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Drawings in pen & pencil from Dürer's day to ours, with notes and appreciations
George Sheringham
An art lover explores how simple lines on paper capture human vision across centuries. This study surveys draughtsmanship from Renaissance masters to modern illustrators, championing catholicity of appreciation over narrow artistic prejudices.
English Illustration 'The Sixties': 1855-70: With Numerous Illustrations by Ford Madox Brown: A. Boyd Houghton: Arthur Hughes: Charles Keene: M. J. Lawless: Lord Leighton, P.R.A.: Sir J. E. Millais, P.R.A.: G. Du Maurier: J. W. North, R.A.: G. J. Pinwell: Dante Gabriel Rossetti: W. Small: Frederick Sandys: J. Mcneill Whistler: Frederick Walker, A.R.A.: and Others
Gleeson White
A meticulous survey of mid-Victorian wood-engraving reveals how a brief fifteen-year flourish of black-and-white draughtsmanship permanently reshaped British book art.
Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I
John L. Stephens
A intrepid expedition through nineteenth-century Central America reveals the crumbling stone monuments of a forgotten civilization buried deep within the jungle.
Palace and Hovel
Daniel Joseph Kirwan
An American visitor tours Victorian London, capturing both its glittering royal halls and its squalid, dark underground haunts.
Taxonomy of the Chipmunks, Eutamias quadrivittatus and Eutamias umbrinus
John A. White
Beneath the subtle pelage variations of Western chipmunks lies a precise anatomical boundary dividing two distinct species across the Rocky Mountains.
The Boy Travellers in The Russian Empire: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with Accounts of a Tour across Siberia, Voyages on the Amoor, Volga, and Other Rivers, a Visit to Central Asia, Travels among the Exiles, and a Historical Sketch of the Empire from Its Foundation to the Present Time
Thomas Wallace Knox
Crossing vast steppes and historic cities, two young Americans explore the sprawling Russian realm through industrial salt mines, imperial palaces, and distant Siberian outposts.
The Capitals of Spanish America
William Eleroy Curtis
A journey across late nineteenth-century Latin America reveals a landscape of vibrant cities, fierce political rivalries, ancient customs, and staggering modern transformation waiting to be understood by the world.
The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 5 (of 5)
Unknown
In standardizing centuries of oral tradition, Francis James Child preserved a sprawling, raw world of lovers, outlaws, spectres, and deceivers. This volume brings that vast monument to a definitive close.
The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Proverbs
Robert F. (Robert Forman) Horton
A guide to moral choices, practical living, and spiritual insight waiting in ancient verses.
The German Classics, v. 20: Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English
Unknown
A world of psychological precision, tragic longing, and theatrical audacity unfolds across this monumental twentieth volume of turn-of-the-century German literature.
The hidden staircase
Carolyn Keene
When a sinister visitor threatens her father’s legal practice and a pair of elderly sisters find their decaying estate haunted by strange noises and hidden threats, teenager Nancy Drew steps forward to untangle the web of intimidation.
The History of England, Volume I: From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688
David Hume
A nation's political liberties and social customs are forged not by grand design, but through centuries of conquest, brutal conflict, and the slow moderation of autocratic power.
The Living Animals of the World, Volume 2 (of 2): A Popular Natural History
Unknown
In a sprawling sweep across the animal kingdom, this compendium presents a vivid, clear-eyed ledger of the world’s backboned and jointed creatures, capturing their survival strategies, structural adaptations, and fragile habitats.
The pragmatic theory of truth as developed by Peirce, James, and Dewey
Denton Loring Geyer
A comprehensive analysis of the pragmatic theory of truth, tracing its development through Peirce, James, and Dewey.
The Romance of Polar Exploration: Interesting Descriptions of Arctic and Antarctic Adventure from the Earliest Time to the Voyage of the "Discovery"
G. Firth Scott
A relentless urge drives humankind toward the frozen margins of the earth, where survival depends entirely on fortitude, mechanical ingeniousness, and sheer luck.
The Rose and the Ring
William Makepeace Thackeray
A satirical fairy tale that playfully dismantles the tropes of royalty and romance, this story finds magic in the most unexpected places. It remains a classic for its irreverent wit and its charming, self-aware approach to storytelling.
Twice-Told Tales
Nathaniel Hawthorne
This collection of short stories captures the shadows of the American past, exploring the moral burdens of history, the fragility of vanity, and the heavy weight of secret sins.
A short introduction to English grammar
Robert Lowth
Correct usage in English springs from systematic rules rather than arbitrary custom, yet the finest writers routinely violate the very principles they profess to follow.
Abbe Mouret's Transgression
Émile Zola
A young priest in a sun-scorched French village loses his memory to fever, experiences an earthly Eden through a doomed love affair, and must face the brutal consequences of returning to his vows.
Arts and crafts in the Middle Ages
Julia de Wolf Addison
Medieval artisans turned necessity into beauty, transforming raw metals, stone, thread, and vellum into sacred and domestic treasures through painstaking physical mastery.
Common Science
Carleton Washburne
Everyday phenomena—from gurgling milk cartons to the chill of evaporating liquid—conceal the fundamental physical laws governing the universe.
Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Various Authors on Napoleon Bonaparte
Various
A comprehensive master directory collects the vast, fragmented biographical and historical literature surrounding France’s most legendary emperor, mapping his rise from Corsican lieutenant to master of Europe and final exile.
Public and Private Life of Animals: Adapted from the French of Balzac, Droz, Jules Janin, E. Lemoine, A. De Musset, Georges Sand, &c
Unknown
A satirical assembly of beasts convenes to cast off the tyranny of humankind, establishing a grand parliament where creatures of every species air their grievances and recount their personal histories.
