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Plays

Plays

A collection of dramatic works gathered in a single volume, offering the pleasures of the stage on the page.

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Three hundred Aesop’s fables: Translated by George Fyler Townsend

Three hundred Aesop’s fables: Translated by George Fyler Townsend

Aesop's timeless fables in George Fyler Townsend's classic Victorian translation, three hundred brief tales in which animals speak and act out the enduring lessons of human folly,

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Treatise on Poisons: In relation to medical jurisprudence, physiology, and the practice of physic

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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The Pantropheon

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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The Ballad of the White Horse

The Ballad of the White Horse

G.K.

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The Secret of the Night

The Secret of the Night

A tense mystery of intrigue and hidden danger, in which a young investigator must unravel a deadly conspiracy shrouded in secrecy.

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Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

M.

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The Yellow Crayon

The Yellow Crayon

An Edwardian thriller by E.

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Cruel as the grave

Cruel as the grave

A dramatic tale of love, jealousy and dark secrets in the sensational tradition, its title drawn from the old warning that jealousy is cruel as the grave.

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The Book-Hunter

The Book-Hunter

A witty, affectionate celebration of book collecting and the peculiar breed who pursue rare volumes.

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Trial by water

Trial by water

A novel titled Trial by Water, offered here for readers to discover.

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The Man in the Brown Suit

The Man in the Brown Suit

A young woman witnesses a death in a London Underground station and follows a cryptic clue aboard a liner bound for South Africa, launching one of Agatha Christie's most dashing ea

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The Reign of Greed

The Reign of Greed

José Rizal's darker sequel to Noli Me Tangere, in which a returned exile plots amid corruption and colonial cruelty, hastening a nation toward its reckoning.

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Set in Silver

Set in Silver

A charming period romance of travel and courtship, in which a journey becomes the setting for misunderstanding, disguise and the slow blossoming of love.

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A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580

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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The Phantom 'Rickshaw, and Other Ghost Stories

The Phantom 'Rickshaw, and Other Ghost Stories

A collection of Rudyard Kipling's early supernatural and uncanny tales, set largely in colonial India, where the heat, the isolation and the guilt of the living conjure visitors wh

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The Expositor's Bible

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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The rose of old St. Louis

The rose of old St. Louis

A historical romance set in old St.

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Friday, the Thirteenth

Friday, the Thirteenth

Thomas W.

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The Bābur-nāma in English

The Bābur-nāma in English

The candid memoirs of Babur, founder of the Mughal empire, in English translation.

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Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete

Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete

The complete essays of Montaigne, the writer who invented the form: a lifelong, endlessly curious inquiry into himself and, through himself, into what it means to be human.

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The history of England, from the accession of Henry III. to the death of Edward III

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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Under the Red Dragon

Under the Red Dragon

A Victorian adventure novel of soldiering, love and loyalty, its title carrying the red dragon of a regimental banner into war and romance.

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Robert Elsmere

Robert Elsmere

A landmark Victorian novel of religious doubt, following a clergyman whose faith is shaken by the questions of his age.

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The Entailed Hat

The Entailed Hat

A sprawling historical novel of the old Delmarva country, drawing on the notorious kidnapping trade that preyed on free Black people along the border between slave and free states

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Twenty-Five Ghost Stories

Twenty-Five Ghost Stories

A gathering of short supernatural tales for a shivery evening, hauntings, apparitions and uncanny visitations collected in the classic manner of the ghost-story anthology.

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The Dop Doctor

The Dop Doctor

A sprawling wartime novel set against a South African siege, following a disgraced doctor and the woman whose fate crosses his.

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Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught: Comprising instructions in the selection and preparation of drawing instruments, element

Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught: Comprising instructions in the selection and preparation of drawing instruments, element

A practical self-instruction manual in mechanical drawing, guiding the beginner from choosing and preparing drawing instruments through the fundamentals of technical draughtsmanshi

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Pygmalion

Pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw's sharp, funny drama of a phonetics professor who wagers he can pass a flower girl off as a duchess by remaking her speech.

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Just Around the Corner: Romance en casserole

Just Around the Corner: Romance en casserole

A collection of warm, humane short stories of ordinary city life and the small dramas of the heart, finding romance and feeling in the everyday corners of the modern world.

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The Mystery of the Yellow Room

The Mystery of the Yellow Room

Gaston Leroux’s pioneering locked-room mystery follows Joseph Rouletabille into an impossible crime, a country-house labyrinth, and a duel of reason against deception.

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History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4): Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government

History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4): Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government

The opening volume of the official British history of the South African War of 1899 to 1902, compiled by government direction: the origins, opening moves, and early campaigns of th

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The Tale of Peter Rabbit

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Beatrix Potter's perfect little book about a naughty rabbit, a forbidden vegetable garden, and a very close escape.

