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Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School - Jessie Graham Flower
Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School - Jessie Graham Flower
- Author: Jessie Graham Flower
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
This delightful book tells about a group of smart young people who get up to some wonderful adventures together - and save one another from troubles. The unofficial leader of the group is Grace Harlowe, the title character. When Anne Pierson comes...
Good Wives - Louisa May Alcott
Good Wives - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: General Fiction
Louisa May Alcott's overwhelming success dated from the appearance of the first part of Little Women: or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, (1868) a semi-autobiographical account of her childhood years with her sisters in Concord, Massachusetts. Part two, or...
In the High Valley - Susan Coolidge
In the High Valley - Susan Coolidge
- Author: Susan Coolidge
- Genre: General Fiction
In the High Valley" is the fifth and last book of the popular "What Katy did" series by Susan Coolidge.The story starts out with Lionel Young and his sister, Imogen who set out for the picturesque but remote High Valley (America), leaving their...
The Black Poodle and Other Tales - F. Anstey
The Black Poodle and Other Tales - F. Anstey
- Author: F. Anstey
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
This is a collection of ten humorous short stories (Summary by Carolin)...
The Heir of Redclyffe - Charlotte Mary Yonge
The Heir of Redclyffe - Charlotte Mary Yonge
- Author: Charlotte Mary Yonge
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
The Heir of Redclyffe (1853) was the first of Charlotte M. Yonge's bestselling romantic novels. Its religious tone derives from the High Church background of her family and from her friendship with a leading figure in the Oxford Movement, John...
The Exploits of Juve (version 2) - Marcel ALLAIN
The Exploits of Juve (version 2) - Marcel ALLAIN
- Author: Marcel ALLAIN
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
The second book in the Fantômas series by the prolific authors Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre (they published 32 Fantômas novels between 1911 and 1913.) Fantômas broke the mold of the Gentlemen burglars like Raffles and Arsene Lupin. He killed...
Red Money - Fergus Hume
Red Money - Fergus Hume
- Author: Fergus Hume
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / General Fiction
Greed and lost love collide to create dark secrets. Through twists and turns, corrupt aristocrats let family and honor overshadow love and true happiness. In the end, evil passes and good endures. (Summary by Sharon Kilmer)...
Love and Mr Lewisham - H. G. Wells
Love and Mr Lewisham - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Satire
The teaching profession, science and politics in late 19th century England. H.G.Wells’ humorous early novel, drawing on his own life, shows how these – as well as involvement in spiritualism – have to compete with love. - Summary by Anthony Ogus...
The Lion and the Unicorn - Richard Harding Davis
The Lion and the Unicorn - Richard Harding Davis
- Author: Richard Harding Davis
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
What if figures of animals had lives of their own? If the figures of a lion and a unicorn at the shop across the street could talk, what would they say about the little things in life that they see every day on the streets of London? This short...
Far From The Madding Crowd, version 2 - Thomas Hardy
Far From The Madding Crowd, version 2 - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: General Fiction
Far From The Madding Crowd is Hardy's fourth novel. It centres on the lives of five characters: Gabriel Oak, Bathsheba Everdene, Mr Boldwood, Sgt. Troy and Fanny Robin. The plot involves love, loyalty, death and betrayal and all this is delivered to...
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905-1906 - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905-1906 - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction / Romance
Lucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. She achieved international fame in her lifetime, putting Prince Edward Island and Canada on the world literary map. Best known for her...
Elsie's Womanhood - Martha Finley
Elsie's Womanhood - Martha Finley
- Author: Martha Finley
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
The fourth book in the Elsie Dinsmore series, Elsie grows into a young woman. She marries her father's old friend, Edward Travilla, and together start a family. The latter half of the book occurs during the Civil War. (Summary by GabrielleC)...
Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue - Laura Lee Hope
Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue - Laura Lee Hope
- Author: Laura Lee Hope
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / Family
This book follows the adventures of Bunny Brown, a 6-year old lively little boy, and his Sister Sue, a happy 5-year old little girl. You will enjoy learning of their adorable antics and delightful chatter. The Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue series...
Camp-Fire Girls in the Country or The Secret Aunt Hannah Forgot - Stella M. FRANCIS
Camp-Fire Girls in the Country or The Secret Aunt Hannah Forgot - Stella M. FRANCIS
- Author: Stella M. FRANCIS
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
Teen-ager Hazel Edwards and the other twelve members of the Flamingo Camp-Fire Girls experience some real adventure when they are invited to spend part of their summer as guests of Hazel’s elderly aunt on her large country farm. Mrs. Hannah Hutchins...
