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Paths of Glory: Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front
Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
A civilian journalist stumbles into the path of a juggernaut, recording the destruction of a quiet continent.
Peeps at Many Lands: Egypt
R. Talbot (Robert Talbot) Kelly
A vibrant travelogue pairs ancient biblical history with early twentieth-century observations, charting a journey down the Nile from coastal ports to desert outposts.
Pippin
Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
A young man leaves prison determined to repay his debt to society, wandering the New England countryside with a knife-grinding wheel and a heart full of joy.
Rules and Examples of Perspective proper for Painters and Architects, etc.: In English and Latin: Containing a most easie and expeditious method to delineate in perspective all designs relating to architecture
Andrea Pozzo
Through rigorous geometric projection and practical drafts, a master class unfolds on how to transform flat architectural planes into stunning illusions of three-dimensional space.
Sant' Ilario
F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
A web of duty, deceit, and misdirected jealousy threatens the highest circles of nineteenth-century Roman nobility, where honor is absolute and a single secret can tear a marriage apart.
Scientific American magazine, Vol. 2 Issue 1: The advocate of Industry and Journal of Scientific
Various
A miscellany of practical craft, sudden technological marvels, and small-town curiosities reveals an era when lightning spoke across miles and common air was praised as medicine.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883
Various
A vivid snapshot of late-nineteenth-century industrial ambition and scientific inquiry, where practical workshop recipes sit alongside cutting-edge chemistry, archeological triumphs, and tragic real-world adventures.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884
Various
A single issue of a nineteenth-century industrial periodical captures a world in motion, where steam ferries, laboratory discoveries, and practical trades meet on equal footing.
Sketches of the Christian life and public labors of William Miller
James White
A plain, hardworking farmer finds himself transformed into a polarizing religious figure, convinced by his own rigorous study of the Bible that the world is nearing its final, cataclysmic end.
Slavery as an industrial system
H. J. (Herman Jeremias) Nieboer
Human labor transforms into forced servitude only under specific economic and geographic conditions. H. J. Nieboer undertakes a global survey of primitive societies to uncover the exact structural laws governing the rise and fall of slavery.
Sunrise
William Black
Behind polished Venetian doors and quietly shuttered London drawing rooms, a vast subterranean engine of European revolution turns, threatening to swallow two lovers whole.
Sweet Mace: A Sussex Legend of the Iron Times
George Manville Fenn
In the dense, damp valleys of seventeenth-century Sussex, an unyielding ironmaster, a ruthless courtier, and a local witch collide over a young woman’s fate.
Ten Years' Exile: Memoirs of That Interesting Period of the Life of the Baroness De Stael-Holstein, Written by Herself, during the Years 1810, 1811, 1812, and 1813, and Now First Published from the Original Manuscript, by Her Son
Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine) Staël
An unrelenting tyrant transforms a world-famous woman of letters into a fugitive across a continent on the brink of total war.
The American Missionary
Various
Against a backdrop of nationwide economic strain, dedicated teachers and ministers quietly build schools, maintain mountain chapels, and carry basic supplies to forgotten communities.
The Arian Controversy
Henry Melvill Gwatkin
The fourth-century struggle over the nature of Christ was not a mere squabble of scholars, but a fierce battle for the soul of the Christian world that reshaped both church and empire.
The Assembly of God. Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, vol. III
Charles Henry Mackintosh
Faith is not a set of rigid, hand-me-down traditions, but an active, personal communion with a living God.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862: Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
Various
In a nation torn apart by the Civil War, literature, science, and political commentary converge to chart the intellectual boundaries of a rapidly changing nineteenth-century America.
The Bradys' Chinese Clew
Francis Worcester Doughty
A sudden rainstorm in New York opens a hole in a Chinatown sidewalk, dropping a boy into a subterranean network of secret rooms and launching a race for buried government treasure.
The children's book of Christmas
Unknown
A global journey through winter light, ancient evergreen boughs, and regional hearth fires shows how humanity continually invents new ways to welcome the midwinter season with generosity and joy.
The Church and Modern Life
Washington Gladden
A institution built for universal human brotherhood finds itself weakened by dogmatic debates, material greed, and defensive isolation from the very society it was sent to redeem.
The complete works of John Gower, volume 4
John Gower
A quiet, relentless examination of a society unraveling from within, this volume brings a medieval poet’s moral outrage into sharp focus.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 2, February, 1864: Devoted To Literature And National Policy
Various
Beyond the smoke of Civil War battlefields, mid-nineteenth-century America waged an equally fierce conflict of ideas over national identity, historical truth, and the nature of human progress.
The Country-Life Movement in the United States
L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey
A quiet revolution is stirring beyond city boundaries, demanding that rural life be understood on its own terms rather than treated as a mere supplier for urban industrial expansion.
The Emancipated
George Gissing
A rigid young widow with a fortress of religious pride clashes with a brilliant, volatile freethinker under the dazzling, permissive sun of Southern Italy.
