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"The Kingdom of God Is Within You" — Leo Tolstoy
"Wee Tim'rous Beasties": Studies of Animal life and Character — Douglas English
"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea — Morgan Robertson
1000 Mythological Characters Briefly Described — Edward Sylvester Ellis
1601: Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors — Mark Twain
1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue — Francis Grose
1900; or, The last President — Ingersoll Lockwood
A battle piece — Ernest Haycox
A Beginner's History of Philosophy, Vol. 2: Modern Philosophy — Herbert Ernest Cushman
A Book About Lawyers — John Cordy Jeaffreson
A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies — Bartolomé de las Casas
A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 — J. M. D. Meiklejohn
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I — Augustus De Morgan
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II — Augustus De Morgan
A cat book — E. V. Lucas
A Child's Garden of Verses — Robert Louis Stevenson
A Christian Directory, Part 1: Christian Ethics — Richard Baxter
A Christmas Carol — Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol — Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas — Charles Dickens
A Class-Book of New Testament History — G. F. Maclear
A Classification and Subject Index for Cataloguing and Arranging the Books and Pamphlets of a Library — Melvil Dewey
A Collection of Essays and Fugitiv Writings — Noah Webster
A Color Notation — A. H. Munsell
A Complete History of Music — W. J. Baltzell
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court — Mark Twain
A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád' — Cherágh Ali
A Defence of Poesie and Poems — Philip Sidney
A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays — Percy Bysshe Shelley
A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century — Anonymous
A Diplomat in Japan — Ernest Mason Satow
A Discourse of a Method for the Well Guiding of Reason — René Descartes
A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A Dog's Tale — Mark Twain
A Doll's House : a play — Henrik Ibsen
A fatal silence, vol. 1 (of 3) — Florence Marryat
A First Spanish Reader — Erwin W. Roessler & Alfred Remy
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 01 — Robert Kerr
A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis — Sigmund Freud
A General View of Positivism — Auguste Comte
A Girl of the Limberlost — Gene Stratton-Porter
A guide to modern cookery — A. Escoffier
A guide to the history of physical education — Fred Eugene Leonard
A Guide to the Study of Fishes, Volume 2 (of 2) — David Starr Jordan
A happy woman — Amy Le Feuvre
A Harmony of the Gospels for Students of the Life of Christ — A. T. Robertson & John Albert Broadus
A Heart-Song of To-day (Disturbed by Fire from the 'Unruly Member'): A Novel — Annie G. Savigny
A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times. — Henry Sampson
A History of Architecture in all Countries, Volume 1, 3rd ed. — James Fergusson
A History of Architecture in All Countries, Volume 2, 3rd ed. — James Fergusson
A History of Architecture in all Countries, Volumes 1 and 2, 3rd ed. — James Fergusson
A History of Art for Beginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture — Clara Erskine Clement Waters
A History of Art in Ancient Egypt, Vol. 1 (of 2) — Georges Perrot & Charles Chipiez
A history of art in Chaldæa & Assyria, Vol. 1 (of 2) — Georges Perrot & Charles Chipiez
A History of Babylon, from the Foundation of the Monarchy to the Persian Conquest — L. W. King
A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art — Thomas Wright
A History of Chinese Literature — Herbert Allen Giles
A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe, from the earliest texts to the present day. Volume 1 (of 3), Classical and mediæval criticism — George Saintsbury
A history of economic doctrines — Charles Gide & Charles Rist
A History of Elizabethan Literature — George Saintsbury
A history of England principally in the seventeenth century, Volume 1 (of 6) — Leopold von Ranke
A history of England principally in the seventeenth century, Volume 2 (of 6) — Leopold von Ranke
A history of English literature — Edward Albert
A History of English Versification — Jakob Schipper
A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 1 (of 2) — Charles Creighton
A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 2 (of 2) — Charles Creighton
A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3 — George Elliott Howard
A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 2 of 3 — George Elliott Howard
A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 3 of 3 — George Elliott Howard
A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy — Isaac Husik
A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 3 of 3 — Spencer Fullerton Baird et al.