The Duel - Anton Chekhov
The Duel - Anton Chekhov
- Author: Anton Chekhov
- Genre: General Fiction
The plot centres around Laevsky, who is living in a small seaside town in the Caucasus after running away with another man's wife, Nadyezhda Fyodorovna, amid dreams of starting a new life.The dreams have come to nothing as Laevsky idles away his...
The Lure of the Dim Trails - B. M. Bower
The Lure of the Dim Trails - B. M. Bower
- Author: B. M. Bower
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Westerns
Phil Thurston was born on the range where the trails are dim and silent under the big sky. It was the place his father loved, the place he had to be. After the death of his father when he was five, his mother brought him back to the city, where he...
The Golden Silence - Charles Norris WILLIAMSON
The Golden Silence - Charles Norris WILLIAMSON
- Author: Charles Norris WILLIAMSON
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction / Romance
Trying to get away from an engagement he had got himself into more or less against his will, Stephen Knight travels to Algiers to visit his old friend Nevill. On the Journey there he meets the charming and beautiful Victoria. She is on her way to...
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert TRESSELL
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert TRESSELL
- Author: Robert TRESSELL
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / General Fiction
Clearly frustrated at the refusal of his contemporaries to recognise the iniquity of society, Tressell's cast of hypocritical Christians, exploitative capitalists and corrupt councillors provide a backdrop for his main target — the workers who think...
The Conjure Woman - Charles Waddell Chesnutt
The Conjure Woman - Charles Waddell Chesnutt
- Author: Charles Waddell Chesnutt
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Short Stories
Published in 1899 by Houghton Mifflin, Chesnutt's first book, The Conjure Woman, was a collection of seven short stories, all set in "Patesville" (Fayetteville), North Carolina. While drawing from local color traditions and relying on dialect,...
Short Story Collection Vol. 051 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 051 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 051: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members....
A Charming Fellow - Frances Eleanor TROLLOPE
A Charming Fellow - Frances Eleanor TROLLOPE
- Author: Frances Eleanor TROLLOPE
- Genre: General Fiction
A scathing criticism of social climbing underlies this unsettling story by Frances Eleanor Trollope, sister-in-law to Anthony and daughter-in-law to Frances Milton Trollope. Published in 1876, A Charming Fellow is a serious exploration of a bitterly...
The American Claimant - Mark Twain
The American Claimant - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Humorous Fiction
The American Claimant is an 1892 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The story focuses on the class differences and expectations of monarchic, hierarchical Britain and the upstart, "all men are created equal" America. Twain wrote the...
Historical Tales, Vol VI: French - Charles McLean Andrews
Historical Tales, Vol VI: French - Charles McLean Andrews
- Author: Charles McLean Andrews
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction
Volume VI of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This fifth volume covers the history of France from the Hun invasion of Europe in the 5th century up to the Prussian War, describing...
Movies and Hollywood Short Story Collection, Volume 1 - Various
Movies and Hollywood Short Story Collection, Volume 1 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
Fiction about (or involving) motion pictures started appearing in the late nineteenth-century, when writers first became aware of early kinetoscope technologies. These stories grew more and more popular as the public became increasingly fascinated...
The Bells of San Juan - Jackson GREGORY
The Bells of San Juan - Jackson GREGORY
- Author: Jackson GREGORY
- Genre: General Fiction / Westerns
Rod Norton is a lawman in a land where bandits and criminals make their own rules. Risking his life for justice and a future with the woman he loves, mortal danger awaits. For Norton and those in peril, the Bells of San Juan will chime. (Summary by...
Jyl of Breyntfords Testament - Robert COPLAND
Jyl of Breyntfords Testament - Robert COPLAND
- Author: Robert COPLAND
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Poetry
Introduction - This is a collection of ten comic pieces from the 16th century and earlier, as compiled and edited by Frederick Furnivall for private circulation in 1871. Only the first is by Copland. (Introduction by Grant Hurlock)...
Is He Popenjoy ? - Anthony Trollope
Is He Popenjoy ? - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Trollope returns in Is He Popenjoy to two of his favorite subjects: property and inheritance. As in "Doctor Thorne," the issues are complicated by the specter of possible illegitimacy. Lord George Germain, a thoroughly respectable, upstanding, if...
The Watsons - Jane Austen
The Watsons - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: General Fiction
This fragment of a novel was written by Jane Austen in 1804 and remained untitled and unpublished until her nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh printed it in his A Memoir of Jane Austen in 1871. The title is from him. Mr Watson is a widowed clergyman...
