On War
Carl von Clausewitz, J. J. Graham - undifferentiated, F. N. Maude
Published 1873
600 pages
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The Way We Live Now
Anthony Trollope
1875 · 1876 edition
664 pages
The Vicar of Wakefield
Oliver Goldsmith
1836 · 1869 edition
190 pages
Rob Roy
Walter Scott
Published 1899
496 pages
Anabasis
Xenophon, Alpheus Crosby
1845 · 1881 edition
206 pages
Doctor Thorne
Anthony Trollope
Published 1879
462 pages
King John
William Shakespeare
Published 1864
554 pages
Sailing Alone Around the World
Joshua Slocum
1970 · 2006 edition
316 pages
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Edmund Burke
Published 1890
568 pages
The American
Henry James, Lee Clark Mitchell, Taylor Anderson, GP Editors, William Spengemann
Published 1877
486 pages
Roughing it
Mark Twain
Published 1872
616 pages
What Katy Did Next
Susan Coolidge
Published 1886
350 pages
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
Published 1871
526 pages
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners ...
John Bunyan
Published 1888
318 pages
Plutarch's Lives
Plutarch
1823 · 1899 edition
442 pages
Essays
Francis Bacon
Published 1875
700 pages
For the Term of His Natural Life
Marcus Clarke
Published 1895
490 pages
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
1886 · 1897 edition
466 pages
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Robert Burton
Published 1870
484 pages
The Two Noble Kinsmen
John Fletcher
Published 1876
200 pages
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Robert Burton
1893 · 1896 edition
588 pages
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
Albert Pike
Published 1871
882 pages
In search of duende
Federico García Lorca
Published 1998
99 pages
The heart of Mid-Lothian
Walter Scott
Published 1893
474 pages