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History

The Evolution of Marriage and of the Family

by Charles Letourneau

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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Adventure

The Young Alaskans on the Missouri

A boys' outdoor adventure that sends its young companions down the historic Missouri, mixing wilderness craft, river travel and American frontier history for eager young readers.

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Fiction

Astounding Stories, May, 1931

A single issue of the legendary pulp magazine from the golden dawn of science fiction, packed with tales of adventure, invention, and the unknown.

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Adventure

Desert Conquest

by A. M. Chisholm

A novel whose title evokes the struggle to master a hard, arid land, a story set against the frontier's contest between people, water, and unforgiving country.

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Fiction

The Creators

by May Sinclair

A novel about the lives, loves, and rivalries of writers and artists, exploring the demands of the creative vocation.

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Biography & Memoir

My Bondage and My Freedom

by Frederick Douglass

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

by Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler's spirited examination of theories of evolution, championing the earlier evolutionists against Darwin's account of natural selection.

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Adventure

The Emerald City of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

Dorothy, Aunt Em, and Uncle Henry settle in Oz as Baum combines domestic warmth, comic fantasy, and an invasion plot.

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Fiction

English Eccentrics and Eccentricities

by John Timbs

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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Adventure

Paul Patoff

by F. Marion Crawford

A novel of intrigue and human passions from F.

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Nature & Environment

Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained

by Moses Quinby

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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Fiction

Astounding Stories, August, 1931

A vintage issue of the legendary pulp magazine Astounding Stories, packed with the science fiction adventures that thrilled readers in the genre's early heyday.

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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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Fiction

Nicanor - Teller of Tales

by C. Bryson Taylor

A historical romance set in the twilight of Roman Britain, following a gifted teller of tales through love and upheaval as an old order gives way.

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Adventure

Shadows in Zamboula

by Robert E. Howard

Robert E.

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Non-fiction

Influences of Geographic Environment: On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography

Ellen Churchill Semple's influential treatise argues that geography shapes human history and society, adapting Friedrich Ratzel's system of anthropo-geography for the English-speak

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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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Biography & Memoir

The Memoirs of Admiral Lord Beresford

Charles Beresford recalls a life spanning the late Victorian and Edwardian Royal Navy, from sea service and colonial campaigns to a public career in Parliament.

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Adventure

The People of the Black Circle

by Robert E. Howard

Robert E.

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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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Drama

Flamsted quarries

by Mary E. Waller

A novel set against the granite quarries of rural New England, following lives bound to the land and the stone they cut from it.

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Fiction

Sketches New and Old

by Mark Twain

A collection of Mark Twain's short comic pieces and sketches, ranging from tall tales to satire, showcasing the wit, mischief, and sharp social observation that made him America's

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Non-fiction

The Elements of Style

by William Strunk Jr.

William Strunk Jr.’s compact style guide remains a crisp, practical classic on clarity, usage, and revision.

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Adventure

An Undivided Union

A rousing juvenile adventure set against the American Civil War, following young soldiers through the trials of the Blue and the Gray.

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Adventure

The Red True Story Book

by Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang trades fairy tales for true ones in this companion to his famous colour-titled series: real episodes from history retold with a storyteller's flair.

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Non-fiction

A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory

by Albert Taylor Bledsoe

Albert Taylor Bledsoe's searching work of theology and philosophy, which confronts the ancient problem of evil and seeks to defend the justice, goodness and glory of God against it

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Adventure

Peter and Wendy

by J. M. Barrie

J.

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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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Biography & Memoir

Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans

Plutarch's celebrated parallel biographies of the great figures of Greece and Rome.

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Adventure

Shadows in the Moonlight

Robert E.

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Biography & Memoir

The Black Hawk War Including a Review of Black Hawk's Life

by Stevens, Frank Everett

Frank Everett Stevens's detailed history of the 1832 Black Hawk War, with an account of the Sauk leader Black Hawk's life.

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Adventure

A Martian Odyssey

by Stanley G. Weinbaum

Stanley G.

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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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Children's

The Story Girl

by L. M. Montgomery

L.M.

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Children

Child-Land: Picture-Pages for the Little Ones

A charming illustrated book for young children, gathering pictures and simple pages meant to delight the very youngest readers and those who read aloud to them.

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Essays

The Humbugs of the World

by P. T. Barnum

P.

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Adventure

The Dash for Khartoum

by G. A. Henty

A rousing Victorian adventure set against the Nile campaign in the Sudan, following young heroes into danger, duty, and the dust of desert warfare.

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Children's

The Goose Man

by Jakob Wassermann

A German novel of a musician torn between art, love and a stifling provincial world, tracing an artist's ambitions and failures with searching psychological depth.

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Classics

Imaginary Conversations and Poems

Walter Savage Landor's celebrated prose dialogues, in which historical and legendary figures meet across the centuries to argue, reflect, and confide, gathered here with a selectio

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Children

At the Back of the North Wind

by George MacDonald

George MacDonald's tender Victorian fantasy.

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Classics

The Republic of Plato

by Plato

Plato’s great dialogue on justice, education, power, and the shape of an ideal city remains one of the defining books of political thought.

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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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Adventure

Wanderfoot

by Cynthia Stockley

A novel of restless hearts and far horizons, following characters whose lives are shaped by travel, longing, and the pull of distant places.

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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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Adventure

The Aeneid of Virgil

by Virgil

Virgil’s epic of exile, destiny, war, and empire follows Aeneas from the ruins of Troy toward the founding myth of Rome.

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Crime

The Mysteries of London, v. 4/4

The concluding volume of G.

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