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Mabel: A Novel. Vol. 1 (of 3)
Newby, C. J., Mrs.
A quiet English village becomes the backdrop for personal trials, unexpected disaster, and the quiet resilience of a woman devoted to her family.
Matt: A Story of A Caravan
Robert Williams Buchanan
A itinerant artist, a shipwrecked heiress, and a villainous usurper cross paths along the windswept coast of Anglesey.
Motor Matt's Hard Luck
Stanley R. Matthews
Plunging straight into the skies over Lake Michigan, three young companions battle an unscrupulous gang of airship thieves to claim their own aerial future and see justice done.
Mr Punch's Model Music Hall Songs and Dramas: Collected, Improved and Re-arranged from Punch
F. Anstey
Humorous Victorian stage parodies expose the theatrical absurdities, moralizing platitudes, and cheap sentimentality of popular late-nineteenth-century British entertainment.
My Experiences at Nan Shan and Port Arthur with the Fifth East Siberian Rifles
Nikolaĭ Aleksandrovich Tret'iakov
A commander’s direct, unvarnished record of his regiment's defense of Nan Shan and Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War.
My Neighbor Raymond (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XI)
Paul de Kock
A spirited, sprawling comic novel of early nineteenth-century Paris, My Neighbor Raymond traces a worldly young gentleman's chaotic love life and his endless, agonizing encounters with the most meddlesome man in the city.
My Pretty Maid
Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.
Driven by baby swaps, forged letters, and murderous jealousy, this late-nineteenth-century dime novel tests how far an innocent young woman can endure the malice of a hidden rival.
My Shipmate Louise: The Romance of a Wreck, Volume 3 (of 3)
William Clark Russell
Stranded on a hijacked vessel with a mad captain’s map, two marooned passengers must navigate mutiny and uncharted Pacific reefs to survive.
Neighborhood Stories
Zona Gale
Small-town gossip softens into radical community grace when an observant, big-hearted middle-aged woman decides her neighbors are capable of loving one another better than they know.
Newark College of Engineering Bulletin, v. 11, No. 4, December 15, 1938
Newark College of Engineering
Precision, discipline, and industrial utility drive a rigid system designed to transform young students into competent technical professionals.
Notes and Queries, Number 177, March 19, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
Various
A dense, Victorian tapestry of scholarly debates, folk customs, and historical mysteries shows how an eager community of correspondents pieced together the past through collective curiosity.
Notes and Queries, Number 243, June 24, 1854: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
Various
An intellectual marketplace where curious minds trade historical scraps, resolve obscure literary debates, and untangle regional lore through communal inquiry.
Peru in the Guano Age: Being a Short Account of a Recent Visit to the Guano Deposits, with Some Reflections on the Money They Have Produced and the Uses to Which It Has Been Applied
A. J. (Alexander James) Duffield
A mid-Victorian traveler examines the dizzying wealth and sudden decay of a South American nation that built its modern empire on bird droppings.
Prairie-Dog Town
L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
Two young prairie children slip away from a dull picnic, wander over the rolling Dakota plains, and shrink down to step inside the hidden, surprisingly sophisticated underground world of a prairie-dog village.
Proof-reading
F. Horace (Francis Horace) Teall
A passionate, sharp-witted defense of the print shop's most crucial worker, this volume transforms the dry mechanics of text revision into a battle for linguistic clarity and professional respect.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 28, 1841
Various
A sharp-witted lampoon of early Victorian society, this volume skewers everything from parliamentary pomposity and social climbing to foreign intelligence and cultural fads.
Ragged Lady
William Dean Howells
A New England country girl enters the glittering, confusing world of transatlantic high society, retaining a stubborn integrity through every change of fortune.
Rambles of a Naturalist
John D. (John Davidson) Godman
Beneath the quiet surfaces of everyday American landscapes lies a world of vibrant, intricate design waiting for an attentive eye.
Reasons Against the Succession of the House of Hanover: With an Enquiry How Far the Abdication of King James, Supposing It to Be Legal, Ought to Affect the Person of the Pretender
Daniel Defoe
Irony becomes a weapon of high political drama when an author sarcastically champions the destruction of his own nation's religious and civil liberties to expose the absurdity of his opponents' party logic.
Remarks of Mr. Calhoun of South Carolina on the bill to prevent the interference of certain federal officers in elections: delivered in the Senate of the United States February 22, 1839
John C. (John Caldwell) Calhoun
A fierce defense of state sovereignty frames federal overreach as an existential threat to constitutional liberty and economic fairness.
Renshaw Fanning's Quest: A Tale of the High Veldt
Bertram Mitford
A solitary rider retreats into the South African bush after a bitter rejection, setting off a chain of events involving violent frontier skirmishes, lost diamond maps, and deadly treachery.
Secrets of the Late Rebellion, Now Revealed for the First Time
Jacob R. Freese
Exploitative financial rings, covert border-crossing networks, and battlefield betrayals operated in the shadows of the American Civil War, directly undermining the Union cause from within.
Shipbuilding from its beginnings. Vol. 3 (of 3)
E. van (Emile) Konijnenburg
A visual ledger of maritime engineering, this third volume documents how human hands shaped timber and steel to conquer rivers, coasts, and open seas. Across centuries of technical draftsmanship, the structural lines of vessels reveal the evolution of global navigation.
