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John Brown: A Retrospect: Read before The Worcester Society of Antiquity, Dec. 2, 1884
Alfred S. (Alfred Seelye) Roe
Twenty-five years after his execution, John Brown’s radical martyrdom remains a towering crucible through which a divided nation reckon with the legacy of slavery and civil war.
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Keeping watch [Night watches, Part 2.]
W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs
A trusting night-watchman falls for a sweet-faced young woman, only to be locked inside a ship's cabin while she elopes with the very suitor her father paid him to keep out.
Lily's birthday
Madeline Leslie
A bright birthday morning in a bustling city parsonage gives way to months of illness, family journeys, and quiet seaside recovery.
Little Nettie
Susan Warner
The quiet struggle of a young girl seeking to bring peace to a fractured home forms the heart of this moving, somber portrait of faith and family.
Lords of Creation: Woman Suffrage Drama in Three Acts
Ella Cheever Thayer
A sharp-witted young woman demands financial independence and equal rights, turning her traditional household upside down.
Manners of the Age
H. B. (Horace Bowne) Fyfe
On a nearly deserted Earth where robots cater to every whim, two isolated individuals discover that sharing a world with another person is wildly inconvenient.
Medical Life in the Navy
Gordon Stables
A wet-behind-the-ears Scottish doctor buys his first uniform, survives the board at Somerset House, and sets out to discover the chaotic, vivid realities of life aboard a Royal Navy ship.
Memoir of Old Elizabeth, A Coloured Woman
Old Elizabeth
A lifetime of deep spiritual conviction guides an enslaved woman from the fields of Maryland to a lifelong ministry of resilient preaching across North America.
Murder by the clock
Rufus King
When a wealthy man collapses into a fatal terror inside a bedroom cupboard, a meticulous police lieutenant steps into a household thick with hidden grudges, elaborate forgeries, and lingering madness.
My past and thoughts, vol. 3 (of 6)
Aleksandr Herzen
Exiled by autocracy and disillusioned by the failure of 1848, a displaced Russian intellectual navigates the shifting wreckage of European revolution, private grief, and political betrayal.
My Queen: A Weekly Journal for Young Women. Issue 4, October 20, 1900: Marion Marlowe's Noble Work
Lurana Sheldon
A brave country girl confronts metropolitan scandal and hospital tragedies in turn-of-the-century New York.
My Secret Service: Vienna, Sophia, Constantinople, Nish, Belgrade, Asia Minor, etc
Man who dined with the Kaiser
Journeying through wartime Europe and the Ottoman Empire, an undercover correspondent reveals the hidden machinery of the Central Powers from the inside.
Nic Revel: A White Slave's Adventures in Alligator Land
George Manville Fenn
A young Devon gentleman and a poacher find themselves swept from a salmon river into forced labor on a distant colonial plantation, where they must outwit harsh overseers and ferocious hounds to win their way home.
Phantom Duel
Ford McCormack
When a routine salvage operation in the Vega system reveals a dead crew and a priceless alien gemstone, a quiet retrieval turns into a desperate struggle of greed and survival.
Pleasing Stories for Good Children with Pictures
Anonymous
Moral lessons and cautionary tales shape the daily lives of nineteenth-century children through simple verses and dramatic vignettes of virtue and disobedience.
Poems
D. M. (Duncan M.) Matheson
Amidst the pastoral peace of Acadian shores and the brutal trenches of the Great War, a rustic poet records the enduring resilience of the human spirit.
Poems of West & East
V. (Victoria) Sackville-West
This collection of verse captures the restless spirit of a young woman poised between the heavy, hallowed traditions of an English ancestral estate and the sensory, sun-drenched allure of the Orient. It is a lyrical meditation on the tension between belonging and wandering, written with a blend of aristocratic…
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 8, 1893
Various
Satirical commentary and comic verse capture the political anxieties, social pretensions, and daily grievances of late-Victorian England through the sharp lens of a national periodical.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 11, 1920
Various
This collection captures the sharp, satirical pulse of British life in the summer of 1920, blending political bite with the whimsy of domestic absurdity.
Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 35, November 26, 1870
Various
A satirical Victorian periodical bursts with sharp theatrical wit, sharp-tongued burlesques of contemporary literature, and irreverent commentaries on post-war politics from both sides of the Atlantic.
Quest on Io
Robert Moore Williams
Stranded on the desolate, cratered surface of Jupiter’s moon Io, a stranded navigator and his talking honey-bear stumble into a desperate fight for survival when a fierce space-girl and ruthless claim-jumpers cross their path.
Rodney, the Partisan
Harry Castlemon
A young Southern cadet steps into the American Civil War with unwavering loyalty to his State, only to discover that the conflict demands far more than he ever bargained for.
Sappho
T. G. (Thomas George) Tucker
On the island of Lesbos twenty-five centuries ago, a supreme lyric voice captured the bitter-sweet fires of human passion with unmatched artistic control.
