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Frank Oldfield: Lost and Found
Theodore P. Wilson
A young man’s downfall through alcohol wrecks his engagement and drives him across the world, where betrayal and crime bring him to absolute rock bottom.
Freaks on the Fells: Three Months' Rustication
R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
A summer journey to the Scottish Highlands plunges an energetic London family into wild scrambles, rustic encounters, and endless minor catastrophes.
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.
Hendricks the Hunter
William Henry Giles Kingston
An Irish family fortified on the Zululand border, a missing child raised among strangers, and two warring princes shape this classic African frontier adventure.
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.
Holiday House: A Series of Tales
Catherine Sinclair
Left to their own devices, two rambunctious Scottish children turn their home into a chaotic test ground for every absurd idea that enters their heads.
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.
Isabel Leicester
Maude Alma
Stripped of her fortune by her father’s death, a young Victorian woman enters domestic service as a governess, navigating spiteful relatives, romantic entanglements, and her own bruised pride.
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.
Jemmy Stubbins, or the Nailer Boy: Illustrations of the Law of Kindness
Unknown
An American traveller steps inside an English smithy to escape the rain and discovers a child whose youth is being relentlessly consumed by the anvil.
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.
John Nicholson, the Lion of the Punjaub
R. E. Cholmeley
In the dust of nineteenth-century India, a British officer’s iron will and terrifying presence command both the terror of insurgents and the absolute, divine devotion of the local tribes.
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.
Lemorne Versus Huell
Elizabeth Stoddard
A suppressed music teacher is drawn into an unsettling romance with her formidable aunt’s opposing legal counsel during a tense summer resort stay.
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.
Memoranda on Tours and Touraine: Including remarks on the climate with a sketch of the Botany And Geology of the Province also on the Wines and Mineral Waters of France
J. H. Holdsworth
A detailed medical and natural survey guides nineteenth-century English travelers through the restorative microclimates, geological wonders, and mineral springs of central France.
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.
Oxford
F. D. (Frederick Douglas) How
A place of ancient stone and summer haze reveals its secrets to those who approach slowly and learn to love it over time.
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.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, July 18, 1891
Various
A satirical mirror held up to Victorian London, this volume captures the anxieties, absurdities, and daily absurdities of an empire at its zenith.
Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 31, October 29, 1870
Various
A bustling slice of post-Civil War American satire captures a nation wrestling with political corruption, European conflict, and its own chaotic cultural identity.
R. Holmes & Co.: Being the Remarkable Adventures of Raffles Holmes, Esq., Detective and Amateur Cracksman by Birth
John Kendrick Bangs
Conceived by two grand literary lineages, Raffles Holmes carries a double inheritance: the analytical intellect of Sherlock Holmes and the larcenous instincts of A. J. Raffles.
Reading Made Easy for Foreigners - Third Reader
John Ludwig Hülshof
A structured path toward civic belonging unfolds through poetry, historical portraiture, natural science, and foundational constitutional texts.
'Return Loads' to Increase Transport Resources by Avoiding Waste of Empty Vehicle Running
United States. Council of National Defense. Highways Transport Committee
A wartime government initiative outlines how civilian motor trucks can rescue a congested transportation system by carrying freight on their return journeys rather than traveling empty across the nation's roads.
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.