Requested Books - Posted to PG

The books in this list were requested by DP users and have since been posted to PG.

A

Abbott, George Frederick

• Israel in Europe

Abbott, Jacob

• Cousin Lucy at Play
• Cousin Lucy at Study

Abbott, Lyman

• * An Illustrated Commentary on the Gospel according to St. John

Abrojal, Tulis

• An Index Finger

Adams, Henry (Brooks)

• History of the United States of America (9 vol.)
  • Vol. 1
  • Vol. 2
  • Vol. 3
  • Vol. 4
  • Vol. 5
  • Vol. 6
  • Vol. 7
  • Vol. 8
  • Vol. 9

Adams, Henry Cadwallader

• The History of the Jews (1887)

Adams, Capt. J. F. C.

• Lightning Jo: The Terror of the Santa Fe Trail

Addison, Charles G.

• The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple

Aegineta, Paulus

• The Seven Books of Paulus Ægineta Aegineta, Paulus (3 volumes; English with Latin)
  • Vol. 1
  • Vol. 2
  • Vol. 3

Aiken, Albert W.

• Dead Shot: The White Vulture

Aimard, Gustave

• De pelsjagers van de Arkansas: Tafereelen uit de wouden en prairien van Amerika (Dutch)

Alighieri, Dante

• The New Life

A.L.O.E.

• The Triumph Over Midian

American Lady

• Genevra; or, The history of a portrait

Anonymous

• The life and Surprising Exploits of Jack Sheppard

B

Barham, Richard

• The Ingoldsby Legends

Barrie, J. M.

• A Kiss for Cinderella

Bell, Clive

• Since Cézanne

Bentham, Jeremy

• Not Paul, but Jesus

Bonsels, Waldemar

• The Adventures of Maya the Bee

Bounds, Edward M.

• Essentials of Prayer
• Power Through Prayer
• Prayer and Praying Men
• Purpose in Prayer
• Reality of Prayer

Bowen, Marjorie

• The Viper of Milan (1906) A Romance of Lombardy.
• God and the King (1911)
• The Master of Stair (1907)
• The Quest of Glory (1912) British edition Methuen. A novel of Richelieu and the Thirty Years War.
• The Rake's Progress (1912) A tragic romance of mid-18th Century England.
• God's Playthings (1913)
• Kings-at-Arms (1919) US edition Dutton & Co. A novel of Tsar Peter the Great.
• Prince and Heretic
• The Governor of England

Bronte, Charlotte

• Shirley

Bruce, James

• Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile
  • Vol. 1 of 5
  • Vol. 2 of 5
  • Vol. 3 of 5
  • Vol. 4 of 5
  • Vol. 5 of 5

Bruce, Mary Grant

• Norah of Billabong
• From Billabong to London
• Jim and Wally
• Captain Jim
• A Little Bush Maid

Burton, John Hill

• The Book-Hunter

Busch, Wilhelm

• Bildergeschichten

C

Cable, Mildred

• The fulfilment of a dream of Pastor Hsi's

Capablanca, José Raúl

• Chess Fundamentals

Carpenter, William

• One Hundred Proofs that the Earth is Not A Globe (1885)

Carroll, Lewis

• Sylvie and Bruno Concluded and its matching pair Sylvie and Bruno

Cavendish, Margaret

• The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World (1666)

Chambers, Robert

• Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844)

Chateaubriand, François-René de

• Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe
  • Vol 1
  • Vol 2
  • Vol 3
  • Vol 4
  • Vol 5

Chaucer, Geoffrey

• Chaucer's Works
  • Volume 1 — Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems
  • Volume 2 — Boethius and Troilus
  • Volume 3 — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales
  • Volume 4 — The Canterbury Tales (1892
  • Volume 5 — Notes to the Canterbury Tales (2nd ed)
  • Volume 6 — Introduction, Glossary, and Indexes (1894)
  • Volume 7 — Chaucerian and Other Pieces (1897)

