The whole shelf
All free summaries — page 701
47,382 public-domain books, summarised. Page 701 of 988.
Out of the sea
Leigh Brackett
A jaded reporter finds his cynical worldview shattered when a sudden, subterranean cataclysm unleashes prehistoric monsters upon the California coast. He must confront his own selfishness to save the woman he loves.
Penelope's Progress: Being Such Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton As Relate to Her Experiences in Scotland
Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
HOOK Three American women travel through Scotland, recording their humorous observations and romantic entanglements in a series of lively, interconnected sketches.
Peter Trawl
William Henry Giles Kingston
A young boy loses his family and finds his footing in the unforgiving world of 19th-century whaling, driven by a desperate, lifelong search for his missing brother.
Petty Troubles of Married Life, Second Part
Honoré de Balzac
When domestic idealism collides with human vanity, the result is a cynical, sharp-witted dissection of 1800s bourgeois marriage.
Psychological Aspects of the Problem of Atmospheric Smoke Pollution
J. E. Wallace (John Edward Wallace) Wallin
A city choked by industrial fumes suffers more than just physical decay; its very citizens may be losing their mental clarity, their aesthetic spirit, and their capacity for joy.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, December 26, 1891
Various
This volume captures the irreverent, sharp-witted spirit of late-Victorian England, blending biting social satire with a whimsical, often absurd, view of contemporary life. It serves as a curated snapshot of the cultural anxieties and diversions that defined the end of the nineteenth century.
Quiet Talks with World Winners
S. D. (Samuel Dickey) Gordon
A steady, earnest appeal to the Christian conscience, urging everyday believers to view global evangelism not as an optional duty, but as life’s ultimate passion and imperative.
Quotations from Diary of Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys
The private record of an ambitious seventeenth-century bureaucrat, this work offers an unparalleled window into the Restoration era, capturing the collision of high-stakes politics, the terror of plague and fire, and the small, messy details of daily life.
Rand and the Micmacs
Jeremiah S. (Jeremiah Simpson) Clark
An intimate look into a forgotten nineteenth-century Canadian mission, this volume preserves the life, language study, and spiritual devotion of a polyglot scholar who dedicated forty years to the Indigenous peoples of the Maritime Provinces.
Report of Dr. Benjamin Franklin, and other commissioners, charged by the King of France, with the examination of the animal magnetism, as now practised at Paris
France. Commissaires chargés par le roi de l'examen du magnétisme animal
The French crown convened a panel of the era’s greatest scientific minds to investigate whether an invisible, curative fluid truly permeates the universe or if the public is being led by a master of illusion.
Roger the ranger: A story of border life among the Indians
Eliza F. Pollard
This narrative captures the tragic collision of cultures during the French and Indian War, following two men whose lifelong brotherhood is fractured by loyalty to opposing sides and the brutal realities of the frontier.
Rose and Rose
E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
A country doctor in Edwardian England inherits the guardianship of a free-spirited orphan, embarking on a lifelong journey of quiet devotion, domestic missteps, and double-generational love.
Samuel Butler: A Sketch
Henry Festing Jones
A life of restless intellectual independence unfolds through a quiet, meticulously ordered existence in mid-Victorian London.
Sewage Disposal on the Farm, and Protection of Drinking Water
Theobald Smith
Clean water and the responsible management of household waste are the fundamental pillars of rural health. This practical guide outlines how farmers can protect their families and their neighbors from waterborne disease.
Shakspeare's Mental Photographs
William Shakespeare
A parlor game from the mid-nineteenth century repurposes early modern drama into a tool for social fortune-telling. It transforms centuries-old lines into playful, sharp reflections on human nature.
Sixteen Poems
William Allingham
A sea-washed Irish coast frames fleeting mortal loves, ancient ruins, and spectral midnight visitors that drift endlessly through human memory.
Some Common Birds Useful to the Farmer (1926 edition)
F. E. L. (Foster Ellenborough Lascelles) Beal
Farmers and gardeners often overlook the quiet, tireless labor performed by the birds in their own backyards. This technical guide reveals the hidden, essential partnership between agriculture and native bird populations across the United States.
Songs of Two Nations
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Light kindles from the ash of collapsed empires, and a nation long left for dead rises to claim its freedom.
Squire Arden
Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
A young man who has grown up as the undisputed heir to a proud English estate suddenly discovers that he is not the late squire’s biological son, throwing his identity into question and surrendering his fortune to a bitter cousin.
Star Pirate
Frederic Arnold Kummer
A young man waiting on a desolate asteroid finds his life upended when his long-lost father returns as a pirate to claim a fortune in stolen metal.**
Stories Pictures Tell. Book 7
Flora L. (Flora Leona) Carpenter
Art is a window into the human experience, inviting us to look past the canvas and discover the stories of the people who shaped our history. This guide offers a thoughtful path toward that deeper understanding.
The Air of Castor Oil
Jim Harmon
Trapped between fleeting memories of the past and a shifting, synthetic present, one man risks everything to uncover why his reality is tearing at the seams.
The Alien Dies at Dawn
Randall Garrett
A frantic pilot races against a ticking clock to prevent an unjust execution, knowing that if an innocent man dies, a human colony will be wiped out in retaliation.
The American Missionary
Various
A monthly journal records the sweeping efforts of a nineteenth-century missionary association across the American South and West, documenting school anniversaries, evangelistic meetings, and financial contributions.
The Bible, King James version, Book 50: Philippians
Anonymous
Written from a Roman prison cell, this brief letter turns confinement into an radiant manifesto on joy, humility, and unwavering spiritual resilience.
