Kathleen Moore
251 books
Essays & Short Works
1.5K
G. K. Chesterton - Uses of Diversity
A collection of 35 essays by G.K. Chesterton originally published in his weekly columns in «The Illustrated London News» and the «New Witness». The subjects vary greatly from lamp posts to Jane Austen's Emma, from «On...
5 hours 37 minutes
Published 1800 -1900
1.4K
George W. M. Reynolds - Mysteries of London Vol. IV
The Mysteries of London was a best-selling novel in mid-Victorian England, published in four volumes. This is the fourth and final volume. Initially serialized in weekly installments, they were the forerunners of...
45 hours 55 minutes
Crafts & Hobbies
1.2K
Michael Combrune - Theory and Practice of Brewing
This is an elaborate treatise on how to brew beer. That art is as noble today as it was in 1761, when this book was first published, and Mr. Combrune was a master of his art. After reading his work on this topic, a...
9 hours 23 minutes
General
1.2K
Lurana Sheldon - My Queen: A Weekly Journal for Young Women. Issue 1, Sept 1900
This is the first issue of a wonderful weekly magazine aimed at young women. They each contain a novella following the adventures of Marion Marlowe, «Only a Farmer's Daughter» who went from «Farm to Fortune» and all...
2 hours 32 minutes
Christian Fiction
1.4K
Grace Livingston Hill - Pansies for Thoughts
The young Grace Livingston compiled this book using quotes from her aunt's works; Isabella Macdonald Alden (who wrote under the pen name «Pansy»). It is a quote for each day of the year from one of the «Pansy Books»...
2 hours 53 minutes
Children's Fiction
3.8K
Mark Twain - Adventures of Tom Sawyer (version 3)
An adventure story for children, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a fun-filled book that shows life along the Mississippi River in the 1840s. Written by Mark Twain, the book shows masterfully-done satire, racism,...
7 hours 30 minutes
Single author
1.3K
Madison Cawein - Poems of Madison Cawein Vol 5
This is Volume 5: Poems of Meditation and of Forest and Field of the collected works of Madison Julius Cawein, an American poet from Kentucky. It begins with the long poem Intimations of the Beautiful and falls into...
7 hours 58 minutes
Crafts & Hobbies
1.1K
Thomas Barlow Wood - Story of a Loaf of Bread
According to the author in the preface, he has «ventured to write this little book with some diffidence, for it deals with farming, milling and baking, subjects on which everyone has his own opinion.» The earlier...
3 hours 28 minutes
