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Mike Flannery On Duty and Off
Ellis Parker Butler
Mike Flannery is an express agent whose literal-minded devotion to corporate rules leads him into absurd, high-stakes battles with bureaucratic indifference and oddball visitors.
Miss Lulu Bett
Zona Gale
A woman long relegated to the status of a domestic servant in her own family’s home finally demands a life of her own, discovering that self-realization often requires leaving everything she has ever known behind.
Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings
Annie Hamilton Donnell
Theodosia Baxter, a world-weary traveler returning to her quiet, empty home, finds her solitary life unexpectedly invaded by a spirited neighborhood of children, ultimately discovering a capacity for love she thought long buried.
My Queen: A Weekly Journal for Young Women. Issue 5, October 27, 1900: Marion Marlowe Entrapped
Lurana Sheldon
This tale of a young woman’s perilous ascent in the New York opera scene pits innocence against the cutthroat machinations of those threatened by her sudden, natural rise to fame.
Nick Carter Stories No. 157, September 11, 1915: A human counterfeit
Nicholas (House name) Carter
HOOK When a hotel manager is abducted and replaced by a perfect double, the famous detective must unmask a criminal mastermind before a false identity becomes a permanent reality.
Nineteen hundred? A forecast and a story
Marianne Farningham
This visionary narrative imagines a transformation of English society through the application of radical Christian ethics and collective moral reform. It serves as a fervent manifesto for those who believe the future belongs to the young.
Notes and Queries, Number 02, November 10, 1849
Various
This early issue of a long-running literary periodical serves as a communal clearinghouse for scholarly curiosities, inviting readers to share obscure facts and seek answers to their most persistent research dilemmas.
Notes and Queries, Number 218, December 31, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
Various
A communal intellectual clearinghouse for the Victorian era, this periodical served as a vital forum where curious minds exchanged historical, linguistic, and scientific discoveries. It remains a fascinating relic of nineteenth-century collaborative inquiry.
Plain Parochial Sermons, preached in the Parish Church of Bolton-le-Moors
James Slade
Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. This collection offers a steady, pastoral voice calling for immediate spiritual renewal in an era of worldly distraction.
Poems
Henry Reed Conant
A book’s a book, although there’s nothing in’t. This collection captures a young man’s earnest, early attempts to find his voice, reflecting the moral and religious climate of the American Midwest at the close of the nineteenth century.
Poems in Wartime: Part 4 From Volume III of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier
This collection of verse chronicles the moral upheaval of the American Civil War, transforming the raw grief and political urgency of a fractured nation into a solemn, enduring prayer for justice.
Precious bane
Mary Webb
A young woman born with a physical disability finds her own path to dignity in the harsh, isolated landscape of the Shropshire countryside.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, March 25, 1893
Various
An irreverent skewering of late-nineteenth-century British politics, academia, and popular theater through sharp satirical skits.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 18, 1841
Various
This issue of a fledgling satirical periodical captures the frantic, clever, and cynical spirit of early Victorian London. It serves as a boisterous window into a world of medical students, bored officers, and political schemers.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 6, 1891
Various
Through a thick fog of Victorian coal-smoke and parliamentary posturing, a weekly snapshot of 1891 London emerges with sharp-edged affection. The issue captures a confident empire mildly exasperated by its own eccentricities—from local curates stumbling through magic-lantern slides to politicians squabbling over…
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, August 2, 1890
Various
This collection serves as a vibrant, satirical snapshot of Victorian life, capturing the anxieties, politics, and social absurdities of the late 19th century through a lens of biting wit. It offers a rare, unfiltered look at the preoccupations of the era, from the trivialities of garden-party etiquette to the…
Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Collected Works of George Meredith
George Meredith
Spanning the breadth of a storied literary career, this collection gathers the distilled wisdom and sharp observations of a master stylist. It serves as a profound, if challenging, map of the human condition in the nineteenth century.
Ralph Granger's Fortunes
William Perry Brown
Ralph Granger is a boy seeking to escape a violent family feud in the Appalachian mountains who finds himself ensnared in the treacherous, illegal world of the 19th-century slave trade. His journey from a rustic cabin to the high seas becomes a brutal trial of morality, courage, and resilience.
Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon
Louis Constant Wairy
A valet’s quiet, observant account offers an intimate look at the man behind the imperial mask, revealing the domestic rhythms and personal anxieties of the most powerful figure in nineteenth-century Europe.
Rhoda Fleming
George Meredith
The tangled lives of two sisters and their social superiors unravel in a landscape where reputation is a currency and marriage is a business transaction. This is a story of how the crushing weight of class expectations collides with the fierce, often misguided, loyalty of the human heart.
Roughing It, Part 8
Mark Twain
This travelogue captures a restless spirit traversing the Pacific and the American West, blending awe-struck observation of volcanic landscapes with the sharp, often dangerous realities of frontier life. It is a portrait of a world—and a writer—in constant motion.
Rubáiyát of a Motor Car
Carolyn Wells
A lighthearted, satirical take on the early days of motoring, this work captures the maddening, expensive, and absurd reality of early twentieth-century car ownership through the lens of a classic poetic form. It serves as a humorous diary of a frustrated enthusiast who trades his sanity and savings for the thrill…
Short Snorter
Charles Einstein
An extraterrestrial visitor finds sanctuary in a quiet hotel, proving that Earth’s inhabitants are far more interested in the currency of another world than the reality of his arrival.
Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming
United States. Forest Service
This official guide provides a detailed look at the Shoshone National Forest, tracing its history, geography, and the intricate management required to preserve its vast wilderness.