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Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions

Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions

A wide-ranging comparative study arguing that many biblical stories echo the myths of older and other religions.

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The Long Roll

The Long Roll

Mary Johnston's sweeping Civil War novel following Confederate soldiers, including the campaigns of Stonewall Jackson, through the ordeal of the American war.

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Howards End

Howards End

E.

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The Consolation of Philosophy

The Consolation of Philosophy

Boethius, awaiting execution, is visited by Philosophy herself, who consoles him with timeless reflections on fortune, happiness, and the highest good.

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Characteristics of Women: Moral, Poetical, and Historical

Characteristics of Women: Moral, Poetical, and Historical

Anna Jameson's pioneering nineteenth-century study of Shakespeare's heroines, examining the women of the plays, from Portia and Juliet to Lady Macbeth, as fully realized characters

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A History of Art for Beginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture

A History of Art for Beginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture

Clara Erskine Clement Waters's accessible survey of the great arts — painting, sculpture and architecture — written to guide beginners through the story of human creativity.

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The Bishop of Cottontown

The Bishop of Cottontown

A novel of the American South set amid the world of cotton, faith, and community.

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Manures and the principles of manuring

Manures and the principles of manuring

A thorough treatise on manures and the science of enriching the soil.

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Adventures of a Young Naturalist

Adventures of a Young Naturalist

Lucien Biart's account of a boy's natural-history adventures in the wilds of Mexico.

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Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases

Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases

Peter Mark Roget's landmark thesaurus organises the English language by idea rather than alphabet, an ingenious map of meaning that has helped writers find the right word for well

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An Historical Sketch of Sacerdotal Celibacy in the Christian Church

An Historical Sketch of Sacerdotal Celibacy in the Christian Church

Henry Charles Lea's landmark history of clerical celibacy, tracing the long and contested development of the Church's discipline of the unmarried priesthood.

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The Murder on the Links

The Murder on the Links

Summoned to France by a frightened millionaire, Hercule Poirot arrives too late to prevent a murder and finds himself matching wits with a proud French detective, in one of Agatha

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Paul Clifford — Complete

Paul Clifford — Complete

Edward Bulwer-Lytton's dramatic novel of a young man drawn into a life of crime as a gentleman highwayman, opening with the most famous stormy night in fiction and building into a

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Zoonomia

Zoonomia

Erasmus Darwin's ambitious treatise on the laws of organic life, blending medicine, biology, and bold speculation about how living things change.

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The Seven Dials Mystery

The Seven Dials Mystery

A practical joke at a country house ends in death, and the irrepressible Bundle Brimble finds herself chasing a secret society through 1920s England in one of Agatha Christie's bre

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The Red House Mystery

The Red House Mystery

A country-house murder, a locked-room puzzle and an amateur sleuth with a sharp eye and a lighter touch: A.A.

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India's Love Lyrics

India's Love Lyrics

Lush, longing, unmistakably late-Victorian verse of romance and India, written under the name Laurence Hope.

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Fox's Book of Martyrs: Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant; Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs

Fox's Book of Martyrs: Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant; Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs

John Foxe's famous Book of Martyrs recounts the lives, sufferings and deaths of Christian martyrs, above all the Protestants of the Reformation, a work that shaped English religiou

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Washington Confidential

Washington Confidential

A sensational mid-century exposé of the American capital, pulling back the curtain on politics, power, money and vice in Washington.

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Lysistrata

Lysistrata

Aristophanes' riotous anti-war comedy, in which the women of Greece stage a sex strike to force their husbands to lay down arms.

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The Daughter of Anderson Crow

The Daughter of Anderson Crow

A lively small-town tale centered on a colorful local figure and the mystery surrounding a young woman in his care.

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The magic of jewels and charms

The magic of jewels and charms

A richly detailed exploration of the lore, legend, and supposed powers of precious stones and amulets.

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Time Crime

Time Crime

A brisk piece of classic science fiction built on the idea of crime that reaches across time itself.

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The Roman assemblies from their origin to the end of the Republic

The Roman assemblies from their origin to the end of the Republic

A meticulous study of how the Roman Republic actually voted.

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The House on the Borderland

The House on the Borderland

William Hope Hodgson's visionary tale of horror and cosmic wonder, in which a remote house becomes the threshold to unimaginable forces.

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The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman

The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman

Laurence Sterne's gloriously digressive comic novel, forever wandering off the point.

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Mr. Standfast

Mr. Standfast

John Buchan's rousing First World War thriller, the third Richard Hannay adventure, sending its hero undercover through a Britain riddled with espionage on the trail of a dangerous

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