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Non-fiction

Simple Sabotage Field Manual

The declassified wartime guide produced by the American OSS, teaching ordinary citizens in occupied Europe how to obstruct the enemy through everyday slowness and mistakes.

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Adventure

The Yeoman Adventurer

A historical adventure novel of loyalty, intrigue, and derring-do set against the turbulence of eighteenth-century England.

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History

Superstition and Force: Essays on the Wager of Law, the Wager of Battle, the Ordeal, Torture

Henry Charles Lea's landmark study of medieval legal procedure, tracing how Europe sought truth through oaths, trial by combat, the ordeal, and torture.

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Fiction

The Passionate Elopement

Compton Mackenzie's elegant first novel, a witty and stylish period romance set in an eighteenth-century spa town.

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Classics

Manon Lescaut

by abbé Prévost

The Abbé Prévost's famous tale of a young man's ruinous passion for the beautiful, faithless Manon.

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Business

Concrete Construction: Methods and Costs

A detailed early twentieth-century engineering handbook on building with concrete, setting out the practical methods, materials and economics of a material then transforming constr

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Adventure

Forest Days

by G. P. R. James

A nineteenth-century historical romance of pursuit, loyalty, and danger unfolding through woodland England.

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Non-fiction

Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ

A collection of biographical accounts of Jewish people who converted to Christianity, gathering the lives and testimonies of many such figures from across the centuries in one devo

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Classics

Don Juan

by Baron George Gordon Byron

The legendary seducer reimagined as the hero of a sprawling, satirical verse epic.

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Humor

The Comic English Grammar

A witty Victorian send-up of the dry grammar book, teaching the rules of English through humour, satire and comic example, so that the driest of subjects becomes an unexpected sour

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Non-fiction

Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc

An illustrated study of American mushrooms — edible, poisonous and curious — combining careful description with the naturalist's delight in one of nature's strangest kingdoms.

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Fiction

Linnet

A novel following its heroine, Linnet, through the fortunes of love and circumstance.

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History

The Philippine Islands

A wide-ranging account of the Philippine archipelago — its lands, peoples, and history.

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Adventure

The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe’s enduring adventure classic follows Robinson Crusoe through shipwreck, solitude, labor, fear, and survival on a remote island.

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Classics

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s moonlit comedy mixes lovers, fairies, artisans, and theatrical mischief in one of the most durable plays of enchantment and confusion.

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Adventure

The Pirate: Andrew Lang Edition

A seafaring tale presented in an edition associated with Andrew Lang, the great Victorian anthologist and man of letters.

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Nature & Environment

The field and garden vegetables of America : $b containing full descriptions of nearly eleven hundred species and variet

A remarkably thorough nineteenth-century American reference describing nearly eleven hundred vegetable species and varieties: a gardener's and farmer's encyclopedia of what grew in

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Poetry

The Story of Genesis and Exodus

by Various

An early Middle English verse retelling of the opening books of the Bible, rendering the great stories of creation, the patriarchs, and the deliverance from Egypt in the poetry of

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Biography & Memoir

The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2): Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Ac

Bernal Díaz del Castillo, an old soldier of Cortés, recounts the conquest of Mexico as he lived it, this first volume opening one of history's great firsthand adventure narratives.

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Biography & Memoir

Emily Brontë

A biography of Emily Brontë, the fiercely private author of Wuthering Heights, seeking the life and inner world behind one of English literature's most singular and enigmatic imagi

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Adventure

Monte-Cristo's Daughter

A dramatic sequel to Dumas's beloved Count of Monte Cristo, carrying the saga of vengeance, fortune and destiny into a new generation.

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Classics

Plutarch's Morals

Plutarch's wide-ranging essays and dialogues on how to live, think, and govern oneself.

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Non-fiction

The Enchiridion

Epictetus's compact handbook of Stoic wisdom, distilled by his pupil Arrian.

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Fiction

The Romance of Lust

A notorious work of Victorian erotic fiction, published anonymously and long circulated underground.

