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Dialstone Lane, Part 4
W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs
A stolen voyage, a hidden treasure map, and bumbling romantic entanglements create an atmosphere of comical absurdity on the English coast.
Falkland, Book 2
Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
An intense, psychological exploration of unlawful passion, Falkland traces the agonizing inward struggles and quiet desolation of two sensitive souls bound by an illicit love.
Frontier service during the rebellion
George H. Pettis
Marching thousands of miles across unforgiving deserts and mountain passes, volunteer soldiers carved a brutal path through the American Southwest during the Civil War.
Fugitive Slave Law: The Religious Duty of Obedience to Law
Ichabod S. (Ichabod Smith) Spencer
A prominent Brooklyn clergyman addresses his congregation in late 1850, arguing with fierce religious conviction that obedience to the Fugitive Slave Law is a sacred duty ordained by God.
Harper's Young People, March 22, 1881: An Illustrated Weekly
Various
This collection captures the frantic, inventive, and earnest spirit of Victorian childhood through a mix of serialized fiction, instructional snippets, and the unfiltered voices of young readers writing in from across the globe.
Harper's Young People, October 19, 1880: An Illustrated Weekly
Various
This illustrated weekly offers a window into the late Victorian imagination, blending wholesome adventure fiction, natural history, and the earnest, puzzle-loving spirit of nineteenth-century American youth.
Harry's newspaper
Stephen Angus Douglas Cox
A young printer establishes a small-town newspaper in Colorado, balancing civic advocacy, business enterprise, and community life to build a lasting livelihood.
History of the 159th Regiment, N.Y.S.V
Edward Duffy
The march of a volunteer regiment unfolds across the map of a fractured nation, tracing the jagged intersection of personal sacrifice and national duty. This record chronicles the evolution of citizen-soldiers into battle-hardened veterans through the crucible of the Civil War.
Honor Bright: A Story of the Days of King Charles
Mary C. (Mary Catherine) Rowsell
A lonely young prince escapes his guarded tower room to seek his royal father, finding refuge and hard work in a country flour mill.
If at First You Don't
John Brudy
A satellite's impending demise sparks a wildly contentious bureaucratic and public frenzy, culminating in the absurdity of launching an exact duplicate back into space.
Infant Schools and Dissenters: A Vindication of "a letter of affectionate remonstrance," &c., from the mistakes respecting it made by William Geary ... and from the misrepresentations of it made by ... John Perowne ... in their respective pamphlets
John Alexander
A nineteenth-century religious controversy reveals deep fissures over education, church authority, and the delicate balance between sectarian pride and Christian charity.
Is That You Xeluchli?
Dick Hetschel
Two extraterrestrial beings, Orena and Xeluchli, embark on a journey through the Milky Way, only to inadvertently cause a catastrophic event on a distant planet by breaking the rules of their observation mission.
Little soldiers all
Eleanora H. Stooke
When a young girl arrives in an English country home during the First World War, her quiet resilience transforms the lives of everyone around her, even as personal grief touches them all.
Mammy's baby
Amy Ella Blanchard
A collection of lighthearted, rhythmic verses and domestic vignettes captures the charming, sometimes mischievous everyday world of Victorian childhood, pets, and family life.
Nerves of iron
W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle
A reluctant and cowardly town marshal in a chaotic desert settlement must fake his way through a deadly showdown to win his fiancée, aided by two drifting prospectors whose pack mule chooses every trail.
One good turn
Bertrand W. Sinclair
Falsely accused of murder after a stranger swaps gear with him in the California pines, a convalescing woodsman faces a similar flight years later in the rugged wilderness of British Columbia.
Plain tales, chiefly intended for the use of charity schools
Anonymous
Diligent charity-school girls learn that thrift, truthfulness, and hard work bring lasting peace, while idleness and vanity lead straight to ruin and regret.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 5, 1891
Various
Late-Victorian wit comes alive through sharp travel sketches, biting social satire, and humorous verse that lampoon the absurdities of daily life.
Reminiscences of a Rebel
Wayland Fuller Dunaway
Wayland Fuller Dunaway’s memoir captures the trials of a young Confederate soldier from eager enlistment to the final heartbreak at Appomattox.
Reminiscences of the Thirty-Fourth Regiment, Mass. Vol. Infantry
William H. Clark
Leaving home with a newly presented national flag, a Massachusetts regiment embarks on Civil War service filled with camp humor, skirmishes, and the heavy sorrow of battlefield losses.
Shenac's Work at Home
Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson
Displaced from their Scottish homeland, a resilient family fights to reclaim their ancestral land and preserve their bond through hardship, grief, and faith.
Sketches of Missionary Life
Edwin F. Parry
Stepping into the nineteenth-century mission field means confronting profound poverty, fierce public hostility, and miraculous providences that reshape ordinary lives forever.
Some points in choosing textiles
Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mitchell) Gibbs
As household manufacturing vanished into factories, modern women lost their instinctive grasp of fabrics, leaving them vulnerable to deceptive sizing, hidden cotton blends, and heavily weighted silks in the marketplace.
Some Remains (hitherto unpublished) of Joseph Butler, LL.D
Joseph Butler
Private letters, rugged theological fragments, and quiet acts of architectural devotion reveal the deeply scrupulous mind of an eighteenth-century bishop wrestling with moral duty.
The Bible, King James version, Book 54: 1 Timothy
Anonymous
An apostolic letter written to guide a young leader in Ephesus, outlining church order, moral duty, and the defense of sound doctrine against false teachers.