A History of Roman Classical Literature. — R. W. Browne
A History of Sanskrit Literature — Arthur Anthony Macdonell
A history of the administration of the Royal Navy and of merchant shipping in relation to the Navy from MDIX to MDCLX, with an introduction treating of the preceding period — M. Oppenheim
A History of the British Army, Vol. 1 — Sir J. W. Fortescue
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 — George Saintsbury
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 — George Saintsbury
A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine — Robert Henry Thurston
A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 1 — Henry Charles Lea
A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume III — Henry Charles Lea
A history of the Japanese people — F. Brinkley & Dairoku Kikuchi
A history of the Peninsular War, Vol. 1, 1807-1809 — Charles Oman
A history of the Peninsular War, Vol. 2, Jan.-Sep. 1809 — Charles Oman
A history of the Peninsular War, Vol. 3, Sep. 1809-Dec. 1810 — Charles Oman
A history of the Peninsular War, Vol. 4, Dec. 1810-Dec. 1811 — Charles Oman
A history of the Peninsular War, Vol. 5, Oct. 1811-Aug. 31, 1812 — Charles Oman
A History of the Philippines — David P. Barrows
A History of the Reformation (Vol. 2 of 2) — Thomas M. Lindsay
A History of the United States — Charles Kendall Adams & William P. Trent
A Honeymoon in Space — George Chetwynd Griffith
A House of Pomegranates — Oscar Wilde
A Japanese Boy — Shigemi Shiukichi
A Journal of the Plague Year — Daniel Defoe
A Journey into the Interior of the Earth — Jules Verne
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth — Jules Verne
A journey to the world under-ground — Ludvig Holberg
A Key Into the Language of America, or an Help to the Language of the Natives in That Part of America Called New-England — Roger Williams
A Labrador Doctor — Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges — George Martin Lane
A Literary History of Ireland, from Earliest Times to the Present Day — Douglas Hyde
A Literary History of the Arabs — Reynold Alleyne Nicholson
A Little English Gallery — Louise Imogen Guiney
A Little Girl in Old Boston — Amanda M. Douglas
A Little Girl in Old New York — Amanda M. Douglas
A Little Girl of Long Ago; Or, Hannah Ann — Amanda M. Douglas
A Little Princess — Frances Hodgson Burnett
A little southern beauty — Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
A Love Story — William Harvey Christie
A Magician Among the Spirits — Harry Houdini
A Manual of Elementary Geology — Sir Charles Lyell
A Manual of Philippine Birds — Richard C. McGregor
A Martian Odyssey — Stanley G. Weinbaum
A Message to Garcia — Elbert Hubbard
A Middle High German Primer — Joseph Wright
A Midsummer Night's Dream — William Shakespeare
A military interlude — Ernest Haycox
A Modest Proposal — Jonathan Swift
A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) — Charles Darwin
A municipal feud — Ernest Haycox
A New Guide for Emigrants to the West — John Mason Peck
A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume 2 (of 6) — Jacob Bryant
A Pair of Blue Eyes — Thomas Hardy
A Pickle for the Knowing Ones — Timothy Dexter
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century — Agnes M. Clerke
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man — James Joyce
A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. — William Wilberforce
A Princess of Mars — Edgar Rice Burroughs
A Prose English Translation of Harivamsha — Anonymous
A Prose English Translation of Vishnupuranam — Anonymous
A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms — Faxian
A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill — Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice
A scarlet poppy, and other stories — Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus with the Encheiridion — Epictetus
A Short History of English Agriculture — W. H. R. Curtler
A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 1 of 2 — J. M. Robertson
A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 2 of 2 — J. M. Robertson
A Short History of French Literature — George Saintsbury
A short history of the printing press and of the improvements in printing machinery from the time of Gutenberg up to the present day — Robert Hoe
A Short History of the World — H. G. Wells
A Short View of the Immorality, and Profaneness of the English Stage — Jeremy Collier
A Shropshire Lad — A. E. Housman
A silent witness — R. Austin Freeman
A Small Boy and Others — Henry James
A Son of the Immortals — Louis Tracy
A Source Book for Ancient Church History — Joseph Cullen Ayer
A Sportsman's Sketches, Volume 2 — Ivan Turgenev
A Study in Scarlet — Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study of Recent Earthquakes — Charles Davison
A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive — John Stuart Mill
A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive, 7th Edition, Vol. I — John Stuart Mill
A Tale of Two Cities — Charles Dickens
A Terrible Temptation: A Story of To-Day — Charles Reade
A Text-book of Entomology — A. S. Packard
A text-book of veterinary anatomy — Septimus Sisson
A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory — Albert Taylor Bledsoe
A Tract on Monetary Reform — John Maynard Keynes
A Tramp Abroad — Mark Twain
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge — George Berkeley
A Treatise of Human Nature — David Hume
A Treatise on Domestic Economy; For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School — Catharine Esther Beecher
A Treatise on Painting — Leonardo da Vinci
A Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and Practical — William Andrew Chatto et al.