Slavery
William Ellery Channing
An unyielding moral interrogation of human bondage, this treatise grounds the anti-slavery cause not in political expediency or economic interest, but in the absolute supremacy of duty and natural right over property claims.
Small Talk at Wreyland. Second Series
Cecil Torr
An observant Devon country gentleman weaves local lore, antiquarian scholarship, and family memories into a quietly captivating portrait of rural English continuity.
Stepsons of Light
Eugene Manlove Rhodes
They were the men who won the West—not through flawless virtue, but through sheer persistence, humor, and a refusal to be crushed by circumstance.
Stories about Indians
Anonymous
A brief, illuminating look into Native American life, this collection presents vivid vignettes of tactical ingenuity, steadfast honor, quiet grief, and sharp wit.
Sweaters He and She
American Thread Company
Intricate texture transforms simple yarn into structured garments through precise, rhythmic stitches.
The Abounding American
T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson) Crosland
An unapologetic British satire from 1907 dissects the rising cultural and economic dominance of the United States. It offers a razor-sharp, heavily biased, yet undeniably entertaining inventory of turn-of-the-century American traits, vices, and ambitions.
The alley cat's kitten
Caroline Fuller
The story follows the adventures of a stray kitten named Weejums and her adoptive family, capturing the imaginative, often chaotic world of childhood pets. It is a gentle, episodic portrait of companionship, responsibility, and the humor found in the daily lives of animals and the children who love them.
The curse of gold
Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
A secret marriage, a stolen certificate, and a ruthless matriarch conspire to tear two lovers apart across nineteenth-century New York.
The Ear in the Wall
Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve
A high-stakes campaign against a corrupt political machine explodes when a young secretary disappears with a dangerous secret.
The Fair Dominion: A Record of Canadian Impressions
R. E. (Robert Ernest) Vernède
A traveler from the Edwardian era traverses a rapidly expanding nation, observing a land defined by its immense physical scale and the irrepressible energy of those carving out its future.
The flight of the heron
D. K. (Dorothy Kathleen) Broster
Bound by an old prophecy and a twist of fate, an English officer and a Scottish rebel find their lives painfully intertwined across the ruined landscape of the 1745 Jacobite Uprising.
The Frontiersman: A Tale of the Yukon
H. A. (Hiram Alfred) Cody
A missionary’s lonely devotion to a rugged Yukon wilderness is tested by the arrival of lawless prospectors and a woman seeking her lost brother.
The heir: A love story
V. (Victoria) Sackville-West
A quiet, unassuming man inherits an ancient English country estate he never sought, only to find that its shadowy rooms and timeless beauty awaken a deep, unexpected passion within him.
The Island of Gold: A Sailor's Yarn
Gordon Stables
Across shifting seas and mysterious Pacific shores, two orphaned siblings journey from a humble canal boat to a forgotten island filled with hidden treasures and deadly perils.
The Isle of Wight
G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton
An island that feels like a continent in miniature, bounded by white cliffs, soft downs, and deep historical shadows.
The Last Fight of the Revenge
Walter Raleigh
A tiny Tudor warship stands alone against fifty-three Spanish galleons off the Azores, choosing catastrophic battle over a quiet retreat into the Atlantic night.
The Last Penny
Edwin Lefevre
Fresh out of college, a pampered young man believes he has bankrupted his quiet father, setting off a desperate drive to earn back his debt in the burgeoning American automobile industry.
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 12: Domitian
Suetonius
A dark portrait of imperial madness, this biography tracks how an isolated youth of unchecked vanity slowly transformed absolute power into a bloody, paranoia-fueled reign of terror.
The Lucky Piece: A Tale of the North Woods
Albert Bigelow Paine
A restless young heiress and an aimless man of wealth discover that true devotion requires purpose, courage, and a deep reckoning with the past. Set against the serene, shifting wilderness of the Adirondack Mountains, the story tracks a quiet transformation from idle privilege toward independent strength.
The Making of the New Testament
Benjamin Wisner Bacon
Early Christianity did not begin with a bound set of scriptures, but rather generated its texts out of intense conflicts over law, identity, and authority.
The modern malady
Cyril Bennett
Modern life moves at a punishing speed, draining human vitality while society dismisses real physical collapse as mere personal weakness or moral failing.
The Mystery of the Secret Band
Edith Lavell
Eighteen-year-old Mary Louise Gay postpones her school vacation to take a paying assignment for her father's agency, posing as an ordinary guest in a Philadelphia women's hotel to unmask a serial thief.
The Narrow House
Evelyn Scott
A house full of quiet, desperate resentments becomes a pressure cooker for three generations trapped under one decaying roof.
The Nurse in Greek Life
Sister Mary Rosaria
A silent partner in the domestic life of antiquity, the nurse carried the future of Greece in her arms and shaped its literature from behind bedroom doors.
The Retreat from Mons
George Stuart Gordon
Outnumbered and unexpectedly exposed on the Allied flank in August 1914, British soldiers turn a desperate retreat into a masterclass in discipline.