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The Nursery, Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1875: A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
Various
Gentle morality tales, playful nature lessons, and domestic vignettes capture the quiet rhythms and earnest values of late nineteenth-century childhood.
The Pension Beaurepas
Henry James
An observant American student takes lodging in Geneva, where two expatriate families quietly unravel over money, culture, and the freedom to go home.
The Potato Child & Others
Lucia Prudence Hall Woodbury
A young orphan girl, enduring a harsh apprenticeship under a cold dressmaker, finds a spark of hope and human connection in a curiously shaped vegetable.
The Reflections of Ambrosine: A Novel
Elinor Glyn
A high-born young woman trades her freedom for her family’s survival, only to discover that the aristocratic world she sacrificed herself to enter is governed by its own ruthless code.
The Rise and Fall of Anarchy in America: From its Incipient Stage to the First Bomb Thrown in Chicago
George N. McLean
A city gripped by economic strife becomes a powder keg when radical labor rhetoric meets the unyielding authority of the law.
The Scott Country
John Geddie
A journey through the Scottish Borders reveals how physical terrain, regional history, and poetic imagination interweave to create a landscape permanently shaped by Sir Walter Scott.
The Shagganappi
E. Pauline Johnson
Across these stories of the Canadian frontier, young hands hold canoes against furious rapids, skin frostbitten ankles on the trail, and balance the weight of ancestral honor against a rapidly encroaching white world.
The Two Dianas, Volume 3 (of 3)
Paul Meurice
A man of noble character finds his life’s purpose consumed by a vendetta against the monarchy that destroyed his world. This final installment traces his path from private justice to the bloody theater of civil war.
The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen
Roger T. (Roger Thompson) Finlay
Surviving on a remote island takes more than raw courage; it requires practical science, heavy-duty ingenuity, and an absolute mastery of the wilderness.
Thirty Years in Australia
Ada Cambridge
A quiet domestic intimacy illuminates this thirty-year journey across a rapidly changing young nation.
Thomas D'Arcy McGee
Alexander Brady
A fugitive revolutionist transformed into a founding father finds that the ultimate test of statecraft lies not in pulling a kingdom down, but in forging a nation out of diverse, divided provinces.
Three Boys in the Wild North Land
Egerton Ryerson Young
A guest in a northern wilderness home finds himself drawn into an endless sequence of wild chases, bitter cold, and the sudden, fierce beauty of the subarctic edge.
Three little maids
Ethel Turner
Three sisters leave their native England for Australia, turning early family struggles into imaginative play and eventual literary ambitions.
Through the Iron Bars: Two Years of German Occupation in Belgium
Emile Cammaerts
A nation stripped of its territory, its flags, and its native industry refuses to surrender its spirit to a military occupier.
Turkey and the Armenian atrocities
Edwin Munsell Bliss
A geography of landscape and belief yields to a meticulous record of terror, political inertia, and targeted human destruction.
U.S. Marines In Vietnam, Volume 1 (of 9)
Robert H. Whitlow
Before heavy combat units arrived, a small contingent of American advisors and helicopter crews quietly built the foundation of the Marine presence in Southeast Asia.
Uncle Wiggily's Fortune
Howard Roger Garis
A gentle old rabbit with a cornstalk crutch roams the woods and beaches searching for a elusive fortune, meeting helpful friends and hungry predators along the way.
Under the Shadow of Etna: Sicilian Stories from the Italian of Giovanni Verga
Giovanni Verga
On the scorched, malarial plains of nineteenth-century Sicily, passions cut as deep as the poverty that feeds them, bound only by brute force, pride, and the unrelenting struggle to survive.
Under Three Flags: A Story of Mystery
Bert Leston Taylor
A small-town murder launches a globe-trotting chase, pulling a restless reporter and an ambitious detective into the dangerous currents of the Cuban War of Independence.
Ungava
R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
To plant a trading post on the frozen shores of Hudson's Bay, men must fight snowstorms, starvation, and endless inter-tribal warfare. This is an earnest nineteenth-century arctic adventure where human warmth holds back the barren wilderness.
Up in Maine: Stories of Yankee Life Told in Verse
Holman Day
Bare-knuckled humor, rustic ironies, and timber-town tragedies converge in a spirited poetic portrait of turn-of-the-century rural New England.
War paint
Robert Winchester
She came to the Texas border in a high-powered roadster with her lipstick drawn for war, never expecting two laconic Rangers to turn her city-bred world upside down.
With Lee in Virginia: A Story of the American Civil War
G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
In the crucible of the American Civil War, a young Virginian finds that fighting for his home demands courage not only on the battlefield, but against the deep injustices within his own society.
A Book of Christian Sonnets
William Allen
An aged scholar gazes through his sickroom window at the cold winter sky, turning his remaining hours into rigorous, Fourteen-line meditations on divine truth, scripture, and the fleeting beauty of a physical world he expects soon to leave behind.
