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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.
Biography & Memoir
The Life of Friedrich Schiller: Comprehending an Examination of His Works
Thomas Carlyle's admiring life of the great German poet and dramatist Friedrich Schiller, with a searching study of his plays, poetry, and thought.
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The Economic Aspect of Geology
A survey of geology in its practical and economic dimension, examining how the earth's minerals, ores, fuels and materials underpin industry, wealth and the workings of a modern ec
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History
Pagan and Christian Rome
A vivid archaeological journey through the Eternal City as it passed from pagan antiquity to Christianity, tracing the temples, tombs, and monuments where two worlds met and merged
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Crime
The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Jo
The trial record of the notorious 1814 Stock Exchange fraud, in which Lord Cochrane and others stood accused of spreading false news to manipulate the markets: a landmark case of f
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The Nuttall encyclopædia : $b being a concise and comprehensive dictionary of general knowledge
A compact single-volume reference of general knowledge, the Nuttall Encyclopaedia offers brief, wide-ranging entries on people, places, ideas and events, a snapshot of learning fro
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Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber : $b or, The influence of Romanism on trade, justice, and knowledge
A nineteenth-century polemical travel narrative journeying from the Alps to Rome, arguing a critical case about the influence of the Roman Catholic Church on commerce, law and lear
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History
The Every-day Book and Table Book, v. 1 (of 3): or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremon
William Hone's beloved Every-Day Book, an almanac of British customs, festivals, folklore and popular amusements arranged through the calendar year, this first volume brimming with
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Biography & Memoir
Up from Slavery
Booker T.
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Adventure
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
The firsthand record of one of history's great expeditions, as Meriwether Lewis and William Clark cross the North American continent, charting rivers, peoples, wildlife and landsca
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Non-fiction
The Twilight of the Idols
Nietzsche's swift, incendiary late work, a philosophy delivered with a hammer.
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History
A Class-Book of New Testament History
A Victorian teaching text by G.
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Children
Anecdotes of Dogs
A nineteenth-century treasury of true and traditional tales about dogs, gathered to celebrate their loyalty, courage, and uncanny intelligence.
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History
The Johnstown Horror!!!
A vivid contemporary account of the 1889 Johnstown Flood, when a failed dam sent a wall of water through a Pennsylvania valley and killed thousands.
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History
Fishing from the Earliest Times
A scholarly and affectionate history of angling in the ancient world, tracing how the peoples of antiquity fished the rivers and seas.
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Non-fiction
The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid
The foundational text of geometry, presenting Euclid's first six books of the Elements with their definitions, propositions and proofs.
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Non-fiction
A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive
John Stuart Mill's foundational treatise on reasoning, evidence, and the methods of science.
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Classics
Cicero's Tusculan Disputations: Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth
Three of Cicero's great philosophical works together, the Tusculan Disputations on how to live and die well, On the Nature of the Gods on religion, and On the Commonwealth on the j
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History
On War
On War by Carl von Clausewitz is the monumental modern classic on strategy, uncertainty, politics, friction, and the enduring logic of armed conflict.
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Essays
Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients
Francis Bacon's celebrated Essays paired with his Wisdom of the Ancients, gathering some of the shrewdest prose in English.
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Non-fiction
The Problems of Philosophy
Bertrand Russell's classic short introduction to philosophy, a lucid, invigorating guide to the deepest questions about knowledge, reality and the limits of what we can be sure we
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Biography & Memoir
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott: From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford
Sir Walter Scott's private journal, printed from the manuscript at Abbotsford, is one of the great diaries in English, candid, courageous and moving as the celebrated novelist face
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Classics
Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The private meditations of the Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher, written for himself alone.
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Essays
Critical and Historical Essays: Lectures delivered at Columbia University
Edward MacDowell's lectures on music, delivered at Columbia University, in which the celebrated American composer reflects on the history and meaning of his art with a practitioner
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History
A History of Roman Classical Literature
A comprehensive survey of the great writers of ancient Rome, from Plautus and Cicero to Virgil, Horace, and Ovid, tracing the rise and flowering of Latin literature.
