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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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Stanley G.

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A lively Victorian travelogue journeying across Finland by horse and cart, observing its landscapes, customs, and people.

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L.M.

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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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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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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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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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George MacDonald's tender Victorian fantasy.

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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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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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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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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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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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The concluding volume of G.

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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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Hans Christian Andersen’s tales mingle enchantment, wit, sorrow, and moral sharpness in one of the great story collections for all ages.

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Another warm-hearted installment in Margaret Sidney's beloved Five Little Peppers series, following the lively Pepper children as they face the trials, friendships, and lessons of

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The complete lyric world of Scotland's national poet, from tender love songs to biting satire.

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The final volume of Ford Madox Ford's trilogy on Katharine Howard, following her rise and peril at the treacherous court of Henry VIII.

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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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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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A scholarly study of the craft and theory of English verse, examining metre, rhythm, rhyme, and poetic form.

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A gathering of short stories by Anton Chekhov, master of the modern form.

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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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A collection of sensational true and traditional tales from the age of sail, gathering accounts of shipboard revolt, bloody crime, and piracy on the high seas.

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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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A work of Reformed theology examining the biblical practice of covenanting, the solemn binding of a people to God.

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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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A collection of essays surveying the richness of Jewish literary and cultural history, from the scholarly pen of Gustav Karpeles.

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A gathering of eerie and supernatural tales, where the ordinary world thins at the edges and something strange steps quietly through.

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The great Middle English romance in which Sir Gawain accepts a mysterious stranger's deadly game, and rides out to keep a bargain that will test his courage, courtesy and truth to

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Robert E.

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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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A collection of short fiction gathered under the title of its lead story, "Changeling." A set of tales to be discovered on their own terms by the curious reader.

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A woman's diary of marriage, motherhood and hard weather on the Canadian prairie, told with candour and dry humour as domestic strain tests a homesteading household.

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Melville’s final novel turns a Mississippi steamboat into a shifting satire of trust, fraud, charity, and self-invention.

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A classic, clear-eyed manual on the craft of binding books and keeping them well.

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A novel of the heart from an earlier era, by Annie Gregg Savigny.

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Anthony Trollope's last completed novel, a quiet, tender study of an ageing man's love for his young ward and the claims that youth and honour make on the heart.

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The six surviving comedies of Rome's most elegant playwright, rendered into plain English prose with helpful notes.

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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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The third volume of James Tod's monumental Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, his pioneering history of the Rajput states, their dynasties, traditions and antiquities in central

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The essential companion to Homer: Hesiod's poems of the gods and the farming year, the Homeric Hymns, and the surviving fragments of early Greek epic.

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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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A lively popular-science account of astronomy's wonders and the myths that have gathered around the heavens.

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Petronius's outrageous, fragmentary Roman satire of appetite and excess, following disreputable wanderers through a vivid, decadent world of the early empire.

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A first-person memoir tracing the arc of a life from its beginnings onward.

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A classic study of Geoffrey de Mandeville and the anarchy of King Stephen's reign, using one turbulent baron's career to illuminate a chaotic chapter of medieval England.

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An early family biography of Jane Austen, drawing on her surviving letters to trace the quiet life behind the novels and the woman who wrote them.

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The gathered notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, a dazzling record of one of history's greatest minds at work.

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Edward J.

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Lucretius's magnificent philosophical poem, which sets out an atomist vision of a universe made of matter and void, aiming to free the mind from fear of the gods and of death.

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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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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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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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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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Henryk Sienkiewicz's sweeping medieval epic of Poland and the Teutonic Knights, culminating in the clash of arms that would decide a kingdom's fate.

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Frank R.

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