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Songs of love and empire
E. (Edith) Nesbit
Victorian pageantry and intimate heartbreak meet in a verse collection where imperial triumph constantly shadows the quiet griefs of human love.
Sport in the Crimea and Caucasus
Clive Phillipps-Wolley
A young traveler steps off the boat and marches straight into the muddy, frozen borderlands of the Russian Empire, rifle in hand, seeking real wilderness before the modern world can smooth it away.
Stories by Foreign Authors: Russian
Unknown
Trapped between low social status and total powerlessness, Russian characters navigate rigid hierarchies through tragic silence, sudden violence, or pathetic self-delusion.
Tedious brief tales of Granta and Gramarye
Arthur Gray
Across the centuries, a Cambridge college harbors quiet terrors and illicit secrets, where forgotten scholars, uneasy ghosts, and desperate monastics leave their shadowy imprints upon cold chapel walls.
Tested Recipes: Waterless Cooking for Better Meals, Better Health
N.Y.) Tested Recipe Institute (New York
Precision-engineered for the post-war kitchen, this mid-century manual transforms low-heat, minimal-liquid cooking into an exacting science of domestic efficiency and preserved nutrition.
'That Very Mab'
Andrew Lang
An ancient fairy queen returns to modern Britain only to find her former realm overrun by pedantic scientists, self-serving politicians, and absurd patent religions.
The American Missionary
Various
Through administrative balance sheets, institutional field reports, and quiet personal encounters, a missionary publication captures the sprawling efforts to educate and uplift marginalized populations across post-Civil War America.
The Annals of Ann
Kate Trimble Sharber
A spirited young girl records the comical romances, domestic mishaps, and social absurdities of her small town in a diary she hopes will make her famous.
The art of decorating dry goods windows and interiors
L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
Before mass media captivated the public eye, store windows served as the primary stage for urban imagination and commercial desire.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
Various
Classical physical discipline, contemporary religious debate, and American frontier expansion converge in a mid-nineteenth-century literary compendium.
The Autobiography of an Electron: Wherein the Scientific Ideas of the Present Time Are Explained in an Interesting and Novel Fashion
Charles R. (Charles Robert) Gibson
An infinitesimal particle of electricity narrates its own history, turning the complex physics of light, heat, and wireless communication into a personal journey across space and human discovery.
The Bakchesarian Fountain and Other Poems
Unknown
Captured by a Crimean ruler, a Polish princess brings quiet faith into a palace defined by absolute power, sparking a tragic chain of jealousy and silent grief that leaves an eternal mark on all who dwell there.
The Bee Hunters: A Tale of Adventure
Gustave Aimard
A shadow of violence falls across the vast Mexican wilderness, where wild animals and ruthless men make survival a daily gamble.
The Boy Allies Under the Sea
Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes
Two young British officers navigate the treacherous, shadowed waters of the Great War, engaging in a high-stakes duel of wits and weaponry against German U-boats.
The collected works of Henrik Ibsen, Vol. 11 (of 11)
Henrik Ibsen
Three late masterpieces lay bare the ruin left behind when human warmth is sacrificed to ambition, pride, and artistic obsession.
The conquest of the great Northwest, Volume 1 (of 2)
Agnes C. Laut
A vast, ice-choked bay becomes the arena where brave, desperate men risk everything to claim a frozen continent.
The Crimson Thread: An Adventure Story for Girls
Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell
A young retail clerk steps into a dark elevator shaft after hours and launches a whirlwind Christmas Eve chase across a frozen metropolis.
The Cromptons
Mary Jane Holmes
A young woman arrives in a New England town to teach school, unaware that her hidden family tree connects her directly to its proudest family.
The Dim Lantern
Temple Bailey
A wounded veteran and a young woman bound by duty search for purpose in a changing postwar world.
The Dinner Club
H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile
Six friends, each famous in their field, form a dinner club with a twist: after an exquisite meal, they must tell a story from their profession, or pay a fine.
The Eureka Stockade
Raffaello Carboni
This is a raw, urgent, and fiercely personal eyewitness account of the 1854 Eureka Stockade, one of the defining moments in Australian colonial history. It captures the spirit of a rebellion born of injustice, written by a man who stood in the barricades and lived to tell the tale.
The Everlasting Whisper
Jackson Gregory
A woman who has lived for ease and admiration finds herself bound in marriage to a wilderness guide and stranded in the snow-bound Sierra Nevada.
The Forbidden Room
Phoebe Allen
A lively summer visit to a quiet English farm descends into chaotic rivalry, ill-advised chivalric crusades, and a disastrous encounter with a long-kept secret.
The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 7 (of 7)
Arthur Thomas Malkin
An expansive gallery of historical figures comes to life through rigorous biographical sketches, capturing the delicate intersection of individual character, intellect, and public duty.
