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The Valley of the Squinting Windows - Brinsley MacNamara
The Valley of the Squinting Windows - Brinsley MacNamara
- Author: Brinsley MacNamara
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Published 1900 onward
The Valley of the Squinting Shadows was the author's first novel and proved controversial. In it, he tells a realistic tale of life in a small Irish town as he saw it, rather than the romanticized version told by others, or how the locals wished to...
The Road To Mandalay - Bithia Mary Croker
The Road To Mandalay - Bithia Mary Croker
- Author: Bithia Mary Croker
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Travel Fiction / Romance
Sophy Leigh and Douglas Shafto come to Burma on the same ship in 1912. They come for different reasons. Through them, we learn about British India in the time between 1912 and 1914, just before WWI. Academics view Bithia Mary Croker as one of the...
The Fables of Pilpay - Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ
The Fables of Pilpay - Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ
- Author: Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Epistolary Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
These moralistic stories within stories date back to the Sanskrit text Panchatantra (200 BC – 300 AD). They were first translated into Arabic by a Persian named Ruzbeh who named it Book of Kalilah and Dimna and then by Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffa and...
Imperium in Imperio: A Study of the Negro Race Problem - Sutton Griggs
Imperium in Imperio: A Study of the Negro Race Problem - Sutton Griggs
- Author: Sutton Griggs
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction
Imperium in Imperio is a historical fiction novel by Sutton Griggs, published in 1899. The novel covers the life of Belton Piedmont, an educated and disciplined black man in the Jim Crow south and his role in a shadow government of black men...
Tattlings of a Retired Politician - Forrest Crissey
Tattlings of a Retired Politician - Forrest Crissey
- Author: Forrest Crissey
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Historical Fiction
"The letters (non-partisan) of Hon. William Bradley, Ex-Governor and former veteran of practical politics, written to his friend and protege Ned who is still busy 'carving a career back in the old state.'" ( F. Crissey) This is a novel filled with...
The Martian - Alec Rowley Hilliard
The Martian - Alec Rowley Hilliard
- Author: Alec Rowley Hilliard
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Science Fiction
The water was evaporated by the ever-shining sun until there was none left for the thirsty plants. Every year more workers died in misery. A stranger from another world comes and experiences the attempts by two different cultures with different...
Short Stories in Prose and Verse - Henry Lawson
Short Stories in Prose and Verse - Henry Lawson
- Author: Henry Lawson
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction / Single Author Collections
Short Stories in Prose and Verse” is Henry Lawson’s first published book (1894); his first published poem appeared in 1887. The volume is a snapshot of his writing style up to the start of his career. His first published poem appeared at age 20, his...
The Able McLaughlins - Margaret Wilson
The Able McLaughlins - Margaret Wilson
- Author: Margaret Wilson
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction
The Able McLaughlins won the Pulitzer Prize for a novel in 1924 in Margaret Wilson's debut work. Aptly described as "Little House on the Prairie - but for adults" the novel follows a group of Scottish families who pioneer the Iowa prairie in the...
Epics and Romances of the Middle Ages - Wilhelm Wägner
Epics and Romances of the Middle Ages - Wilhelm Wägner
- Author: Wilhelm Wägner
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Sagas
This volume contains the principal hero-lays of the six great epic cycles of the Teutonic Middle Ages: The Langobardian Legends, the Amelung and Kindred Legends; Dietrich of Bern's Adventures; the Nibelung Legends; the Hegeling Legends; and Beowulf....
Cedric the Forester - Bernard Gay Marshall
Cedric the Forester - Bernard Gay Marshall
- Author: Bernard Gay Marshall
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction
A rollicking juvenile adventure tale, this historical fiction book received the Newbery Honor award in 1922. Set in England during the early 1200s, the scion of a Western Marches noble family relates the many encounters and battles that he faces...
Yellow Butterflies - Mary Raymond Shipman ANDREWS
Yellow Butterflies - Mary Raymond Shipman ANDREWS
- Author: Mary Raymond Shipman ANDREWS
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction
The title of this historical fiction could as well have been "A Soldier’s Mother" or “An Unknown Soldier”. There are indeed butterflies, and there is a small boy who grows into a fine, strapping young man who goes to war. But this moving novella...