Chopin, Kate

• Bayou Folk
• A Night in Acadie

Chorier, Nicholas

• Aloisiae Sigeae Toletanae Satyra Sotadica de arcanis Amoris et Veneris

Christie, Agatha

• The Hunter's Lodge Case
• The Man in the Brown Suit
• The Missing Will
• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
• The Murder on the Links
• The Mysterious Affair At Styles
• The Plymouth Express Affair
• Poirot Investigates
• Secret Adversary
• The Secret of Chimneys

Cibber, Colley

• An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Written by Himself

Clements, Frederic E.

• Research Methods in Ecology

Cooper, Jacob Calvin

• Walnut Growing in Oregon

Corbett, Elizabeth Burgoyne

• When the Sea Gives Up Its Dead: A Thrilling Detective Story

Couperus, Louis

• Eline Vere (Dutch)
• Eline Vere (English; Translated by J. T. Grein. London: Chapman, 1892)

Crawford, F. Marion

• A Rose of Yesterday
• Khaled: A Tale of Arabia
• Love in Idleness: A Tale of Bar Harbor
• Pietro Ghisleri
• The Ralstons
• The Three Fates
• To Leeward

Croll, James

• Stellar Evolution and Its Relations to Geological Time

D

Dalton, John

• A New System of Chemical Philosophy
  • Vol. 2

de Bergerac, Cyrano

• A Voyage to the Moon

Defoe, Daniel

• Roxana, the fortunate mistress; or, A history of the life of Mademoiselle de Beleau
• The History of the Devil
• The King Of Pirates. Being An Account of the Famous Enterprises of Captain Avery With Lives of other Pirates & Robbers

de Fontenelle, Bernard

• Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes (Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds)

Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

• Bibliomania; or Book-Madness

Dixon, William Hepworth

• Het Vrije Rusland (Free Russia) (Dutch)
• Free Russia

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

• The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia
• White Nights and Other Stories

Drachmann, A.B.

• Atheism in Pagan Antiquity

Dudeney, Henry

• Amusements in Mathematics
• The Canterbury Puzzles

E

Eddison, Eric Ruecker

• The Worm Ouroboros : a Romance (1922)

Elton, Charles Isaac

• The great book-collectors (1893)

F

Farrar, Frederic William

• Eric, or Little by Little

Fletcher, William Younger

• English Book Collectors

Fielding, Henry

• An Apology for the life of Mrs Shamela Andrews

Fisher, Irving; Fisk, Eugene Lyman

• How to Live; rules for healthful living, based on modern science. (ca. 1910)

Fonseca, Jose de

• English as She is Spoke: or, A jest in sober earnest.

Freytag, Gustav

• Debit and Credit (Soll und Haben in English translation). New York: Harper and Brothers, 1858 Google

(the edition requested was posted November 2006 -- the German hasn't been done yet, though)

Fuller, Andrew Samuel

• The Nut Culturist: A Treatise on Propogation, Planting, and Cultivation of Nut Bearing Trees and Shrubs Adapted to the Climate of the United States

Futrelle, Jacques

• The Problem of Cell 13 (alt. The Thinking Machine)

G

Gage, Matilda Joslyn

• Woman, Church, and State

Garnett, Richard

• The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales

Gautier, Theophile

• Ménagerie intime (French)
• My Private Menagerie

Gilmore, James

• James Gilmour of Mongolia

Gosse, Philip Henry

• Omphalos

Graham, Harry

• Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes

Gruelle, Johnny

• Raggedy Andy Stories
• Raggedy Ann Stories
• Friendly Fairies

H

Hatteras, Owen

[pseudonym for H.L. Mencken and G. J. Nathan]

• Pistols for Two

Hazlitt, William Carew

• The Book-Collector

Henty, G. A.