A Treatise Upon the Law of Copyright in the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the Crown, — Evan James MacGillivray
A Victor of Salamis — William Stearns Davis
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman — Mary Wollstonecraft
A Voice in the Wilderness — Grace Livingston Hill
A Voyage to Arcturus — David Lindsay
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers — Henry David Thoreau
A Woman of No Importance — Oscar Wilde
A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys — Nathaniel Hawthorne
A young man's story — Sarah Doudney
A Young Mutineer — L. T. Meade
Abroad at Home: American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street — Julian Street
Acadia — Frederic S. Cozzens
Acres of Diamonds: Our Every-day Opportunities — Russell H. Conwell
Adam Bede — George Eliot
Addie's Husband; or, Through clouds to sunshine — Mrs. Gordon Smythies
Adrift in the Ice-Fields — Charles Winslow Hall
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 01 to 05 — Mark Twain
Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health — S. A. D. Tissot
Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes — Aeschylus
Aesop's Fables: A New Revised Version From Original Sources — Aesop
Æsthetic as science of expression and general linguistic — Benedetto Croce
Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller — Friedrich Schiller
Afghanistan — A. Hamilton
Against Apion — Flavius Josephus
Agnes Grey — Anne Brontë
Ahead of the Army — William O. Stoddard
Aids to Reflection; and, The Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Aircraft and Submarines — Willis J. Abbot
Aladdin & Co.: A Romance of Yankee Magic — Herbert Quick
Albert Gallatin — John Austin Stevens
Alchemy: Ancient and Modern — H. Stanley Redgrove
Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why — Martha Meir Allen
Alice, or the Mysteries — Complete — Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland — Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures Under Ground — Lewis Carroll
All about coffee — William H. Ukers
All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography — Ida M. Tarbell
All Things Considered — G. K. Chesterton
Alroy: The Prince of the Captivity — Benjamin Disraeli
Amenities of Literature — Isaac Disraeli
American Indian Stories — Zitkála-Šá
American Notes — Charles Dickens
American politics (non-partisan) from the beginning to date — Thomas V. Cooper & Hector T. Fenton
American Prisoners of the Revolution — Danske Dandridge
Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel — Henri Frédéric Amiel
Among Cannibals: An Account of Four Years' Travels in Australia and of Camp Life With the Aborigines of Queensland — Carl Lumholtz
Amusements in Mathematics — Henry Ernest Dudeney
An Account of Egypt — Herodotus
An account of the manners and customs of the modern Egyptians — Edward William Lane
An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises — George Lyman Kittredge & Frank Edgar Farley
An apology for idlers, and other essays — Robert Louis Stevenson
An Autobiography of Anthony Trollope — Anthony Trollope
An Enemy of the People — Henrik Ibsen
An English Grammar — William Malone Baskervill & James Witt Sewell
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding — David Hume
An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals — David Hume
An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 — John Locke
An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 2 — John Locke
An Essay on Criticism — Alexander Pope
An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires — Alexander Pope
An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine — John Henry Newman
An Essay on the Principle of Population — T. R. Malthus
An Essay Towards a Philosophy of Education: A Liberal Education for All — Charlotte M. Mason
An Historical Sketch of Sacerdotal Celibacy in the Christian Church — Henry Charles Lea
An ideal husband — Oscar Wilde