Songs for All Seasons, and Other Poems
Cora C. Bass
A collection of earnest, devotional verse, this volume gathers short poems that offer steady moral guidance and quiet comfort to the reader. These verses serve as a gentle reminder of the grace found in daily labor, steady faith, and simple acts of kindness.
Speeches at the Constitutional Convention: With the Right of Suffrage Passed by the Constitutional Convention
Robert Smalls
The struggle for the vote in post-Reconstruction South Carolina comes to life through the defiant, recorded words of a former slave turned statesman who fought to preserve democracy against institutionalized disenfranchisement.
Starr, of the Desert
B. M. Bower
A quiet, unassuming man seeks a new life in the desert, only to find his path crossed by a secret agent guarding a nation against revolution.
Stories of the Foot-hills
Margaret Collier Graham
This collection of short stories captures the rugged, sun-baked transition of the American West, where human ambition often clashes with an unforgiving and arid landscape. It offers a clear-eyed look at the lives of settlers, laborers, and dreamers attempting to carve existence out of the California foothills at…
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Subspeciation in Pocket Gophers of Kansas, [KU. Vol. 1 No. 11]
E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) Hall
This monograph examines the biological classification of Kansas pocket gophers, using physical measurement to map the subtle, overlapping variations that define these creatures across the state’s changing landscape.
Sword and crozier, drama in five acts
Indriði Einarsson
Set against the brutal backdrop of 13th-century Iceland, this stark historical drama follows a fracturing society where the ambitions of powerful chieftains collide with the encroaching, often hypocritical, influence of the Church.
Sylvia's Lovers
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
A young woman’s life is shattered by the false news of her lover’s death, leading her into a marriage that becomes a prison of regret and secrets. This is a story of how a single act of deception can echo across a lifetime, haunting both the deceiver and the deceived.
The Admiral's Caravan
Charles E. (Charles Edward) Carryl
An inquisitive young girl follows a series of impossible clues from her quiet neighborhood into a world of sentient toys, floating furniture, and shifting dimensions.
The banker and the bear
Henry Kitchell Webster
The high-stakes world of Chicago finance is rarely captured with such cold-eyed precision as in this drama of a bank under siege. A young banker faces a battle of wits against a ruthless market manipulator, testing the limits of loyalty, honesty, and nerve.
The Battle of Allatoona, October 5th, 1864
William Ludlow
A remote mountain pass holds the line for an entire army. When a Confederate division moves to destroy a vital Union supply depot, a desperate seven-hour siege decides the fate of General Sherman's campaign.
The coat without a seam, and other poems
Helen Gray Cone
The dream of a unified world, woven like a seamless garment from the blue of the sky and the red of human blood, serves as a poignant prayer for a fractured age.
The country seats of the United States of North America
William Russell Birch
Refining the American landscape through the lens of architectural grace and rural retirement, this work captures the early aesthetic ambition of a burgeoning nation. It serves as a visual and descriptive record of the refined estates that defined the prestige of the young United States at the dawn of the nineteenth…
The Dolliver Romance
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The search for an elixir of life leads a humble, aging apothecary into a dangerous, supernatural struggle between his own gentle desire for survival and a predatory rival’s gluttonous obsession with immortality.
The Englishman from Paris
Arthur Murphy
A young man returns from abroad with absurd continental affectations, only to face the harsh judgment of his skeptical countrymen. This rare comedy explores the clash between performative vanity and the desire for grounded character.
The Fifth String
John Philip Sousa
A brilliant violinist stakes his soul on a cursed instrument to win the woman he loves, only to find that the price of god-like artistry is the very humanity he sought to express.
The Fourth Invasion
Robert A. W. (Robert Augustine Ward) Lowndes
A group of students witnesses an apparent alien invasion, only to be accused of perpetrating a hoax that ultimately masks a far more calculated and sinister reality.
The Garotters
William Dean Howells
A simple mistake in a snowy Boston park spirals into a chaotic comedy of errors, exposing the fragile, performative nature of social propriety and domestic heroism.
The Geology of Calvin Coolidge State Forest
Harry W. Dodge
This guide invites visitors to look past the scenic beauty of the Vermont woods and uncover 550 million years of geological history hidden beneath their feet.
The Geology of Darling State Park
Harry W. Dodge
A clear day atop Burke Mountain reveals the vast, rugged landscape of northeastern Vermont, offering travelers a glimpse of both where they have been and where they might next go. This guide serves as a map through deep time, turning the stones beneath a hiker’s feet into a coherent narrative of the planet’s…
The giftie gien
Malcolm Jameson
A boastful, self-important sales manager finds that in the afterlife, his reputation is not what he imagined. He is forced to confront the collective, unflattering reality of how others truly perceived him.
The Go Ahead Boys in the Island Camp
Ross Kay
The quintessential camaraderie of youth finds its home in the wilderness, where a summer of sun-drenched adventure tests both the mettle and the friendship of four spirited boys.
The Good Work
Theodore L. Thomas
In a world of 350 billion people, a man struggles to maintain his sense of purpose. When he finally secures government employment, he finds that his role is more ironic than he ever imagined.
The Hero in Man
George William Russell
The Hero in Man is a luminous mystical essay exploring how divine love and ancient heroism persist within human suffering, casting an equal radiance upon both the master and the outcast.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II.: Complete Contents of the Five Volumes
Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
A volatile kingdom breaks its sacred compact with the crown, trading an autocratic dynasty for an imported prince and a fragile constitutional order.