• A Chapter of Adventures; Or Through the Bombardment of Alexandria, 1891
• A Final Reckoning: A Tale of Bush Life in Australia, 1887
• A Roving Commission, 1900
• A Search for a Secret, Vol 1, Vol 2, Vol 3
• A Soldier's Daughter & other stories, 1906
• All But Lost
  • Vol. 1
  • Vol. 2
  • Vol. 3
• At Aboukir and Acre: A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt, 1899
• At the Point of the Bayonet: A Tale of the Mahratta War, 1901
• Both Sides the Border: A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower, 1899
• By Conduct and Courage: A Story of the Days of Nelson, 1904
• By Right of Conquest; Or, With Cortez in Mexico
• Captain Bayley's Heir A Tale of the Gold Fields of California, 1889
• Condemned as a Nihilist A Story of a Great Deception, 1895
• Dorothy's Double. The Story of a Great Deception
  • Vol. 1
  • Vol. 2
  • Vol. 3
• Facing Death, 1882
• For Name and Fame; Or Through Afghan Passes, 1886
• For the Temple: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem, 1888
• Friends Though Divided: A Tale of the Civil War
• Held Fast for England: A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779 - 83), 1892
• In Greek Waters: A Story of the Grecian War of Independence (1821 - 1827), 1893
• In the Hands of the Cave Dwellers, 1903
• In the Hands of the Malays, and Other Stories
• In the Heart of the Rockies: A Story of Adventure in Colorado
• Maori and Settler: A Story of The New Zealand War, 1891
• March to Magdala
• No Surrender! A Tale of the Rising in La Vendée, 1914
• On the Irrawaddy: A Story of the First Burmese War, 1896
• On the Pampas; Or, The Young Settlers
• Out on the Pampas Or, The Young Settlers
• Out with Garibaldi: A Story of the Liberation of Italy, 1900
• Redskin and Cow-boy: A Tale of the Western Plains, 1891
• Sturdy and Strong How George Andrews Made His Way
• St. George for England
• St. George for England: A Tale of Cressy and Poitiers
• The Cat of Bubastes: A Tale of Ancient Egypt
• The Curse of Carne's Hold: A Tale of Adventure
• The Lost Heir
• The Young Colonists: A Tale of the Zulu and Boer Wars
• Those Other Animals
• Through Russian Snows: A Story of Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow
• Through the Sikh War: A Tale of the Conquest of the Punjaub, 1893
• To Herat and Cabul: A Story of the First Afghan War, 1892
• With Roberts to Pretoria: A Tale of the South African War, 1901
• With the Allies to Pekin: A Story of the Relief of the Legations
• With the British Legion: A Story of the Carlist Wars, 1902
• Yule-Tide Yarns

Heyer, Georgette

• Black Moth

Hippo, Augustine of

• City of God
  • Vol. 1
  • Vol. 2

Hoffmann, E.T.A.

• Lebensansichten des Katers Murr

Hoffmann, Nina

• Eine biographische Studie

Holmes, Mary J.

• Chateau d'Or, Norah, and Kitty Craig
• Daisy Thornton
• Doctor Hathern's Daughters: A Story of Virginia, in Four Parts
• Edith Lyle
• Edna Browning; or, the Leighton Homestead
• Forrest House
• Gretchen
• Hugh Worthington
• Jessie Graham
• Madeline
• Marian Grey: or, the Heiress of Redstone Hall
• Meadow Brook
• Mildred
• Millbank: or, Roger Irving's Ward
• Mrs. Hallam's Companion; and The Spring Farm, and Other Tales
• Paul Ralston
• Queenie Hetherton
• Rena's Experiment
• Rose Mather
• The Abandoned Farm, and Connie's Mistake
• The Merivale Banks
• The Tracy Diamonds
• West Lawn, and The Rector of St. Mark's

Hrotsvitha

• Théâtre de Hrotsvitha

Huber, François

• New observations on the natural history of bees. Edinburgh:J. Anderson, 1806.

