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The World's Great Sermons, Volume 09: Cuyler to Van Dyke
Unknown
A series of powerful voices wrestles with the weight of existence, offering a steady anchor for the human spirit across changing times.
Tragedies of sex
Frank Wedekind
A youth’s raw, suppressed vitality clashes with a cold, unyielding society, unleashing a chain reaction of tragedy and ruin.
Weeds
Edith Summers Kelley
A poignant tale of rural life in Kentucky, where the struggles of farm families are as persistent as the weeds in their fields.
Whittier-land: A Handbook of North Essex, Containing Many Anecdotes of and Poems by John Greenleaf Whittier Never Before Collected
Samuel T. (Samuel Thomas) Pickard
A quiet New England landscape comes alive through the memory of its most devoted poet, bridging the distance between rural heritage and literary legacy.
Why we are at war
Woodrow Wilson
A nation shifts from reluctant neutrality to total war, tracing the solemn intellectual and political journey of a president forced to abandon his hopes for international arbitration.
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents. Volume 7, part 2: Rutherford B. Hayes
Unknown
To step inside these official papers is to observe the immense, tedious machinery of nineteenth-century American governance at work, where high constitutional battles collide with itemized ledger entries.
A History of Greek Art: With an Introductory Chapter on Art in Egypt and Mesopotamia
F. B. (Frank Bigelow) Tarbell
A marble block holds the ideal human form, waiting only for an eye trained enough to see it and a hand steady enough to carve it away.
A Little Garrison: A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day
Fritz Oswald Bilse
A gripping tale of honor, scandal, and redemption within the ranks of the German army, revealing the complexities of military life and human nature.
An Address to Men of Science: Calling Upon Them to Stand Forward and Vindicate the Truth
Richard Carlile
A call to arms for scientists to challenge superstition and religious dogma, advocating for a rational and enlightened society.
An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744)
Corbyn Morris
A rigorous mid-eighteenth-century attempt to categorize the mechanics of comedy shows how distinct rhetorical devices shape human laughter and literary craft.
An introduction to the theory of value
William Smart
Price reflects human desire bounded by scarcity, not the inherent work required to bring a commodity to market.
Ancient history from the monuments: Greek cities & islands of Asia Minor
W. S. W. (William Sandys Wright) Vaux
Ancient archaeological remains across Asia Minor illuminate how classical Greek colonies, local Anatolian kingdoms, and early Christian communities shaped the Mediterranean world.
Aunt Fanny's Story-Book for Little Boys and Girls
Aunt Fanny
Childhood unfolds as a series of small, domestic dramas where giant fears, sudden mishaps, and moral choices shape the everyday world of little boys and girls.
Base-ball
John Montgomery Ward
Underneath the modern pageantry of America’s summer pastime lies a rigorous craft built on physical discipline, strategic mind games, and evolving administrative order.
Ben Pepper
Margaret Sidney
A quiet twelve-year-old boy shoulders the heavy emotional and practical burdens of his extended household, quietly steadying every crisis while everyone else gets the credit.
Best Stories of the 1914 European War
Various
Fleeing Belgian civilians, battered French infantry, and stoic British troops converge in a raw collection of dispatches capturing the terrifying opening months of the Great War.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Various
A vibrant miscellany of nineteen-century literature, science, and political rhetoric captures the intellectual currents of Victorian Britain.
Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2
Bonnycastle, Richard Henry, Sir
An empire's edge comes alive through the eyes of a military surveyor charting a wild, contested land.
Canada in Flanders, Volume III
Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir
A brutal, meticulously recorded chronicle of Canadian soldiers enduring the mud and artillery of the Somme in 1916. It captures modern industrial warfare at its most ruthless and precise.
Cathedral Cities of France
Marshall, Herbert, R. W. S.
A cathedral's towering silhouette, rising high above narrow medieval streets or rolling riverbanks, captures centuries of French art, architecture, and civic life.
Coca and Cocaine
William Martindale
A meticulous survey of a South American leaf turns into a breakthrough in modern medicine, tracing how a forgotten indigenous staple became a premier surgical anesthetic.
Come Rack! Come Rope!
Robert Hugh Benson
In the shadow of Elizabeth I’s anti-Catholic statutes, a young Derbyshire couple chooses between their devotion to each other and the deadly calling of an outlawed faith.
Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3), Essay 1: On Popular Culture
John Morley
Cultivating the human intellect requires a disciplined commitment to sound reasoning, historical perspective, and accessible learning for all.