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Biography & Memoir
Charles Frohman: Manager and Man
A biography of Charles Frohman, the great American theatrical producer who shaped Broadway and the London stage before his death aboard the Lusitania.
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Non-fiction
An Elementary Study of Chemistry
A foundational chemistry textbook by William McPherson and William Edwards Henderson, introducing the elements, reactions, and laws of the science to beginning students.
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History
From Chaucer to Tennyson
A concise survey of English literature from the medieval age to the Victorian era, tracing its major writers and movements across five centuries.
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Non-fiction
Expositions of Holy Scripture: Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters; I to End. Colossians, Thessaloni
A volume of careful, warm-hearted biblical exposition covering Second Corinthians, Galatians, Philippians, Colossians, and the letters that follow: scripture opened passage by pass
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Humor
Following the Equator
Mark Twain circles the globe on a lecture tour, notebook in hand, turning ocean crossings, colonial outposts and human folly into wry, watchful travel writing edged with anger.
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History
Belgium: From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day
Emile Cammaerts's sweeping history of Belgium, tracing the fortunes of a small but pivotal European land from ancient times to the modern era.
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Non-fiction
Popular Education: For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes
A guide to education for parents, teachers and the young themselves — setting out principles for the forming of mind and character in a spirit of broad instruction.
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Non-fiction
On Growth and Form
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's landmark work reveals the mathematics and physics behind the shapes of living things, uniting biology, geometry, and beauty.
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Fiction
Alcohol
A study of alcohol, its nature, effects, and place in human life.
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Non-fiction
Civics and Health
An early twentieth-century educational text linking good citizenship with public and personal health.
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History
The Choctaw Freedmen and the Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy
A history of the Choctaw Freedmen, formerly enslaved by the Choctaw Nation, and the founding of Oak Hill Industrial Academy to educate their children.
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History
The Frontier in American History
Frederick Jackson Turner's landmark essays advancing the frontier thesis, arguing that the moving edge of settlement shaped American democracy and character.
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Art & Design
Contemporary American Composers
A survey of American composers of its era, offering portraits of the musicians shaping the nation's serious music.
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Non-fiction
The Birth of Tragedy
Nietzsche's daring first book, which finds the origins of Greek tragedy in the clash between the Apollonian and the Dionysian.
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Children
Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race
A stirring retelling of the great heroic legends of Britain, from Beowulf to the deeds of Arthur and beyond.
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History
Byzantine Constantinople, the walls of the city and adjoining historical sites
Alexander van Millingen's classic survey walks the great land walls of Constantinople stone by stone, tracing the defences that guarded the Byzantine capital for a thousand years a
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Essays
Pascal's Pensées
Blaise Pascal's unfinished masterpiece: fragments toward a defence of faith by one of history's great mathematical minds.
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History
The Story of Paris
A narrative history of Paris, tracing the city's growth from its origins through the centuries of its splendour.
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Fiction
Treatise on Poisons: In relation to medical jurisprudence, physiology, and the practice of physic
A foundational nineteenth-century treatise on poisons, examining their action, detection, and effects in relation to medical jurisprudence, physiology, and medical practice: a land
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History
The Pantropheon
A grand nineteenth-century history of food and its preparation in the ancient world, roaming across the tables of Greece, Rome, and beyond.
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Essays
The Book-Hunter
A witty, affectionate celebration of book collecting and the peculiar breed who pursue rare volumes.
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Non-fiction
A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580
A scholarly reference to the vocabulary of Middle English, glossing the words of Chaucer's age and beyond.
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Non-fiction
The Expositor's Bible
A volume from the celebrated series of scholarly yet accessible commentaries on the books of the Bible.
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History
The history of England, from the accession of Henry III. to the death of Edward III
A narrative history of medieval England spanning the reigns from Henry III to Edward III, a formative age of parliaments, wars and the making of the nation's institutions.
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