The whole shelf
All free summaries — page 605
42,801 public-domain books, summarised. Page 605 of 892.
A second reader
Frank E. (Frank Ellsworth) Spaulding
A foolish crow steals bright peacock feathers to masquerade as royalty, only to be stripped bare and cast out by the very birds he tried to copy.
After the Divorce: A Romance
Grazia Deledda
A wrongful murder conviction shatters a young Sardinian family, triggering a chain of legal abandonment, desperate remarriage, and a quiet, inescapable moral reckoning.
An Apache Campaign in the Sierra Madre: An Account of the Expedition in Pursuit of the Hostile Chiricahua Apaches in the Spring of 1883
John Gregory Bourke
Deep in the rugged Sierra Madre, a small American force risks everything to hunt an elusive, feared enemy on its own ground.
Andrée and His Balloon
Henri Lachambre
Three men step into a wicker car beneath a mountain of varnished silk, drift northward past the crags of Spitzbergen, and melt into the Arctic mist.
At the North of Bearcamp Water: Chronicles of a Stroller in New England from July to December
Frank Bolles
A keen-eyed naturalist steps into the New Hampshire mountain wilderness to record six months of shifting light, migratory wings, hidden animal trails, and seasonal quiet.
Balancing and Shoeing Trotting and Pacing Horses
William J. Moore
HOOK This manual offers a craftsman’s precise, grounded approach to balancing and shoeing trotting and pacing horses to ensure peak performance and physical comfort.
Ballades & Rhymes from Ballades in Blue China and Rhymes a la Mode
Andrew Lang
A delicate, erudite collection, this volume invites readers to step away from the noise of the modern world into a quiet, finely crafted sanctuary of verse. It offers a graceful meditation on how the elegance of the past can persist within the rhythms of the present.
Barney Blake, the Boy Privateer
Herrick Johnstone
A spirited young sailor boards an American privateer in 1813 to chase British shipping across two oceans, encountering sharks, bullfights, and mirages.
Between the Dark and the Daylight
Richard Marsh
A collection of quick-witted, dark, and lively short stories unveils the chaotic underbelly of late-Victorian society through bizarre legal scrambles, unexpected spectral encounters, and high-stakes social embarrassments.
Blood Royal: A Novel
Grant Allen
A family's belief in its royal lineage sustains them through poverty, only to unravel under the weight of truth.
Bohemian San Francisco: Its restaurants and their most famous recipes—The elegant art of dining
Clarence E. (Clarence Edgar) Edwords
This is an immersive, nostalgic guide to the golden age of San Francisco dining, capturing the spirit and the recipes of a city defined by its love for the table.
Boy Scouts on a Long Hike
Archibald Lee Fletcher
A high-stakes hike across Indiana tests eight Boy Scouts when a series of unexpected emergencies turns their routine trophy attempt into a true wilderness rescue mission.
Captains All: Captains All, Part 1
W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs
Three aging sailors find their shore leave turned into a frantic, competitive courtship, discovering too late that a domestic prize often comes with a much larger crew than anticipated.
Captivity and Escape
Jean Martin
Captured during the war’s opening months, a wounded French sergeant endures the brutality of German prison camps before executing a daring escape across northern Europe to freedom.
Chunky, the Happy Hippo: His Many Adventures
Richard Barnum
A young hippopotamus explores his native African river, encounters jungle animals, gets captured by hunters, and travels across the ocean to find his place in a city circus and park menagerie.
Dan Carter and the Cub Honor
Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt
A quiet neighborhood church basement turns into a battleground for young honor when a broken window and a missing set of ice cream freezers leave a Cub Scout den taking the blame for someone else’s malice.
Dark Reality
Robert Moore Williams
A mysterious compulsion forces a 1940 physicist to build a strange machine that sweeps ordinary people into an earth two million years in the future.
Diana of the Crossways
George Meredith
A brilliant, mercurial woman navigates the treacherous social landscape of Victorian England, striving to maintain her independence while battling the constraints of a stifling marriage and the weight of public scandal.
Discovery at Aspen
Sophie (Sophie Z. Liebowitz) Ruskay
A teenage girl spends a pivotal summer surrounded by music, ghost towns, and newfound independence in the Colorado Rockies.
Exit Betty
Grace Livingston Hill
A young bride flees her own altar, swapping her white satin for a borrowed coat, to escape a coerced marriage and discover true faith and love in a quiet village home.
Fires - Book 3: The Hare, and Other Tales
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
A young man saves a terrified runaway girl on the high moors, only to find their shared future hinges on loosening his own desperate grip.
First Steps to Bell Ringing: Being an Introduction to the Healthful and Pleasant Exercise of Bell Ringing in Rounds and Changes upon Church Bells
Samuel B. Goslin
A clear, sensible guide to standard church bell ringing that transforms a potentially dangerous and bewildering belfry ritual into an orderly, accessible discipline.
Frank Nelson in the Forecastle
Harry Castlemon
Abducted on the San Francisco docks, a young sportsman must navigate a brutal whaling captain, a mutinous crew, and a deadly hunt on the open ocean to earn his way home.
Frédérique, vol. 1
Paul de Kock
Men, women, and the chaotic space between them cross paths in mid-nineteenth-century Paris, where an idle bachelor navigates middle-class ballrooms, illicit suppers, and the hidden struggles of vulnerable women.