Shakspere & Typography
William Blades
This investigation proposes that the Bard’s profound command of metaphor was forged in the ink-stained, technical labor of a London print shop.
Sibylla
A. (Agnes) Vollmar
Amid social pretension and spiritual doubt, a passionate young woman navigates the heavy burdens of an unloving marriage and the search for genuine purpose.
Some Objections To Socialism: From "The Atheistic Platform", Twelve Lectures
Charles Bradlaugh
A bracing critique of revolutionary zeal, this work argues that society’s most persistent miseries are best cured through gradual, cooperative reform rather than the totalizing destruction of private property.
Space-Liner X-87
Ray Cummings
A routine interplanetary voyage transforms into a floating nightmare of murder, mutiny, and hidden treasure as a lone detective fights to save a young heiress from ruthless conspirators.
Subjectivity
Norman Spinrad
When a totalitarian government decides that star travel is mandatory, they turn to a potent new hallucinogen to keep a ten-person crew sane over a sixteen-year voyage.
Tad Coon's Great Adventure
John Breck
A curious raccoon’s prison break sparks an unlikely friendship between a lonely farm boy and the creatures of the deep woods.
Tales from "Blackwood," Volume 9
Various
A student slips blindfolded into a palace, a floating block of ice carries a frozen wanderer down a river, and a young Frenchwoman dreams her way into high society.
Tales of English Minsters: St. Paul's
Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Wilson) Grierson
Rising from the ashes of London, St. Paul's Cathedral stands not merely as a masterwork of stone, but as the enduring heart of the city's citizens.
The 151st Field Artillery Brigade
Richard M. Russell
Drafted from civilian life into the newly formed National Army, ordinary citizens train rigorously, cross a dangerous ocean, and endure the brutal realities of the Western Front before the Armistice halts the thunder of their guns.
The American Consolidated Mines Company (1903)
American Consolidated Mines Company
A 1903 mining prospectus argues that the mountains of Taos County, New Mexico, hold vast, untapped riches for investors willing to fund disciplined subterranean development.
The American Missionary
Various
A window into late-nineteenth-century American home missions, capturing the fervent educational campaigns, cultural tensions, and administrative accounting of the American Missionary Association.
The American Missionary
Various
Opening a window into late-nineteenth-century American religious activism, this periodical documents the nationwide campaigns, school foundings, and financial struggles of home missions.
The Blotting Book
E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
A young man stands accused of a brutal murder, his fate hanging on a chain of incriminating evidence that seems impossible to break. Beneath the surface of his trial, a cold, calculated deception waits to be unraveled.
The Boy Ranchers in Camp
Willard F. Baker
When a remote mountain reservoir mysteriously runs dry, three young ranch cousins and their loyal companions plunge into dark underground tunnels to save their western cattle empire.
The Cruise of the Noah's Ark
David Cory
A young girl's tiresome penmanship lesson transforms into a grand sea voyage when her toy Noah's Ark floats away on a sudden nursery flood.
The Danger Trail
James Oliver Curwood
Out of the polar cold and whispering aurora near Prince Albert steps a stranger marked for death, hunted across the frozen North by unseen brothers and a half-breed bound by debt.
The Downhill Side of Thirty
Virgil F. Shockley
In a world where aging brings strict government bans on physical intimacy and tobacco, a thirty-five-year-old man risks everything to reclaim his lost pleasures.
The Eulogies of Howard: A Vision
William Hayley
An extraordinary journey through celestial realms reveals the unmatched virtues of a humble philanthropist, celebrating a life dedicated to easing human suffering.
The Fatal Falsehood: A Tragedy. In Five Acts
Hannah More
A young count’s unchecked jealousy and a villain’s cold manipulation collide, proving how easily the seeds of suspicion can bloom into a tragedy of blood and ruin.
The gold of Ophir
D. Howard (David Howard) Gwinn
A young Chicago university graduate heads to Leadville, Colorado, where a chance partnership with an eccentric veteran prospector leads to the discovery of a fabulous lost biblical city of gold and ancient secrets.
The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 2, No. 24, June 16, 1898: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
Various
A weekly periodical from 1898 brings the unfolding drama of global current events, distant wars, and exploration directly to nineteenth-century readers.
The Heritage of the Kurts, Volume 1 (of 2)
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
A wealthy, eccentric family cursed with madness and cruelty collides with a fiercely independent educator determined to transform their oppressive inheritance into a sanctuary for women's enlightenment.
The Invaders
Benjamin Ferris
A peaceful county discovers that its newly revived neighboring valley is thriving by sapping the vitality, crops, and possessions of the surrounding community.
The Ivory Snuff Box
Frederic Arnold Kummer
A newlywed detective is whisked away from his bride on a secret European mission to recover a stolen diplomatic relic.
The little grey lamb, and other Christmas poems
Herbert H. (Herbert Henry) Gowen
A modest collection of Christmas verse traces humanity's longing for peace and redemption through ancient legends, wartime Jerusalem, and the humble stable of Bethlehem.