19Th Century category: 5646 books
The Moffat Line
David Moffat’S Railroad over and Under the Continental Divide
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
By the latter part of the nineteenth century, the railroad was king. Railroad lines crisscrossed the North American continent, allowing for the long-distance transportation of oil, coal, lumbar, gold, and other valuables. Despite high operating costs and fierce competition, the search for better and...
Conquering Gotham
Building Penn Station and Its Tunnels
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2007
“Superb. [A] first-rate narrative” (The Wall Street Journal) about the controversial construction of New York’s beloved original Penn Station and its tunnels, from the author of Eiffel's Tower and Urban Forests
As bestselling books like Ron Chernow's Titan and David McCullough's The Great...
The Five of Hearts
An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends, 1880-1918
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
The Five of Hearts, who first gathered in Washington in the Gilded Age, included Henry Adams, historian and scion of America's first political dynasty; his wife, Clover, gifted photographer and tragic victim of depression; John Hay, ambassador and secretary of state; his wife, Clara, a Midwestern...
When Women First Wore Army Shoes
A First-Person Account of Service as a Member of the Women's Army Corps During Wwii.
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
Daughter, sister and sister-in-law of Army men who would all rise to the rank of General, it was not much of a surprise when Ethel A. Starbird decided to serve her country as a member of the Womans Army Corps during World War II.
After multiple attempts to make weight to join the Army, due...
Jane Austen's Worthing
The Real Sandition
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
During her stay in Worthing in late 1805 Jane Austen became friends with Edward Ogle, who was the driving force behind the chaotic little town’s transformation into a well-ordered seaside resort. Then, in 1817, the year of her death, Jane Austen used Worthing as the background for her final, unfinished...
Charles Dickens
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
Award-winning Claire Tomalin, author of A Life of My Own, sets the standard for sophisticated and popular biography, having written lives of Jane Austen, Samuel Pepys, and Thomas Hardy, among others. Here she tackles the best recognized and loved man of nineteenth-century England, Charles Dickens;...
The Girl Who Loved Camellias
The Life and Legend of Marie Duplessis
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
From the author of Nureyev, the definitive biography of the celebrated Russian dancer, now comes the astonishing and unknown story of Marie Duplessis, the courtesan who inspired Alexandre Dumas fils’s novel and play La dame aux camélias, Giuseppe Verdi’s opera La Traviata, George Cukor’s film...
by Michel Winock
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Michel Winock situates Flaubert in France’s century of great democratic transition. Wary of the masses, Flaubert rejected universal suffrage, but above all he hated the vulgar, ignorant bourgeoisie, a class that embodied every vice of the democratic age. His loathing became a fixation—and a source of literary inspiration.
by Yunte Huang
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
“An astonishing story, by turns ghastly, hilarious, unnerving, and moving.”—Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
In this “excellent” portrait of America’s famed nineteenth-century Siamese twins, celebrated biographer Yunte Huang discovers in the conjoined...
by Sheldon M. Novick
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
As if Henry James himself were guiding us, we visit old Calvinist New York in the mid-nineteenth century, and share the coming-of-age of a young man whose boldness of spirit and profound capacity for affection attract both men and women to him. We journey with James through Italy and France, witness...
Republic of Taste
Art, Politics, and Everyday Life in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
Since the early decades of the eighteenth century, European, and especially British, thinkers were preoccupied with questions of taste. Whether Americans believed that taste was innate—and therefore a marker of breeding and station—or acquired—and thus the product of application and study—all...
by John Ise
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
“A few years ago, as I listened one night to my mother telling incidents of her life pioneering in the semi-arid region of Western Kansas, it occurred to me that the picture of that early time was worth drawing and preserving for the future, and that, if this were ever to be done, it must be done...
by W H Davenport
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Davenport's report, like his series on the work house and the lunatic asylum on Blackwell's Island, gives a good account of how orphans and the children of the poor and the indigent were handled in mid nineteenth century America. Bits of the history of social work is revealed in all three pieces.
by Helen Amy
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
Many poor and vulnerable people lived on the streets of Victorian cities. They were the victims of rapid industrialisation, a government policy of non-intervention regarding social issues and the harsh Poor Law Amendment of 1834. As the population of nineteenth century England was predominantly young,...