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Old Caravan Days
Mary Hartwell Catherwood
When an elderly matriarch packs up her Ohio homestead in 1857 to move west, she transforms a simple journey into a grand, unhurried adventure across the changing American landscape.
On building a theatre: Stage construction and equipment for small theatres, schools and community
Irving Pichel
A thoughtful guide to designing performing spaces, this text strips away hollow theatrical traditions to prioritize clear sightlines, functional back-stage layouts, and expressive lighting.
Oral Tradition from the Indus: Comprised in Tales to Which Are Added Explanatory Notes
John Frederick Adolphus McNair
In a riverside Punjabi village, common villagers, clever tricksters, wandering fakirs, and imperious rulers cross paths in nineteen traditional folk stories.
Original Penny Readings: A Series of Short Sketches
George Manville Fenn
A world of working-class struggle, modest joys, and quiet domestic tragedies reveals itself through the everyday voices of Victorian London.
Our town and civic duty
Jane Eayre Fryer
The virtuous life is built upon the small, consistent acts of a good neighbor. This guide for young citizens illustrates how personal integrity and community service form the bedrock of a stable society.
Pee-wee Harris Adrift
Percy Keese Fitzhugh
A small boy loses his scout patrol, claims a drifting patch of earth, and turns an accidental river voyage into a community event.
Piccadilly: A Fragment of Contemporary Biography
Laurence Oliphant
Behind the polished bay windows of high Victorian London, a manic social reformer conducts a desperate, chaotic experiment in unmasking the hypocrisy of his own class.
Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Volume 4
Robert Bridges
Across two multi-act verse dramas, heroic action and romantic duty are stripped of simple grandeur and weighed against the quiet, stubborn sacrifices demanded by love, honor, and home.
Presidential addresses and state papers, Volume 3 (of 7)
Theodore Roosevelt
Governing a rapidly expanding industrial power demands a firm balance between absolute national strength and self-restrained moral civic duty.
Recalled to Life
Grant Allen
A terrifying flash of light, a dead body, and total amnesia start this Victorian mystery of identity, deep trauma, and hidden domestic secrets.
Reube Dare's Shad Boat: A Tale of the Tide Country
Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir
A young man buys a shad boat to pay for his blind mother's medical care, but local rivalries, mud flats, and dangerous tides turn his summer's work into a fight for survival.
Saratoga National Historical Park, New York
Francis Wilshin
A brilliantly planned wilderness campaign collapses through miscommunication and stubborn resistance, turning a remote New York plateau into the pivotal battleground of the American Revolution.
Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 6: Germany, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland, part 2
Unknown
Alpine peaks, ancient Roman ruins, and bustling summer resorts blend together in a multi-voiced journey across central and eastern Europe.
Selections from the Observator (1681-1687)
L'Estrange, Roger, Sir
When a nation fractures, words become weapons, and the printing press transforms into the primary battleground for the soul of the state.
Seven years in Vienna (August, 1907-August, 1914), a record of intrigue
Anonymous
Inside the gilded saloons and police-ringed resorts of Austria-Hungary, an anonymous insider watches an imperial power structure slide toward self-destruction.
Silverpoints
John Gray
A shimmering artifact of the 1890s Decadent movement, this collection of verse distills sensory overload, sacred devotion, and dark eroticism into jewel-like, unsettling miniatures.
Snarleyyow
Frederick Marryat
A tyrannical naval commander, a resilient cabin boy, and a surprisingly indestructible dog clash in an eighteen-century tale of maritime intrigue, smuggling, and vengeance.
Studies on Epidemic Influenza: Comprising Clinical and Laboratory Investigations
University of Pittsburgh. School of Medicine
A deadly respiratory contagion sweeps through a world unprepared for its speed, leaving medical experts scrambling to understand its transmission and mortality.
The Adventures of a Widow: A Novel
Edgar Fawcett
A young, wealthy widow attempts to build a serious intellectual salon in Gilded Age New York, only to find herself caught between shallow high society and the vanity of self-absorbed Bohemians.
The American Baron: A Novel
James De Mille
A helpless English heiress ricochets through Italy, unwittingly collecting devoted fiances at every turn, while her exhausted traveling companions fight off duels, brigands, and sheer exasperation.
The American family Robinson
D. W. (David W.) Belisle
Driven into the western wilderness by discontent, an American family faces captivity, desert hazards, and mysterious ancient ruins as they fight to survive.
The Ancient Law
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
A disgraced man wanders into a small Virginia town under an assumed name, seeking redemption through humble labor, only to learn that escaping his past requires a far deeper sacrifice.
The Blacksmith's Hammer
Eugène Sue
A sharp-edged tale of privilege, revolt, and blood under the shadow of the Sun King.
The Camp Fire Girls on Ellen's Isle
Hildegard G. Frey
A scorched June heatwave sends a band of lively friends escaping to a northern island for a summer of wilderness camping, high-spirited practical jokes, unexpected rescues, and subtle personal growth.
