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Richard Lovell Edgeworth: A Selection From His Memoirs
Maria Edgeworth
HOOK A polymath and devoted landlord, this restless Irish intellectual navigates the Enlightenment with a practical mind, bridging the divide between scientific curiosity and the heavy responsibilities of managing a troubled estate.
Richmond National Battlefield Park, Virginia
Joseph P. Cullen
The defense of the Southern capital unfolded across four years of desperate, bloody maneuvers, transforming a picturesque Virginia landscape into a vast arena of earthworks and ashes.
Riders of the Silences
Max Brand
A quiet boy raised in a Canadian mission steps onto the violent frontier, driven by bloodlines and a holy cross into an inevitable clash with an legendary, unbeatable phantom gunfighter.
Royal fruit gelatin suggestions
Royal Baking Powder Company
This culinary guide celebrates the art of home entertaining through the versatility of fruit-flavored gelatin. It presents a vision of the modern, efficient hostess who balances sophisticated hospitality with ease and grace.
Saline Solution
Keith Laumer
Diplomatic maneuvering meets blue-collar grit in the Asteroid Belt, where administrative red tape is untangled through sharp wits and backroom maneuvering.
State of the Union Addresses
John Tyler
A nation's Chief Executive navigates volatile foreign disputes, severe domestic monetary panics, and territorial expansion while maintaining that constitutional limits and public credit form the true bedrock of American liberty.
Stephen H. Branch's Alligator, Vol. 1 no. 12, July 10, 1858
Unknown
A sensationalist publisher takes aim at political corruption, press censorship, and moral hypocrisy in the bustling streets of mid-nineteenth-century New York.
"That's me all over, Mable"
Edward Streeter
An earnest, blundering American recruit writes home from training camp and a crowded troopship, offering a hilarious, unintentional portrait of World War I army life.
The Argosy, Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891
Various
This nineteenth-century miscellany offers a panoramic view of Victorian literary life, blending serialized mystery, travelogues, and reflections on everything from the nuances of etiquette to the haunting unpredictability of ghost stories.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
Various
Written against the backdrop of the American Civil War, this issue of the nineteenth-century monthly gathers fiction, biography, political commentary, and historical essays to weigh the moral, military, and human forces dividing a nation.
The Baron's Yule Feast: A Christmas Rhyme
Thomas Cooper
Centuries of Lincolnshire history, rustic fireside lore, and medieval balladry converge in a festive narrative poem that celebrates the unifying warmth of hospitality across social divides.
The Battle of the Big Hole: A History of General Gibbon's Engagement with Nez Percés Indians in the Big Hole Valley, Montana, August 9th, 1877
G. O. (George O.) Shields
A harrowing account of the 1877 military engagement in Montana, this historical narrative details the tactical precision and brutal human cost of the conflict between U.S. forces and the Nez Percé people.
The Bay State Monthly
Various
This collection serves as a vibrant, multifaceted portrait of Massachusetts in the late 19th century, offering readers a glimpse into the historical, political, and cultural currents that shaped New England’s identity during the 1880s.
The Beldonald Holbein
Henry James
A shallow London beauty unwittingly introduces a plain companion who steals the artistic spotlight, sparking a quiet war of vanity and social acclaim.
The big town
Ring Lardner
A cynicism-laced midwestern satire of jazz-age ambition, this novel lays bare the quiet absurdity of chasing high society with quick money and very little sense.
The Book of the Cat
Unknown
A pampered white Angora and a battle-hardened stray discover that, regardless of how they begin their lives, every cat finds its true nature in the quiet warmth of a home.
The Box with Broken Seals
E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
A mystery on the high seas gives way to high-stakes wartime espionage, where missing documents, false identities, and secret loyalties collide.
The Bride of Fort Edward: Founded on an Incident of the Revolution
Delia Salter Bacon
The sacrifice of a young woman caught between warring armies becomes a tragic catalyst that rallies a crumbling revolution. This haunting, unconventional narrative explores the intersection of private heartbreak and the inexorable march of history.
The Cariboo Trail: A Chronicle of the Gold-fields of British Columbia
Agnes C. Laut
The spirit of the pioneer is etched into the rugged geography of the Fraser Canyon, where the frantic search for gold carved the first enduring paths through the Canadian wilderness. This historical chronicle captures the transition from a fur-trading frontier to a settled colony, fueled by the relentless, often…
The Changed Valentines, and Other Plays for St. Valentine's Day
Elizabeth F. (Elizabeth Frances) Guptill
A collection of short, Valentine-themed theatrical works presents mix-ups, delayed romances, and whimsical courtships with innocent humor.
The Chestermarke Instinct
J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher
A respected banker vanishes into thin air on a quiet Saturday night, leaving behind an empty vault, missing family jewels, and two secretive partners who seem entirely untroubled by his sudden disappearance.
The Cornhill Magazine (vol. XLII, no. 247 new series, January 1917)
Various
Amid the devastating global slaughter of 1917, a British monthly periodical offers a kaleidoscopic reflection of a society suspended between Victorian romance, intimate domestic longings, and the brutal realities of the Western Front.
The Country's Need of Greater Railway Facilities and Terminals: Address Delivered at the Annual Dinner of the Railway Business Association, New York City, December 19, 1912
James J. (James Jerome) Hill
A severe bottleneck at urban terminals threatens to paralyze American commerce, making terminal expansion an urgent economic priority.