Fromentin
Georges Beaume
A sensitive artist transforms personal heartbreaks and regional horizons into a refined aesthetic vision, bridging the worlds of French literature and Orientalist painting.
Funny Big Socks: Being the Fifth Book of the Series
Sarah L. Barrow
A storm outside a window can bring unexpected stories into a quiet room, carrying readers away on four distinct journeys of imagination.
Gardens of the Caribbees, v. 2/2: Sketches of a Cruise to the West Indies and the Spanish Main
Ida May Hill Starr
A cruise ship glides through turquoise waters to reveal lush botanical gardens, bustling markets, and black lakes of natural pitch. Beyond the sea-sprayed docks lie mountain railways, Dutch canal-ports, and quiet places of memory.
General Instructions for the Guidance of Post Office Inspectors in the Dominion of Canada
Alexander Campbell
An intricate administrative framework shapes the early Canadian mail system, translating raw wilderness routes into a disciplined instrument of statecraft and civil connection.
Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the High Sierras
Josephine Chase
A quiet mountain excursion erupts into a high-altitude game of cat and mouse when a group of seasoned young travelers stumbles across train robbers in the California wilderness.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings
Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
The weight of a crown hangs upon the breaking of a vow, trapping a noble leader between his loyalty to his people and the cold, encroaching machinery of a rival’s ambition.
How to plan a library building for library work
Charles C. (Charles Carroll) Soule
A library building must be designed around the daily labor of librarians and readers rather than the aesthetic whims of an ambitious architect.
Intelligence in Plants and Animals: Being a New Edition of the Author's Privately Issued "Soul and Immortality."
Thomas G. (Thomas George) Gentry
A grand survey of natural history seeks to erase the line between human and animal minds, finding spiritual purpose in every living creature.
Introduction to the Dramas of Balzac
J. Walker (Joseph Walker) McSpadden
This critical introduction offers an essential guide to the five plays written by a master novelist, revealing both his struggle to master a new medium and his eventual success in theatrical satire.
Joan Haste
H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard
A dark, sacrificial storm of secret parentage, class barriers, and tragic devotion in Victorian East Anglia.
King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 1
Bernhard Severin Ingemann
In a land fractured by church spires, outlawed nobles, and royal ambition, a young king tries to build an empire while his kingdom burns from within.
Landmarks in the History of Early Christianity
Kirsopp Lake
A study of early Christianity reveals a movement constantly reshaping itself, transforming from an apocalyptic Jewish sect into a Greek mystery cult, and finally into a sophisticated system of Roman ethics and Platonic metaphysics.
Laperouse
Scott, Ernest, Sir
A legendary French navigator vanishes into the Pacific, leaving behind a mystery that haunts maritime history for generations. This account reconstructs the life and final, ill-fated expedition of an Enlightenment-era explorer.
Locrine
Unknown
A father’s dying bequest splits an ancient kingdom among his sons, unleashing a torrent of foreign invasions, secret subterranean affairs, and bloody dynastic revenge.
Lucinda
Anthony Hope
A woman jilts her steady suitor on the morning of their London wedding, fleeing into a web of continental intrigue, hidden debts, and shifting devotions.
Manners & Cvstoms of ye Englyshe: Drawn from ye Qvick
Richard Doyle
A bumbling Victorian diarist wanders through London’s high society and lower depths, blundering into crowded flower shows, noisy political rants, and chaotic stock meetings.
Memoirs of the Revolution in Bengal, Anno Dom. 1757
Watts, William, active 1737-1758
A concise account of imperial ambition and political intrigue, this treatise documents the overthrow of Suraja Dowlat and the rapid consolidation of British power in mid-eighteenth-century Bengal.
Misunderstood
Florence Montgomery
A spirited, misunderstood boy yearns for his widowed father’s approval, but his restless energy is constantly mistaken for a heartless, mischievous nature.
Mordred and Hildebrand: A Book of Tragedies
Wilfred Campbell
When legitimate crowns are tainted by sin, power becomes a heavy curse that fractures both great empires and individual human hearts.
Motor Matt on the Wing
Stanley R. Matthews
When a ruthless loan shark tries to rob a dead inventor’s widow of her late husband's experimental biplane, a brilliant teenage mechanic steps into the breach to pilot the untried machine in a high-stakes military trial.
Mount Royal: A Novel. Volume 2 of 3
M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
An unhealed past and a reluctant marriage collide along the rugged Cornish coast when a woman's former lover unexpectedly re-enters her domestic sphere.
Nearly Bedtime: Five Short Stories for the Little Ones
H. Mary Wilson
Gentle home tales capture the quiet, generous impulses of childhood and the small, vital lessons that shape a young heart before sleep.
Notwithstanding
Mary Cholmondeley
A desperate young woman on the brink of a Parisian bridge is swept into a secret, ill-fated affair, only to find that the quiet English village where she seeks refuge is bound to the very past she left behind.
Observations on the new constitution, and on the Federal and State conventions, by a Columbian patriot
Mercy Otis Warren
A newly liberated people stands on the precipice of trading a defeated foreign tyrant for an untried domestic despotism.