Books

E. Nesbit’s late poetry collection moves among domestic memory, social protest, love, age, and wartime grief. Its variety makes the title a description of method as well as contents.

H. G. Wells sends an indebted businessman and an absent-minded inventor to the Moon inside a glass-lined steel sphere controlled by shutters of gravity-blocking Cavorite.

Mary Wollstonecraft’s last novel places Maria in a private asylum arranged by her husband, then lets her testimony and Jemima’s life story expose how law, money, marriage, and reputation can confine women across class lines.

Arvid Järnefelt’s Finnish-language novel begins in a rural valley transformed by timber capital, wage labor, and a new sawmill, then places young Heikki between inherited farm life and the industrial world below.

Project Gutenberg’s first ebook joins the Declaration of Independence to the early history of digital reading. Its modern HTML edition preserves an uppercase transcription and adds images of Jefferson’s handwritten drafts.

Written under the shared name Publius, eighty-five essays by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay argued for the proposed United States Constitution while explaining how representation, divided power, and institutional checks were expected to work.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s 1872 novella follows Laura, a young woman living in an isolated Styrian castle, after the mysterious Carmilla becomes a guest in her home. Project Gutenberg provides the complete public-domain text.

Project Gutenberg’s public-domain edition presents English versions of the 1215 charter issued in King John’s name at Runnymede, including clauses on feudal obligations, royal officials, trade, fines, and justice.