Hudson, William Henry

• Idle Hours in a Library (1897)

Hunter, George William

• A Civic Biology: Presented in Problems

I

Irving, Washington

• Old Christmas : from the Sketch book of Washington Irving (DP project)
  • This book, published in 1886 and illustrated by Randolph Caldecott.
  • http://www.archive.org/details/oldchristmas00irviarch
  • The same book is available in PG without the illustrations.
  • It would be great if we can do the book with Randolph Caldecott's illustrations.

J

Jackson, Helen

• A Century of Dishonor

Jekyll, Gertrude

• Wood and Garden

Jenner, Edward

• An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolæ Vaccinæ

Johnson, Allen

• Chronicles of America
  • Dutch and English on the Hudson: A Chronicle of Colonial New York Goodwin, Maud Wilder (Vol. 7)
  • The Paths of Inland Commerce; A Chronicle of Trail, Road, and Waterway Hulbert, Archer Butler (Vol. 21)
  • The Forty-Niners: A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado White, Stewart Edward (Vol. 25)
  • The Passing of the Frontier: A Chronicle of the Old West Hough, Emerson (Vol. 26)
  • The Anti-Slavery Crusade: A Chronicle of the Gathering Storm Macy, Jesse (Vol. 28)
  • Abraham Lincoln and the Union: A Chronicle of the Embattled North Stephenson, Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright) (Vol. 29)
  • The Day of the Confederacy: A Chronicle of the Embattled South Stephenson, Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright) (Vol. 30)
  • Captains of the Civil War: A Chronicle of the Blue and the Gray Wood, William (Vol. 31)
  • The Sequel of Appomattox: A Chronicle of the Reunion of the States Fleming, Walter L. (Walter Lynwood) (Vol. 32)
  • The American Spirit in Literature: A Chronicle of Great Interpreters Perry, Bliss (Vol. 34)
  • Our Foreigners: A Chronicle of Americans in the Making Orth, Samuel Peter (Vol. 35)
  • The Old Merchant Marine: A Chronicle of American Ships and Sailors Paine, Ralph Delahaye (Vol. 36)
  • The Age of Invention: A Chronicle of Mechanical Conquest Thompson, Holland (Vol. 37)
  • The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States Moody, John (Vol. 38)
  • The Age of Big Business: A Chronicle of the Captains of Industry Hendrick, Burton Jesse (Vol. 39)
  • The Armies of Labor: A Chronicle of the Organized Wage-Earners Orth, Samuel Peter (Vol. 40)
  • The New South: A Chronicle of Social and Industrial Evolution Thompson, Holland (Vol. 42)
  • The Boss and the Machine: A Chronicle of the Politicians and Party Organization Orth, Samuel Peter (Vol. 43)
  • The Agrarian Crusade: A Chronicle of the Farmer in Politics Buck, Solon J. (Solon Justus) (Vol. 45)
  • The Path of Empire: A Chronicle of the United States as a World Power Fish, Carl Russell (Vol. 46)
  • Theodore Roosevelt and His Times: A Chronicle of the Progressive Movement Howland, Harold (Vol. 47)
  • Woodrow Wilson and the World War: A Chronicle of Our Own Times Seymour, Charles (Vol. 48)
  • The Canadian Dominion: A Chronicle of Our Northern Neighbor Skelton, Oscar D. (Oscar Douglas) (Vol. 49)
  • The Hispanic Nations of the New World: A Chronicle of Our Southern Neighbors Shepherd, William R. (William Robert) (Vol. 50)

K

Kafka, Franz

• In der Strafkolonie

L

Langland, William

• The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman, vol 1
• The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman, vol 2

Langstroth, Lorenzo Lorraine

• Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee: A Bee Keeper's Manual

Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent

• Elements of Chemistry

Lee, Albert

• The Call Of The Night Rider

Lewis, Angelo John

• Modern Magic: a Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring
• Latest Magic: Being Original Conjuring Tricks

