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Si Klegg, Book 6: Si and Shorty, with Their Boy Recruits, Enter on the Atlanta Campaign
John McElroy
On the eve of the Atlanta Campaign, two seasoned Union veterans take on a squad of raw Indiana recruits, determined to forge green boys into hardened soldiers while navigating the absurdities, perils, and heartbreaks of life on the march.
Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works
Edward S. (Edward Singleton) Holden
Driven by relentless curiosity, a Hanoverian oboist flees military life, settles in England, and methodically reshapes our understanding of the universe through manual labor, optical mastery, and unmatched patience.
The Christian Life: Its Course, Its Hindrances, and Its Helps
Thomas Arnold
God demands an active, thinking faith that transforms daily life, matures the individual, and resists the rigid yokes of human tradition.
The historians' history of the world in twenty-five volumes, volume 03
Unknown
Ancient Greece comes to life through a grand tapestry of heroic conquests, political revolutions, and the tragic internal struggles of its golden age.
The History of the Crusades (vol. 1 of 3)
J. Fr. (Joseph Fr.) Michaud
Driven by religious fervor and political ambition, thousands of Western Europeans march across oceans and deserts to reclaim the holy sites of Palestine, reshaping the medieval world through monumental triumph and devastating tragedy.
The Life of Sir Isaac Newton
David Brewster
A quiet Lincolnshire farm boy rises to dismantle ancient theories of light, motion, and gravity, laying the mathematical groundwork for modern physics while navigating fierce academic rivalries and personal isolated turmoil.
The Light of Egypt
Thomas H. Burgoyne
A soaring synthesis of occultism, astrology, and spiritual evolution, this work reinterprets the movements of the cosmos as a map for the soul's journey from divine origin to material incarnation.
Thomas Carlyle
John Nichol
An uncompromising thinker carved out a fierce literary path through sheer conviction, leaving an indelible mark on Victorian thought despite lifelong personal and philosophical friction.
Twice round the clock
George Augustus Sala
A nocturnal stroll through mid-century London reveals a sprawling, clamorous metropolis where high fashion and desperate poverty jostle side by side across every hour of the day.
When the movies were young
Linda Arvidson
In a landscape of makeshift studios and nickelodeons, a small troupe of theater castoffs stumbles blindly into shaping the modern motion picture industry.
A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder
James De Mille
A drifting yacht, a sealed cylinder, and a lost world at the bottom of the globe where death is worshipped as the ultimate joy.
An Account of the Life and Writings of S. Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons and Martyr: Intended to Illustrate the Doctrine, Discipline, Practices, and History of the Church, and the Tenets and Practices of the Gnostic Heretics During the Second Century
James Beaven
A second-century bishop in Gaul confronts a wave of complex, secretive heresies, carefully detailing their obscure doctrines to protect his flock and establish orthodox Christian practice.
Aubrey Beardsley
Robert Baldwin Ross
A delicate prodigy blazes through late-Victorian London, transforming black-and-white illustration into an explosive cultural phenomenon before dying at twenty-five.
Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1
Charles Lever
A spirited youth trades the chaotic debts and reckless hunts of western Ireland for the thunder of horse artillery in the Peninsular War, chasing glory and a distant love across bloody battlefields.
Diet and Health
Lulu Hunt Peters
To master one's weight, one must master the simple mathematics of the calorie. This witty, early twentieth-century guide blends playful banter with practical arithmetic, transforming food science into an accessible tool for everyday self-control.
Ethics
Benedictus de Spinoza
Human emotions can be systematically understood and redirected through reason, transforming passive suffering into enduring mental freedom and an intellectual love of God.
History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 6 (of 12)
G. (Gaston) Maspero
A chronicle of rising and falling powers reveals how conquest, art, and belief shaped the ancient Near East.
How to Tie Flies
Ellery Clark Gregg
Clear, practical instruction turns raw fur, feathers, and thread into effective fishing lures. E. C. Gregg details the exact mechanics required to construct artificial flies that consistently fool fish.
Increasing Human Efficiency in Business: A Contribution to the Psychology of Business
Walter Dill Scott
Human capacity remains the one unharnessed frontier in a corporate world transformed by technology and efficiency, accessible only when managers learn to cultivate the mental habits and intrinsic motivations of their workforce.
It Might Have Been: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot
Emily Sarah Holt
A family uprooted from the north of England arrives in Jacobean London just as Queen Elizabeth dies, only to find their personal fortunes tangled with a deadly underground treason.
Life and Habit
Samuel Butler
An insightful inquiry into how living organisms repeat complex bodily functions without thought, proposing that instinct and inherited anatomy are simply deep-seated memory.
Notes on the New Testament, Explanatory and Practical: Revelation
Albert Barnes
A rigorous, historically grounded line-by-line decoding of John’s Apocalypse reveals a grand prophecy mapping the suffering, preservation, and ultimate earthly triumph of the Christian faith.
Old Granny Fox
Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess
When harsh winter freezes the forest, a proud young fox and his wise grandmother must pit their wits against relentless hunger, watchful hounds, and human traps to survive.
The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature
Frederic Taber Cooper
An unadorned lens on a violent century, political caricature strips statesmen of their dignity and reveals how public opinion was actually manufactured, manipulated, and felt.