The Creator, and what we may know of the method of creation
W. H. (William Henry) Dallinger
A rigorous attempt to reconcile Darwinian evolution with divine creation, this text demonstrates that dynamic natural laws enhance, rather than diminish, the grandeur of an ultimate mind.
The Crescent Moon
Francis Brett Young
In a remote East African mission, a devout girl, her fanatic brother, and a reclusive hunter are drawn into a web of pagan obsession, illness, and impending war.
The Crimson Patch
Augusta Huiell Seaman
Trapped in a stiff hotel suite with her father during the First World War, an observant girl uncovers a hidden nest of international intrigue behind the doors of her quiet temporary home.
The Damned
Algernon Blackwood
The reader follows a skeptical writer into a sprawling country mansion that seems to possess a sinister, sentient malice. This unsettling narrative explores how the weight of extreme, hateful beliefs can leave a lasting, physical stain upon a place.
The Doré Bible Gallery, Volume 6
Unknown
A quiet stable in Bethlehem becomes the setting for a story of extraordinary claim and rising opposition, tracking a life from humble birth to public ministry.
The Dwindling Years
Lester Del Rey
An aging executive learns that humanity's immortality treatment is failing, leaving him with only thirty years to live unless he risks everything on a faster-than-light journey.
The Experiences of a Barrister, and Confessions of an Attorney
Samuel Warren
Beneath the polished surfaces of nineteenth-century society lies a web of greed, stolen inheritances, desperate crimes, and legal maneuvers where justice hinges on a forgotten document or a sudden deathbed confession.
The Four Stragglers
Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard
Four men trapped in a shell-shocked trench during the Great War forge a dark alliance that echoes across oceans and years.
The Golden Circle: A Mystery Story for Girls
Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell
When a young French dancer loses her theatre gig in depression-era Chicago, an antique auction brings her a bizarre brass idol, a circle of fiercely loyal friends, and a mystery that trails her from Maxwell Street to the grand stage.
The Heir
Sydney C. Grier
A young scholar in Cambridge learns he is the sole rightful heir to a lost Byzantine crown, only to be swept into the lethal political maneuvers of the Balkan Peninsula.
The History of the Lady Betty Stair
Molly Elliot Seawell
A single misunderstanding can echo through a lifetime, yet duty and grace can rebuild what circumstance tore apart.
The Idol of Paris
Sarah Bernhardt
A gifted young actress captures the heart of Paris, but the dark undercurrents of aristocratic obsession and high-society rivalry soon threaten to destroy everything she holds dear.
The Junior Trophy
Ralph Henry Barbour
Four boarding school boys form a pact to buy a baseball cup, turning a snowbound winter of pranks and small rebellion into a spirited campaign.
The Mating of the Moons
Bryce Walton
A disillusioned tourist on a commercialized Mars breaks away from the packaged lies to chase a deadly, shimmering truth.
The Matsuyama Mirror
James, T. H., Mrs.
A mirror becomes a sacred bridge between the living and the dead, transforming a simple domestic object into a vessel for grief, memory, and the enduring power of maternal love in rural Japan.
The Mentor: Two Early German Painters, Dürer and Holbein, Vol. 1, Num. 48, Serial No. 48
Frank Jewett Mather
Two master artists navigate the religious upheavals of Northern Europe, leaving behind a legacy of uncompromising technical mastery and immortal human portraiture.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 332, September 20, 1828
Various
A rustic home in Shottery stands untouched by modern hands, holding the simple furnishings that once framed the quiet romantic life of a world-renowned playwright.
The motion picture comrades aboard a submarine
Elmer Tracey Barnes
Three adventurous boys board an experimental diving-boat equipped with searchlights and film gear, braving aggressive rivals and treacherous marine life to record the ocean depths and salvage lost gold.
The New Boy at Hilltop, and Other Stories
Ralph Henry Barbour
These stories capture the spirited, often grueling apprenticeship of young men finding their courage, character, and brotherhood within the structured traditions of American schools and colleges.
The Old Church Clock
Richard Parkinson
A youth leaves his mountain valley for a noisy industrial town, carrying a firm faith that keeps him steady when new ideas and strange people try to pull him off course.
The Pacha of Many Tales
Frederick Marryat
A powerful governor seeks distraction from the perilous insecurity of his office, unwittingly opening his court to a endless procession of yarns, tall tales, and nested histories.
The Princess Casamassima (Volume 2 of 2)
Henry James
A delicate young London bookbinder finds himself torn between his passionate aesthetic awakening to beauty and a secret political oath that demands a terrible sacrifice.
The Princess Elopes
Harold MacGrath
An adventurous princess, desperate to escape an arranged marriage to a much older man, finds her fate unexpectedly intertwined with an American traveler. Their collision results in a high-stakes, comedic chase across a fictional European duchy.
The Runaway Equator, and the Strange Adventures of a Little Boy in Pursuit of It
Lilian Bell
Caught in a mid-afternoon daydream over his geography lesson, a young boy escapes the backyard garden to chase down the world's most important imaginary line before global climate collapses into utter absurdity.
The Sense of Wonder
Stephen Marlowe
Lost in a boundless cosmic void, a forgotten human crew forgets its destination until a solitary voyager dares to question the automated world keeping them alive.