Lewis, Dio

• Our Girls

M

Macaulay, Thomas Babington

• Essay and Speech on Jewish Disabilities

Marcet, Jane

• Conversations on Chemistry

Mayer, Andreas

• Abhandlung des Daseyns der Gespenster, nebst einem Anhange vom Vampyrismus

Melville, Herman

• Moby Dick (multiple versions)
  • • etext:15
    • etext:2489
    • etext:2701
    • etext:9147 (audio)

Mencken, Henry Louis

• A Book of Prefaces
• George Bernard Shaw: His Plays
• The American Language: A Preliminary Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States
• The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

Merryweather, Frederick Somner

• Bibliomania in the Middle Ages

Meyrink, Gustav

• The Golem (Der Golem)

Mill, John Stuart

• The Subjection of Women
• On Liberty

Milne, Alan Alexander

• Once a Week
• Once on a Time
• When We were very Young

Mitchell, John Ames

• La lasta Usonano: fragmento el la Taglibro de Kan-Li, princo de Dimf-ju-cur kaj admiralo en la Persa maristaro (Esperanto)

Möbusz, Albin

• Dokumentoj de Esperanto: informilo pri la historio kaj organizo de la esperanta movado

Muller, Julius

• The Invasion of America: a fact story based on the inexorable mathematics of war

Muller, Samuel

• Geschiedenis van de Noordsche Compagnie (Dutch)

Multatuli

• Max Havelaar (English)
• Max Havelaar (German)

Murray, Andrew

• Humility: The Beauty of Holiness (EN)
• Absolute Surrender (EN)

N

Nesbit, Edith

• The Magic City
• The Book of Dragons
• New Treasure Seekers
• The Magic World
• Harding's Luck
• Man and Maid
• Grim Tales
• Wet Magic
• The House of Arden: A Story for Children

Newton, Rev. John

• Thoughts upon the African slave trade

Norton, Andre

• The Gifts of Asti
• Ralestone Luck
• The People of the Crater

Norwich, Julian of

• Revelations of Divine Love

Notovitch, Nicolas

• The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ

O

Orczy, Baroness Emmuska (d. 1947)

• The Pimpernel and Rosemary
• The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel

Owen, Luella Agnes

• Cave Regions of the Ozarks and Black Hills

P

Pisan, Christine de

• Le trésor de la cité des dames de degré en degré et de tous estatz

Playfair, John

• Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth

Q

Quitard, Pierre Marie

• Dictionnaire étymologique, historique et anecdotique des proverbes et des locutions proverbiales de la Langue Française en rapport avec de proverbes et des locutions proverbiales des autres langues (French)
• Proverbes sur les femmes, l'amitié, l'amour et le mariage (French)

R

Radcliffe, Ann

• The Italian, or the confessional of the black penitents
  • Vol. 1
  • Vol. 2
• The Romance of the Forest

Reid, Captain Mayne

• Valkoinen hevonen (Finnish)

Riis, Jacob A.

• How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York

Roberts, William

• Printers' Marks: A Chapter in the History of Typography

Rolleston

• Keltic Myths and Legends (under alternate title, Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race+
  • Dutch version: etext:18305

Row, Agnes Eliza

• Alias: Sister Agnes
• Fairy Tales Told in the Bush

Russell, C.W.

• The Life of Cardinal Mezzofanti; with an Introductory Memoir of Eminent Linguists, Ancient and Modern

S

Sa'di, Shaikh Muslihu-d

• The Bustan of Sadi (Edwards, A. Hart, translator)

Sanchez, Nellie Van de Grift

• The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson
  • published 1920
  • author is her sister
  • author was born 1856; died 1935.
  • mention of it here

Sayers, Dorothy L. (d. 1957)

• Oxford Poetry (editor)
  • 1917
  • 1919
• Whose Body?

