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McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 3, February 1896
Various
A vibrant cross-section of late nineteenth-century culture, this issue captures an era when high literary ambition and popular journalism marched side by side.
Medical Women: Two Essays
Sophia Jex-Blake
Knowledge must be granted based on capacity rather than custom.
Memoranda on Tours and Touraine: Including remarks on the climate with a sketch of the Botany And Geology of the Province also on the Wines and Mineral Waters of France
J. H. Holdsworth
A detailed medical and natural survey guides nineteenth-century English travelers through the restorative microclimates, geological wonders, and mineral springs of central France.
Modern Geography
Marion I. (Marion Isabel) Newbigin
A reasoned, synthesis-driven study reveals how physical landscapes, climatic systems, and biological migrations converge to forge human history and modern industrial settlement across the globe.
Musical Studies
Ernest Newman
An analytical exploration of the tensions between music and literature, this collection examines how composers like Berlioz, Strauss, and Wagner redefined the boundaries of their art.
My past and thoughts, vol. 4 (of 6)
Aleksandr Herzen
In exile, a human soul loses its quiet anchor, and every private grief is amplified by the storms of a collapsing continent.
Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School
Unknown
A single landscape can anchor a soul, yet the wide world constantly demands that men march off to fight, search, or build elsewhere.
Nobody
Susan Warner
A quiet country girl’s modest principles disrupt the artificial boundaries of New York high society when a wealthy bachelor falls in love with her unpretentious heart.
Odd Bits of Travel with Brush and Camera
Charles M. (Charles Maus) Taylor
Armed with a camera and a sketch book, a curious traveler records the vibrant street life, quiet rivers, and legendary landscapes of late-nineteenth-century Europe.
On Books and the Housing of Them
W. E. (William Ewart) Gladstone
A lover of books faces a rising tide of print, offering practical wisdom and exact calculations to save home libraries from total chaos.
Oxford
F. D. (Frederick Douglas) How
A place of ancient stone and summer haze reveals its secrets to those who approach slowly and learn to love it over time.
Paths of Glory: Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front
Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
A civilian journalist stumbles into the path of a juggernaut, recording the destruction of a quiet continent.
Peeps at Many Lands: Egypt
R. Talbot (Robert Talbot) Kelly
A vibrant travelogue pairs ancient biblical history with early twentieth-century observations, charting a journey down the Nile from coastal ports to desert outposts.
Pippin
Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
A young man leaves prison determined to repay his debt to society, wandering the New England countryside with a knife-grinding wheel and a heart full of joy.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, July 18, 1891
Various
A satirical mirror held up to Victorian London, this volume captures the anxieties, absurdities, and daily absurdities of an empire at its zenith.
Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 31, October 29, 1870
Various
A bustling slice of post-Civil War American satire captures a nation wrestling with political corruption, European conflict, and its own chaotic cultural identity.
R. Holmes & Co.: Being the Remarkable Adventures of Raffles Holmes, Esq., Detective and Amateur Cracksman by Birth
John Kendrick Bangs
Conceived by two grand literary lineages, Raffles Holmes carries a double inheritance: the analytical intellect of Sherlock Holmes and the larcenous instincts of A. J. Raffles.
Reading Made Easy for Foreigners - Third Reader
John Ludwig Hülshof
A structured path toward civic belonging unfolds through poetry, historical portraiture, natural science, and foundational constitutional texts.
'Return Loads' to Increase Transport Resources by Avoiding Waste of Empty Vehicle Running
United States. Council of National Defense. Highways Transport Committee
A wartime government initiative outlines how civilian motor trucks can rescue a congested transportation system by carrying freight on their return journeys rather than traveling empty across the nation's roads.
Rules and Examples of Perspective proper for Painters and Architects, etc.: In English and Latin: Containing a most easie and expeditious method to delineate in perspective all designs relating to architecture
Andrea Pozzo
Through rigorous geometric projection and practical drafts, a master class unfolds on how to transform flat architectural planes into stunning illusions of three-dimensional space.
Sant' Ilario
F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
A web of duty, deceit, and misdirected jealousy threatens the highest circles of nineteenth-century Roman nobility, where honor is absolute and a single secret can tear a marriage apart.
Scientific American magazine, Vol. 2 Issue 1: The advocate of Industry and Journal of Scientific
Various
A miscellany of practical craft, sudden technological marvels, and small-town curiosities reveals an era when lightning spoke across miles and common air was praised as medicine.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883
Various
A vivid snapshot of late-nineteenth-century industrial ambition and scientific inquiry, where practical workshop recipes sit alongside cutting-edge chemistry, archeological triumphs, and tragic real-world adventures.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884
Various
A single issue of a nineteenth-century industrial periodical captures a world in motion, where steam ferries, laboratory discoveries, and practical trades meet on equal footing.
