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Morals in Trade and Commerce
Frank B. Anderson
Youth must guard its ideals while navigating commercial life, avoiding the cynical distortions of popular media to build lasting reforms on facts and fair dealing.
Notes and Queries, Number 12, January 19, 1850
Various
Antiquarian queries and minute historical discoveries meet in a nineteenth-century periodical designed to connect scholars, track down obscure citations, and clarify the past.
Notes and Queries, Number 175, March 5, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
Various
A bustling paper forum captures the mid-nineteenth-century mind at work, where scholars and curious amateurs trade obscure facts, solve historical mysteries, and debate fine points of literature and law.
Nuts and Nutcrackers
Charles Lever
A collection of satirical essays punctures the pomposity of nineteenth-century social institutions, political schemes, and public pretentions with sharp Irish wit.
Orkney and Shetland Folk 872-1350
Alfred Wintle Johnston
Across the northern fringes of medieval Scotland, the sword-blade and the marriage bed forged an island people out of two wildly disparate worlds.
Our national forests
Richard H. D. (Richard Hans Douai) Boerker
A rigorous defense of public land conservation, this 1918 volume details how managed wilderness preserves national wealth, stabilizes ecosystems, and serves local communities.
Over Here: Impressions of America by a British officer
Hector MacQuarrie
An wounded British officer journeys through wartime America to foster mutual understanding, offering a warm, humorous portrait of a nation preparing for global conflict.
Pan's garden
Algernon Blackwood
This is a collection of strange, atmospheric tales where the boundary between human consciousness and the wild, untamed forces of the natural world dissolves into something both beautiful and terrifying.
Peasant Tales of Russia
Vasilii Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko
A world of damp rock and endless silence frames the lives of people who expect very little from the earth they labor upon.
Pelle the Conqueror
Martin Andersen Nexø
Labor is the quiet force that shapes the earth, yet those who clear the roads and stitch the boots spend their lives pushed to the very edge of the dark.
Peter's Mother
De La Pasture, Henry, Mrs.
A gentle, secluded domestic life is disrupted when a long-subdued woman learns to choose her own path despite the expectations of her son.
Pope Pius the Tenth
F. A. (Frances Alice) Forbes
Born in a humble Italian village, a postman’s gifted son rises through every level of the Catholic priesthood to become Pope Pius X, remaining a plain, uncompromising shepherd even while confronting global political strife and modern theological crisis.
Punch, or the London Charivari, May 6, 1914
Various
A snapshot of Edwardian satire, this magazine issue skewers everything from global politics to upper-class pretension with sharp, polite irreverence.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 4th, 1920
Various
A satirical portrait of Post-World War I Britain reveals a nation grappling with soaring transit costs, absurd domestic crises, and the hilarious burden of daily life.
Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 36, December 3, 1870
Various
Packed with Gilded Age satire, broad caricatures, and theatrical skits, this period humor magazine captures the irreverent spirit, political anxieties, and popular culture of late nineteenth-century urban America.
Reveries of a Schoolmaster
Francis B. (Francis Bail) Pearson
An experienced teacher sits by an evening fire, looking back across a lifetime in the classroom and looking out at a world full of quiet beauty, human absurdity, and untamed potential.
Rollo in London
Jacob Abbott
A practical young traveler explores mid-nineteenth-century London, discovering that the foreign world opens up best to those who observe it closely and accept its sudden turns without complaint.
Ross's Adventures of the first settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River, 1810-1813
Alexander Ross
A high-stakes commercial gamble in the Pacific Northwest quickly deteriorates into a grueling battle against treacherous surf, brutal winters, and fatal miscalculations.
Rubble and Roseleaves, and Things of That Kind
Frank Boreham
Ordinary moments hold extraordinary grace when approached with a curious and quiet heart. From a scattered desk of mail to a walk along a stormy coast, small daily encounters reveal the quiet hand of God at work in the human soul.
Rupert Godwin
M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
A ruthless London banker's desperate attempt to cover up a midsummer murder unravels as a sea captain's vengeful family exposes his web of blackmail, abduction, and betrayal.
Ruysbroeck
Evelyn Underhill
An extraordinary inner journey unfolds as a brilliant, wayward child transforms through shared austerity and deep contemplation into one of Christendom’s most vital spiritual voices.
Secrets of the Andes
James H. Foster
When a bridge collapse sends two young naturalists careening off course, a series of improvised connections leads them straight into the uncharted ruins and high-altitude perils of the South American mountains.
Self-Determining Haiti: Four articles reprinted from The Nation embodying a report of an investigation made for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
James Weldon Johnson
Behind a rhetoric of helpful intervention lies the calculated dismantling of a sovereign neighbor through military force, financial coercion, and systemic administrative overreach.
Short Cruises
W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs
In a landscape of muddy dockyards, quiet country inns, and cluttered parlor rooms, ordinary people scheme for modest advantage and invariably pull their own ground out from under themselves.