Sidney, Margaret

• Ben Pepper (1905)
• Five Little Peppers At School (1903)
• Five Little Peppers in the Little Brown House (1907)
• Our Davie Pepper (1916)
• Phronsie Pepper (1897)
• The Stories Polly Pepper Told (1899)

Smith, Harry and Smith, G.C. Moore

• The Autobiography of Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Smith

Staunton, Howard

• The Blue Book of Chess: Teaching the Rudiments of the Game, and Giving an Analysis of All the Recognized Openings

Steiner, Rudolf

• The Way of Initiation: or How to Attain Knowledge of the Higher Worlds

Stephens, James

• The Demi-Gods (London & New York, Macmillan) 1914

Sterne, Laurence

• The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Stevenson, Fanny Van de Grift

• The Cruise of the Janet Nichol

Swieten, Gerard van

• Abhandlung des Daseyns der Gespenster, nebst einem Anhange vom Vampyrismus (with Mayer, Andreas)
• Vampyrismus

T

Thoreau, Henry David

• A Yankee in Canada: with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers

Tihlä, Hilda

• Kuopus ja muita kertomuksia (Finnish)

Timūr

• The Mulfuzāt Timūry: Autobiographical memoirs of the Moghul emperor Timūr

Trollope, Anthony

• Ayala's Angel
• The American Senator
• The Bertrams
• Christmas at Thompson Hall
• The Fixed Period
• Is He Popenjoy?
• Kept in the Dark
• Lady Anna
• The Landleaguers
• Lotta Schmidt, and Other Stories
• The Macdermots of Ballycloran
• Marion Fay
• Mary Gresley, and An Editor's Tales
• Miss Mackenzie
• Orley Farm
• Rachel Ray
• Ralph the Heir
• Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblewaite
• South Africa
  • Vol. I
  • Vol. II
• The Struggles of Brown, Jones and Robinson
• Tales of All Countries
• Travelling Sketches
• La Vendée
• The Vicar of Bullhampton
• Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices, and Other Stories

V

Vanbrugh, Sir John

• Plays
  • Volume 1
  • Volume 2

Vasari, Giorgio

• The Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects (1912-15, transl. Gaston du C. de Vere)
  • Vol 1
  • Vol 2
  • Vol 3
  • Vol 4
  • Vol 5
  • Vol 6
  • Vol 7
  • Vol 8
  • Vol 9
  • Vol 10

Veblen, Thorstein

• The Instinct of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts

Voltaire

• Candide
• Notes de Voltaire et de Condorcet sur les Pensées de Pascal

W

Wallace, Edgar

• The Clue of the New Pin
• The Green Rust
• The River of Stars
• The Secret House

Washington, Booker T.

• Character Building: Being Addresses Delivered on Sunday Evenings to the Students of Tuskegee Institute
• My Larger Education: Being Chapters from My Experience
• The Man Farthest Down: A Record of Observation and Study in Europe
• The Story of My Life and Work by Booker T. Washington
• Working with the Hands: Being a Sequel to "Up from Slavery," Covering the Author's Experiences in Industrial Training at Tuskegee

Webster, Jean

• Daddy Long Legs
• Jerry
• Jerry Junior
• Just Patty
• Much Ado About Peter
• The Four Pools Mystery
• The Wheat Princess
• When Patty Went to College

Wilberforce, William

• The Private Papers of William Wilberforce
• A letter on the abolition of the slave trade

Williams, Roger

• A Key into the Language of America (1643)
• The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution, for Cause of Conscience (1644)
• Experiments of Spiritual Life and Health, and their Preservatives (1652)

Withering, William

• An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses

Wodehouse, P. G.

• Leave it to Psmith

Wordsworth, William

• The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume I
• The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume II
• The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume III
• The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume IV
• The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume V
• The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume VI
• The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume VII
• The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume VIII

Y

Yonge, Charlotte M.

• History of Christian Names