A Boy of Old Japan
R. (Robert) Van Bergen
A young samurai comes of age amidst the quiet traditions of feudal Japan, only to be cast into the whirlwind of a nation forcibly tearing itself open to the modern world.
A Brief History of Printing in England: A Short History of Printing in England from Caxton to the Present Time
Frederick W. (Frederick William) Hamilton
An industrial trade craft is shaped through four centuries of state censorship, commercial rivalry, and mechanical reinvention across the English landscape.
A Danish Parsonage
John Fulford Vicary
An open-hearted English sportsman travels to the quiet streams and ancient beech groves of Jutland, where a country parson’s local lore and a daughter’s clear voice gradually remake his view of home.
A Gift For Terra
Fox B. Holden
A lone survivor on a dead world accepts a miraculous offer of salvation, unaware that the ultimate price will be paid by his home planet.
A Great Emergency and Other Tales
Juliana Horatia Ewing
A collection of four Victorian tales explores the turbulent inner lives of children as they navigate jealousy, pride, and the deep desire to prove their courage.
A Letter to American Workingmen, from the Socialist Soviet Republic of Russia
Vladimir Il'ich Lenin
A revolutionary message sent across the globe calls upon laboring people to join an international struggle against capitalist exploitation and imperialist war.
A Lieutenant at Eighteen
Oliver Optic
A young Union officer leads a cavalry platoon through the blood and mud of Civil War Kentucky, proving that tactical brilliance and iron discipline can come long before full adulthood.
A Man and a Woman
Stanley Waterloo
A boy rescues a nest of sparrows from a pair of black-snakes, grows into a timber-splitter with a penchant for knight-errantry, and eventually finds a companion who matches his restless, high-spirited mind.
A Nine Days' Wonder
B. M. (Bithia Mary) Croker
A hidden identity and a forgotten heritage reshape a young life when an Irish country girl is revealed to be the lost daughter of a British peer.
A Trip to Scarborough
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A sharp-witted younger brother swoops into Scarborough under a stolen title to snatch an heiress and outsmart his pompos buffoon of a sibling.
A World Called Crimson
Stephen Marlowe
A shipwrecked pair of children grow up alone on a alien planet, discovering they can turn whatever they imagine into physical reality.
After Long Years and Other Stories
Sophie Antoinette Miller
A young man collapses in a Russian snowstorm; an apprentice carver faces an impossible challenge to win his love; an orphaned infant floats downstream past crushing ice-floes.
Among the Tibetans
Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
Across the high Himalayan passes, where rivers freeze beneath blue ice and wind hollows the rock, a nineteenth-century Victorian woman journeys on horseback into the solitary, cloud-lifted kingdom of Lesser Tibet.
An Old Sweetheart of Mine
James Whitcomb Riley
A quiet evening at home turns into a tender voyage through time as a man lights his pipe and lets memory summon his very first love.
Ancient Rome in the English novel: a study in English historical fiction
Randolph Faries
Scholarly rigor and artistic imagination converge to determine how the ancient Roman world is reconstructed within the boundaries of modern prose fiction.
Angelot: A Story of the First Empire
Eleanor C. (Eleanor Catherine) Price
In the shadow of Napoleon's empire, a young man's love and loyalty are tested amidst political intrigue and personal danger.
Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1913
Unknown
A year of verse published in American magazines moves from quiet personal reflection to the clamor of industrial towns and classical myth.
Aunt Crete's Emancipation
Grace Livingston Hill
A unappreciated, middle-aged maiden aunt receives an unexpected visit from her Western nephew, opening the door to an astonishing transformation.
Barnaby: A Novel
Rina Ramsay
To step into the estate houses of Rina Ramsay’s Edwardian fox-hunting country is to enter a world of high-spirited mischief, reckless midnight steeplechases, and fiercely guarded family pride.
Barriers Burned Away
Edward Payson Roe
In a city built on raw ambition, a proud artist and an earnest clerk find that their strongest prejudices cannot survive the flames that consume everything around them.
Black Caesar's Clan
Albert Payson Terhune
A high-stakes game of deception in the Florida Everglades forces an undercover agent to choose between his sworn duty and the woman he loves.
Black Ivory
R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Two castaways traverse the nineteenth-century East African coast and interior, witnessing the horrors of the illegal slave trade while fighting to protect native survivors and survive the wilderness.
Books Before Typography: A Primer of Information About the Invention of the Alphabet and the History of Book-Making up to the Invention of Movable Types
Frederick W. (Frederick William) Hamilton
A long, fascinating journey unfolds as human thought breaks free from spoken sound, carving its way into stone, clay, papyrus, and vellum before finally laying the groundwork for the modern printed word.
Bread
Charles G. (Charles Gilman) Norris
The working woman’s struggle for independence is a relentless, lifelong labor. This narrative follows a woman’s attempt to balance professional ambition with the demands of a traditional marriage, ultimately examining the cost of autonomy.