Studies in Logical Theory
John Dewey
When human thought confronts an immediate practical crisis, it does not copy a static reality; it transforms a fragmented situation into an organized, purposeful environment.
The Catholic World, Vol. 15, Nos. 85-90, April 1872-September 1872: A Monthly Magazine
Various
Through a rich tapestry of serialized fiction, theological defense, and historical reflection, this nineteenth-century periodical constructs a steadfast Catholic response to a rapidly modernizing world.
The Gentle Grafter
O. Henry
A couple of smooth-talking confidence men cross the American landscape, relying on quick wits and human nature to turn quick, illegal profits.
The Land of Contrasts: A Briton's View of His American Kin
James F. (James Fullarton) Muirhead
A keen British observer crisscrosses nineties America, capturing the vibrant friction between democratic ideals, everyday absurdities, and the surprisingly refined social landscape of a rising global power.
The Mafulu: Mountain People of British New Guinea
Robert Wood Williamson
An isolated mountain community navigates survival, social hierarchy, and elaborate ancestral rituals deep within the rugged rainforest interior of early twentieth-century New Guinea.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, Vol. III (of VI), "The Eternal Quest": The First Complete and Unabridged English Translation, Illustrated with Old Engravings
Giacomo Casanova
A rogue’s fortune is made on cold audacity, but sustained by the charming illusion that he is the one being taken for a ride.
The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates
Xenophon
Philosophical inquiry comes alive through daily human interactions when wisdom abandons high abstraction to fix broken lives, navigate political duty, and prepare a noble mind for death.
The Works of "Fiona Macleod", Volume IV
Unknown
A voyage through the misty landscapes of the Scottish Hebrides becomes an inner pilgrimage of mystical visions, ancient Gaelic folklore, and spiritual rebirth.
Very good, Jeeves
P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
A valet's quiet brilliance repeatedly saves his well-meaning, aristocratic employer from social disaster, terrible engagements, and wrathful relatives across a series of hilarious scrapes.
A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages
Henry Charles Lea
To govern the minds and souls of men, medieval Christendom forged a judicial engine that redefined law, heresy, and human conscience.
Ancient Art and Ritual
Jane Ellen Harrison
Art begins not as a passive copy of the world, but as an active, collective impulse to shape reality through shared emotion.
Bacon is Shake-Speare: Together with a Reprint of Bacon's Promus of Formularies and Elegancies
Durning-Lawrence, Edwin, Sir
A unyielding polemic against traditional literary history, this work combines detailed archival analysis, cryptographic decipherment, and early modern manuscripts to argue that Francis Bacon secretly authored the plays attributed to William Shakespeare.
Fifth Avenue
Arthur Bartlett Maurice
A grand arterial thoroughfare transforms from a muddy rural road into the glittering, high-society heartland of Gilded Age America.
First love, and other stories
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Awakening to the dizzying heights and sudden infatuations of youth, a young man discovers that love pays no heed to propriety or peace.
Four Weird Tales
Algernon Blackwood
A weary office clerk rediscovers his ancient soul, and a traveler in Egypt witnesses the terrible price of summoning forgotten gods. Across four eerie tales, the invisible world presses relentlessly against the fragile boundaries of everyday human life.
Heads and tales
Unknown
Animals and humans have shared space for centuries, but their stranger, sweeter, and more comical intersections are rarely recorded in official histories.
Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume 2 (of 2): Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs
Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
A lone woman rides through the high passes of nineteenth-century Persia and Ottoman Kurdistan, recording with unyielding stamina and cool precision a rugged world of mountain strongholds and ancient Christian enclaves.
Parents and children
Charlotte M. (Charlotte Maria) Mason
Spiritual depth and physical habit meet in this timeless Victorian study of parentage, where guiding a child's character is framed as both a divine trust and an exact daily science.
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
David Graham Phillips
A young woman casts off her family's shame and the brutal limits of small-town hypocrisy, choosing the perilous freedom of the road, the factory, and the stage over a life surrendered to other people's terms.
The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660: Narrated in Connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time
David Masson
A blind Latin Secretary dictates political pamphlets in defense of a failing republic, while the military dictatorship around him collapses into royalist restoration. Beneath the grand political machinery of seventeenth-century England runs the intimate, unyielding record of a scholar's quiet labor.
The Magic of the Horse-shoe, with other folk-lore notes
Robert Means Lawrence
A detailed comparative examination reveals how ancient pagan symbols, bodily functions, and ordinary domestic materials evolved into the modern world's most enduring protective charms and superstitious habits.
The Opera: A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory
R. A. (Richard Alexander) Streatfeild
Opera emerged in early seventeenth-century Italy, crossed the Alps into Germany, and transformed from courtly experiments into a global dramatic movement shaped by shifting artistic ideals, theatrical revolutions, and passionate rivalries.
The Story of Lewis Carroll: Told for Young People by the Real Alice in Wonderland
Isa Bowman
A gentle, intimate portrait of a legendary author, written by a child he once took under his wing, revealing the quiet, whimsical man behind the famous name.
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The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 2 of 9]
William Shakespeare
Five distinct worlds of desire, deception, and renewal collide across these early plays, where quick-witted heroines and foolish suitors discover how easily human hearts are won, lost, and reclaimed.
Hebrew Literature
Unknown
Through a meticulous assembly of rabbinic law, mystical arcanum, and liturgical song, this compilation unveils the intellectual and spiritual foundations of the Jewish tradition.