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The inquisition in the Spanish dependencies: Sicily—Naples—Sardinia—Milan—the Canaries—Mexico—Peru—New Granada

The inquisition in the Spanish dependencies: Sicily—Naples—Sardinia—Milan—the Canaries—Mexico—Peru—New Granada

Henry Charles Lea extends his monumental study of the Spanish Inquisition beyond Spain itself, tracing how the tribunal operated across Sicily, Naples, Sardinia, Milan, the Canarie

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The Principles of English Versification

The Principles of English Versification

A scholarly study of the craft and theory of English verse, examining metre, rhythm, rhyme, and poetic form.

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Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov

Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov

A gathering of short stories by Anton Chekhov, master of the modern form.

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History of circumcision from the earliest times to the present : $b Moral and physical reasons for its performance, with

History of circumcision from the earliest times to the present : $b Moral and physical reasons for its performance, with

A wide-ranging nineteenth-century medical and cultural history of circumcision across peoples and eras, setting out the moral and physical arguments made for the practice through t

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Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy

Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy

A collection of sensational true and traditional tales from the age of sail, gathering accounts of shipboard revolt, bloody crime, and piracy on the high seas.

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Christmas: Its Origin and Associations: Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Cen

Christmas: Its Origin and Associations: Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Cen

A wide-ranging Victorian-era survey of Christmas across many centuries: its origins, customs, historical episodes, and the songs, feasts, and festivities that gathered around the m

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The Ordinance of Covenanting

The Ordinance of Covenanting

A work of Reformed theology examining the biblical practice of covenanting, the solemn binding of a people to God.

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The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War

The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War

A regimental history of the Second Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, in the South African War of 1899 to 1902: the marches, battles, and service of one Irish battalion through the

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Jewish Literature and Other Essays

Jewish Literature and Other Essays

A collection of essays surveying the richness of Jewish literary and cultural history, from the scholarly pen of Gustav Karpeles.

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Shapes that Haunt the Dusk

Shapes that Haunt the Dusk

A gathering of eerie and supernatural tales, where the ordinary world thins at the edges and something strange steps quietly through.

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Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight

Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight

Anonymous (Middle English Poet)

The great Middle English romance in which Sir Gawain accepts a mysterious stranger's deadly game, and rides out to keep a bargain that will test his courage, courtesy and truth to

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Red Nails

Red Nails

Robert E.

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Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900

Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900

A military surgeon's firsthand account of wound treatment during the South African War, recording the injuries, methods and hard-won lessons of the battlefield.

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Changeling, and Other Stories

Changeling, and Other Stories

A collection of short fiction gathered under the title of its lead story, "Changeling." A set of tales to be discovered on their own terms by the curious reader.

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The Prairie Mother

The Prairie Mother

A woman's diary of marriage, motherhood and hard weather on the Canadian prairie, told with candour and dry humour as domestic strain tests a homesteading household.

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The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade

Herman Melville

Melville’s final novel turns a Mississippi steamboat into a shifting satire of trust, fraud, charity, and self-invention.

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Bookbinding, and the Care of Books

Bookbinding, and the Care of Books

A classic, clear-eyed manual on the craft of binding books and keeping them well.

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A Heart-Song of To-day

A Heart-Song of To-day

Savigny, Annie G. (Annie Gregg)

A novel of the heart from an earlier era, by Annie Gregg Savigny.

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An Old Man's Love

An Old Man's Love

Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope's last completed novel, a quiet, tender study of an ageing man's love for his young ward and the claims that youth and honour make on the heart.

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The Comedies of Terence: Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes

The Comedies of Terence: Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes

The six surviving comedies of Rome's most elegant playwright, rendered into plain English prose with helpful notes.

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The Life of Trust

The Life of Trust

A stirring nineteenth-century narrative of faith put into practice, recounting a life and ministry sustained, its author held, entirely through prayer.

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Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 3 of 3: or the Central and Western Rajput States of India

Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 3 of 3: or the Central and Western Rajput States of India

The third volume of James Tod's monumental Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, his pioneering history of the Rajput states, their dynasties, traditions and antiquities in central

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Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica

Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica

Hesiod & Homer

The essential companion to Homer: Hesiod's poems of the gods and the farming year, the Homeric Hymns, and the surviving fragments of early Greek epic.

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Impressions of South Africa

Impressions of South Africa

A traveller-observer's account of South Africa near the close of the nineteenth century, surveying its peoples, its politics and its landscape at a moment poised on the edge of gre

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