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Stories by English Authors: The Sea
Unknown
The sea is a realm where the laws of man and nature collide, leaving sailors to navigate the thin line between survival and the supernatural. This collection captures the ocean not merely as a backdrop, but as a living, unpredictable force that tests the soul.
The Big Nightcap Letters: Being the Fifth Book of the Series
Aunt Fanny
HOOK These moralizing tales for children present a series of letters from a devoted family friend, weaving together lighthearted mischief and earnest Christian instruction to guide young readers toward gentle, virtuous living.
The Boyhood of Jesus
Anonymous
To walk in the light is to follow the path of the child who once lived, learned, and labored in Nazareth, offering a simple guide for the heart of every young seeker.
The Camp Fire Girls Across the Seas
Margaret Vandercook
A group of young American women finds their bonds of friendship tested and matured while traveling through the forests and cities of Europe.
The Clock Strikes Thirteen
Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt
Masked night riders terrorize local farmers until a spunky teenage reporter manipulates a local clock tower to trap the culprits.
The Communes of Lombardy from the VI. to the X. Century: An Investigation of the Causes Which Led to the Development of Municipal Unity Among the Lombard Communes
William Klapp Williams
The roots of Italian city-states lie not in Roman memory, but in the harsh, pragmatic survival strategies of a conquered land adapting to barbarian rule.
The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer
Charles Lever
The life of a young officer is a dizzying succession of near-misses, romantic blunders, and narrow escapes. This picaresque narrative captures the frantic, often self-inflicted chaos of a man forever one step away from disaster.
The Coyote: A Western Story
James Roberts
A solitary drifter, caught in a web of false accusations and mounting danger, must navigate the treacherous landscape of the American West to clear his name. Bound by an unspoken code and the pursuit of redemption, he finds his path irrevocably altered by a chance encounter that challenges his cynical solitude.
The Deaves Affair
Hulbert Footner
A struggling artist becomes entangled in a high-stakes extortion scheme after accepting a job guarding a wealthy, eccentric recluse. He soon finds himself caught between a bizarre criminal syndicate and a woman who holds his heart hostage.
The Dragon Slayers
Frank Banta
In the stifling, rain-drenched jungles of Venus, two corporate drones must balance the impossible quotas of their bureaucracy against the inconvenient reality of being incinerated by local megafauna.
The Fairy Changeling and Other Poems
Dora Sigerson Shorter
The sorrow of the sea and the weight of unseen worlds haunt these pages, where the living and the dead reach for one another across the thinnest of veils.
The Four-Fingered Glove
Nicholas (House name) Carter
HOOK A master detective descends into a web of familial secrets, lethal poisons, and high-stakes impersonation to protect a wealthy household from a shadowy, long-festering vengeance.
The Golden Harpoon
Roger Starbuck
HOOK A whaling voyage turns into a desperate struggle for survival when a mutinous crew seizes control of the Montpelier amidst the treacherous, shifting ice fields of the Sea of Okhotsk.
The history of Company C, Seventh Regiment, O.V.I
Theodore Wilder
A unit of college-educated idealists trades the classrooms of Oberlin for the battlefields of the American Civil War, recording their trials through capture, prison camps, and bloody Eastern and Western Theater campaigns.
The Law of the Land: Of Miss Lady, Whom It Involved in Mystery, and of John Eddring, Gentleman of the South, Who Read Its Deeper Meaning: A Novel
Emerson Hough
A young woman searches for her true identity against the backdrop of a volatile, post-Reconstruction South. In this world of shifting loyalties and encroaching industry, she finds that truth is as hard to pin down as the floodwaters of the Mississippi.
"The Liberry"
Ian Hay
An illiterate man sustains a lifelong deception, curating a library of hollow props to perform the role of a learned sage for his neighbors, only to find redemption through the very community he fooled.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 282, November 10, 1827
Various
This periodical captures the intellectual pulse of late 1827, blending architectural criticism, travelogue, and fiction into a singular snapshot of Victorian-era curiosity. It serves as a window into a time when the world felt both vast and newly cataloged.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 555, Supplementary Number
Various
This volume serves as a curated cabinet of nineteenth-century curiosity, offering a panoramic view of early 1830s British life through a blend of history, science, and literature.
The Night of Hoggy Darn
Richard McKenna
In a hostile corner of the galaxy, an ambitious young researcher ventures onto a forbidden world, only to discover that the price of human survival is a cycle of violence and hidden, ancient shame.
The Nineteenth Century Apostle of the Little Ones
E. Uhlrich
This account chronicles the life of Giovanni Bosco, a nineteenth-century Italian priest who dedicated his existence to the reclamation and education of neglected youth, transforming a simple act of compassion into a global mission.
The Obstacle Race
Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell
The courage to endure life’s tests is a quiet, steadfast fire. To face the race with grace is the only victory that truly matters.
The Rainbow and the Rose
E. (Edith) Nesbit
The human heart is a garden of thorns and blossoms, forever caught between the fragile beauty of what we love and the inevitable winter that claims it.
The Rover Boys in the Land of Luck
Edward Stratemeyer
The Rover boys find themselves in the high-stakes world of Texas oil prospecting, where they must outwit long-standing rivals and navigate the dangerous uncertainty of the frontier.
The Statute of Anne
Great Britain. Parliament
This foundational 1710 legal act established the concept of intellectual property, shifting the power to control printed works from monopolistic guilds to the authors who created them.
The Storm. An Essay
Daniel Defoe
The heavens recently spoke with a voice of thunder, and though few understood the language, the aftermath of the great wind left a nation shivering in the shadow of its own divine reckoning.
