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Humor
Roughing It
Mark Twain's uproarious account of his years in the American West, from stagecoach and silver mine to newspaper desk.
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Non-fiction
The Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant's revolutionary masterwork asks what the mind can truly know, redrawing the limits of reason and reshaping the course of Western philosophy.
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$9.00
Adventure
The Air Pirate
An early aviation adventure of daring, danger, and villainy in the skies, from the pioneering age of flight.
$9.00
History
Ancient States and Empires: For Colleges and Schools
A survey of the great civilisations of the ancient world, written for students.
$9.00
Biography & Memoir
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete
Ulysses S.
$8.50
Adventure
Catriona
Robert Louis Stevenson continues David Balfour’s adventures through kidnapping, legal peril, divided loyalties, romance, and Jacobite intrigue with wit and momentum.
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Adventure
Kidnapped
Robert Louis Stevenson's breathless Scottish adventure, in which a robbed orphan is flung into a Highland flight across moor and mountain after the Jacobite rising, bound to a dang
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History
The Governments of Europe
A comprehensive survey of European political systems by Frederic Austin Ogg, describing the constitutions, institutions and everyday workings of the continent's governments.
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Children
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult
The great medieval love story retold with grace and passion: a knight, a queen, a fatal potion, and a love that defies king, honour, and death itself, one of the founding legends o
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Adventure
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
Howard Pyle's classic retelling of the Robin Hood legend, gathering the greenwood's finest tales of daring, disguise and good cheer into one rousing, richly told adventure.
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Children
River Legends
A gathering of legends and tales bound to the world of rivers and their waters.
$8.50
History
Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
Mary Rowlandson's gripping first-person account of her capture during King Philip's War and her weeks among her Native captors.
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Essays
Love and Freindship [sic]
Jane Austen, barely a teenager, takes a scalpel to the sentimental novel.
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Essays
Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre
A gathering of the essays, poems and lectures of Voltairine de Cleyre, one of American anarchism's most eloquent voices.
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Classics
The Book of Ballads: Eleventh Edition, 1870
A Victorian gathering of ballads, drawing on the long tradition of narrative song and verse.
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Children's
Dainty's Cruel Rivals
A romantic melodrama in the popular tradition, its title promising jealousy, rivalry and a heroine beset by scheming enemies.
$9.50
Biography & Memoir
The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete
The complete diary of Samuel Pepys, an incomparably vivid, gossipy and honest record of London in the 1660s, from plague and Great Fire to the small daily pleasures of an ambitious
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Adventure
The Blue Lagoon
Henry De Vere Stacpoole's famous romance of two children shipwrecked on a Pacific island, who grow to adulthood in innocent isolation and discover love, nature and the pull of the
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Non-fiction
Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding
Leibniz's chapter-by-chapter reply to Locke, cast as a philosophical dialogue on the origins and limits of knowledge.
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Fiction
Moods
A nineteenth-century American novel of the inner life, tracing a young woman's shifting temperament as she navigates love, marriage, and the pull of conflicting affections.
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Biography & Memoir
Apologia pro vita sua : $b being a history of his religious opinions
John Henry Newman's celebrated spiritual autobiography, tracing with candour and eloquence the long development of his religious opinions and his path toward Rome.
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Classics
I. Beowulf
The great Old English epic, sung in a mead-hall world of monsters, gold, and doom.
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Essays
Essays on the Latin Orient
A historian's studies of the Crusader and Latin states of the medieval eastern Mediterranean, examining the Frankish rulers, islands and principalities of a fascinating borderland.
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Science Fiction
Space Station 1
A work of science fiction whose title promises the drama of an orbiting outpost, where isolation, danger, and human ingenuity meet the challenges of space.
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Children
Modern Greek Folklore and Ancient Greek Religion
A scholarly study tracing the threads between the customs, songs and superstitions of modern rural Greece and the beliefs of the ancient world.
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Humor
Pamphlets and Parodies on Political Subjects
A collection of political pamphlets and parodies, using satire, wit and pointed argument to skewer the issues and figures of their day.
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Non-fiction
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
A classic single-volume dictionary of the English language from the renowned Edinburgh house of Chambers.
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Children
The Camp Fire Girls Solve a Mystery
An entry in the popular early-twentieth-century series following a group of Camp Fire Girls as they turn detective.
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Art & Design
The Doré Bible Gallery, Complete: Containing One Hundred Superb Illustrations, and a Page of Explanatory Letter-press Fa
A complete gallery of Gustave Doré's magnificent Bible illustrations, one hundred dramatic engravings with explanatory text.