Sermons on Biblical Characters
Clovis Gillham Chappell
Grace isn't reserved for the polished or the heroic; it routinely finds the missing, the stubborn, and the deeply flawed. This timeless collection of character studies turns ancient biblical narratives into strikingly familiar mirrors for everyday human struggles.
Sketches from Memory: (From: "The Doliver Romance and Other Pieces: Tales and Sketches")
Nathaniel Hawthorne
A keen observer wanders through the bustling borderlands and infant cities of early nineteenth-century America, recording the quiet poetry and restless energy of a nation in motion.
Sketches of the Christian life and public labors of William Miller
James White
A plain, hardworking farmer finds himself transformed into a polarizing religious figure, convinced by his own rigorous study of the Bible that the world is nearing its final, cataclysmic end.
Slavery as an industrial system
H. J. (Herman Jeremias) Nieboer
Human labor transforms into forced servitude only under specific economic and geographic conditions. H. J. Nieboer undertakes a global survey of primitive societies to uncover the exact structural laws governing the rise and fall of slavery.
Sunrise
William Black
Behind polished Venetian doors and quietly shuttered London drawing rooms, a vast subterranean engine of European revolution turns, threatening to swallow two lovers whole.
Sweet Mace: A Sussex Legend of the Iron Times
George Manville Fenn
In the dense, damp valleys of seventeenth-century Sussex, an unyielding ironmaster, a ruthless courtier, and a local witch collide over a young woman’s fate.
Ten Years' Exile: Memoirs of That Interesting Period of the Life of the Baroness De Stael-Holstein, Written by Herself, during the Years 1810, 1811, 1812, and 1813, and Now First Published from the Original Manuscript, by Her Son
Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine) Staël
An unrelenting tyrant transforms a world-famous woman of letters into a fugitive across a continent on the brink of total war.
The American Missionary
Various
Against a backdrop of nationwide economic strain, dedicated teachers and ministers quietly build schools, maintain mountain chapels, and carry basic supplies to forgotten communities.
The Arian Controversy
Henry Melvill Gwatkin
The fourth-century struggle over the nature of Christ was not a mere squabble of scholars, but a fierce battle for the soul of the Christian world that reshaped both church and empire.
The Assembly of God. Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, vol. III
Charles Henry Mackintosh
Faith is not a set of rigid, hand-me-down traditions, but an active, personal communion with a living God.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862: Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
Various
In a nation torn apart by the Civil War, literature, science, and political commentary converge to chart the intellectual boundaries of a rapidly changing nineteenth-century America.
The Bradys' Chinese Clew
Francis Worcester Doughty
A sudden rainstorm in New York opens a hole in a Chinatown sidewalk, dropping a boy into a subterranean network of secret rooms and launching a race for buried government treasure.
The Chief Legatee
Anna Katharine Green
A bride disappears hours after her wedding, setting off a desperate search across Connecticut that uncovers secret identities, fake twins, and a high-stakes conspiracy targeting a vast fortune.
The children's book of Christmas
Unknown
A global journey through winter light, ancient evergreen boughs, and regional hearth fires shows how humanity continually invents new ways to welcome the midwinter season with generosity and joy.
The Church and Modern Life
Washington Gladden
A institution built for universal human brotherhood finds itself weakened by dogmatic debates, material greed, and defensive isolation from the very society it was sent to redeem.
The Church, the Schools and Evolution
J. E. (Judson Eber) Conant
A sharp conflict threatens evangelical faith when modern educational institutions try to replace divine revelation with naturalistic theories.
The complete works of John Gower, volume 4
John Gower
A quiet, relentless examination of a society unraveling from within, this volume brings a medieval poet’s moral outrage into sharp focus.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 2, February, 1864: Devoted To Literature And National Policy
Various
Beyond the smoke of Civil War battlefields, mid-nineteenth-century America waged an equally fierce conflict of ideas over national identity, historical truth, and the nature of human progress.
The Country-Life Movement in the United States
L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey
A quiet revolution is stirring beyond city boundaries, demanding that rural life be understood on its own terms rather than treated as a mere supplier for urban industrial expansion.
The Emancipated
George Gissing
A rigid young widow with a fortress of religious pride clashes with a brilliant, volatile freethinker under the dazzling, permissive sun of Southern Italy.
The Enormous Room
H. L. (Horace Leonard) Gold
An unseen hand snatches a coaster car mid-descent, pulling its occupants into a vast, baffling realm where they are treated less like prisoners than prized specimens.
The great amulet
Maud Diver
Love can forge a sanctuary out of hardship, yet even the deepest devotion cannot undo choices made in haste or pride.
The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems
William Henry Drummond
A collection of narrative verse captures nineteenth-century French-Canadian rural life through the voices, dialect, and humor of its own people.
The History of England - a Study in Political Evolution
A. F. (Albert Frederick) Pollard
A small, oft-conquered island transforms into a global empire not by rigid design, but through an extraordinary capacity for adaptation and institutional change.