The catspaw of Piperock
W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle
An uproarious Christmas night in a Montana frontier town descends into total chaos when a raffle for a brand-new automobile ignites a chaotic holiday pageant involving rival townsfolk, a temperamental camel, and a stampeding steer.
The Cheerful Cricket and Others
Jeannette Augustus Marks
In a vibrant meadow by a shimmering lake, tiny creatures learn hard lessons about cheerfulness, industry, and neighborly kindness through the trials of daily insect life.
The Comrade in White
William Harvey Leathem
A shell-shocked soldier lies bleeding in No Man's Land, expecting an enemy's knife, when a luminous figure glides through the gunfire to lift him into gentle arms. Through four quiet tales, battlefield agony yields to divine comfort.
The Conuercyon of swerers: (The Conversion of Swearers)
Stephen Hawes
A passionate divine lamentation imploring humanity to abandon casual blasphemy, framing every careless oath as a fresh and agonizing wound inflicted upon the body of Christ.
The Cost of Living Among Wage-Earners: Fall River, Massachusetts, October, 1919, Research Report Number 22, November, 1919
National Industrial Conference Board
This report provides a meticulous, data-driven snapshot of the economic pressures facing industrial families in post-World War I Massachusetts. It serves as a stark baseline for understanding the material reality of the working class in 1919.
The Day of the Dog
George Barr McCutcheon
Trapped on a barn beam by a ferocious bulldog, a Chicago lawyer and his wealthy client forge an unexpected romance while dodging corrupt relatives across rural Illinois.
The Emperor
Georg Ebers
A crumbling ancient empire and the quiet persistence of everyday duty collide in Georg Ebers's classic historical novel set against the sunlit harbor of Alexandria.
The Esperantist, Vol. 1, No. 1
Unknown
Hope serves as the guiding keynote for an emerging global movement determined to unite nations through a simple, neutral auxiliary tongue.
The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 19, March 18, 1897: A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
Various
The spring of 1897 brings momentous changes to Washington, tragic unrest to Cuba, and fierce battles across distant islands as a young nation watches its place in a turbulent world.
The immortal flame
Marie Bjelke Petersen
Fleeing to a wild Australian coast to protect her honor, a stunning young woman finds herself caught between a dangerous married nobleman and the cousin who shields her name.
The Mothers Of Honoré: From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899
Mary Hartwell Catherwood
A young man and a girl, both burdened by the erratic romantic lives of their elders, find their own long-standing friendship tested by the looming pressure of marriage and the sudden, distant call of the Spanish-American War.
The Naughty Man
Frank Chapman Bliss
An octogenarian millionaire shocks Gotham society by marrying a blooming widow, outwitting his fortune-hunting heirs through legal mastery and a magnanimous will.
The night of no moon
H. B. (Horace Bowne) Fyfe
The night of no moon makes a mockery of mapping.
"The Numbering of the People": A Sermon in conjunction with the census of 1861 preached in St. Thomas' Church, Islington, on Sunday Evening, April 7
Allen, George (Vicar of St. Thomas's, Islington)
A routine national headcount transforms into an urgent spiritual mirror, urging listeners to measure their fleeting days against eternity.
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
George Meredith
Raised under a rigid scientific system designed to shield him from vice, a young English heir instead plunges into a transcendent, secret romance that collides with his father's unyielding dogmas.
The Revolt: A Play In One Act
Ellis Parker Butler
At an academy designed to teach young ladies proper wifely submission, a bitter servant and a secret suffragette spy instead inspire a hilarious, short-lived pirate rebellion against the tyranny of men.
The World Beyond
Ray Cummings
Men who can change their stature stride through a pastoral realm beyond the stars, where a grandson must battle a maddened rival.
"To Invade New York...."
Irwin Lewis
When every traffic light in Manhattan freezes green and oversized tokens jam the turnstiles, a mild Roman history professor realizes an absurd conspiracy to conquer America is actually unfolding.
You can't scare me!
Henry Farrell
Toffee helps Marc Pillsworth escape his subconscious mind when his advertising agency, jealous wife, and a murderous former secretary turn his reality upside down.
A brief narrative of the life of Mrs. Adele M. Jewel (being deaf and dumb)
Adele M. Jewel
Navigating a silent world with fierce wonder and deep faith, a nineteenth-century woman shares her remarkable journey of loss, travel, and hard-won survival.
A Correct Account of the Horrible Occurrence Which Took Place at a Public-House in St. James's Market: In Which It Was Discovered That the Right Rev. Father in God the Bishop of Clogher, Lately Transferred From the Bishopric of Ferns, Was a Principal Actor With a Common Soldier! To the Disgrace Not Only of the Cloth, to Which He Was Attached, and as a Commissioner of the Board of Education, and a Dictator of Public Morals, but as a Member of That Nation Which Gave Him Birth!
Anonymous
An elderly church leader and a private soldier are discovered together in a London public-house back room, igniting a public scandal and exposing the deep hypocrisy of the press and the establishment.
A Lent in earnest
Lucy Ellen Guernsey
A quiet, reflective guide through the forty days of Lent offers solace to the secluded and a structured path to spiritual renewal.
A Romance of Youth
François Coppée
A lonely Parisian boy grows up amidst shabby boarding-school routine, devoted neighbors, and a grieving father falling prey to the demon absinthe.