Skilled Assistance: Ship's Company, Part 9
W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs
A night-watchman’s scheming attempt to rescue an aging sailor’s prospective father-in-law from a relentless suitor backfires spectacularly in this sharp, comic tale of waterfront trickery.
Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyll
John Greenleaf Whittier
When a violent December storm seals a New England farm household indoors, the quiet routines of snowbound isolation turn a simple hearth into a chapel of memory, storytelling, and enduring affection.
State of the Union Addresses
Thomas Jefferson
Written with calm executive authority, these presidential messages capture an early American republic balancing its grand continental ambitions against volatile European wars and internal financial restraint.
Stories and Letters from the Trenches
Various
Amid the mud and machinery of 1914, human nature refuses to be entirely erased by the machinery of total war.
Sunset Pass
Charles King
Through the brutal heat and treacherous rock of Arizona territory, a veteran cavalry officer leads his motherless children directly into an Apache trap.
Tarzan and the city of gold
Edgar Rice Burroughs
A captive white warrior, a deadly arena, and a despotic queen with a terrifying pet lion await in the uncharted valleys of Abyssinia.
The 13th Immortal
Robert Silverberg
Stripped of his memories, a simple farmer discovers he is the true heir to an immortal lineage, holding the power to shatter the despotic rulers who keep a post-apocalyptic world frozen in time.
The Amours of Zeokinizul, King of the Kofirans: Translated from the Arabic of the famous Traveller Krinelbol
Claude-Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon
A royal youth surrenders his conscience to a calculating mentor, trading domestic peace for a revolving succession of ambitious mistresses while his kingdom pays the price.
The Armenian Crisis in Turkey: The Massacre of 1894, Its Antecedents and Significance, With a Consideration of Some of the Factors Which Enter Into the Solution of This Phase of the Eastern Question
Frederick Davis Greene
Horrific atrocities in Eastern Turkey reveal a humanitarian disaster where diplomatic promises fail and state-sanctioned violence goes unchecked.
The Arrow of Fire: A Mystery Story for Boys
Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell
A dark night over Lake Michigan delivers a hardened young wanderer into his home city's underworld, where street crime and gunfire test his courage.
The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I
William James Stillman
A boyhood spent beneath the shadow of unyielding New England Puritanism gives way to a wide-ranging adult life spent among art, nature, and the early fires of modern political conflict.
The Ball of Fire
George Randolph Chester
A modern industrial titan schemes to monopolize America's core commodities while a fiery young woman and a fashionable minister clash over the soul and real estate of a historic Manhattan church.
The Bay State Monthly
Various
Colonial roots, public service, and local industrial ambition converge in a rich tapestry of New England history.
The Border Boys Across the Frontier
John Henry Goldfrap
A young American lad and his companions navigate the treacherous borderlands of Northern Chihuahua, unearthing hidden desert tunnels and thwarting a rebel conspiracy against a family mine.
The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, May 1885, No. 8
Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle
A monthly assembly of nineteenth-century thought offers a rich tapestry of practical instruction, moral philosophy, and scientific discovery. It invites readers to elevate their daily lives through dedicated self-improvement and communal learning.
The Collected Writings of Dougal Graham, "Skellat" Bellman of Glasgow, Vol. 1 of 2
Dougal Graham
A rhyming pedlar marches alongside Prince Charlie’s ragged host, recording the blood, blunder, and desperate flight of the Forty-five through a local crier's unvarnished eye.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863: Devoted to Literature and National Policy
Various
This Northern Civil War periodical blends patriotic essays, wartime reportage, serialized fiction, and economic manifestos into a passionate defense of the Union.
The Daredevil
Maria Thompson Daviess
When a orphaned French aristocrat disguised as her own twin brother sets sail for America to escape wartime peril, she finds herself tangled in political intrigue, military mule contracts, and southern hospitality.
The Daughters of the Little Grey House
Marion Ames Taggart
Growing up brings change to a quiet home as three sisters face the first choices of their adult lives.
The education of Uncle Paul
Algernon Blackwood
A man finds his long-dormant inner life reawakened by his niece, a child whose ethereal connection to nature guides him toward a deeper, mystical reality. This gentle, poignant narrative explores the boundary between the adult world of rigid convention and the boundless, imaginative potential of childhood.
The Fall of Prince Florestan of Monaco
Dilke, Charles Wentworth, Sir
A young English-educated republican unexpectedly inherits a miniature autocratic principality and attempts to institute radical modernizing reforms overnight, with disastrously hilarious results.
The False One: A Tragedy
John Fletcher
In ancient Egypt, political maneuvering and raw desire collide as Roman conquerors and Alexandrian courtiers gamble empires for personal survival and absolute power.
The Farringdons
Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler
A vivid portrait of a woman navigating the tension between her own fierce independence and the quiet, enduring devotion of a man she has long taken for granted.
The French in Algiers: The Soldier of the Foreign Legion
Ernest Alby
A young soldier seeking military glory exchanges garrison routine for the harsh realities of colonial warfare in North Africa.