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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 567, September 22, 1832
Various
This expansive compendium captures the restless intellectual spirit of the early nineteenth century, blending architectural marvels, historical lore, and scientific inquiry into a singular portrait of a rapidly changing world.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 582, December 22, 1832
Various
A lively mix of urban reporting, tragic romance, antiquarian lore, and natural wonders captures the varied appetite of early nineteenth-century English popular print.
The Mischief-Maker
E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
A disgraced statesman finds himself ensnared in a web of European espionage, where the shifting loyalties of Paris decide the fate of nations and his own redemption.
The Motor Maids by Palm and Pine
Katherine Stokes
A seasonal getaway to Florida brings unexpected adventure when four young women encounter hidden identities, family disputes, and coastal mysteries along the sunlit shores.
The patriarch of one hundred years
Henry Boehm
A centenarian minister looks back on a century of American history, recalling thousands of miles ridden on horseback alongside early circuit riders to plant Methodism across a raw, expanding nation.
The Perils and Adventures of Harry Skipwith by Land and Sea
William Henry Giles Kingston
A young Englishman set on seeing the world leaves home for America, only to be swept through shipwrecks, river pirate ambushes, and buffalo drives across the continent.
The Poacher
Frederick Marryat
A young boy takes the blame for a fatal shooting committed by his father, fleeing his Devonshire village to wander 19th-century Britain and Europe under assumed names while building a new life.
The Rulers of the Lakes: A Story of George and Champlain
Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler
A wilderness of woods and water becomes a chessboard for survival, where every rustling leaf promises an ambush and every quiet bay hides a fleet of war canoes.
The Secret of Toni
Molly Elliot Seawell
A boy’s quiet secret threatens to destroy the lives of those he loves unless he finds the courage to confront the past.
The Servant in the House
Charles Rann Kennedy
The air of a hypocritical household clears only when a stranger forces every relative to face the brother they cast aside.
The Starvel Hollow tragedy
Freeman Wills Crofts
A lonely house on a dreary moor burns to the ground, leaving behind three charred bodies and a vanished fortune. When a stolen bank note surface in London, Inspector French must untangle a web of arson, murder, and body-snatching.
The Stoker's Catechism
W. J. Connor
A practical guide written by a veteran stoker uses direct, step-by-step catechisms to pass trade knowledge to working men operating heavy industrial steam boilers.
The Story of Our Flag, Colonial and National: With Historical Sketch of the Quakeress Betsy Ross
Addie Guthrie Weaver
Conceived in the fires of the American Revolution and stitched together by hand in a Philadelphia shop, the national emblem carries a history as colorful as its banners. Addie Guthrie Weaver weaves together archival record, family tradition, and patriotic tribute to tell the origin story of the Stars and Stripes.
The tale of Chirpy Cricket
Arthur Scott Bailey
A relentless, tiny fiddler spends his summer leaping through the farmyard grass, convinced that a short life filled with music beats a long one spent in grumps.
The Templeton case
Victor L. (Victor Lorenzo) Whitechurch
A coastal murder mystery unfolds with quiet precision through the sleepy estuaries and cathedral shadows of Sussex.
The Turquoise Cup, and, the Desert
Arthur Cosslett Smith
Two distinct tales of devotion explore how love defies social, religious, and material boundaries in Venice and the Sahara.
The ways of the hour
James Fenimore Cooper
A small-town murder trial exposes a judicial system compromised by public hysteria, greedy lawyers, and a defendant whose calm perfection masks a unsettling truth.
The Wiradyuri and Other Languages of New South Wales
R. H. (Robert Hamilton) Mathews
A meticulous study records the complex grammars and rich vocabularies of First Nations tongues across central and southern New South Wales.
Thoughts on a Pebble, or, A First Lesson in Geology
Gideon Algernon Mantell
A single stone, picked up from a rushing mountain stream, becomes a gateway into deep geological time, revealing ancient oceans, extinct marine creatures, and the dynamic forces shaping our earth.
Through lands that were dark: Being a record of a year's missionary journey in Africa and Madagascar
F. H. Hawkins
Across dusty tracks, roaring falls, and vast highland plateaus, an administrator journeys to measure the reach of a changing faith.
Ukridge
P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
A man of towering ambition and zero capital cycles relentlessly between brilliant schemes and immediate, catastrophic ruin.
Under Lock and Key: A Story. Volume 1 (of 3)
T. W. (Thomas Wilkinson) Speight
A young woman cast off by her family, a dark mansion burdened with secrets, and a stolen gem carrying an ancient curse draw a circle of greed and mystery around Dupley Walls.
Universal Brotherhood, Volume XIII, No. 11, February 1899: A Magazine Devoted to the Brotherhood of Humanity, the Theosophical Movement, Philosophy, Science and Art
Various
An intricate tapestry of nineteenth-century idealistic thought unfolds across these pages, weaving together political biography, musical mysticism, cellular biology, and esoteric philosophy to demonstrate a single underlying unity in human endeavor.
Venus is a Man's World
William Tenn
A world run entirely by women sends a ship of hopeful brides to a rough, male-dominated frontier where men still hold the power.