The Right of Way - Gilbert Parker
The Right of Way - Gilbert Parker
- Author: Gilbert Parker
- Genre: General Fiction
Charley Steele is a successful and brilliant Canadian lawyer. He has a nagging wife, Kathleen, and a lazy brother-in- law, Billy. In spite of his success, he is disillusioned with his life, drinks too much, and is deeply troubled by his agnosticism...
The Rainbow - D. H. Lawrence
The Rainbow - D. H. Lawrence
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- Genre: General Fiction
The Rainbow is a 1915 novel by British author D.H. Lawrence. It follows three generations of the Brangwen family, particularly focusing on the sexual dynamics of, and relations between, the characters. (Summary from Wikipedia)...
The People that Time Forgot - Edgar Rice Burroughs
The People that Time Forgot - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Science Fiction
The People that Time Forgot is a science fiction novel, the second of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Caspak trilogy. The first novel ended with the hero writing a manuscript of his adventures and casting it out to sea in his thermos bottle. The second novel...
Autumn Leaves, Original Pieces in Prose and Verse - Anne Wales ABBOT
Autumn Leaves, Original Pieces in Prose and Verse - Anne Wales ABBOT
- Author: Anne Wales ABBOT
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Poetry
The pieces gathered into this volume were, with two exceptions, written for the entertainment of a private circle, without any view to publication. The editor would express her thanks to the writers, who, at her solicitation, have allowed them to be...
The Grey Lady - Henry Seton MERRIMAN
The Grey Lady - Henry Seton MERRIMAN
- Author: Henry Seton MERRIMAN
- Genre: General Fiction
A tale of romance, greed, blackmail, secrets, Spain and ships. Loss and intrigue too as we follow twin brothers along their life paths. Summary by Sandra...
His Dog - Albert Payson Terhune
His Dog - Albert Payson Terhune
- Author: Albert Payson Terhune
- Genre: General Fiction
Albert Payson Terhune, perhaps best known for his book Lad, a Dog (later turned into a popular movie), was also a breeder of collies and a journalist. Some of his collie lines survive to this day. His Dog is a story about Link Ferris who finds an...
The Dixie Book of Days - Page ANDREWS
The Dixie Book of Days - Page ANDREWS
- Author: Page ANDREWS
- Genre: General Fiction / Poetry / *Non-fiction
The author used a yearly calendar to focus on pieces written by Southern authors. Many of these writers are little known, having created for their own enjoyment or peace of mind, not necessarily for publication. (Summary by Bill Boerst)...
The Ranchman - Charles Alden Seltzer
The Ranchman - Charles Alden Seltzer
- Author: Charles Alden Seltzer
- Genre: General Fiction / Westerns
A fast-paced old time western. Squint Taylor, a rancher and long time resident of Dawes, is challenged by a crooked newcomer for the position of mayor. Through unscrupulous dealings carried on by a crooked Carrington, Squint lis cheated out of...
Varney, the Vampyre Vol. 1 - Thomas Peckett PREST
Varney, the Vampyre Vol. 1 - Thomas Peckett PREST
- Author: Thomas Peckett PREST
- Genre: General Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Detective Fiction
This is volume 1 of 3. Originally published as a penny dreadful from 1845 until 1847, when it first appeared in book form, Varney the Vampyre is a forerunner to vampire stories such as Dracula, which it heavily influenced. Flora Bannersworth is...
William Tell Told Again - P. G. Wodehouse
William Tell Told Again - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General Fiction
This is the classic story of William Tell - Swiss patriot and great apple-shooter - as seen through the eyes of English humorist P.G. Wodehouse.No Swiss were (permanently) injured in the telling of this story; however, results differed for Austrian...
Dandelion Cottage - Carroll Watson Rankin
Dandelion Cottage - Carroll Watson Rankin
- Author: Carroll Watson Rankin
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
Carroll Watson Rankin's best known novel is Dandelion Cottage, published in 1904 by Henry Holt and Company. She first wrote the story serially for her own children. Considered a regional classic in the midwest, it tells of four young girls who...
Belinda - Maria Edgeworth
Belinda - Maria Edgeworth
- Author: Maria Edgeworth
- Genre: General Fiction
When Belinda was published in 1801, it became both controversial and popular. Controversial because of the inter-racial marriage presented in the novel, and popular because it's a very good comedy of manners, like Evelina by Fanny Burney. Belinda,...
