Genre
Non-fiction.
From Marcus Aurelius’s intimate reflections to Jamaica Kincaid’s fierce postcolonial critique, this collection maps the fault lines of power, selfhood, and society. Spanning centuries and continents, these essential works—whether a war treatise or a presidential report—invite you to think deeply and live deliberately.
History
The Huguenots in France
Samuel Smiles’s The Huguenots in France explores persecution, exile, and endurance in French Protestant history.
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Non-fiction
Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries
Annie Besant's Theosophical reading of Christianity as a repository of hidden, mystical truths, arguing that behind the familiar faith lies an ancient wisdom meant for the spiritua
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History
The University of Michigan
An account of one of America's great public universities, its founding, growth and character.
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Classics
Meditations
A Roman emperor's private reflections on power, mortality, and inner freedom.
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Editor's pick — classics
The Bureaucratic Architecture of National Socialism
A rigorously contextualized study of how the Nazi Party translated ideology into hierarchy, territorial control, mass organizations, surveillance, and visual bureaucracy.
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Adventure
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Thomas De Quincey’s strange and influential memoir of addiction, dream-life, and Romantic prose remains one of the nineteenth century’s most uncanny autobiographical classics.
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Non-fiction
The Deaf: Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States
Harry Best’s The Deaf is a major historical study of deaf education and social position in the United States.
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Æsthetic as science of expression and general linguistic
Benedetto Croce’s classic on aesthetics, expression, and language is presented in a clean DotBooks edition.
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History
Cornish Characters and Strange Events
Sabine Baring-Gould’s Cornish Characters and Strange Events gathers local lives, folklore, and unusual incidents from Cornwall.
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History
Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome
A classic culinary history text associated with Apicius, illuminating Roman food, dining, and elite taste.
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Non-fiction
A guide to modern cookery
Escoffier's landmark manual codified French cuisine into a working system: mother sauces, brigade order, thousands of recipes.
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Art & Design
Line and Form
A working artist's guide to the principles of drawing and design, exploring how line and shape create beauty and meaning.
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History
Three years in the Sixth Corps : $b A concise narrative of events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the close of
A firsthand narrative of three years with the Sixth Corps in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 through the closing of the American Civil War: campaigns, battles, and army life see
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History
Famous Sea Fights, from Salamis to Tsu-Shima
A vivid narrative history of decisive naval battles across the ages, from the ancient Greek triumph at Salamis to the modern clash at Tsushima, charting how sea power has shaped th
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Non-fiction
The Way To Geometry
An early treatise setting out the principles of geometry for the student and practitioner.
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History
The Evolution of Marriage and of the Family
A nineteenth-century work of comparative anthropology tracing how marriage and family life were thought to have developed across human societies, written in the confident, sweeping
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Biography & Memoir
My Bondage and My Freedom
Frederick Douglass expands his life story into a powerful autobiographical indictment of slavery, tracing violence, resistance, education, escape, and the making of a public voice.
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Non-fiction
Evolution, Old & New
Samuel Butler's spirited examination of theories of evolution, championing the earlier evolutionists against Darwin's account of natural selection.
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Fiction
English Eccentrics and Eccentricities
A gallery of England's oddest characters and strangest doings, gathered from history and legend into an affectionate celebration of misers, hermits, impostors, cranks and curiositi
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Nature & Environment
Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained
A practical nineteenth-century manual that set out to demystify the craft of beekeeping.
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Non-fiction
Enquire within upon everything
The Victorian household's indispensable companion, a bestselling manual crammed with practical advice on cookery, etiquette, health, games and domestic emergencies, all under the c
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Art & Design
Handwork in Wood
A thorough practical guide to working with wood, covering tools, joints, and the properties of timber.
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History
The Part Borne by the Dutch in the Discovery of Australia 1606-1765
A documentary history of Dutch voyages to the great southern land, tracing how the navigators of the Netherlands charted the coasts of Australia long before the British arrived.
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Non-fiction
The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication
Charles Darwin's vast survey of how humans have reshaped living things through breeding — the evidence, gathered animal by animal and plant by plant, behind his theory of selection
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Non-fiction
The Animal Parasites of Man
A classic scientific account of the parasites that afflict human beings, describing their forms, life cycles, and effects for students of medicine and natural history.
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Non-fiction
The Elements of Style
William Strunk Jr.’s compact style guide remains a crisp, practical classic on clarity, usage, and revision.
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History
Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3: or the Central and Western Rajput States of India
The opening volume of James Tod's monumental Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan lays the foundations of his pioneering history of the Rajput states, their origins, chivalry and an
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Non-fiction
Through Finland in Carts
A lively Victorian travelogue journeying across Finland by horse and cart, observing its landscapes, customs, and people.
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Essays
The Humbugs of the World
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Biography & Memoir
The Romance of Biography (Vol 1 of 2): or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadou
The first volume of a nineteenth-century study of the women who inspired the poets: portraits of the muses and beloveds celebrated in verse, from the age of the troubadours onward.
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Non-fiction
Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests
A nineteenth-century traveller's account of Peru, journeying from the coast up into the sierra, across the Andes and on into the primeval forest, rich in observation of landscape,
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Fiction
Woman: Her Sex and Love Life
An early twentieth-century work of frank sex education and advice about women's health and intimate life, written to dispel ignorance and shame at a time when such subjects were ra
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History
The History of Trade Unionism:
Sidney and Beatrice Webb's pioneering history of the British trade union movement, tracing its rise from early combinations to organised labour.
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History
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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Non-fiction
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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History
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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History
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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Non-fiction
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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History
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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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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History
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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Art & Design
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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Biography & Memoir
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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Non-fiction
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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Children
Myths and Marvels of Astronomy
A lively popular-science account of astronomy's wonders and the myths that have gathered around the heavens.
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Art & Design
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete
The gathered notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, a dazzling record of one of history's greatest minds at work.
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History
The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido: For the Suppression of Piracy
A Victorian naval memoir of anti-piracy patrols along the Borneo coast, entwined with the extraordinary career of James Brooke, the English adventurer who became Rajah of Sarawak.
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History
Home Life in Colonial Days
Alice Morse Earle's richly detailed portrait of everyday life in early America — the homes, food, work, and customs of colonial households.
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