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Social life in England, 1750-1850
F. J. (Frederick John) Foakes-Jackson
A centuries-old fear of hidden Papistry, a doctor's son writing verse in the Suffolk mud, and a high-society trial that captivated a nation all reveal the hidden machinery of a lost English century.
Social life in old New Orleans
Eliza Ripley
A vanished world of grand parlors, hoopskirts, and riverboats comes back to life through the sharp, affectionate eyes of a woman who lived it.
State of the Union Addresses
Woodrow Wilson
A leader guides his country through peace, global war, and messy recovery while defining a nation's modern role on the world stage.
Tales
George Crabbe
Small provincial lives, bounded by trade, pride, and domestic duty, yield quiet tragedies when human stubbornness collides with time.
Tama
Onoto Watanna
Alone in a foreign land, a lonely American scholar finds his isolation shattered by an elusive outcast whose untamed life holds the power to redeem them both.
The abysmal invaders
Edmond Hamilton
Beneath a modern Illinois swamp lies a long-buried subterranean world, where intelligent scaled reptiles ride bloodthirsty dinosaurs and plot the sudden, fiery re-conquest of the earth's surface.
The adventures of Hernan Cortes, the conqueror of Mexico
Francis L. (Francis Lister) Hawks
A young Spanish adventurer sets sail for the New World, overthrows an empire through sheer cunning and ruthless resolve, and ends his days forgotten by the crown he enriched.
The Altar at Midnight
C. M. (Cyril M.) Kornbluth
A young spacer whose body is ruined by the drive that makes space travel possible seeks human warmth in a Skid Row dive bar, accompanied by an older drunk who shares a secret connection to his plight.
The American Missionary
Various
Across the post-Reconstruction American landscape, a dedicated coalition of educators and ministers wage a quiet, methodical war against ignorance and social inequality.
The American Missionary
Various
This collection provides a candid, primary-source window into the late-nineteenth-century philanthropic efforts of the American Missionary Association. It serves as a vital record of the era’s shifting attitudes toward education, race, and global evangelism.
The Arabian Nights Entertainments
Jonathan Scott
A desperate wife, a choked diner, and a trail of panicked suspects turn a single evening into a brilliant tapestry of urban farce.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
Various
A nineteenth-century reader opens a fresh periodical and finds a world where European woodcuts, financial ruin, natural history, and uncompromising theology all jostle for space.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
Various
A wartime collection of literature, political argument, and narrative fiction captures a nation grappling with its own identity at the onset of the American Civil War.
The Backwoods Boy
Alger, Horatio, Jr.
Born in a humble wilderness cabin, a self-taught frontier youth works his way from manual labor and small-town law offices to the White House, guiding a fractured nation through civil war with unyielding integrity.
The Bible, King James version, Book 42: Luke
Anonymous
An orderly history of divine promise and radical mercy, this narrative charts a life that begins in a manger and ends in an ascension.
The Blunderer
Molière
In the dusty streets of a seventeenth-century Italian port, a brilliant valet schemes to win his master a bride, only for the young man’s clueless interventions to destroy every single scheme at the exact moment of its success.
The botanist's repository for new and rare plants
Andrews, Henry Cranke, active 1799-1828
Unfolding through detailed Latin classifications and English translations, this work offers an exquisite botanical survey that captures the delicate, fleeting splendour of rare global flora in cultivation.
The Breaking of the Storm, Vol. I
Friedrich Spielhagen
A sweeping gale brings a disgraced naval officer, a scrupulous general, and an idealistic young woman onto the same storm-battered coast. Personal honor and financial ambition collide as the Prussian shore braces for both an ecological catastrophe and the corrupt schemes of high society.
The Cause of the Charge of Balaclava
Thomas Morley
A former cavalry sergeant sets out to dismantle the romantic myths surrounding a legendary military disaster, offering a blunt, eyewitness correction to official history.
The crooked cross
Charles J. (Charles Judson) Dutton
A small-town summer vacation turns deadly when an eminent scientist is found murdered inside his locked octagon-shaped library.
The Dairyman's Daughter
Legh Richmond
A country clergyman traces the transformative power of faith in a humble servant girl whose quiet, radiant devotion reshapes her entire family before her early death from consumption.
The decadent
Ralph Adams Cram
An idealist surrenders to the beauty of a dying world, choosing art and stillness over a hopeless war for reform.
The Desert Trail
Dane Coolidge
Across a sun-baked border, two distinct worlds face each other: an American frontier town buzzing with fortune-hunters and a Mexican landscape torn apart by violent political upheaval and coveted gold.
The Diverting History of John Gilpin
William Cowper
When a respectable London shopkeeper attempts a quiet family holiday on horseback, his borrowed steed runs entirely wild, turning a planned anniversary dinner into an unintended, breathless, and hysterical cross-country dash.
The Doctor, his Wife, and the Clock
Anna Katharine Green
A midnight gun fires in a quiet New York block, leaving a neighbor dead and a blind physician confessing to a crime no one believes he could physically commit.
