Peter Yearsley
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (version 3)
"Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do ..." .. and from that mom…
Neighbourhood – A Year’s Life in and About an English Village (version 2)
Tickner Edwardes (properly Edward Tickner Edwardes) served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during WWI and later became the vicar of the West…
The Parenticide Club
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914?), best known as journalist, satirist and short story writer. Cynical in outlook, economical in style; Bierce va…
The Fourth Dimension
"Mr Hinton tries to explain the theory of the fourth dimension so that the ordinary reasoning mind can get a grasp of what metaphysical…
Man and Maid
A collection of the author's short stories for adults, with some supernatural ones. - Summary by Peter Yearsley
Crime: Its Cause and Treatment
Clarence Darrow was an American lawyer. He remains notable for his wit and agnosticism, which marked him as one of the most famous American …
Making a Rock Garden
A short look at building a rock garden, right from the rocks themselves and how to arrange them, to choosing and placing the plants, touchin…
About Orchids, a Chat
This is not a manual of instruction for orchid growers; though there are many hints on cultivation, and a few paragraphs on how to hybridize…
London Labour and the London Poor Volume I
Subtitled, "A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work.&…
The Stoneground Ghost Tales, Version 2
A collection of gentle ghost stories set around a church by the fens in East Anglia. The author was an associate of Montague Rhodes James, …
Highways and Byways in Sussex
A very personal and opinionated wander through the Sussex of around 1900, illustrated with anecdotes, literary and poetic quotations, graves…
Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (version 2)
Sappho lived six centuries before Christ, at a period when lyric poetry was peculiarly esteemed and cultivated at the centres of Greek life.…
The Pauper, the Thief, and the Convict
"Bare, unpicturesque, and sordid as are the conditions of poverty, there are sights in London which everybody may and should see - sigh…
Phallic Worship
A fairly scholarly, short survey of religious sexual symbols and practices from ancient times to the near-present, and within various countr…
Ketchup
The Bittings have written a number of books on canning and home preparation of food. This short volume includes a brief description of the p…
Salome and the Head
Edmund Templar is visiting some relatives before being shipped off to the war in South Africa. Wandering in the New Forest, he encounters a …
On the Preparations of the Indian Hemp
The author investigated the uses of cannabis resin as an anticonvulsant and relaxant in cases of tetanus, cholera, and infantile convulsions…
Underground London
From the Preface: "This book contains an account, more or less readable, of most things belonging to "Underground London", pa…
Something Wrong
A small collection of Edith Nesbit's short stories; the pleasures and troubles of life laid out in a few pages.Note: The title of the third …
A Text-book of Assaying
This is a formal but relaxed text covering assaying techniques for most of the substances which are mined. As the authors say: "At firs…