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Rappaccini's Daughter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Rappaccini's Daughter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
The story is set in Padua in a distant, but unspecified past. From his quarters, Giovanni, a young student of letters, observes Beatrice, the beautiful daughter of Dr. Rappaccini, a scientist working in isolation. Beatrice is confined to the lush...
The Secret of Lonesome Cove - Samuel Hopkins ADAMS
The Secret of Lonesome Cove - Samuel Hopkins ADAMS
- Author: Samuel Hopkins ADAMS
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
A body is found on the beach not far from a New England town one morning. Curiously, nobody recognizes the dead woman, and nobody in or near the town seems to be a suspect in a possible murder, therefore most of them assume that she simply washed...
The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
- Author: Ford Madox Ford
- Genre: General Fiction / War & Military Fiction
The Good Soldier (1915) "... is set just before World War I and chronicles the tragedies of the lives of two seemingly perfect couples. The novel is told using a series of flashbacks in non-chronological order, a literary technique pioneered by...
Pride and Prejudice (version 6, dramatic reading) - Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice (version 6, dramatic reading) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / General Fiction / Romance
Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of...
Round the Sofa - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Round the Sofa - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
Round the Sofa (1859), is a book of stories by the lady that Charles Dickens called his βdear Scheherazadeβ due to her skill as a story teller. That Lady was Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell (North and South, Wives and Daughters, Cranford etc.). Mrs. Gaskell...
Young Robin Hood - George Manville Fenn
Young Robin Hood - George Manville Fenn
- Author: George Manville Fenn
- Genre: General Fiction
Ever wonder how Robin Hood became Robin Hood? Well, now you can read how a young boy was molded into the famous hero who "robbed from the rich and gave to the poor". This imaginative story gives zesty details into the development and growth of the...
The Story of the Amulet (version 2) - E. Nesbit
The Story of the Amulet (version 2) - E. Nesbit
- Author: E. Nesbit
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
The Story of the Amulet is a novel for children, written in 1906 by E. Nesbit. It is the final part of a trilogy of novels that also includes Five Children and It (1902) and The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904). In it the children re-encounter the...
The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3: The Viaticum and Other Stories - Guy de Maupassant
The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3: The Viaticum and Other Stories - Guy de Maupassant
- Author: Guy de Maupassant
- Genre: General Fiction / Single Author Collections
This is volume is a collection of 50 of de Maupassant's short stories. Summary by James K. White....
Where Angels Fear to Tread - E. M. Forster
Where Angels Fear to Tread - E. M. Forster
- Author: E. M. Forster
- Genre: General Fiction
On a journey to Tuscany with her young friend and traveling companion Caroline Abbott, widowed Lilia Herriton falls in love with both Italy and a handsome Italian much younger than herself, and decides to stay. Furious, her dead husband's family...
The Frozen Deep - Wilkie Collins
The Frozen Deep - Wilkie Collins
- Author: Wilkie Collins
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
The Frozen Deep is a story of a love triangle between Clara, Frank and Richard, spiced up with dangerous expeditions, mysterious visions and life-threatening circumstances. The end is as surprising and unexpected as we are (or are not) accustomed to...
What Katy Did at School - Susan Coolidge
What Katy Did at School - Susan Coolidge
- Author: Susan Coolidge
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
The continuing story of Katy Carr, recounting the time she spent at boarding school with her sister Clover. (Summary by Karen Savage)...
Don Quixote - Vol. 1 - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Don Quixote - Vol. 1 - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
Don Quixote is an early novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story in the character of the Morisco historian, Cide Hamete Benengeli, whom he claims to have hired to translate the...
A Dash for a Throne - Arthur W. MARCHMONT
A Dash for a Throne - Arthur W. MARCHMONT
- Author: Arthur W. MARCHMONT
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
The young Count von Rudloff got himself into so much trouble with the Imperial Family in Berlin, that he sees no other way out of it than to fake his own death. Stumbling through different identities, he finally assumes - quite against his will -...
Captain Ted - Mary T. WAGGAMAN
Captain Ted - Mary T. WAGGAMAN
- Author: Mary T. WAGGAMAN
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
When tragedy hits his family, in the form of a sudden illness to his father, young Teddy Thornton is forced to leave school and find work to help support his family. Without his realization he is thrown into a world of crime and counterfeiting. Will...
