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Studies in jocular literature
William Carew Hazlitt
Humor reveals the hidden history of human thought, transforming fleeting social quips and ancient caricatures into durable records of cultural identity.
Studies in Zechariah
Arno Clemens Gaebelein
A fiery, verse-by-verse journey through ancient vision and future glory, unravelling the divine destiny of Israel and the nations.
Survival Type
Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone
Human survival on the alien world of Niobe depends on overcoming a deadly environment, but a lone explorer discovers that true adaptation requires surrendering human pride to native wisdom.
The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair
James Otis
An ambitious farm boy sets out to clear his widowed mother's mortgage by operating a fairground game, only to wind up framed for burglary and pursued by local lawmen.
The amateur crime
Anthony Berkeley
A set of well-meaning friends stage a fake murder to shock a set bachelor into living life, only for their elaborate prank to completely unravel into real police investigations and unexpected romance.
The Baculum in the Chipmunks of Western North America
John A. White
A minute anatomical feature, invisible from the outside, becomes the master key that unpicks decades of confusion in Western chipmunk taxonomy.
The Beautiful Miss Brooke
Louis Zangwill
A young man's comfortable ideals crumble when he encounters a fiercely independent woman who refuses to play the part he has scripted for her.
The Book of Courage
John T. (John Thomson) Faris
A singing canary in a frozen schoolroom, a ruined historian writing through a wire frame, and an heir who gave away a fortune all point to a single truth: life is won by those who refuse to surrender.
The Boy Aviators with the Air Raiders: A Story of the Great World War
John Henry Goldfrap
A high-flying juvenile adventure captures the early, chaotic months of the First World War through the eyes of daring young American inventors.
The Children of France: A Book of Stories of the Heroism and Self-sacrifice of Youthful Patriots of France During the Great War
Ruth Royce
Across the shattered landscapes of World War I, young boys and girls step forward to defend their homeland with startling bravery.
The Church of England cleared from the charge of Schism: Upon Testimonies of Councils and Fathers of the first six centuries
T. W. (Thomas William) Allies
A rigorous historical defense demonstrates that the early Church operated as an episcopal college, free from absolute papal monarchy.
The Collectors: Being Cases mostly under the Ninth and Tenth Commandments
Frank Jewett Mather
Obsession with rare art and antiques reveals the curious, covetous depths of human nature across seven ironic tales and witty reflections.
The Cottage on the Fells
H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
A severed head in a black leather bag, a shattered marble bust, and a trail of unexplained murders connect a wealthy London banker to an impossible crime on the desolate Cumberland fells.
The Cricket's Friends: Tales Told by the Cricket, Teapot, and Saucepan
Virginia W. (Virginia Wales) Johnson
On a drafty hearth, domestic utensils and curious insects gather to swap wide-ranging tales of adventure, enchantment, and moral instruction.
The curse of Clifton
Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
A stoic girl bound by honor and a prideful Virginia heir test whether devotion can endure deceit, warfare, and the heavy chains of rank.
The Dumpling
Coulson Kernahan
An insane idealist wages open war against the British Empire, leaving a young investigator to unravel a vast, chaotic conspiracy.
The evolution of general ideas
Th. (Théodule) Ribot
Human thought ascends in a steady, unbroken line, transforming raw bodily perception into high abstractions that need no physical form.
The flying carpet
Unknown
A vast array of childhood wonder unfolds within a single volume, where whimsical verse, historical drama, and fairy-tale enchantments collide.
The Golden Book of Springfield
Vachel Lindsay
A mystic in 1920 falls into a visionary trance, awakening nearly a century later in a transformed, utopian Illinois.
The great fraud of Ulster
T. M. (Timothy Michael) Healy
A meticulous exposure of legal maneuvering, this historical investigation lays bare how seventeenth-century administrators dismantled Irish land ownership through manufactured titles, forged patents, and judicial complicity.
The Great Intendant
Thomas Chapais
A dying outpost of empire is transformed into a thriving society through one administrator's relentless drive, administrative genius, and vision for the future.
The hermit hunter of the wilds
Gordon Stables
A boy leaves his Scottish home for a life at sea, braving mutiny, wild jungles, and shipwreck on a remote island before uncovering the fate of a lost friend.
The Ivory Trail
Talbot Mundy
A hunt for hidden treasure across East Africa sets four adventurers against German officers, ruthless rivals, and a unforgiving wilderness.
The Kernel and the Husk: Letters on Spiritual Christianity
Edwin Abbott Abbott
Faith does not crumble when miracles fall away; stripped of physical wonders, a deeper, non-miraculous worship of Christ emerges.
The land of hidden men
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Lost in the Cambodian jungle, a modern man steps through the green veil of the forest to find that the ancient Khmers never perished, but still wage their ancient, brutal dynastic wars.