The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, June 1885, No. 9
Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle
A vibrant tapestry of nineteenth-century self-education, this magazine issue captures an era when ordinary citizens eagerly pursued science, literature, and practical community reform to expand their world.
The Circassian Chief: A Romance of Russia
William Henry Giles Kingston
A young noble raised in the heart of the Russian empire discovers that his true blood belongs to the wild, unconquered peaks of the Caucasus, where he must choose between imperial power and his people’s freedom.
The Cowardly Lion of Oz
Ruth Plumly Thompson
A bizarre magic trick hurls an American circus clown and an orphan into a fantastical realm, setting off a wild chain of events that threatens the peace of Oz and tests the true nature of courage.
The curse of the painted cliffs
W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle
A tough young woman in a brutal desert mining town holds out against corruption while waiting to settle a debt of honor.
The Disputed V.C.: A Tale of the Indian Mutiny
Frederick P. Gibbon
A young British ensign fights through the horrors of the 1857 Indian Mutiny while a deceitful rival attempts to steal his military honors.
The Drummer Boy
J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge
A fiery fourteen-year-old leaves his family sitting-room for the Union barracks, trading his dark curls for a recruit’s crop and a place at the front line of a nation tearing itself apart.
The Enjoyment of Art
Carleton Eldredge Noyes
A newly minted university graduate stands bewildered in Europe’s famous art galleries, asking why human beings struggle so fiercely to paint canvases and carve stone.
The Fantasy Fan, February 1934: The Fans' Own Magazine
Various
An early science fiction fanzine captures a nascent community debating cosmic horror, space exploration, and gothic scholarship.
The Film of Fear
Frederic Arnold Kummer
A famous screen star receives terrifying threats targeting her face, forcing a famed detective to race against time.
The Flower-Fields of Alpine Switzerland: An Appreciation and a Plea
G. (George) Flemwell
Vast expanses of wild blossoms carpet the Swiss mountainsides before the scythes arrive. This forgotten work makes a passionate case for the fragile beauty of the high pastures.
The Flying Legion
George Allan England
A band of war-weary veterans steals an advanced experimental airship to conquer the world’s last unexplored fastness, only to find that total freedom demands a far heavier price than any war they ever fought.
The four Corners
Amy Ella Blanchard
In a quiet Virginia mountain town, four sisters navigate small-town routines, family rivalries, and sudden financial strain while their mother travels to recover her health.
The Garden of Survival
Algernon Blackwood
A grieving soldier discovers that his dead wife’s unrequited love persists as an invisible, uplifting force of beauty.
The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight
J. Cecil (John Cecil) Hughes
The vertical white cliffs and multicolored sands of the Isle of Wight contain an accessible record of Earth’s deep past. Written as a guide for beginners, this survey demonstrates how simple fieldwork can illuminate millions of years of structural change.
The Gilded Man: A Romance of the Andes
Clifford Smyth
A hidden kingdom, an ancient treasure, and a psychological mystery collide beneath the high peaks of the South American Andes.
The Great Revival of the Eighteenth Century: With a supplemental chapter on the revival in America
Edwin Paxton Hood
Eighteenth-century England sits frozen in moral decay, its churches dormant and its public life cynical, until a spontaneous spiritual lightning bolt strikes the nation from the field, the inn, and the university.
The Jew
Józef Ignacy Kraszewski
A solitary voice can pull a nation back from the edge of its own madness.
The Lilac Girl
Ralph Henry Barbour
A chance meeting in the mountains leaves a lone prospector haunted by the fleeting sight of a woman in a lilac-scented garden, sparking a gentle quest through an old New England town to find her.
The Microscope
Andrew Ross
A precise lens allows the human eye to transcend its biological limits, converting subtle shifts in distance and light into clear visual revelations.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 563, August 25, 1832
Various
A glance into a bygone era reveals how a nineteenth-century public found delight and instruction wrapped in a single, affordable weekend paper.
The Mystery of the Downs
John R. (John Reay) Watson
A sudden coastal storm forces a lone rider to seek shelter at an isolated farm, where he discovers a body and a web of wartime secrets.
The Parenticide Club
Ambrose Bierce
A dark, satirical masterpiece of patricide, matricide, and legal absurdity, this collection dismantles the sanctity of the American family through cold, deadpan comedy.
The Pennycomequicks, Volume 3 (of 3)
S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
Money, pride, and Victorian propriety collide when a presumed-dead industrialist reappears, unraveling the lives, marriages, and fortunes of his self-interested heirs across England and the Swiss Alps.
The Philosophy of Teaching: The Teacher, The Pupil, The School
Nathaniel Sands
True education requires replacing dead languages and mechanical rote learning with the natural observation of the physical world, training youth directly in practical trades, physical health, civic duty, and the real conditions of human well-being.