The Enormous Room
H. L. (Horace Leonard) Gold
An unseen hand snatches a coaster car mid-descent, pulling its occupants into a vast, baffling realm where they are treated less like prisoners than prized specimens.
The great amulet
Maud Diver
Love can forge a sanctuary out of hardship, yet even the deepest devotion cannot undo choices made in haste or pride.
The History of England - a Study in Political Evolution
A. F. (Albert Frederick) Pollard
A small, oft-conquered island transforms into a global empire not by rigid design, but through an extraordinary capacity for adaptation and institutional change.
The history of the Jews
Gotthard Deutsch
Two millennia of survival, dispersal, and intellectual renewal unfold through the record of a people perpetually remaking their world amid exile and emancipation.
The Hole in the Wall
Arthur Morrison
A young boy steps into the shadowed taverns of the London Docks, where his grandfather keeps a dark secret among thieves, murderers, and lost fortunes.
The House Under the Sea: A Romance
Max Pemberton
A captain sails to a forbidding Pacific island to save his former mistress, only to discover her trapped in a nightmare of villainy, natural horror, and hidden undersea strongholds.
The Infidel
Robert Montgomery Bird
A young Castilian soldier finds himself caught between the ruthless ambitions of Hernan Cortes and the desperate resistance of the Aztec empire, forced to navigate betrayal, imprisonment, and forbidden alliances in a divided land.
The Iron Boys on the Ore Boats
James R. Mears
Thrown into an ore ship’s dark hold, two ambitious young industrial inspectors battle treacherous waters, wild hazards, and rivalries to master the shipping trade of the Great Lakes.
The Land of Deepening Shadow: Germany-at-War
D. Thomas (Daniel Thomas) Curtin
A chilling, eye-opening journey behind enemy lines reveals a nation transformed by totalitarian control, systematic indoctrination, and the grinding, desperate realities of total war.
The life savers of Cape Cod
J. W. (John Wilfred) Dalton
A harrowing chronicle of maritime peril, J. W. Dalton’s 1902 history documents the perilous stretches of Massachusetts sand and the disciplined, fearless surfmen who risked their lives to rescue shipwrecked sailors from the Atlantic’s deadliest winter gales.
The Lily and the Totem
William Gilmore Simms
A dream of freedom in the New World dissolves into mutiny, massacre, and a terrible, cold revenge.
The long road of woman's memory
Jane Addams
A thoughtful reflection on how memory shapes the lives of women, this collection explores how the stories we tell ourselves—and the myths we inherit—help us navigate grief, social injustice, and the pressures of modern life.
The Lost Road
Richard Harding Davis
A war correspondent dies while the greatest conflict of his era remains unfinished, leaving behind stories of soldiers, idealists, schemers, and reluctant fugitives bound by duty, pride, and love.
The Martian Cabal
Roman Frederick Starzl
A corrupt oligarchy brews a war between Earth and Mars to consolidate power, while an Earth police sergeant and a displaced Martian princess navigate torture, escape, and political upheaval across the red planet.
The Masked Bridal
Sheldon, Georgie, Mrs.
A young copyist agrees to play the bride in a private theatrical performance, only to discover her fake marriage was real and her new life a web of deceit.
The Mentor: Egypt, the Land of Mystery, Serial No. 42
Dwight L. (Dwight Lathrop) Elmendorf
The life-giving waters of the Nile flow through a landscape where ancient stone monuments whisper from the distant past and modern engineering reclaims the fertile desert.
The Palace in the Garden
Mrs. Molesworth
When three lonely children stumble upon a secret, forgotten wing of a neighboring estate, their quiet summer transforms into a world of hidden pasts and unexpected joy.
The Pearl Box: Containing One Hundred Beautiful Stories for Young People
Anonymous
Grief, poverty, and childhood's fragile moments meet under the watchful eye of an unyielding moral order.
The Real Dope
Ring Lardner
An thick-headed American pitcher writes home to his midwestern buddy from the mud, drafty transport ships, and trenches of France during the First World War.
The Runaway Skyscraper
Murray Leinster
A New York office building falls out of its own era, landing two thousand confused commuters straight into pre-Columbian wilderness.
The secret of the caves
Franklin W. Dixon
A summer afternoon on the bay turns into a desperate search along treacherous coastal cliffs when two teenage brothers pull a frantic woman from the water and inherit a missing-persons case that local authorities have abandoned.
The Steam Fire Engine and the Old-time Fire Bell
Anonymous
Flames once leveled American cities while citizens scrambled with buckets, but the invention of the steam fire engine transformed civic defense into a thrilling, mechanical spectacle.
The Story of an Ostrich: An Allegory and Humorous Satire in Rhyme
I. J. Potter
A self-absorbed ostrich attempts to destroy his own feet after mistaking them for alien parasites.
The Story of Live Dolls
Josephine Scribner Gates
A quiet town turns magical when a miniature gilded carriage brings news that every doll will awaken tomorrow.