The whole shelf
All free summaries — page 106
34,093 public-domain books, summarised. Page 106 of 711.
The black tulip
Alexandre Dumas
A gentle Dutch florist finds himself swept from his tranquil garden into a high-stakes conspiracy of political murder, imprisonment, and the obsessive quest to cultivate a miraculous black tulip.
The Goody-Naughty Book
Sarah Cory Rippey
A collection of short, illustrative moral tales uses a clever physical format to contrast good behavior with poor choices in early childhood.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth": Volume 11, Slice 4
Various
A sweeping, meticulous record of human knowledge, this slice of the historic eleventh edition opens a window onto an era when science, empire, and industrial ambition reached their zenith.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873
Various
A sweeping 19th-century anthology links Algerian mountain fortresses, Alpine post-coaches, American industrial foundries, and romantic Scottish islands into a single portrait of global culture.
![Cover of The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Vol. 2 [of 2]](https://cdn.myebooksbuy.com/c/the-prose-works-of-percy-bysshe-shelley-vol-2-of-2-percy-bysshe-shelley.webp)
The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Vol. 2 [of 2]
Percy Bysshe Shelley
A profound faith in human potential drives these pages, where radiant idealism confronts the harsh political realities of an age bound to tyranny.
The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher: Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician
Unknown
Ancient lore meets practical household medicine in a manual where bodily fluids, celestial alignments, and domestic remedies converge.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward": Volume 10, Slice 6
Various
Human knowledge, meticulously classified, unfolds through an extraordinary sequence of botanical studies, historical biographies, legal codes, and structural engineering principles.
Great leaders: Historic portraits from the great historians
Unknown
A rich gallery of historical figures comes to life through short, vivid character studies crafted by master chroniclers. These selected prose portraits illuminate the human drives, flaws, and genius behind world-shaping events.
Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Bram Stoker
Bram Stoker
A structural blueprint mapping out the literary corpus of a master of gothic horror and mystery, tracing thematic lines across terrifying tales and historical investigations.
Lancashire Folk-lore: Illustrative of the Superstitious Beliefs and Practices, Local Customs and Usages of the People of the County Palatine
John Harland
Highland boggarts, domestic charms, and ancient rituals animate a landscape where pagan memory and Christian belief collide.
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
Stephen Crane
A child raised amidst violent brawls and tenement chaos reaches for a touch of elegance, only to find that the city around her rewards neither innocence nor hope.
The Ghosts, and Other Lectures
Robert Green Ingersoll
A fierce defense of individual liberty and human reason, this collection dismantles religious orthodoxies to argue that true moral progress belongs to the brave, curious, and compassionate.
The Stones of Venice, Volume 3 (of 3)
John Ruskin
Venetian architecture collapses when intellectual pride replaces human emotion, turning living stone into a cold expression of aristocratic vanity and mechanical rule.
The Task, and Other Poems
William Cowper
A quiet retreat in the English countryside yields profound reflections on nature, domestic peace, and the troubling noise of human ambition.
The Power of Concentration
William Walker Atkinson
A disciplined mind unlocks extraordinary human potential through targeted effort, deep poise, and alignment with universal laws.
The women novelists
R. Brimley (Reginald Brimley) Johnson
An insightful survey of creative self-discovery traces how female authors shifted from mimicking male literary traditions to carving out their own distinct, enduring art.
Delsarte System of Oratory
Delaumosne
An expressive body is not an accident of nature, but the precise instrument of a readable soul.
Jurisprudence
Salmond, John W. (John William), Sir
A steady, comprehensive examination of the mechanics of law, revealing how abstract principles of justice transform into the concrete rules that govern human societies.
L'Assommoir
Émile Zola
A Parisian laundress tries to build a decent life with her hard-earned shop, but relentless poverty, bad choices, and alcohol gradually destroy her dreams.
The Decameron, Volume I
Giovanni Boccaccio
Escape is the only logic in a dying world, yet the stories we tell while fleeing are what keep us human.
The First Buckinghamshire Battalion 1914-1919
P. L. (Philip Lowndes) Wright
A meticulous, authentic chronicle of front-line service captures the day-to-day reality of an infantry unit navigating the mud of France and the rugged peaks of Italy.
The History of Modern Painting, Volume 3 (of 4): Revised edition continued by the author to the end of the XIX century
Richard Muther
The evolution of nineteenth-century European art is a relentless battle against theatrical conventions. Painters abandon stage-managed historical anecdotes to capture the raw emotional truth of peasants, the fleeting pulse of light, and serene architectural harmony.
The Life of Charlotte Brontë
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Surviving a bleak isolation on the Yorkshire moors, a clergyman's daughter transforms domestic hardship and profound personal bereavement into some of the nineteenth century’s most vital, fiery literature.
The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2
Rupert Hughes
Genius on the stage rarely guarantees wisdom in the bedroom.