The Geneva Protocol
David Hunter Miller
A rigorous legal analysis examines whether global peace can be codified through compulsory arbitration, mutual security guarantees, and structured disarmament.
The Harmsworth Magazine, Vol. 1, 1898-1899, No. 6
Various
A late-Victorian monthly miscellany offers a vivid cross-section of imperial British tastes, blending serialized fiction, quirky human-interest reporting, and popular science.
The manufacture of earth colours
Josef Bersch
Industrial chemistry demands both raw natural geology and exact human processing to yield enduring, stable color.
The Meaning of the War: Life & Matter in Conflict
Henri Bergson
Modern industrial conflict is not merely a clash of opposing armies, but a fundamental collision between the vital, self-renewing spirit of human freedom and the rigid, consuming momentum of pure mechanical force.
The Men Who Wrought
Ridgwell Cullum
A fragile peace offers no guarantee against future total war, but a revolutionary underwater technology could change the balance of global power forever.
The Million Dollar Mystery: Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan
Harold MacGrath
A secret society pursues a missing fortune while a missing heiress tries to stay alive.
The Miracles of Antichrist: A Novel
Selma Lagerlöf
Earthly suffering and heavenly grace cross paths on the sun-baked slopes of Mount Etna.
The Mother's Recompense, Volume 1: A Sequel to Home Influence
Grace Aguilar
A devoted mother guides her children through the emotional minefields of London society, learning that true maternal love requires equal parts gentle discipline, deep forgiveness, and patient faith.
The night wire
H. F. (Henry Ferris) Arnold
A quiet graveyard mist creeps across an isolated city, consuming its inhabitants as two telegraph typewriters record their final screams.
The Old Sixth Regiment, Its War Record, 1861-5
Charles K. Cadwell
A soldier’s unvarnished journal records the full trajectory of a Union infantry unit through disease, siegecraft, and the grinding realities of the American Civil War.
The Path Of Duty
Henry James
Bound by rigid aristocratic expectations, a charismatic Englishman surrenders his heart’s true desire to preserve an innocent woman's life, only to find that doing the noble thing leaves everyone involved quietly, permanently broken.
The Ranche on the Oxhide: A Story of Boys' and Girls' Life on the Frontier
Henry Inman
Four young siblings face the perils and unexpected rewards of pioneer life on the 1860s Kansas prairie.
The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom, 1795-1813: A Short Account of the Early Development of the Modern Kingdom of the Netherlands
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
When foreign conquest strips a nation of its sovereignty, the slow return to self-governance demands unexpected sacrifices and painful political compromises.
The Second War with England, Vol. 2 of 2
Joel Tyler Headley
Reliving the final, brutal campaigns of the War of 1812, this history turns dusty treaties into an intense study of military desperation, political fracturing, and raw human endurance across land and sea.
The Strange Cabin on Catamount Island
Lawrence J. Leslie
A daring bet sends five small-town boys into a haunted wilderness, where mysterious midnight attacks, creeping shadow prowlers, and a long-hidden tragic past test their courage to the limit.
The Strange Little Girl: A Story for Children
V. M.
A lonely soul leaves a realm of eternal bliss to take on mortal flesh, guiding forgotten children toward unity through ancient wisdom.
The Trespasser, Complete
Gilbert Parker
Bound to no single world, a wild-souled heir from the Canadian wilds claims an English estate, only to find that blood, memory, and ancient ancestral vices yield a far fiercer inheritance than land.
The voyage of the "Deutschland"
Paul König
Under the shadow of a world war, an unarmed commercial submarine slips through enemy blockades, risking the deep Atlantic to open a secret trade route between nations.
The war chief
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Born white but raised Apache, a warrior defends his adopted people while navigating a blood-soaked frontier and a forbidden love.
The Watsons
Jane Austen
A young woman returned to a family she barely knows must navigate shallow suitors, snobbish relatives, and her own fastidious heart.
The Weird of the Wentworths: A Tale of George IV's Time, Vol. 2
Johannes Scotus
Driven by family curse, lawless violence, and forbidden longing, a Scottish dynasty unravels across Regency Europe as an outlawed heir returns to claim what is his.
The works of the Rev. John Wesley, Vol. 09 (of 32)
John Wesley
A rich portrait of early Christian practice sits alongside urgent, practical pastoral instructions designed to strip away religious complacency and point souls directly toward grace.
Tor, a Street Boy of Jerusalem
Florence Morse Kingsley
A blind street child navigates the turbulent alleys of Jerusalem during the final days of Jesus, searching for belonging in a world of cruelty, betrayal, and sudden grace.
Why I am opposed to socialism
Unknown
A single sweeping political promise cannot undo the realities of human diversity, personal ambition, and natural law.