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The Heiress of Wyvern Court
Emilie Searchfield
A quiet train ride leads nine-year-old Inna to her doctor uncle’s rural home, where unexpected adventures, dangerous coastal cliffs, and a long-hidden family mystery await.
Westminster
Walter Besant
Walking through the historic heart of London, this topographical survey reveals the ancient parish, regal grounds, and forgotten alleys of Westminster, where centuries of royal drama and everyday city life remain buried beneath modern stone.
Daisy Ashford: Her Book
Daisy Ashford
A rare survival of unedited childhood fiction, this collection captures late-Victorian domestic drama, runaway romances, and sensational murder mysteries through the unvarnished, sharp-eyed, and wildly imaginative perspectives of two young sisters.
A Woman of No Importance
Oscar Wilde
A mother’s fiercely guarded secret explodes when her illegitimate son unwittingly accepts a job offer from the charismatic aristocrat who seduced and abandoned her twenty years before.
A Cousin's Conspiracy
Alger, Horatio, Jr.
Left penniless by a dying guardian on the Iowa prairie, an orphaned boy must outwit dishonest vagrants, bank robbers, and his own greedy relatives to claim his rightful inheritance.
Sister Carrie: A Novel
Theodore Dreiser
A small-town girl steps onto a Chicago train with a few dollars, a paper box, and an unformulated hunger for a larger life, unaware of how relentlessly the city tests those who arrive with nothing else.
Saronia: A Romance of Ancient Ephesus
Richard Short
In the imperial splendor of ancient Ephesus, a slave girl's mystical destiny collides with an artist's forbidden love as foreign conquest and rising faiths shatter a pagan world.
Sophist
Plato
To expose a charlatan, one must first solve the nature of non-existence. A rigorous investigation into the limits of definition, this work systematically breaks down the evasions of false wisdom to reveal how language captures truth.
The tale of Bobby Bobolink
Arthur Scott Bailey
A effervescent songbird turns a rural valley upside down with his boundless energy and relentless music.
Child and Country: A Book of the Younger Generation
Will Levington Comfort
A quest for naturalness and spiritual integrity leads a weary city dweller to the quiet shores of a lake, where home-building opens into an experimental sanctuary for educating the rising generation.
Bulgaria
Frank Fox
A quiet, observational portrait of a emerging nation, this volume offers a vivid window into a turning point in Balkan history.
Stubble
George Looms
A Southern family struggles to salvage its crumbling identity in the shadow of modern industrial change, choosing between hollow urban success and the quiet dignity of home.
Ars Amatoria
Ovid
To win a heart requires neither magic nor fate, but a deliberate craft mastered through patient practice, keen observation, and strategic self-restraint.
The Map of Life: Conduct and Character
William Edward Hartpole Lecky
A philosophical exploration of conduct and character, offering guidance on living a virtuous and fulfilling life.
The Youngest Girl in the Fifth: A School Story
Angela Brazil
Pushed into a senior classroom where she is neither wanted nor understood, a parson’s awkward daughter must navigate bitter social cliques, secret debts, and her own burning sense of justice.
Volpone
Ben Jonson
A satirical comedy of greed, deception, and social critique set in 17th-century Venice.
The Adventurous Seven: Their Hazardous Undertaking
Bessie Marchant
A family of seven orphaned siblings journeys across the world to Australia to track down their banished, disgraced father and rebuild their home.
Forests of Maine: Marco Paul's Adventures in Pursuit of Knowledge
Jacob Abbott
A summer journey toward Canada becomes an educational excursion through logging camps, steam mills, and the dense pine forests of Maine.
The Devil: A Tragedy of the Heart and Conscience
Joseph O'Brien
A single day in Vienna exposes the fragile boundary between civilized restraint and suppressed desire when a mysterious stranger manipulates an artist and a married woman.
St. John's College, Cambridge
Robert Forsyth Scott
Architectural heritage and human ambition collide across four centuries of Cambridge history in this granular record of a legendary collegiate foundation.
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read
John Bunyan
A burdened traveller flees his condemned home, braving monsters, dark valleys, and cunning tempters to reach a glorious heavenly city.
Conservation Reader
Harold W. (Harold Wellman) Fairbanks
An urgent, early warning for the next generation, this textbook maps out the terrible costs of environmental destruction and insists that saving the natural world begins with a fundamental change in the human heart.
Medea of Euripides
Euripides
A royal marriage crumbles into betrayal, driving a foreign princess to exact a vengeance so terrifying it consumes everything she once loved.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination
L. W. (Lauron William) De Laurence
A deck of seventy-eight painted cards becomes a doorway to secret wisdom, stripping away centuries of romantic myth to reveal a profound system of spiritual instruction.