New Chronicles of Rebecca - Kate Douglas Wiggin
New Chronicles of Rebecca - Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
This book tells further stories from the period of Rebecca's sojourn in Riverboro....
A Simple Story - Elizabeth INCHBALD
A Simple Story - Elizabeth INCHBALD
- Author: Elizabeth INCHBALD
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
The story could really have been simple: Miss Milner, who is admired for her beauty and charm, could have been a socialite, marry a respectable and good looking man and be happy in the standards of her time. But if it was so, why would there be a...
Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel - Victor Appleton
Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel - Victor Appleton
- Author: Victor Appleton
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
The Titus Brothers Contractors company have won a government contract in Peru to blast a tunnel through a mountain and connect two isolated railroad lines. The deadline is approaching, and the contractors have hit a literal wall: excessively hard...
Daisy Miller: A Study in Two Parts - Henry James
Daisy Miller: A Study in Two Parts - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: General Fiction
Daisy Miller is an 1878 novella by Henry James. It portrays the confused courtship of the eponymous American girl by Winterbourne, a compatriot of hers with much more sophistication. His pursuit of her is hampered by her own flirtatiousness, which...
Bungay Castle: A Novel - Elizabeth BONHΓTE
Bungay Castle: A Novel - Elizabeth BONHΓTE
- Author: Elizabeth BONHΓTE
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Bungay Castle is a gothic novel by Elizabeth BonhΓ΄te. It was first published in 1796 and follows the fortunes of the De Morney family at Bungay Castle in Suffolk. Two young members of the family, Roseline and Edwin, search for the source of strange,...
The Outdoor Girls of Deepdale - Laura Lee Hope
The Outdoor Girls of Deepdale - Laura Lee Hope
- Author: Laura Lee Hope
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
The Outdoor Girls of Deepdale was the first book in a long-running series centering around four girls: Betty Nelson, Mollie Billette, Amy Stonington, and Grace Ford. The girls go on many exciting adventures and solve mysteries. In this book the...
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Version 3) - Charles Dickens
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Version 3) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: General Fiction
Nicholas Nickleby was Dickens's third novel following on from Pickwick Papers and Oliver twist. It has a cast of wonderful characters that include Wackford Squeers, the reprehensible and villainous headmaster whose reign of terror at his school in...
Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories - Mark Twain
Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
A collection of Twain short stories including: The Loves Of Alonzo Fitz Clarence And Rosannah Ethelton On The Decay Of The Art Of Lying About Magnanimous-Incident Literature The Grateful Poodle The Benevolent Author The Grateful Husband Punch,...
Bleak House (version 3) - Charles Dickens
Bleak House (version 3) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: General Fiction
The Chancery Court had jurisdiction over all matters of equity, including administration of estates, the guardianship of orphans, and disputed property disbursement. In Dickensβ time, some cases could take years to be settled, changing the lives of...
Little Sister Snow - Frances LITTLE
Little Sister Snow - Frances LITTLE
- Author: Frances LITTLE
- Genre: General Fiction
American author Fannie Caldwell, under pen name of Frances Little, tells the story of young Yuki San growing up in Japan circa early 1900s, and of her dreams of an American. (Introduction by Cheri Gardner)...
The Fallen Leaves - Wilkie Collins
The Fallen Leaves - Wilkie Collins
- Author: Wilkie Collins
- Genre: General Fiction
Amelius Goldenheart, the hero of this story, is expelled from a Utopian community in New England and finds himself in London. His story is dominated by a number of women, all of them in some way a "fallen leaf", whom he tries to rescue. One of them...
Growth of the Soil - Knut HAMSUN
Growth of the Soil - Knut HAMSUN
- Author: Knut HAMSUN
- Genre: General Fiction
Growth of the Soil (Markens GrΓΈde) is the novel by Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun which won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. The essential elements of this novel are expressed in the words of the English translator W.W. Worster in his...
The House of Arden - E. Nesbit
The House of Arden - E. Nesbit
- Author: E. Nesbit
- Genre: General Fiction
This novel describes how Edred and Elfrida Arden and their Aunt Edith embark on a treasure hunt through time - for the famous Arden family treasure. With help from the magical creature Mouldiwarp, they find a whole lot of excitement and adventure....
