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The Sorceress: A Drama in Five Acts
Victorien Sardou
In sixteenth-century Toledo, a Moorish healer and a Christian captain fall into a forbidden romance, only to be torn apart by the ruthless machinery of the Inquisition.
The Story of the Other Wise Man
Henry Van Dyke
A devoted Parthian priest sacrifices his life's dream of presenting three precious jewels to the newborn Messiah, repeatedly delaying his quest to rescue the suffering and forgotten.
The Sunbonnet Babies in Italy
Eulalie Osgood Grover
Two young sisters step off an ocean steamer into the warmth of early twentieth-century Italy, where volcano smoke, street-side macaroni, and cliffside carriage rides transform an educational family trip into an open-air adventure.
The Táin
Mary A. (Mary Ann) Hutton
Envy and pride trigger a devastating invasion when a queen demands Ulster’s prize bull, leaving one young champion to defend an entire province alone.
The White Morning: A Novel of the Power of the German Women in Wartime
Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
A vision of desperate resistance in wartime, this dramatic narrative imagines the ultimate domestic uprising against tyrannical authority.
The Winding Stair
A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
A young man with an erased identity must choose between the comfort of an easy life and the grueling climb to redeem his family's name.
The Window-Gazer
Isabel Ecclestone Mackay
A woman who fears marriage as a trap of subjection agrees to a practical union with a quiet scholar seeking relief from his overbearing aunt.
The Young Book Agent
Alger, Horatio, Jr.
A sudden financial crisis forces a schoolboy to hit the road as a subscription book salesman, turning a family disaster into an education in self-reliance, honesty, and quick-witted survival.
Three Girls from School
L. T. Meade
A scheme at a girls' school unravels, exposing how one lie demands another until three futures are nearly ruined.
Transfer Point
Anthony Boucher
A time traveler writes his own future, trapped in a loop where every word he authors brings him closer to the moment he creates himself.
Wintering Bees in Cellars
Everett Franklin Phillips
A quiet room, an even temperature, and four months of darkness can mean the difference between a thriving apiary and a dead harvest.
Without a Home
Edward Payson Roe
A devoted daughter shields her family from urban poverty while struggling to save her father from the silent ruin of morphine addiction in Gilded Age New York.
Women in white raiment
John Lemley
A woman’s worth in the eyes of God is neither an invention of modern social progress nor a recent compromise with culture.
A Dash for a Throne
Arthur W. Marchmont
Desperate to escape a hollow existence, an cashiered officer accepts a dead man’s identity, only to fall into a dangerous web of Bavarian treason, royal impersonation, and unexpected love.
A First Family of Tasajara
Bret Harte
A wet night in a flooded California settlement sets off a chain of quiet betrayals, unearned wealth, and sudden gentility.
A Manual for Teaching Biblical History
Eugene Kohn
Religious education requires more than transmitting facts; it demands instilling a distinct cultural worldview. This guide outlines how Jewish educators can present biblical narratives to shape a child’s moral compass and religious identity.
An open verdict
M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
A young heiress trapped in a gloomy English country house must choose between an austere lover and a father’s bitter legacy, unaware that a scheming friend and a long-buried family secret threaten to ruin them all.
Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, May, 1900: Vol. 57, May, 1900 to October, 1900
Various
A snapshot of turn-of-the-century intellectual curiosity, this volume captures a rapidly modernizing world balancing scientific promise with complex social, political, and municipal challenges.
Bart Ridgeley: A Story of Northern Ohio
A. G. (Albert Gallatin) Riddle
When a flood destroys the bridge over an Ohio river, a stranded young traveler must choose between giving up or forging a way across his own unsettled future.
Battling the clouds
Frank Cobb
Bound by honor and driven by a desperate quest for justice, two young aviators embark on a daring airborne cross-country rescue mission.
Belinda: An April Folly in Three Acts
A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne
A middle-aged beauty playing a game of lighthearted flirtation finds her idyllic spring day disrupted when her long-estranged husband unexpectedly reappears.
Benighted
J. B. (John Boynton) Priestley
Three stranded travelers, forced off a storm-swept Welsh mountain road, seek refuge in a remote, decaying mansion only to find that the bizarre family inside poses a far greater threat than the tempest raging outside.
Betty Gordon at Bramble Farm
Alice B. Emerson
An orphan girl's quick temper and fierce sense of justice clash with the grim realities of an austere rural homestead.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 68, No. 421, November 1850
Various
A vibrant tapestry of Victorian fiction, international geopolitics, legal debates, and sharp editorial commentary fills the pages of this mid-nineteenth-century literary journal.
Brave Old Salt
Oliver Optic
An ambitious young naval officer navigates hidden traitors, perilous surfs, and fierce ironclad battles to defend the Union at sea.
Bull Hunter
Max Brand
A massive, soft-spoken mountain outcast discovers his own terrifying physical power, learns to shoot, and tames an unridable stallion, forging a fiercely loyal life alongside an aging legendary gunfighter.