Walks and Words of Jesus: A Paragraph Harmony of the Four Evangelists
Unknown
Four distinct accounts woven into a single continuous narrative reveal the life, ministry, and direct spoken teachings of Jesus of Nazareth.
Where the Sun Swings North
Barrett Willoughby
In the fog-swept reaches of the Gulf of Alaska, a stranded family's desperate fight for winter survival turns an isolated island into a forge of character and unexpected wealth.
Wholesale Price List of Newspapers and Periodicals
D. D. Cottrell's Subscription Agency
A dense, window-opening artifact from 1905, this subscription catalog reveals the bustling print culture, commercial ambition, and reading habits of early twentieth-century America.
Wings Over the Rockies
Ambrose Newcomb
High-flying aerial acrobatics collide with a wilderness rescue mission when two government aviators plunge into the Rocky Mountains to solve a disappearance that has baffled the nation.
Woodside
Caroline Hadley
A gentle Victorian chronicle of three siblings discovering the natural world during a season spent at their grandfather's country home.
Young Peoples' History of the War with Spain
Prescott Holmes
A nation intervenes in a neighbor's suffering, setting off a swift conflict across two oceans that reshapes global power.
A friend of Marie-Antoinette (Lady Atkyns)
Frédéric Barbey
A passionate English actress turned noblewoman risks her fortune and safety in a desperate, decades-long crusade to rescue the doomed royal family of France from the perils of the Revolution.
A Frontier Mystery
Bertram Mitford
An English border trader is drawn into a dark web of Zulu magic, colonial tension, and a missing woman's desperate rescue.
A Heroine of France: The Story of Joan of Arc
Evelyn Everett-Green
A land in ashes finds its unexpected savior in an unlettered girl whose quiet certainty shatters the complacency of kings and soldiers alike.
A Ioyfull medytacyon to all Englonde of the coronacyon of our moost naturall souerayne lorde kynge Henry the eyght: (A Joyful Meditation of the Coronation of King Henry the Eighth)
Stephen Hawes
With the ascension of a new monarch comes the promise of political renewal, spiritual unity, and cultural elevation.
A Motor-Flight Through France
Edith Wharton
A rapid automobile trip across the French countryside yields an intimate, transformative vision of its landscape, architecture, and enduring history.
A Mysterious Disappearance
Louis Tracy
A fine, heavy London fog swallows a high-society wife, setting off a quiet, inexorable pursuit through city flats, Riviera gambling dens, and the dark underbelly of the Thames.
A Noble Queen: A Romance of Indian History (Volume 1 of 3)
Meadows Taylor
A young woman and an old blind physician tend a wounded nobleman by a roar of white water while intrigue gathers in the high courts of sixteenth-century India.
A start in life. A journey across America. Fruit farming in California
C. F. (Charles Finch) Dowsett
Overcrowded cities and meager returns drive a London estate agent across the Atlantic to evaluate fruit farming in California as a practical blueprint for ambitious English emigrants seeking financial independence.
Andy at Yale
Roy Eliot Stokes
Two small-town athletic heroes head to New Haven, where missing money, campus feuds, and a framed farmhand test their loyalty to their school and each other.
Ann Arbor Tales
Karl Edwin Harriman
Small-town Midwestern university life reveals its quiet heart: a place of sharp academic rivalries, fleeting romantic devotions, and the unsettling realization of what higher education costs the human soul.
Around the Camp-fire
Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir
Six city-weary friends flee the July heat of Fredericton, escaping into the Canadian wilderness for a weeks-long canoe trip across New Brunswick’s rivers, lakes, and portages.
Beautiful Shells of New Zealand: An Illustrated Work for Amateur Collectors of New Zealand Marine Shells, with Directions for Collecting and Cleaning them
Edward George Britton Moss
A clear-eyed, practical manual reveals the striking variety of New Zealand’s coastal molluscs, inviting readers to explore shorelines with the observant curiosity of a true amateur naturalist.
Behind the scenes in Peking
Mary Hooker
A tense, high-stakes chronicle of survival, this intimate diary captures fifty-five days spent trapped under fire within the diplomatic compound of 1900 Peking.
Boy of My Heart
Marie Connor Leighton
A mother waits late at night for her officer son to arrive on home leave from the Western Front, unaware that a telegram is about to strike down all her desperate hopes.
Bullet with His Name
Fritz Leiber
A cosmic test of human readiness arrives not in thunder, but inside a blue box of soda bicarb in a Chicago bathroom.
Burne-Jones
A. L. (Alfred Lys) Baldry
An unlearned youth turns away from the Church, picks up a paintbrush under the spell of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and transforms British decorative art through an unyielding commitment to poetic beauty and legendary dreamscapes.
By Honour Bound: A School Story for Girls
Bessie Marchant
A newcomer at an English boardingschool uncovers a rival's secret crime, only to find her own family's past threatening the honor she strives to defend.
Campaign and battle of Lynchburg, Va
Charles Minor Blackford
Before the main line of Southern defense collapsed, a vital logistics hub faced total destruction. A hastily gathered force of old men, wounded veterans, and teenage cadets stood directly in the path of an invading army.