The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance - Marie Corelli
The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance - Marie Corelli
- Author: Marie Corelli
- Genre: General Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Marie Corelli's book The Life Everlasting examines the world of past lives, mysticism, secret societies and twin souls against a backdrop of a true love based on the highest ideals. The plot follows our heroine from a yachting trip around Scotland...
The Birds' Christmas Carol (version 2) - Kate Douglas Wiggin
The Birds' Christmas Carol (version 2) - Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
Born on Christmas Day, little Carol Bird is a gentle soul who touches every life around her. Despite physical illness, Carol is loved by everyone who knows her. This year, she is going to make Christmas extra special for her family and the little...
Betty Wales, Freshman - Margaret WARDE
Betty Wales, Freshman - Margaret WARDE
- Author: Margaret WARDE
- Genre: General Fiction
First published in 1904, Betty Wales Freshman is the first book in an 8 volume series that follows Betty and her classmates throughout college and beyond. It takes place at Harding in New England (NOT to be confused with the Arkansas university)...
Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed - Edna Ferber
Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed - Edna Ferber
- Author: Edna Ferber
- Genre: General Fiction
Dawn OβHara, the Girl Who Laughed was Edna Ferberβs first novel. Dawn, a newspaperwoman working in New York, finds herself back home in Michigan on doctorβs orders. Years of living in boarding-houses and working to pay for the care of her brilliant...
The Courage of the Commonplace - Mary Raymond Shipman ANDREWS
The Courage of the Commonplace - Mary Raymond Shipman ANDREWS
- Author: Mary Raymond Shipman ANDREWS
- Genre: General Fiction
The short story of a young man who came to terms with himself and became a man on a day when he had proven to be a failure to his family, his friends, his classmates, the girl he liked, and most importantly to himself. (Summary by Roger Melin)...
The Coral Island - R. M. Ballantyne
The Coral Island - R. M. Ballantyne
- Author: R. M. Ballantyne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
Ralph Rover is a traveler at heart, and has always dreamed of shipping out to the South Seas islands. He finally convinces his aging parents to let him go and find his way in the world. But the islands that Ralph finds are not as idyllic as in his...
Our Own Set - Ossip SCHUBIN
Our Own Set - Ossip SCHUBIN
- Author: Ossip SCHUBIN
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
The Austrian nobility in Rome forms a very close circle, into which only those of high rank and wealth are admitted. They managed to get along with Cecil Sterzl, who, although not one of their own, is regarded as quite an amiable man. However, when...
Rachel Ray - Anthony Trollope
Rachel Ray - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
The love that develops between Luke Rowan and Rachel Ray is not universally welcomed. Mrs. Tappitt- a rich, influential, and bad woman - wishes him to marry one of her own daughters, while Rachel's mother and older sister are not sure he is worthy...
The Red and the Black, Volume II - STENDHAL
The Red and the Black, Volume II - STENDHAL
- Author: STENDHAL
- Genre: General Fiction
Stendhal - a German pen-name for a French writer who hated the English. Contemporary to some of the great names of French literature like Balzac and Flaubert, Stendhal is quite often considered a writer that doesn't seem to fit a defined genre. Some...
A Christmas Carol (Version 03) - Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol (Version 03) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / House & Home
Old miser Ebenezer Scrooge undergoes a major transformation after being visited by his deceased colleague Jacob Marley, who warns him to change his ways and has three spirits visit him on the night of Christmas Eve. (Introduction by Jeff Robinson)...
The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories - Arnold Bennett
The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories - Arnold Bennett
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
Twenty-two short stories by Arnold Bennett, mainly set in the 'Five Towns', Bennett's name for the pottery manufacturing towns of the English midlands (Summary by Andy Minter)....
The Semi-Detached House - Emily EDEN
The Semi-Detached House - Emily EDEN
- Author: Emily EDEN
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
If you're a Jane Austen fan, you'll enjoy Emily Eden's comic novels of manners, The Semi-Detached House (1859) and The Semi-Attached Couple (1860). At the opening of The Semi-Detached House, the beautiful (but rather petulant) Lady Blanche Chester,...
Piccadilly Jim - P. G. Wodehouse
Piccadilly Jim - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: General Fiction
A young red-head plots to kidnap her irritating cousin with the help of a former boxer, her uncle, and a rogue who has his eye on her. Things don't work out exactly as planned, as criminals, detectives and cases of mistaken identity all get in the...