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 686: February 17, 1877
Various
Adrift upon unpredictable currents, derelict ships drift across oceans without a single living soul aboard, presenting an eerie spectacle of abandonment and survival that captures the human imagination.
Dramatized Readings: Recitations in Poetry and Prose, Illustrated with Tableaux: Preston Library No. 1
Lucy A. Yendes
A collection of dramatic recitations and staged freeze-frames offers a vivid window into late nineteenth-century American domestic theater and popular entertainment.
Enchantment
Harold MacGrath
The magic of chance turns everyday Manhattan streets into stage sets for romance, mix-ups, and sudden midnight rescue.
First harvests
Frederic Jesup Stimson
A biting portrait of Gilded Age ambition, this novel follows the intersection of high-society climbers, cynical financiers, and the disillusioned souls who drift in their wake. It is a sharp, atmospheric examination of a society discarding its old moral foundations for the cold, glittering allure of wealth.
From Capetown to Ladysmith: An Unfinished Record of the South African War
G. W. (George Warrington) Steevens
A journalist travels to South Africa on the brink of conflict, recording a nation’s slide into open warfare with sharp observation and mounting dread.
Grace Harlowe's Problem
Josephine Chase
When a high-minded young woman puts her duty to others above her own happiness, she risks losing the very life she was trying to protect.
Harper's Young People, November 2, 1880: An Illustrated Monthly
Various
Lighthearted entertainment and practical instruction meet in an illustrated Victorian periodical designed to inform, amuse, and connect late-nineteenth-century children across a rapidly changing American landscape.
Her own people
B. M. (Bithia Mary) Croker
A polished young heiress leaves the brilliant ballrooms of European society for an Anglo-Indian outpost, only to discover that her true origin is tied to the very family she believes she is visiting as an outsider.
History of the Catholic Church in Paterson, N.J.: with an Account of the Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Establishment of St. John's Church
Charles A. (Charles Anthony) Shriner
Driven by steady Irish and German immigration, a small silk-manufacturing town in northern New Jersey transforms its humble, single-room mission into a thriving network of cathedrals, parochial schools, and civic institutions.
Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Bret Harte
Bret Harte
The life of the California frontier is captured here through the eyes of a master storyteller who saw both the grit of the mining camp and the fading elegance of the Spanish missions. This collection serves as a comprehensive gateway to an expansive body of work that defined the Western literary imagination.
Inside Earth
Poul Anderson
Under deep cover on Earth, an alien agent orchestrates a human rebellion designed to fail, only to fall in love with one of its leaders.
John Herring: A West of England Romance. Volume 2 (of 3)
S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
A proud, displaced heiress navigating mid-nineteenth-century Devonshire finds her delicate sensibilities tested by predatory swindlers, broken engagements, and the unspoken sacrifices of a devoted suitor.
Jovinian: A Story of the Early Days of Papal Rome
William Henry Giles Kingston
A gripping tale of faith, corruption, and resilience in early Christian Rome.
Kinship and Social Organisation
W. H. R. (William Halse Rivers) Rivers
Societies across the globe invent drastically different words for relatives, and those choices directly mirror their fundamental social systems, marriage rules, and legal obligations.
Launch the lifeboat!
Walton, O. F., Mrs.
A child’s innocent question on a sunny beach opens the door to a quiet, profound reflection on survival, memory, and faith.
Life on the Mississippi, Part 6
Mark Twain
A vast, mud-stained river sweeps through a changing South, carrying memory, tragedy, and the quiet joke of a altered world.
Mary Louise at Dorfield
Emma Speed Sampson
Postwar quiet comes slowly to a small town where ambitious young women, a clever girl detective, and a pair of charming swindlers collide over stolen goods and wedding plans.
Miss Lochinvar: A Story for Girls
Marion Ames Taggart
An unpretentious girl from a small Kansas town brings warmth, practical sense, and steady affection into her wealthy, distant relatives' cluttered New York home.
More E. K. Means: Is This a Title? It Is Not. It Is the Name of a Writer of Negro Stories, Who Has Made Himself So Completely the Writer of Negro Stories That This Second Book, Like the First, Needs No Title
E. K. (Eldred Kurtz) Means
A sleepy Louisiana hamlet becomes a stage where local white authority and an interconnected Black community test boundaries through comedic misunderstandings, runaway panics, and absurd schemes.
Music in Medicine
Sidney Licht
A clinical proposal to treat the human body with melody and rhythm instead of mere sentiment.
Nick Carter Stories No. 160, October 2, 1915: The Yellow Label
Nicholas (House name) Carter
A slick High Society crime scheme collides with a crusader's camera war, revealing the rot hidden behind Gotham's high walls and small-town prestige.
Normandy Picturesque
Henry Blackburn
Old timber-framed dwellings leaning across shadow-drenched riverways and ancient cathedral towers give way to dusty country roads, quiet market stalls, and seaside cliffs. A journey through nineteenth-century Normandy reveals a landscape caught between rustic tradition and modern change.