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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 Minority of Henry the Third
A scholarly history of the turbulent early years of King Henry III of England, when a boy king inherited a realm in crisis and others governed in his name during his minority.
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Non-fiction
The Sailor's Word-Book
A rich and comprehensive dictionary of nautical terms from the age of sail, gathering the vast working vocabulary of ships and seamen into one authoritative and endlessly browsable
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Children
Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts
Frank R.
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Essays
Studies in Literature and History
A collection of literary and historical essays, ranging across authors, ideas, and eras with the reflective breadth of a cultivated critical mind.
$7.00
Children
Great Britain and the American Civil War
A detailed history of Britain's fraught relationship with the American Civil War, examining diplomacy, public opinion and the tensions that nearly drew the two nations into open co
$7.50
Biography & Memoir
My own story
A first-person memoir told in the author's own voice, recounting a remarkable life and the struggles, convictions, and events that shaped it.
$8.00
Biography & Memoir
Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez. Vol II
The second volume of a life told largely through the letters of a leading Royal Navy commander of the Napoleonic wars.
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Essays
Daily stories of Pennsylvania : $b prepared for publication in the leading daily newspapers of the state
A collection of short stories about Pennsylvania, originally prepared for publication in the state's leading daily newspapers, offering brief tales drawn from its people, places an
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Non-fiction
The Faith of Our Fathers
Cardinal Gibbons's enduring explanation and defense of Catholic belief, written in plain, generous prose for believers, seekers, and the simply curious alike.
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Non-fiction
Creative Evolution
Henri Bergson’s major philosophical work rethinks life, mind, time, and change through a bold critique of mechanism and a dynamic account of evolution.
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Non-fiction
The Approach to Philosophy
An inviting introduction to philosophical thinking, written to lead newcomers past jargon and into the real questions.
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Non-fiction
The Varieties of Religious Experience
William James's landmark study of religion as lived personal experience, examining conversion, mysticism, saintliness, and the inner life of faith with the eye of a pioneering psyc
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Classics
The Book of the Courtier
Baldassare Castiglione's Renaissance dialogue imagines the perfect courtier over four candlelit evenings at Urbino, weighing grace, wit, love and virtue with the ease of good compa
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Non-fiction
Folkways
William Graham Sumner's influential study of how customs, habits, and mores shape human societies.
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Non-fiction
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
Charles Darwin's world-changing 1859 work, laying out the theory of evolution by natural selection with patient evidence and cautious brilliance.
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Non-fiction
The Spanish American Reader
A classic Spanish-language reader assembling passages for students of the language and of Spanish American life and letters.
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Essays
The Journal to Stella
Jonathan Swift's intimate letters to Esther Johnson, written from London during his years at the heart of politics.
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History
The Prairie Traveler
Randolph B.
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Children
The Burgess Bird Book for Children
Thornton W.
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History
Roman Public Life
A scholarly survey of the institutions of ancient Rome, its magistrates, assemblies, senate, and law, explaining how the Republic and Empire were actually governed.
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History
The Legacy of Greece: Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Sin
A distinguished collection of essays surveying what the modern world owes to ancient Greece, from philosophy and science to art, literature, and religion.
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Adventure
Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled
Hudson Stuck's vivid record of winter journeys by dog sled across Alaska, a missionary-explorer's account of the far North, its trails, peoples and unforgiving cold.
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Essays
Hobson-Jobson
The famous Anglo-Indian glossary that traces how words like bungalow, shampoo, curry and pyjama passed from India into English, part dictionary, part treasure-house of colonial enc
$8.00
Fiction
Western Characters
A vivid gallery of frontier types drawn from the border life of the American West, sketching the settlers, adventurers and originals who peopled a raw and changing land.
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Non-fiction
Astronomy for Amateurs
Camille Flammarion's beloved introduction to the night sky, written to make the heavens accessible to anyone willing to look up.
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Non-fiction
India, Its Life and Thought
A historically revealing survey of Indian society and religion, best read today with attention to its missionary-colonial perspective.
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Essays
The Communist Manifesto
The short, incendiary pamphlet by Marx and Engels that reframed history as a struggle between classes.
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Children
The Burgess Animal Book for Children
Thornton Burgess's charming natural-history storybook, introducing young readers to the birds and mammals of the American wild through the gentle lessons of Mother Nature and her w
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History
Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror
A contemporary account of the catastrophic 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, gathering the terrible events into a single dramatic record.
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Non-fiction
Roget's Thesaurus
The most famous word-finder in the English language: Peter Mark Roget's great map of meaning, grouping the tongue's riches by idea rather than alphabet.
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Classics
Microcosmography
A witty gallery of English character sketches from the early seventeenth century, portraying types high and low with sharp observation and dry humour.
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Classics
Apology
Plato’s compact defense of Socrates joins courtroom speech to enduring questions about philosophy and conscience.
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Biography & Memoir
Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Res
Solomon Northup's searing 1853 memoir: a free Black man from New York, lured south and kidnapped into slavery in Louisiana, endures twelve years in bondage before his desperate str
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Classics
The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypos
Robert Boyle's landmark 1661 dialogue challenges the old doctrines of the alchemists and Aristotelians, pressing the questions that would help turn alchemy into modern chemistry.
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History
Seneca Fiction, Legends, and Myths: Thirty-Second Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology; 1910-1911
Seneca Fiction, Legends, and Myths: Thirty-Second Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology; 1910-1911 is a polished DotBooks classic tale collection for readers who want w
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History
Comic History of the United States
Bill Nye’s illustrated satirical history turns major episodes of the American past into brisk, deadpan comic sketches.
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History
A History of Elizabethan Literature
George Saintsbury's sweeping survey of the golden age of English writing, from its poets and dramatists to its prose.
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Non-fiction
A Treatise on Domestic Economy; For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School
Catharine Esther Beecher’s influential nineteenth-century manual blends household management, health guidance, moral instruction, and practical advice for domestic life and educati
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Biography & Memoir
Slave Narratives
First-person testimony of enslaved and formerly enslaved people, preserving in their own words the experience of bondage, resistance and the long reach toward freedom in America.
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Biography & Memoir
A Little English Gallery
Louise Imogen Guiney's A Little English Gallery gathers graceful literary portraits of Lady Danvers, Henry Vaughan, George Farquhar, Beauclerk and Langton, and William Hazlitt.
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Non-fiction
All about coffee
William H.
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History
Warships and their story
A popular history of the fighting ship, tracing how vessels of war evolved across the ages.
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History
The Beginnings of Poetry
A scholarly inquiry into where poetry comes from, tracing verse back to song, ritual and the communal life of early peoples.
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History
Famous Affinities of History
A collection of the great love stories of history, retelling the famous romances and attachments of kings, queens, and celebrated figures.
$8.00
Children
Folklore as an Historical Science
A pioneering argument that folklore, the tales, customs, and beliefs of a people, can be read as genuine historical evidence.
$7.50
Essays
Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson's founding essay of American Transcendentalism, arguing that the natural world is the visible face of spirit.
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Art & Design
History of Indian and Eastern Architecture
James Fergusson's monumental survey of the architecture of India and the East, tracing temples, monuments, and building traditions across centuries.
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Essays
Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence
A landmark anthology of speeches and orations by Black Americans, gathering the great voices of abolition, uplift, and civil rights in a testament to African American eloquence and
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