The Truth about Jesus
M. M. (Mangasar Mugurditch) Mangasarian
The quest for a historical Jesus reveals a figure built more from myth and ancient archetype than from the reliable record of human history. This investigation challenges the foundation of Western belief by scrutinizing the silence of contemporaries and the contradictions within the scriptures.
The twenty-six clues
Isabel Ostrander
A wealthy collector’s museum becomes the site of a gruesome murder, pulling an observant amateur investigator into a web of blackmail, hidden histories, and a trail of letters composed from pasta.
The Undefeated
J. C. (John Collis) Snaith
The story of a provincial town caught in the gears of the First World War, this novel traces the moral awakening of a man who discovers his own courage in the shadow of a changing society.
The undercurrent
Fay Ehlert
This brief, searing drama reveals how a household’s internal tyranny pushes a vulnerable daughter toward ruin, and how only a compassionate stranger’s intervention can disrupt that cycle. It is a powerful, compact study of domestic cruelty and the desperate lengths required to survive it.
The Young Continentals at Trenton
John T. (John Thomas) McIntyre
This historical adventure follows a young soldier navigating the fog of war, where the line between friend and foe is often drawn by misunderstanding and shifting masks. It is a brisk, spirited tale of duty, loyalty, and the confusion of a country divided against itself.
Their Yesterdays
Harold Bell Wright
Childhood sweethearts grow into solitary adults in a bustling city, finding their way back to love by honoring the quiet lessons of their shared past.
To Infidelity and Back
Henry F. (Henry Frey) Lutz
This spiritual autobiography recounts a decade-long journey from orthodox faith through the wilderness of rationalism and infidelity, ultimately returning to a firm belief in the divinity of Christ.
Tom of the Raiders
Austin Bishop
A young Union soldier finds himself in the middle of a daring, high-stakes train heist that alters the trajectory of his life and tests the limits of his courage.
Trouble
George O. (George Oliver) Smith
A practical engineer and a brilliant, abstract physicist share one body, locked in a perpetual, competitive struggle to solve the mysteries of the universe—and drive each other mad.
Two hundred recipes for making salads, with thirty recipes for dressings and sauces
Olive M. Hulse
A celebration of the salad as a versatile art form, this collection invites the home cook to explore two hundred distinct ways to transform fresh ingredients into elegant, healthful masterpieces.
Walladmor, Vol. 1 (of 2): "Freely Translated into German from the English of Sir Walter Scott." And Now Freely Translated from the German into English
Willibald Alexis
A strange, meta-literary puzzle emerges from the fog of the Welsh coast, where a lost traveler wanders into a landscape filled with smugglers, secret identities, and the heavy atmosphere of a counterfeit masterpiece.
Wings and Stings: A Tale for the Young
A. L. O. E.
A gentle moral tale that draws parallels between the industry of a beehive and the domestic responsibilities of children, reminding readers that every action carries the power to bestow either kindness or pain.
A Coin of Edward VII: A Detective Story
Fergus Hume
A mysterious coin and a string of anonymous threats pull a young squire into a web of murder, hidden identities, and long-buried family secrets.
A day in the country, and other stories
Unknown
This collection of short stories, published in 1885, acts as a moral compass for young readers. It frames everyday childhood dilemmas—obedience, honesty, and social kindness—within a framework of Christian faith and character development.
A Day with Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
George Sampson
A young, ambitious singer visits Felix Mendelssohn in 1840 Leipzig, spending an intimate day immersed in the composer's circle of friends and creative process. This narrative portrait captures the essence of a musical genius at the height of his powers.
A Dog with a Bad Name
Talbot Baines Reed
The shadow of a single impulsive act follows a boy into adulthood, testing whether a man can ever outrun the reputation he earned in his youth. This is a story of redemption, hidden identities, and the quiet weight of conscience.
A Girl in Ten Thousand
L. T. Meade
A young woman struggles to balance her own yearning for independence with the overwhelming, often stifling, needs of her fragile family. This is a story of duty, sacrifice, and the quiet heroism of finding one’s way.
A Matter of Taste
Stecher, L. J., Jr.
The cosmos holds dangers that transcend mere physical threats, and sometimes the most sophisticated insurance policy requires a truly unorthodox adjuster to settle the claim. A lone operative arrives on a hostile, ice-bound planet to resolve a dispute between a desperate human mining expedition and an alien race…
A Rill from the Town Pump
Nathaniel Hawthorne
This piece of writing transforms a mundane municipal fixture into a vibrant, outspoken commentator on human nature, temperance, and the history of a New England town. It offers a whimsical yet earnest look at the virtue of simplicity.
A True Account of the Voyage of the Nottingham-Galley of London,: John Dean Commander, from the River Thames to New-England
Christopher Langman
The sea claims ships, but sometimes it is the greed of men that first abandons them. This testimony serves as a stark, sworn rebuttal to a captain’s sanitized account of a wreck and its aftermath.
A winter holiday
Bliss Carman
This collection of verse captures the transition from a harsh New England winter to the vibrant, sun-drenched sanctuary of the Bahamas. Through a series of lyrical meditations, it explores the tension between the artist’s need for travel and the profound contentment found in friendship and stillness.
An Essay on Satire, Particularly on the Dunciad
Walter Harte
This defense of verse satire argues that the genre is a sophisticated form of moral philosophy, essential for correcting the vices of the age and upholding the dignity of literature.
Begumbagh: A Tale of the Indian Mutiny
George Manville Fenn
Amidst the terror and smoke of a besieged outpost, a soldier discovers that courage is rarely about glory, and far more about the quiet determination to protect the people walking alongside you.