The Life of David
Anonymous
An irreverent, iconoclastic eighteenth-century tract strips away pious tradition to examine the reign of Israel’s most famous monarch through a lens of unsparing political skepticism.
The Log of a Privateersman
Harry Collingwood
Every stroke of luck on the high seas demands its price in blood, fire, and cold calculation.
The Milkmaid of Montfermeil (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XX)
Paul de Kock
A charming blend of romance and social satire, this story follows a handsome but reckless officer whose chaotic love life collides with the unassuming goodness of a country girl.
The Pansy Magazine, May 1886
Various
A child’s forgotten duty leads to a day of rough-dried clothes, while a snowbound kitchen turns emergency into an unexpected feast. Moral lessons and vivid scenes meet in a Victorian magazine designed to build character.
The Popular Science Monthly, June, 1900: Vol. 57, May, 1900 to October, 1900
Various
Turn-of-the-century scientific inquiry bridges rigorous laboratory observation, natural history, and urgent social debate across twelve distinct domains of research.
The Quest of the 'Golden Hope': A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure
Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
A seventeenth-century escape from the aftermath of Sedgemoor leads a young Hampshire runaway into a high-seas search for buried Spanish gold.
The Rival Campers Ashore
Ruel Perley Smith
A group of summer campers and local Maine youths become entangled in a land dispute, a long-hidden family exchange, and the dark secrets of a dilapidated local mill.
The Second String
Nat Gould
He left England as a failure, but out on the Australian coast he finds the grit to win back his life, his fortune, and his love.
The Serf
Guy Thorne
A man born to the dirt strikes back at the masters who treat his people like beasts, setting off a brutal chain of blood, sanctuary, and eventual reckoning.
The Song of Lancaster, Kentucky: To the statesmen, soldiers, and citizens of Garrard County
Eugenia Dunlap Potts
A small frontier settlement in the Kentucky hills grows over a century into a bustling town shaped by war, law, and human ambition.
The Strand Magazine, Vol. 07, Issue 40, April, 1894: An Illustrated Monthly
Various
A Victorian hearth fires up against the winter dark, setting the stage for tales of desperate strikes, high-society charity, and shadowed crimes.
The Strange Schemes of Randolph Mason
Melville Davisson Post
The human mind loves a problem with passion, peril, and the salt breath of the sea, demanding stories where ingenuity triumphs over drudgery without the aid of circumstance.
The Summers readers: first reader
Maud Summers
A gentle, structured introduction to reading that weaves together beloved fables, nature studies, and folk tales using a carefully built vocabulary.
The Village of Youth, and Other Fairy Tales
Bessie Hatton
A heart afraid of growing old divides its kingdom to stay forever young, only to discover that time cannot be cheated without losing what makes life worth living.
The Worst Boy in Town
John Habberton
Labelled the town's most incorrigible scoundrel, a lively doctor's son stumbles through endless pranks, accidental catastrophes, and earnest attempts at reform in a small 19th-century community.
The Yankee Tea-party
Henry C. (Henry Clay) Watson
Old veterans gather in a tavern to trade firsthand memories, singing songs and swapping dramatic tales of the American Revolution.
Trapped by Malays: A Tale of Bayonet and Kris
George Manville Fenn
The lush, dangerous jungles of the Malay Peninsula provide the backdrop for this tale of two young soldiers caught behind enemy lines. It is a brisk, action-oriented adventure that balances the grit of a survival story with the camaraderie of a colonial military outpost.
True Stories of the Great War, Volume 4 (of 6): Tales of Adventure--Heroic Deeds--Exploits Told by the Soldiers, Officers, Nurses, Diplomats, Eye Witnesses
Unknown
A quiet terror grips these pages, where ordinary human beings find themselves caught inside the grinding machinery of a continent at war.
Two Gallant Sons of Devon: A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess
Harry Collingwood
A storm off the Devon coast hurls two boyish friends into the wide world, launching an Elizabethan odyssey of captive voyages, Indian rituals, and hidden Inca gold.
Two Little Waifs
Mrs. Molesworth
Two young children cross the English Channel to meet their father in Paris, only to find themselves stranded and left to navigate an unfamiliar foreign city alone.
Unveiling a Parallel: A Romance
Alice Ilgenfritz Jones
A solitary voyage through space brings an Earth traveler to a startling mirror world where every double standard of his own society is turned entirely upside down.
Whale Primer, with Special Attention to the California Gray Whale
Theodore J. Walker
This concise 1962 field guide explores the remarkable biology, open-ocean migrations, and precarious recovery of the California gray whale.
What will they say at Brompton? A Comedetta, in One Act
J. Stirling (Joseph Stirling) Coyne
An anxious husband's feverish nightmare of Italian brigands and bigamy reveals the quiet dread lurking beneath respectable suburban life.