The Story of Wool
Sara Ware Bassett
A young city boy travels with his father to an Idaho sheep ranch, discovering the hard work of the range, the intricate science of wool production, and his own unexpected passion for Western life.
Stories of King Arthur's Knights, Told to the Children
Mary Macgregor
Honor, devotion, and tragic frailty intertw in a world where knights test their virtue against impossible vows and treacherous lands.
Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885
Various
A mid-1880s miscellany captures the rhythms of nineteenth-century life, blending courtroom drama, architectural philosophy, international travel, and frontier fiction into a vivid portrait of Victorian thought and culture.
The Perfect Gentleman
Ralph Bergengren
A gentle, wry look at the daily anxieties and small absurdities that make up a man's social existence.
Border Ghost Stories
Howard Pease
Phantom horsemen, buried maidens, and Roman specters haunt the mist-shrouded moors of the English border.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics
Various
In the summer of 1866, an iconic American magazine brings together the raw trauma of recent war, the thrill of scientific discovery, and the bittersweet turns of human devotion.
Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of O. Henry
O. Henry
An exhaustive map of short stories, sketches, and letters offers a bird's-eye view of a classic American humorist's entire literary legacy.
Children's books and reading
Montrose Jonas Moses
An insightful historical analysis reveals how children's literature evolved from rigid, fear-based religious instruction into a rich, imaginative realm designed to nurture a child's natural wonder.
The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla: With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting
Thomas Commerford Martin
A comprehensive record of pioneer electrical engineering, this volume gathers Nikola Tesla’s foundational patents, lectures, and laboratory experiments on polyphase alternating currents, high-frequency oscillators, and wireless incandescent lighting.
Stories of Siegfried, Told to the Children
Mary Macgregor
A brave heart and a dragon's blood cannot save a hero from the subtle poison of human jealousy.
The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 3 of 4: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy
H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky
Beneath centuries of theological dogma and scientific materialism lies an ancient, unified secret science that links cosmic evolution to the latent spiritual potential within every human being.
The Biglow Papers
James Russell Lowell
An unsparing satire on political hypocrisy and imperialist war, this classic volume pairs blunt Yankee common sense with pedantic scholarly commentary to expose the moral corruptions of mid-nineteenth-century America.
The Girl Wanted: A Book of Friendly Thoughts
Nixon Waterman
A chorus of nineteenth-century philosophers and poets gathers to map out a path to noble womanhood, arguing that a cheerful disposition and a firm sense of purpose are the twin engines of a meaningful life.
The Apostolic Tradition of Hippolytus: Translated into English with Introduction and Notes
Antipope Hippolytus
A third-century bishop breaks with his peers, claims his faction is the only true church, and writes a strict manual to safeguard sacred traditions from a world he sees descending into compromise and heresy.
The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862: Devoted to Literature and National Policy
Various
A nation tearing itself apart at home finds its fiery voice mirrored in print, where political arguments, serialized fiction, and cultural commentary converge to define a country fighting for its future.
A Pirate of Parts
Richard Neville
An itinerant troupe of nineteenth-century actors, led by a resourceful manager, travels America's waterways and small towns, stitching together performances out of sheer bravado, theatrical trickery, and whatever makeshift stages they can build.
At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern
Myrtle Reed
Inheriting a mysterious house sounds like a dream until every eccentric relative in the family decides it is their personal summer resort.
The Mystics: A Novel
Katherine Cecil Thurston
A disinherited young man impersonates a long-awaited messiah to claim his rightful fortune from a secretive London cult, only to find his deceit upended by love.
A Woman for Mayor: A Novel of To-day
Helen M. (Helen Maria) Winslow
When the reform-minded clubwomen of a corrupt American city nominate the late senator’s daughter for office, her conservative male opponent discovers that municipal house-cleaning and traditional courtship are on a collision course.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Dodwell, Edward" to "Drama": Volume 8, Slice 6
Various
From the anatomical instincts of rescue dogs to the structural mechanics of classical theatre, human knowledge reveals a universe governed by rigorous design, fierce conviction, and expressive form.
Maxims and Reflections
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A sharp observation can unlock centuries of human experience, transforming quiet personal reflection into universal truth.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics
Various
A brilliant, turbulent old man dies in exile, while a community of readers suddenly remembers he was still alive.
Chuang Tzu: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer
Zhuangzi
True freedom arrives not when we master the world, but when we drop our artificial rules, embrace spontaneity, and align ourselves with the effortless flow of nature.
Varney the vampyre
Thomas Peckett Prest
A ghoulish phantom terrorizes an English family, setting off a sprawling, chaotic chase across Europe that exposes a cursed man’s desperation to escape his own unnatural existence.