Deep-Sea Plunderings
Frank Thomas Bullen
A collection of twenty-four short stories and sketches of life on the high seas, combining raw maritime violence, weird supernatural occurrences, and deep oceanic natural history.
Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations
A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
A comprehensive exploration of the ancient history of Israel and its neighboring nations, shedding light on the cultural, political, and religious developments of the region.
Elster's Folly: A Novel
Wood, Henry, Mrs.
A young man's lack of moral backbone slowly entangles two women and several families in a quiet English village in years of legal and emotional ruin.
Essays from 'The Guardian'
Walter Pater
Clear, refined literary appraisal reveals how regional passions, poetic form, and philosophical devotion illuminate nineteenth-century English and French writing.
Evening Round-Up: More Good Stuff Like Pep
William Crosbie Hunter
To wake with courage and sleep with a clear mind, one must learn to quiet unnecessary fears, value home over status, and build daily habits of good cheer.
Experiments in Government and the Essentials of the Constitution
Elihu Root
Constitutional order rests on collective self-restraint, protecting individual liberty against the temporary impulses of passionate majorities.
Fathers of Biology
Charles McRae
Centuries of medical advancement rest upon a chain of keen observers who slowly pried biological truth away from ancient superstition and dogma.
Fighting the Boche Underground
H. D. (Harry Davis) Trounce
A firsthand account of the perilous and innovative underground warfare against the Germans during World War I.
Five O'Clock Tea: Farce
William Dean Howells
A snowy afternoon, an over-full parlor, and a relentless suitor turn a simple tea party into a high-stakes duel of wits.
From a Girl's Point of View
Lilian Bell
A sharp, humorous broadside against male ignorance and social hypocrisy, this 1890s feminist essay collection anatomizes the absurdities of romantic courtship and the quiet genius of the modern woman.
George Washington Birthplace National Monument, Virginia
J. Paul Hudson
A tidewater plantation evolves across three centuries from a 1650s wilderness settlement into a neglected ruination, before transforming into a carefully preserved national historic shrine.
Grey Town
Gerald R. (Gerald Robert) Baldwin
A turbulent coastal river and an idealistic Irish-Australian community form the backdrop for a story of ambition, lost faith, and redemption.
Handel
Thomas Tapper
A stubborn boy's secret attic practice yields a brilliant musical career, spanning royal courts, grand English halls, and the enduring creation of legendary sacred compositions.
Harper's indoor book for boys
Joseph H. (Joseph Henry) Adams
Leisure hours indoors need not be idle when a well-ordered workbench, simple tools, and a spirit of useful craft turn winter evenings into occasions for quiet, practical achievement.
Harper's Round Table, July 2, 1895
Various
A vibrant snapshot of late-nineteenth-century American youth culture captures a world of patriotic Civil War historical fiction, high-stakes wilderness survival, home-farm comedy, light theatrical satire, and vigorous interscholastic athletics.
Humoresque: A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It
Fannie Hurst
A child's prodigy bow meets the roar of a Manhattan crowd, while around the corner a young woman stumbles into the sharp, blinding light of the city's underbelly.
Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Anatole France
Anatole France
The vast, varied bibliography of Anatole France offers a window into a mind that treats human history as a sequence of recurring ironies. These works, ranging from satirical novels to delicate fairy tales, remain essential for their wit, skepticism, and humanistic grace.
International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850
Various
A 1850 periodical gathers the world’s arts, science, and history into a lively kaleidoscope of cultural debate and vivid storytelling.
Into the Primitive
Robert Ames Bennet
Survival is a raw, stripping process that reveals the fundamental character of those forced into it. This narrative tracks the brutal transition from civilized social roles to the harsh, unforgiving demands of the natural world.
J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 5
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
A chilling collection of ghostly tales that will haunt your imagination long after reading.
Jimmie Higgins
Upton Sinclair
A pacifist's journey through war, revolution, and personal turmoil in the early 20th century.
Josephus
Norman Bentwich
Trapped between a collapsing homeland and an irresistible empire, a Jewish priest turns court historian to survive the ruin of his world.
Kaffir folk-lore
George McCall Theal
A vivid collection of Xhosa oral traditions captures a world where beasts outwit men, maidens break enchantments, and tricksters outrun their own greedy schemes.
Labour policy—false and true
Lynden Livingston Macassey
Post-war British industrial stability requires dismantling the doctrine of socialist nationalization and building a practical partnership between employers and trade unions.
Lost Diaries
Maurice Baring
What if history's greatest figures left diaries recording only their most mundane, petty, and deeply human moments?