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History

A Source Book for Ancient Church History

A curated collection of primary documents tracing the early Christian church from the apostolic age through the great councils.

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Fiction

What Will People Say? A Novel

A novel probing the pressures of reputation, appearance, and social judgment on the choices people make.

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Biography & Memoir

Rizal's own story of his life

The life of José Rizal, the Philippines' national hero, drawn largely from his own words: the memories, reflections and testimony of the writer and patriot whose ideas helped awake

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Crime

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

by Agatha Christie

A retired industrialist is found stabbed in his study, and Hercule Poirot comes out of quiet seclusion to investigate, in the Agatha Christie novel routinely named one of the fines

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History

Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth

A narrative portrait of the court, favourites and intrigues of Elizabeth I.

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Biography & Memoir

De Profundis

by Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde’s long prison letter turns suffering, memory, vanity, love, humiliation, and spiritual reckoning into one of the most searching autobiographical works in English.

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Biography & Memoir

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself

by Harriet Jacobs

Harriet Jacobs's searing first-person account of enslavement, escape, and seven years hidden in a cramped attic.

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Biography & Memoir

A Pickle for the Knowing Ones

by Timothy Dexter

Timothy Dexter's gloriously eccentric self-published tract, famous for its erratic spelling and absent punctuation, which the author supplied by the page for readers to insert them

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Essays

Southern Literature From 1579-1895

A wide-ranging anthology of writing from the American South across more than three centuries, gathering poetry, prose and historical documents to trace the literary voice of a regi

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Fiction

Robert Orange

A late-Victorian novel of society, conscience, and thwarted feeling by the writer known as John Oliver Hobbes.

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Crime

The Sign of the Four

The second Sherlock Holmes novel sends the great detective and Dr.

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Children

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Washington Irving's immortal tale of the gangling schoolmaster Ichabod Crane, the drowsy Dutch hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, and the terrifying midnight rider who haunts its glen.

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Biography & Memoir

Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812: For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical

The private letters of Napoleon Bonaparte to Josephine trace one of history's most famous relationships from passionate ardor to estrangement, offering an intimate view of the empe

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Children

A Christmas Carol in Prose

by Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens's timeless ghost story of a miser, three spirits, and one cold heart thawed in a single night.

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Adventure

That Girl Montana

A story of the American West and a spirited young heroine, set against frontier country where identity, belonging and the past all come into play.

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Non-fiction

Tagalog Texts with Grammatical Analysis

A foundational linguistic study of Tagalog by Leonard Bloomfield: transcribed texts paired with rigorous grammatical analysis.

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Classics

The Sorrows of Young Werther

Goethe's incendiary early novel lays bare the anguished heart of a sensitive young man consumed by hopeless love, a work that gripped a generation, defined literary Romanticism and

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Fiction

Henrietta Temple

Benjamin Disraeli's romance follows a young heir who falls suddenly and completely in love, only to find passion at war with debt, duty, and circumstance.

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Classics

The Monk

by Matthew Gregory Lewis

Matthew Lewis's notorious Gothic novel, a lurid, gripping tale of a revered monk undone by temptation, in which piety collapses into obsession, corruption and supernatural terror.

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Non-fiction

Moby Multiple Language Lists of Common Words

A reference resource from the Moby lexical project, gathering lists of common words across multiple languages, a practical trove for linguists, word-lovers, puzzle-makers and anyon

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Adventure

A Journey to the Centre of the Earth

by Verne, Jules

Jules Verne's thrilling descent into the hollow depths of the planet, where a determined professor and his companions find a lost world beneath our feet.

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Adventure

King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table

The once and future king, his fellowship of the Round Table, and the long dream of Camelot, retold with the sweep and sorrow of the old romances.

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Biography & Memoir

Jesus the Christ

A substantial devotional study of the life and mission of Jesus, drawing on scripture to present his ministry, teaching and significance.

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Fiction

The Sex Life of the Gods

A provocative title from the mid-century paperback tradition, blending myth and pulp appetite.

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