The Economical Jewish Cook: A Modern Orthodox Recipe Book for Young Housekeepers
May Henry
In late-nineteenth-century London, a modest manual reframes traditional Jewish cookery through the lens of modern domestic science, proving that keeping a strictly kosher, observant home can be achieved on a tight budget.
The Enchanted Island
Fannie Louise Apjohn
A prince marooned on a haunted isle must undo the dark sorcery binding four island kingdoms before he can reclaim his throne.
The Experienced Angler
Robert Venables
A patient hand and a quiet mind will catch more fish than the most expensive tackle, provided you understand the water and respect the creature.
The First Man-Carrying Aeroplane Capable of Sustained Free Flight: Langley's Success as a Pioneer in Aviation: From the Smithsonian Report for 1914, pages 217-222, Publication 2329, 1915
Albert Francis Zahm
A luckless accident in 1903 sidelined a pioneering craft, but its design harbored the mechanics of true sustained flight.
The frontiersmen
Gustave Aimard
An adventurous traveler in the eighteenth-century wilderness meets a pioneer family whose quiet home on the border of Iroquois territory is about to become a battleground.
The Gilded Age, Part 7
Mark Twain
Speculative madness and political grift collide in a society where fortunes are chased on paper, laws are bought in secret, and moral ruin awaits anyone naive enough to believe the promises of the age.
The Girl Scout Pioneers
Lilian Garis
A small-town troop of Girl Scouts discovers that following their code leads to real-world mystery, missing badges, and forgotten girls in need of rescue.
The higher education of women
Emily Davies
Denying women a rigorous education wastes their intellect and leaves them adrift in adulthood with no meaningful outlet for their energies.
The Inner Sisterhood: A Social Study in High Colors
Douglass Sherley
A series of sharp, intimate interior monologues pulls back the velvet curtain on the calculations, heartaches, and social games of young women navigating a late nineteenth-century ballroom world.
The Land of Lure: A Story of the Columbia River Basin
Elliott Smith
An unsparing yet hopeful portrait of homesteaders battling the harsh elements of the Columbia River Basin.
The Last Tournament
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron
A grand ideal decays into cynicism and violence as knights abandon their solemn oaths for the fleeting comforts of flesh and worldly desire.
The Loss of the Australia: A narrative of the loss of the brig Australia by fire on her voyage from Leith to Sydney
Adam Yule
A night fire in the mid-Atlantic reduces a vessel to ashes, casting survivors into open boats with minimal water, where only discipline and faith stand between them and a desperate death upon the sea.
The Making of William Edwards
Banks, G. Linnaeus (George Linnaeus), Mrs.
When a grieving widow faces a steep Welsh mountain with five children and a farm to work, her young son’s silent fixation on stones and structure slowly lays the groundwork for a legendary architectural triumph.
The Mansion
Henry Van Dyke
The mansion of one’s soul is not built of stone, nor is it measured by the ledger of one’s earthly success. A life defined by careful calculation finds its true, humble inventory only when all worldly credit is stripped away.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 13, No. 369, May 9, 1829
Various
A vibrant weekly miscellany captures the restless intellectual and cultural appetite of early nineteenth-century London, blending architectural critique, social satire, and historical oddities.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 13, No. 376, June 20, 1829
Various
Demolishing a famous London landmark, soaring over the city in a hot-air balloon, and debating the proper way to steep a cup of tea all share equal space in this vintage snapshot of Regency-era British culture.
The Monster
S. M. Tenneshaw
A secret experiment in the Arizona desert turns a hubristic scientist into a bloodthirsty beast. When cosmic rays rewrite his biology, a routine rocket launch becomes a nightmare that threatens everyone around him.
The New Ideal in Education: An Address Given Before the League of the Empire on July 16th, 1916
Nikolaj Velimirović
To end global conflict, humanity must stop trying to reform corrupted adults and instead re-engineer the way children are taught across the globe.
The New Minister's Great Opportunity: First published in the "Century Magazine"
Heman White Chaplin
A young, small-town minister faces a quiet crisis of rhetoric when tasked with preaching a funeral sermon for an unremarkable centenarian whose only distinct legacy was living a very long time.
The progress meatless cook book
Carlotta M. (Carlotta Mixer) Lake
A pragmatic manual for the turn-of-the-century homemaker offers an inventive blueprint for meatless dining alongside a vast collection of domestic solutions designed to eliminate daily kitchen drudgery.
The Progressive Democracy of James M. Cox
Charles E. (Charles Eugene) Morris
A leader must be a doer of the work, not merely a listener to promises.
The Putnam Hall Cadets
Edward Stratemeyer
A boarding school filled with adventure, mystery, and the challenges of growing up.
The Radio Boys Rescue the Lost Alaska Expedition
Gerald Breckenridge
Three teenage chums join a Northern expedition, relying on their custom radio gear to navigate deadly wilderness ambushes, rogue outlaws, and sudden Arctic blizzards.