Legends of Saints and Sinners - Douglas Hyde
Legends of Saints and Sinners - Douglas Hyde
- Author: Douglas Hyde
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
"I have called the present volume "Legends of Saints and Sinners," which to a certain extent it is; but I mean it for a book of Irish Christian folk-lore. My idea in compiling it has been to give for the first time a collection of genuine Irish...
The House by the Churchyard - Joseph Sheridan LE FANU
The House by the Churchyard - Joseph Sheridan LE FANU
- Author: Joseph Sheridan LE FANU
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction
Murder, mystery, mayhem, romance and relationships. Our classic who-done-it takes place in olde Dublin, Ireland in the village of Chapelizod around the Royal Irish Artillery base. A mysterious skull has been uncovered in the church graveyard. Whose...
The Crock of Gold - James STEPHENS
The Crock of Gold - James STEPHENS
- Author: James STEPHENS
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Humorous Fiction
This is a comic novel written by Irish author James Stephens, a quick-witted storyteller whose pantheistic philosophy is revealed in his adult Irish fairy tales. His first novel, The Charwoman's Daughter (1911), humorously examines the life and...
Gudrun - Ferdinand Schmidt
Gudrun - Ferdinand Schmidt
- Author: Ferdinand Schmidt
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Culture & Heritage Fiction
The charming story of “Gudrun” is a romance of the old heroic period, written by some unknown poet of Austria or Bavaria in the thirteenth century. Next to the "Nibelungen Lied," it is the most important of the German epic poems...The same elemental...
Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 13 - Various
Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 13 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. The stories tell of legends, heroes, myths, and ancient lore from many different cultures. (Summary by Lynette Caulkins)...
The Mark of Zorro - Johnston McCulley
The Mark of Zorro - Johnston McCulley
- Author: Johnston McCulley
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Culture & Heritage Fiction / Westerns
In Spanish California, a troubling pattern had developed. The natives were reduced to peasants, the Franciscan friars that ministered to them were derided, and the only people who mattered were the caballeros – who styled themselves as knights of...
The Cliff-Dwellers - Henry Blake FULLER
The Cliff-Dwellers - Henry Blake FULLER
- Author: Henry Blake FULLER
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction
Between the former site of old Fort Dearborn and the present site of our newest Board of Trade there lies a restricted yet tumultuous territory through which, during the course of the last fifty years, the rushing streams of commerce have worn many...
The Fortunes of Nigel - Sir Walter Scott
The Fortunes of Nigel - Sir Walter Scott
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Culture & Heritage Fiction / Literary Fiction
During the turbulent moment in English history involving King James 1 and 6, Nigel Olifaunt, a Scottish lord, seeks to protect his family home and holdings, but meets with recalcitrance and treachery, which eventually results in his imprisonment....
The Town Traveller - George Gissing
The Town Traveller - George Gissing
- Author: George Gissing
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Literary Fiction
The town traveller is himself a British salesman, living in a lower class part of London in the Victorian era. The story depicts his interactions with his neighbors, and thus brings us images and vocabulary of personal exchanges, street scenes and...
Adam Bede (version 2) - George Eliot
Adam Bede (version 2) - George Eliot
- Author: George Eliot
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Romance
George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans – an ironic ‘deception’ given that Adam Bede, her first novel, is written unashamedly from a feminist standpoint. The story centres on a pastoral love triangle. Two young men, carpenter Adam Bede and...
Trial and Triumph - Frances E. W. HARPER
Trial and Triumph - Frances E. W. HARPER
- Author: Frances E. W. HARPER
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Religious Fiction
This novel, like two other novels that Harper serialized in The Christian Recorder, sets forth the principles which make for a meaningful, moral life. In Trial and Triumph, we follow Annette Harcourt through trials and tribulations, which test her...
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Weston Translation Version 2) - The Gawain Poet
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Weston Translation Version 2) - The Gawain Poet
- Author: The Gawain Poet
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Christian Fiction
This poem celebrates Christmas by exploring the mystery of Christ's mission on earth: his death, resurrection, and second coming as judge of all human souls. Sir Gawain is cast in the role of Everyman. At the feast of the New Year, an unarmed green...
Original Stories from Real Life - Mary Wollstonecraft
Original Stories from Real Life - Mary Wollstonecraft
- Author: Mary Wollstonecraft
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Family
Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the early promoters of gender equality long before other crusaders took up the cause. She is perhaps best known for her books, “A Vindication of the Rights of Women” (1792) and “A Vindication of the Rights of Men”...