The House of the White Shadows
B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon
Driven by an uncompromising thirst for legal justice, a master advocate secures the acquittal of a brutal murderer in Geneva, only to find his own household unraveling under the ominous weight of domestic secrets, guilt, and moral reckoning.
The money-spider
William Le Queux
When money troubles and dark secrets push a Nordic harbour-master to the edge, an unexpected Russian romance sets off a deadly chain of jealousy, murder, and high-stakes intrigue across the Arctic and London.
The Return of the Soldier
Rebecca West
A soldier returns from the front lines of the Great War with his memory fractured, casting aside his affluent, modern life for a past he considers his only reality. He is a man who has retreated into the sanctity of a first love, choosing the purity of a distant memory over the harsh, present-day demands of his…
The Western World: Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North
William Henry Giles Kingston
A sweeping survey of the Americas from frozen lakes to tropical swamps, this nineteenth-century natural history balances vivid wilderness adventures with clear descriptions of the continent's flora, fauna, and indigenous peoples.
The World's Greatest Books
Unknown
Men across thirty-five centuries speak their own lives, revealing how power, faith, ambition, and vanity shape the human spirit.
Women As Sex Vendors
R. B. (Roscoe Burdette) Tobias
A class of human beings holding a unique, indispensable monopoly rarely turns revolutionary against the very structure that protects its preferred status.
World's End: A Story in Three Books
Richard Jefferies
Centuries of greed, fraud, and secret identities collide when a sprawling industrial fortune built on stolen land tears apart two vulnerable lovers.
A Brief History of Forestry.: In Europe, the United States and Other Countries
B. E. (Bernhard Eduard) Fernow
A meticulous record of human necessity, political ambition, and scientific ingenuity wrestling with the systematic depletion of global forests across continents and centuries.
A lovers' tale
Maurice Hewlett
An obsessive Icelandic poet falls in love with a striking woman, yet repeatedly sabotages his own chances of marrying her because he prefers his idealized, poetic vision of desire to the reality of domestic life.
Brittany
S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
Granite spires, holy wells, and enduring Celtic traditions define a rugged peninsula where centuries of faith and folklore still shape the landscape.
Czechoslovak Fairy Tales
Parker Fillmore
A world of towering glass hills, cunning water-sprites, and enchanted forests comes vibrantly to life in these retold Slavic tales, where peasant simplicity regularly triumphs over dark witchcraft and royal arrogance.
Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Cornelius Tacitus
Cornelius Tacitus
A structured index charts the vast historical, rhetorical, and ethnographic writings of Cornelius Tacitus, mapping the political shifts and moral decay of ancient Rome.
North America
Anthony Trollope
Crossing the Atlantic at the height of the American Civil War, an observant English novelist sets out to measure the social, political, and daily realities of a nation torn in two.
Problems in Greek history
J. P. (John Pentland) Mahaffy
Ancient Greek history is often viewed through idealizing lenses, but its true lessons lie in the recurring friction between democratic ideals, aristocratic traditions, despotic rulers, and external empires.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 30, 1917
Various
A satirical journal exposes the anxieties, absurdities, and domestic trials of a nation living through the pressures of the First World War.
The Adventures of Peter Cottontail
Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess
A foolish rabbit with a ordinary name tries to change his image, outwit a hungry fox, and sleep away the cold season.
The Contemporary Review, January 1883: Vol 43, No. 1
Various
A varied collection of nineteenth-century intellectual essays wrestles with the grand political, social, and spiritual transformations sweeping across Europe and the British Empire.
The life and times of the Rev. John Wesley, M.A., founder of the Methodists. Vol. 2 (of 3)
L. (Luke) Tyerman
A rigorous documentary account of Methodism’s middle years captures the movement’s chaotic expansion, bitter doctrinal fractures, and fierce social opposition from the late 1740s through the late 1760s.
The Real Thing and Other Tales
Henry James
A delicate, ironic exploration of class, ambition, and the elusive nature of art, where refined appearances continually collide with harsher human truths.
The Road to Independence: Virginia 1763-1783
Virginia. History, Government, and Geography Service
Driven by financial pressures after the French and Indian War, imperial ministers attempt to tax the American colonies, sparking a long political crisis. Virginia's political leaders unite to defend their self-governance, eventually forging a new nation through revolutionary war.
Winning His Spurs: A Tale of the Crusades
G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
A youth of mixed Norman and Saxon blood rises from a knight's page to an earl through courage in battle, surviving cross-country ambushes, Saracen captivity, and dark political treasons during the Third Crusade.
An Open Letter on Translating
Martin Luther
A blunt, brilliant defense of idiomatic translation shows how common speech breathes life into sacred texts while fiercely shielding justification by faith from papal critics.
Around the World in Eighty Days. Junior Deluxe Edition
Jules Verne
Driven by an offhand gentleman's wager, a metronomic Englishman attempts to circle the globe in eighty days, risking his entire fortune against time, nature, and a relentless police detective.
Astronomy of To-day: A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language
Cecil Goodrich Julius Dolmage
Unlocking the mysteries of the heavens requires no complex equations, only the ordinary, straightforward logic applied to daily life.