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Gertrude Bloede ("Stuart Sterne," 1845-1905) corresponded with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and was praised and promoted by Richard Grant White of the New York Times

St. John Emile Clavering Hankin (1869-1909) was a British Edwardian essayist and playwright who was a major proponent of Edwardian "New Drama" along with George Bernard Shaw and John Galsworthy. This volume contains The Two Mr. Wetherbys, The Return of the Prodigal, and The Charity that Began at Home.

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) was an American abolitionist and author, best known for Uncle Tom's Cabin which depicted life for African-Americans under slavery, reached millions as a novel and play, and energized anti-slavery forces in the American North. The Minister's Wooing is a historical romance set in 18th-century New England; the novel satirizes the Calvinism Stowe had grown up with.

Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) published Louise de la Valliere originally with The Vicomte de Bragelonne (sometimes called Ten Years Later, a continuation of the D'Artagnan Romances), and The Man in the Iron Mask.

Winston Churchill (1871-1947) was an American novelist, often confused with the British Prime Minister during WWI. Famous long before the British Churchill, his second novel, Richard Carvel, sold as many as two million copies in a nation of only 76 million. The Crossing, his fifth novel, was set in the America of Lewis and Clark, Daniel Boone, and General Andrew Jackson

Julia Dent Grant Cantacuzène Spiransky, Princess Cantacuzène, Countess Spiransky, (1876-1975) was an American author and the first-born grandchild of Ulysses S. Grant, born in the White House during her grandfather's presidency. Princess Cantacuzène authored of three first-person accounts of the events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917. As the wife of the Chief of Staff to Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia, she was in a primary position to observe both the Imperial and Bolshevik positions during the Revolution.

Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins (1863-1933) was an English novelist and playwright best known for The Prisoner of Zenda. The Great Miss Driver is a departure from Hope's usual adventure stories, The New York Times called it a "society novel" and said that "the fighting is all done in a drawing room, and the chief character is a woman" who contends manfully for her objective.

William Murray Graydon (1864-1946) was a prolific American writer of adventures stories for the young. Although the title sounds like a fairy tale, The Princess of the Purple Palace follows the efforts of two boys to rescue a princess during the 1898-1901 Boxer Rebellion in China.

Francis Bret Harte (1836-1902) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California. Cressy is set in Tuolumne County, California, and chronicles the growing pains of a former mining camp turned town.

This collection presents four influential works from the Free Theater movement, which revolutionized modern drama by breaking away from conventional norms. It showcases the innovation of playwrights who explored social realism, experimental narrative structures, and challenged the boundaries of bourgeois morality. These plays offer a window into the artistic and ideological shifts of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, representing a pivotal moment in the evolution of the theater.This collection contains The Fossils by Francois de Curel, The Serenade by Jean Jullien, Francoise' Luck by Georges de Porto-Riche, and The Dupe, by Georges Ancey.

François Pierre Guillaume Guizot (1787-1874) was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot is famous for saying "Not to be a republican at 20 is proof of want of heart; to be one at 30 is proof of want of head"

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was the third President of the United States and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson was one of the most influential Founding Fathers, known for his promotion of the ideals of republicanism and democracy in the United States.

Henry Kitchell Webster (1875-1932) wrote 27 novels, one play, and hundreds of short stories. The Real Adventure was made into a film in 1922.

Walter Horatio Pater (1839-1894) was an English essayist, critic of art and literature, and writer of fiction. In his philosophical novel Marius the Epicurean (1885), an extended imaginary portrait set in the Rome of the Antonines, Pater examines the "sensations and ideas" of a young Roman of integrity, who pursues a life based on the pursuit of sensations and ideas as an ideal in itself.

Francis Marion Crawford (1854-1909) was an American writer noted for his many novels, especially those set in Italy, and for his classic weird and fantastic stories. Set chiefly in Rome of the late 1860s, Saracinesca details the spiritual and economic problems of the aristocracy at a time when its influence and status were under attack from the emerging forces of modernity.

Jules Gabriel Verne 1828-1905) was a French Breton author who pioneered the science-fiction genre and is best known for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and Around the World in Eighty Days. This volume contains "A Trip to the Center of the Earth" -- a non-traditional translation of the title -- and one of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras -- The English at the North Pole.

Sir Walter Besant (1836-1901) was an English novelist and historian, known for his championing the plight of the poor and his support of younger writers.

Laure Junot, Duchesse d'Abrantès (1784-1838) was the wife of a French general and friend of Napoleon Bonaparte from 1794 onward. This second volume of this gossipy memoirs covers Napoleon from being First consul through his coronation, and his 1807 return to Paris.

Israel Zangwill (1864-1926) was a British-Jewish humorist and writer, perhaps best known for his play, The Melting Pot. When it which opened in Washington D.C. in 1909, President Theodore Roosevelt leaned over the edge of his box and shouted, "That's a great play, Mr. Zangwill, that's a great play." He is also know for his picaresque novel, The King of the Schnorrers, and The Big Bow Mystery -- the first locked room murder novel.. In The Next Religion, written in 1912, Zangwill attacked traditional religion and what he called the new religion--"the Revelation of Science" and "the God of Law" -- which he thought would become as ritualistic and dogmatic as the old.

German immigrant Eugene Dietzgen (1862-1929) founded his own Chicago engineering supply house in 1885. This 1930 pamphlet describes how best to use their drafting and drawing kits.

Ottilie Adelina Liljencrantz (1876-1910) was a novelist, known for her most popular works of Norse fiction, including The Thrall of Leif the Lucky: A Story of Viking Days, and The Ward of King Canute: A Romance of the Danish Conquest.

The Lehigh Valley Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society compiled this 1966 History of the Lehigh Valley Transit Company, beginning with the horse-drawn cars in 1868 Allentown.

This April 1927 bulletin was produced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Henry Lewis Bullen (1857-1936) was a typography historian and devoted himself to advancing the printing craft. Bullen founded the Typography Library and the Museum of the American Type Founders Company.

H. Noel Williams (1870-1925) was a biographer who specialized in the prominent women of French history.

In this detailed and candid historical account, the Duc de Saint-Simon offers an insider's perspective on the reign of Louis XIV and the Regency period that followed. This second volume continues to reveal the inner workings of the French court, chronicling the intrigue, political maneuvering, and personal rivalries that shaped the era. Saint-Simon's sharp observations and personal insights make this memoir a rich resource for understanding the complexities of 18th-century French aristocracy.Louis de Rouvroy (1675-1755), commonly known as Saint-Simon was a French soldier, diplomatist and writer of memoirs, who influenced many writers, including Tolstoy, Flaubert, and Proust.

Peachtree Mound and Village Site, Cherokee County, North Carolina, by Frank M. Setzler and Jesse D. Jennings, with Appendix: Skeletal Remains from the Peachtree Site, North Carolina, by T. D. Stewart, 1941.

Tobacco Among the Karuk Indians of California by John P. Harrington, 1932. In English and Karok.