The Russian Garland—Being Russian Folk Tales
Translated from a Collection of Chapbooks Made in Moscow. Edited by Robert Steele. Illustrated by J. R. De Rosciszewski. A selection of…
Armenian Massacres, or the Sword of Mohammed
By Frederick Davis Greene. “A complete and thrilling account of the terrible atrocities and wholesale murders committed in Armenia by…
Crescent and Iron Cross
By E. F. Benson. Written at the height of the First World War, this British book was primarily designed to…
Old Peter’s Russian Tales
By Arthur Ransome. Illustrated by Dmitri Mitrokhin. Famous British author Arthur Ransome’s unique and wonderful collection of fairy tales from…
An Authentic Narrative of the Loss of the American Brig Commerce
By Captain James Riley. The incredible true story of an American ship’s crew taken into slavery by the Muslim slave…
The Adventures of Thomas Pellow, of Penryn, Mariner: Three and Twenty Years in Captivity among the Moors
By Thomas Pellow. Edited with an introduction and notes by Dr. Robert Brown. The full terror of white slavery practiced…
Polish Fairy Tales
By A. J. Glinski. Translated by Maude Ashurst Biggs and illustrated by Cecile Walton. This beautifully-illustrated edition of A. J.…
The Empire of the Hittites
By William Wright. Decipherment of Hittite inscriptions by Professor Archibald Henry Sayce. Written by a senior biblical scholar at the…
The Hittites: The Story of a Forgotten Empire
By A.H. Sayce. One of the first books to reveal in detail the history of the Hittites—a people once thought…
History of Hortense: Daughter of Josephine, Queen of Holland, Mother of Napoleon III
By John S. C. Abbott. The story of Napoleon Bonaparte’s stepdaughter—and mother of Emperor Napoleon III—is as interesting as those…