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations — Adam Smith
An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 3 — William Kirby & William Spence
An Introduction to the History of Western Europe — James Harvey Robinson
An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England — Edward Potts Cheyney
An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry — Robert Browning & Hiram Corson
An Introduction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphs — Sylvanus Griswold Morley
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge — Ambrose Bierce
An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic — Morris Jastrow & Albert Tobias Clay
An Old Man's Love — Anthony Trollope
An Old-Fashioned Girl — Louisa May Alcott
An Undivided Union — Oliver Optic & Edward Stratemeyer
Anabasis — Xenophon
Anarchism and Other Essays — Emma Goldman
Ancient Britain and the Invasions of Julius Caesar — T. Rice Holmes
Ancient law — Sir Henry Sumner Maine
Ancient legends, Mystic Charms & Superstitions of Ireland — Lady Wilde
Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley — E. G. Squier & E. H. Davis
Ancient society — Lewis Henry Morgan
Ancient States and Empires — John Lord
Andersen's Fairy Tales — H. C. Andersen
Andersonville diary — John L. Ransom
Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons — John McElroy
Anecdotes of Dogs — Edward Jesse
Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals — Mrs. R. Lee
Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story — H. G. Wells
Anna Karenina — Leo Tolstoy
Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 — James Tod
Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 2 of 3 — James Tod
Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 3 of 3 — James Tod
Annals of Music in America: A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events — Henry Charles Lahee
Anne of Avonlea — L. M. Montgomery
Anne of Green Gables — L. M. Montgomery
Anne of the Island — L. M. Montgomery
Anne's House of Dreams — L. M. Montgomery
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine — George M. Gould & Walter L. Pyle
Antiquities of the Jews — Flavius Josephus
Antony and Cleopatra — William Shakespeare
Apologia pro vita sua — John Henry Newman
Apology — Plato
Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates — Plato
Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens — G. K. Chesterton
Archæology and the Bible — George A. Barton
Areopagitica — John Milton
Argonauts of the Western Pacific — Bronislaw Malinowski
Aristotle — George Grote
Aristotle's History of Animals — Aristotle
Armenia, Travels and Studies (Volume 1 of 2) — H. F. B. Lynch
Armenia, Travels and Studies (Volume 2 of 2) — H. F. B. Lynch
Arms and the Man — Bernard Shaw
Around the World in Eighty Days — Jules Verne
Arrian on coursing — Arrian
Ars Amatoria; or, The Art Of Love — Ovid
Arsène Lupin intervenes — Maurice Leblanc
As a man thinketh — James Allen
As You Like It — William Shakespeare
Asser's Life of King Alfred — John Asser
Astrology: How to Make and Read Your Own Horoscope — Sepharial
Astronomy for Amateurs — Camille Flammarion
At Aboukir and Acre: A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt — G. A. Henty
At Good Old Siwash — George Fitch
At the Back of the North Wind — George MacDonald
At the Earth's Core — Edgar Rice Burroughs
At the Mountains of Madness — H. P. Lovecraft
At the Sign of the Cat and Racket — Honoré de Balzac
Athelstane Ford — Allen Upward
Audubon and His Journals, Volume 1 — John James Audubon
Audubon the Naturalist: A History of His Life and Time. Vol. 2 (of 2) — Francis Hobart Herrick
Aunt Jo's scrap bag, Volume 2 — Louisa May Alcott
Aurelian; or, Rome in the Third Century — William Ware
Aurora Leigh — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Autobiography — John Stuart Mill
Autobiography of a Yogi — Paramahansa Yogananda
Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie — Andrew Carnegie

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