The Boy Aeronauts' Club
H. L. (Harry Lincoln) Sayler
A group of Gulf Coast teenagers form an aviation club, build an aeroplane, and set out across the waters and swamps of Florida on a grand summer adventure.
The Boy Allies with Pershing in France
Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes
Trapped under collapsing debris in a front-line shell hole, two young American officers ignite their own explosives to blast a path toward the bloody, decisive battlefields of World War I.
The boys of Columbia High in track athletics
Graham B. Forbes
This story follows a group of high school friends navigating the final challenges of their senior year. Set against the backdrop of athletic rivalries and local mysteries, it captures the transition from adolescence to the responsibilities of young adulthood.
The Brighton Boys at St. Mihiel
James R. Driscoll
Through mud and artillery fire on the Western Front, three school friends face the brutal realities of combat to prove their courage.
The Butterfly Kiss
Arthur Dekker Savage
A scientist engineered for superior speed and mind-over-matter abilities infiltrates a ruthless alien regime to sabotage their war fleet before a galactic conflict wipes out human history.
The Co-opolitan: A Story of the Co-operative Commonwealth of Idaho
Zebina Forbush
This utopian fiction imagines a peaceful American revolution, where organized labor and collective economic action transform a single state into a model of shared prosperity and social justice.
The Copyright Question: A Letter to the Toronto Board of Trade
George N. (George Nathaniel) Morang
This sharp, polemical open letter defends the integrity of international copyright, urging Canadian commerce to reject restrictive, isolationist policies that threaten the rights of authors and the standing of the nation’s publishing industry.
The Disagreeable Woman: A Social Mystery
Alger, Horatio, Jr.
Severe, blunt, and secretly charitable, a mysterious boarder upends a New York lodging house, silently dispensing money to the needy while systematically deflating the pretensions of her vanity-stricken companions.
The Flying Mercury
Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie) Ingram
A gifted young driver risks his life on the early dirt tracks, hiding a aristocratic lineage to build a world-class automobile and win the heart of the woman he loves.
The Freeman, and Other Poems
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
HOOK A bracing meditation on the necessity of independence, this collection finds strength in the cold clarity of loneliness and the defiant pursuit of truth, regardless of the cost.
The Gifts of Asti
Andre Norton
A priestess flees a dying city, guided by a telepathic reptilian companion to recover ancient, world-altering technology from the depths of a desolate planet.
The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 1017, June 24, 1899
Various
A serene look into the habits and concerns of Victorian girlhood, this periodical offers a window into an era where nature, etiquette, and education were woven into the daily life of young women.
The high ones
Poul Anderson
The survivors of a fractured starship crew discover a stagnant alien civilization, forcing a reckoning between the rigid ideologies they carried from Earth and the chilling reality of a society that has surrendered its own autonomy.
The Hilltop Boys: A Story of School Life
Cyril Burleigh
The camaraderie of a private boarding school is tested when a scholarship student arrives, only to find himself the target of both a group of local bullies and a dark secret from his own past.
The Impersonator
Robert Wicks
The Earth is dying under the crushing weight of an advancing ice age, and a man named Paul Chandler is humanity’s last, desperate hope. But as he races to save the world, he discovers that his own identity is a puzzle designed by forces far beyond his control.
The Journal-Lancet, Vol. XXXV, No. 5, March 1, 1915: The Journal of the Minnesota State Medical Association and Official Organ of the North Dakota and South Dakota State Medical Associations
Various
HOOK This professional medical dispatch from 1915 captures a pivotal era of transition, where emerging laboratory science began to challenge the traditional intuition of the practicing physician.
The luck of the bean-rows, a fairy tale
Charles Nodier
The Luck of the Bean-rows is a whimsical, dream-like fable about a foundling boy whose modest life of toil is transformed by magic and the weight of his own kind heart. It explores the tension between simple contentment and the dizzying, often hollow, promise of the wider world.
The Mentor: Chinese Rugs, Vol. 4, Num. 2, Serial No. 102, March 1, 1916
John Kimberly Mumford
A quiet dignity radiates from these woven masterworks, where simple grounds of soft gold and luminous indigo command respect without ever shouting for attention.
The Method by Which the Causes of the Present and Past Conditions of Organic Nature Are to Be Discovered
Thomas Henry Huxley
All scientific reasoning, from unraveling the deepest mysteries of organic evolution to identifying the thief who stole the household silverware, relies on the exact same everyday operations of induction, deduction, and relentless experimental verification.
The Mission
Frederick Marryat
An elderly baronet seeks closure regarding his lost family, sparking a perilous expedition into the African interior where colonial history, natural wonders, and the hazards of the wild test the endurance of three determined men.
The modes of origin of lowest organisms: including a discussion of the experiments of M. Pasteur
H. Charlton Bastian
A nineteenth-century British physician mounts a rigorous empirical challenge against atmospheric germ theory, arguing through careful laboratory experiments that microscopic life can emerge directly from non-living chemical solutions under the right physical conditions.
The moving picture boys and the flood
Victor Appleton
A runaway Mississippi River threatens to drown an entire region, leaving two young newsreel cameramen to battle raging currents, house fires, and shipwrecks to rescue a stranded theater troupe.
The New Teaching of History: With a reply to some recent criticisms of The Outline of History
H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
To reshape how the world understands its past, one must first dismantle the narrow, insular traditions of classroom instruction. Universal history acts as the essential framework for a future of global cooperation and peace.