A Modern Utopia
H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
A traveler wandering through the Swiss Alps steps into an identical parallel world where humanity has organized a sane, planetary society.
An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal: And of the Territories Annexed to this Dominion by the House of Gorkha
Francis Hamilton
A rigorous, multi-layered survey of the Himalayan borderlands offers an unvarnished window into a period of dramatic political expansion and cultural consolidation.
Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech
Edward Sapir
Human speech is not a mere suit of clothes tailored to fit human thought, but the very path that makes conceptual reasoning possible in the first place. This seminal 1921 study systematically dismantles the notion that language can be reduced to biology or simple mechanics, revealing it instead as a vast,…
Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
Mary Wollstonecraft
A mother travels through northern Europe with her infant, observing harsh rocks and quiet towns while carrying an unspoken weight of personal heartbreak across foreign lands.
The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2)
James George Frazer
Across human civilisations, the impulse to slay the divine reveals not a rejection of the sacred, but an urgent attempt to capture, preserve, and redirect its vital power.
Theologico-Political Treatise
Benedictus de Spinoza
True piety flourishes only where thought remains unrestricted, and civil peace demands that reason and religious sentiment be disentangled from state coercion.
Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Herman Melville
Herman Melville
A single comprehensive reference point maps the structural breadth of a master author's legacy. It captures the vast architecture of a literary journey across high seas, deep philosophy, and war.
The Extermination of the American Bison
William T. (William Temple) Hornaday
Before the iron rails spanned the West, tens of millions of bison shaped the American landscape. This foundational work documents their sudden, devastating decline and makes an urgent early argument for wildlife conservation.
The True Benjamin Franklin
Sydney George Fisher
A penniless runaway eating rolls in the street grows into a philosopher who tames lightning and negotiates the birth of a nation.
A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 2 of 2: Third edition, Revised and Expanded, in two volumes
J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson
Doubt, dissent, and critical inquiry are not modern inventions; they form an unbroken, international thread running continuously alongside the history of religious dogma.
Bel Ami
Guy de Maupassant
A penniless ex-soldier in Paris discovers that a handsome face, an easy charm, and complete moral indifference are all he needs to conquer society.
Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson: Selected and Edited With an Introduction and Notes by William Lyon Phelps
Robert Louis Stevenson
A sharp intelligence watches human vulnerability, finding grace not in perfection, but in the lively persistence of ordinary life.
Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Jules Verne
Jules Verne
A master catalog charts the human impulse to traverse every corner of the terrestrial and cosmic globe, mapping out voyages across ice, air, sea, and space.
Shakspere and Montaigne: An Endeavour to Explain the Tendency of 'Hamlet' from Allusions in Contemporary Works
Jacob Feis
William Shakespeare did not write Hamlet in a philosophical vacuum, nor was the play merely a blood-soaked revenge tragedy designed to satisfy the groundlings.
The Geography of Strabo, Volume 2 (of 3): Literally Translated, with Notes
Strabo
A meticulous inventory of the ancient Mediterranean, this volume maps the cities, mountain ranges, and mythic landscapes of Greece and Asia Minor through the exacting eyes of a master geographer.
The Skylark of Space
E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith
An accidental chemical reaction sends a copper vessel shooting into the void, launching a brilliant inventor and his companions on an unprecedented journey across the cosmos.
Thoughts: Selected from the writings of favorite authors
Fabiola hospital association, Oakland, Calif.
A quiet refuge built from the finest wisdom of the ages, offering daily strength, moral clarity, and steadfast hope for any reader seeking to refine their inner life.
Index for Works of Rudyard Kipling: Hyperlinks to all Chapters of all Individual Ebooks
Rudyard Kipling
A comprehensive master map reveals the complete scope of a legendary literary career, spanning imperial outposts, high-seas adventures, ghostly encounters, and quiet Sussex historical tales.
Outlines of English and American Literature: An Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived
William J. (William Joseph) Long
A vibrant survey of English and American letters casts off academic dry rot, replacing tedious catalogs of dead dates with a fresh, living appreciation of human stories.
The best short stories of 1918, and the yearbook of the American short story
Unknown
A world at war filters through the quiet corners of daily life, where modest compromises, sudden tragedies, and ideological clashes reveal the raw temperature of American narrative art in 1918.
A Warwickshire Lad: The Story of the Boyhood of William Shakespeare
George Madden Martin
An imaginative boy growing up in sixteenth-century Stratford discovers that the world around him, from local ghost stories to forest fields, holds the raw material for a life of art.
Elizabeth, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary
Carl Küchler
An idyllic childhood in the Bavarian woods gives way to the suffocating rigidity of the Habsburg court, forging a life marked by restless wandering and profound grief.
Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays
Unknown
A canvas for brief, concentrated human drama, where every line carries the weight of a full-length play.
German Fiction
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A young man falls passionately in love with a woman betrothed to another, beginning a spiral of longing that steadily dismantles his place in everyday society.