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Fiction
Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Courtship
A gathering of Victorian short fiction on the theme of courtship, in which love is pursued, tested and negotiated within the manners, hopes and constraints of nineteenth-century En
$9.50
Children
Hypnerotomachia
A strange and sumptuous Renaissance dream-romance, in which a lover wanders through allegorical landscapes of ruins, gardens, and enigmatic architecture in pursuit of his beloved.
$8.50
Fiction
Hungry Hearts
Vivid stories of Jewish immigrant life on New York's Lower East Side, told with hunger, hope, and unsparing feeling.
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Non-fiction
The Genealogy of Morals
Nietzsche's fierce polemic tracing where our ideas of good and evil actually came from.
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Children
Boys and Girls Bookshelf
A classic anthology gathering stories, poems, and readings chosen to delight and instruct young readers.
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Fiction
Cynthia's Chauffeur
A light romantic adventure from the early motoring age, in which a young woman's journey by automobile leads to entanglements of the heart.
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Adventure
The Silent Barrier
Louis Tracy’s alpine romance-thriller of chance encounter, concealed motive, social performance, and danger in the high Engadine.
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Biography & Memoir
Twenty Years of Hus'ling
A brisk American memoir of enterprise and hard graft, recounting two decades of the itinerant salesman's life — the roads, the deals, the setbacks and the pluck that carried them t
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Children
The Egyptian Book of the dead
The ancient Egyptian funerary texts guiding the soul through the perils of the afterlife.
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Classics
Sonnets from the Portuguese
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's celebrated sequence of love sonnets, among the most cherished in English.
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Non-fiction
Manual of Military Training: Second, Revised Edition
A comprehensive early twentieth-century handbook of soldiering, covering drill, tactics, equipment and the practical craft of military life.
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Biography & Memoir
Biographia Literaria
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's landmark of literary autobiography and criticism, blending the story of his intellectual life with profound reflections on poetry, imagination, and philos
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Fiction
The innocence of Father Brown
The first collection of G.K.
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Fiction
I am a woman
A book announced by its title as a statement of self and identity.
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Non-fiction
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
A comprehensive official veterinary manual on the ailments of the horse, describing their causes, symptoms and treatment for a world that still depended on horsepower in the most l
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Science Fiction
The Crack of Doom
An early scientific romance in which knowledge itself becomes a weapon, and a fanatic threatens to unmake the world.
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Classics
Symposium
A drinking party in ancient Athens becomes a contest of speeches in praise of love.
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Art & Design
The Crown of Wild Olive: also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici
A gathering of John Ruskin's lectures and essays on work, wealth, art, and honor.
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Classics
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
William Blake's twinned cycles showing the two contrary states of the human soul.
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History
History of the inductive sciences, from the earliest to the present time
William Whewell's landmark survey of how the natural sciences developed, tracing the growth of physics, astronomy, chemistry and more from antiquity to the nineteenth century as a
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Adventure
Lorna Doone
R.
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Fiction
Doctor Cupid
A romantic novel of the Victorian era, tracing the entanglements and misunderstandings of love among its characters.
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Adventure
The Gay Adventure
A light-hearted novel in the older sense of "gay" — bright, spirited, and comic.
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Horror
The Dunwich horror
H.
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History
The Religious Experience of the Roman People: From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
W.
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Art & Design
Rambles of an archæologist among old books and in old places : $b Being papers on art, in relation to archæology, painti
A genial Victorian collection of papers on art, archaeology, and antiquity, wandering among old books and old places: essays on how art and everyday life illuminate the past.
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Biography & Memoir
Susan B. Anthony: Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian
A biography of Susan B.
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Classics
The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus
Two masterworks of the Roman historian Tacitus: the Germania, an ethnography of the tribes beyond the Rhine, and the Agricola, a biography of his father-in-law and the conquest of
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Fiction
On the Cross
A novel that carries the weight of its title into a story of faith, sacrifice and the reckonings people make when they believe something larger is watching.
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Non-fiction
In the forbidden land : $b an account of a journey into Tibet, capture by the Tibetan lamas and soldiers, imprisonment
A gripping first-person account of a perilous journey into forbidden Tibet, ending in capture, imprisonment, and hardship at the hands of Tibetan authorities: a classic tale of exp
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Biography & Memoir
Shakespeare's family
A scholarly inquiry into the relations, ancestry and descendants of William Shakespeare, patiently sifting parish records, wills and documents to reconstruct the ordinary family th
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