3, February 1896
Various
A vibrant cross-section of late nineteenth-century culture, this issue captures an era when high literary ambition and popular journalism marched side by side.
Medical Women: Two Essays
Sophia Jex-Blake
Knowledge must be granted based on capacity rather than custom.
Modern Geography
Marion I. (Marion Isabel) Newbigin
A reasoned, synthesis-driven study reveals how physical landscapes, climatic systems, and biological migrations converge to forge human history and modern industrial settlement across the globe.
Musical Studies
Ernest Newman
An analytical exploration of the tensions between music and literature, this collection examines how composers like Berlioz, Strauss, and Wagner redefined the boundaries of their art.
My past and thoughts, vol. 4 (of 6)
Aleksandr Herzen
In exile, a human soul loses its quiet anchor, and every private grief is amplified by the storms of a collapsing continent.
Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School
Unknown
A single landscape can anchor a soul, yet the wide world constantly demands that men march off to fight, search, or build elsewhere.
Nobody
Susan Warner
A quiet country girl’s modest principles disrupt the artificial boundaries of New York high society when a wealthy bachelor falls in love with her unpretentious heart.
Odd Bits of Travel with Brush and Camera
Charles M. (Charles Maus) Taylor
Armed with a camera and a sketch book, a curious traveler records the vibrant street life, quiet rivers, and legendary landscapes of late-nineteenth-century Europe.
On Books and the Housing of Them
W. E. (William Ewart) Gladstone
A lover of books faces a rising tide of print, offering practical wisdom and exact calculations to save home libraries from total chaos.