Violets And Other Tales - Alice Dunbar Nelson
Violets And Other Tales - Alice Dunbar Nelson
- Author: Alice Dunbar Nelson
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Single author / Single Author Collections
This is a collection of the author's short stories and poems where she writes about the collective experience of African American women, and African Americans in general. But she is sharpest when she pushes back against the notion that women must...
The Untempered Wind - Joanna E. Wood
The Untempered Wind - Joanna E. Wood
- Author: Joanna E. Wood
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Literary Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Upon publication of “The Untempered Wind” in 1894, Joanna Wood quickly rose to international prominence, becoming in the next few years the most highly paid fiction-writer in Canada. In this novel, we find a detailed picture of village life. The...
Jess - H. Rider Haggard
Jess - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction
The setting for this novel is the Boer War in South Africa in 1880. This novel is interesting and exciting on several levels: there are complicated love entanglements, evil Machiavellian treachery, political reflection having to do with the ethics...
Minnie's Sacrifice - Frances E. W. HARPER
Minnie's Sacrifice - Frances E. W. HARPER
- Author: Frances E. W. HARPER
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
Minnie, who lives in the South, does not know she is a mulatto. She is sent to the North after her mother's death, and there she marries Louis, who is ironically also of mixed parentage. The story revolves around their discoveries and how they deal...
Sketches by Boz, version 2 - Charles Dickens
Sketches by Boz, version 2 - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Short Stories / *Non-fiction
A collection of early writings of Charles Dickens under his early pseudonym, "Boz." They first appeared in various publications from 1833 to 1836. Divided into four sections, "Our Parish," "Scenes," "Characters," and "Tales." The first three...
The Mill on the Floss (Version 2) - George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss (Version 2) - George Eliot
- Author: George Eliot
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
The Mill on the Floss is George Eliot’s second novel, and was published in 1860, only a year after her first, Adam Bede. It centres on the lives of brother and sister Tom and Maggie Tulliver growing up on the river Floss near the town of St. Oggs (a...
Stories and Pictures - I. L. Peretz
Stories and Pictures - I. L. Peretz
- Author: I. L. Peretz
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Single Author Collections
A collection of short stories written originally in Yiddish and later translated into English. These stories were published under censorship in Russia from 1875 to 1900 provide an illuminating portrayal of the harsh life conditions for Russian Jews....
Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 12 - Various
Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 12 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Anthologies
This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. The stories tell of legends, heroes, myths, and ancient lore from many different cultures. (Summary by Lynette Caulkins)...
Shan Folk Lore Stories from the Hill and Water Country - William Charles Griggs
Shan Folk Lore Stories from the Hill and Water Country - William Charles Griggs
- Author: William Charles Griggs
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The following stories have been taken from the great[v] mass of unwritten lore that is to the black-eyed, brown-skinned boys and girls of the Shan mountain country of Burma what "Jack the Giant Killer" and "Cinderella" are to our own children. The...
Elissa - H. Rider Haggard
Elissa - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Culture & Heritage Fiction
Anthropologists have studied the ruins of a great city and temple in Zimbabwe, and it has left them in wonder. The construction and markings are Phoenician, but how was it developed so far South of the Fertile Crescent? Who built it and why? How was...
Workhouse Characters - Margaret Nevinson
Workhouse Characters - Margaret Nevinson
- Author: Margaret Nevinson
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Short Stories
In 1904, Margaret Nevinson, a respectable lady and active suffragette, joined the board of guardians in Hampstead Heath. The guardians had responsibility over the parish workhouse. In the UK, before the 1930s, one could not receive welfare...
The Imperialist - Sara Jeannette Duncan
The Imperialist - Sara Jeannette Duncan
- Author: Sara Jeannette Duncan
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction
“The Imperialist,” a novel by Sara Jeannette Duncan, published in 1904, is a portrait of life in small-town Ontario at the beginning of the 20th century. At that time, English Canada was torn between affectionate loyalty for the “mother country”...
Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria, West Africa - Elphinstone Dayrell
Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria, West Africa - Elphinstone Dayrell
- Author: Elphinstone Dayrell
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Nature & Animal Fiction
A collection of folk stories and fairy tales from Southern Nigeria gathered by Elphinstone Dayrell, deputy commissioner of the region when the book was published. - Summary by Elsie Selwyn...
