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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Version 2) - Jules Verne
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Version 2) - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Professor Pierre Aronnax is an academic whose thirst for knowledge carries him out of his ivory tower and on the trail of a mysterious sea beast. His curiosity at last is satiated when he finds himself in the belly of the beast-- that is, on board...
The Hand of Fu-Manchu - Sax Rohmer
The Hand of Fu-Manchu - Sax Rohmer
- Author: Sax Rohmer
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Further adventures of Nayland Smith and Doctor Petrie as they continue their battles against the evil genius, Dr Fu-Manchu. (summary by Elaine Twiddle)...
The House of the Seven Gables (Version 2) - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The House of the Seven Gables (Version 2) - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Genre: General Fiction
The House of the Seven Gables is a gloomy New England mansion, haunted from its foundation by fraudulent dealings, accusations of witchcraft, and sudden death. The current resident, the dignified but desperately poor Hepzibah Pyncheon, opens a shop...
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Version 2) - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Version 2) - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: General Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Detective Fiction
After hearing Mr. Enfield's account of a distressing event involving Edward Hyde, the heir of his friend, Henry Jekyll, John Utterson is convinced that Jekyll's relationship with Hyde is built on something sinister. Utterson's concern for his friend...
The Vicomte De Bragelonne - Alexandre Dumas
The Vicomte De Bragelonne - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction
After The Three Muskateers and Twenty Years After the adventurous story of Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan continues! The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (French: Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus tard) is the last of the...
The Enchanted April - Elizabeth von Arnim
The Enchanted April - Elizabeth von Arnim
- Author: Elizabeth von Arnim
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Itβs a dreary February in post-World War I London when Mrs. Wilkins spots an advertisement in The Times for a small Italian castle for rent in April. She sees another member of her womenβs club, Mrs. Arbuthnot, reading the same advertisement and...
The House by the Lock - Alice Muriel Williamson
The House by the Lock - Alice Muriel Williamson
- Author: Alice Muriel Williamson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction
What secrets lay within the walls of the house by the lock? What secrets, if any, are held by the man who owns that mysterious house? A body is found in a backwater creek not far from the house by the lock, but what leads Noel Stanton on a quest to...
The Regent - Arnold Bennett
The Regent - Arnold Bennett
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
'The Regent' is, if not a sequel to 'The Card', then a 'Further Adventures of' the eponymous hero of that novel. Denry Machin is now forty-three and begins to feel that he is getting old, that making money and a happy home life are not enough and...
The Trial of Callista Blake - Edgar PANGBORN
The Trial of Callista Blake - Edgar PANGBORN
- Author: Edgar PANGBORN
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
In 1959, in the state of New Essex, a witch was on trial. Or so she seemed to many of the jurors who would ultimately decide her fate, and to the people who thronged the crowded courtroom, many of them friends of the murdered woman. On trial for...
Flower of the North - James Oliver Curwood
Flower of the North - James Oliver Curwood
- Author: James Oliver Curwood
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Flower of the North finds Philip Whittemore on an adventure which takes him up the Churchill River of northern Canada to a land which he thought he knew. However, tucked in among the rocks and hills lies an unfamiliar outpost which he's been told is...
The Damnation of Theron Ware - Harold FREDERIC
The Damnation of Theron Ware - Harold FREDERIC
- Author: Harold FREDERIC
- Genre: General Fiction
The Damnation of Theron Ware (published in England as Illumination) is an 1896 novel by American author Harold Frederic. It is widely considered a classic of American realism. The novel reveals a great deal about turn-of-the-century provincial...
Miss Billy Married - Eleanor H. Porter
Miss Billy Married - Eleanor H. Porter
- Author: Eleanor H. Porter
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction / Romance
At the opening to this second sequel to Miss Billy (Miss Billy, Miss Billy's Decision, Miss Billy Married), we find Bertram and Billy finally at the altar. Will wedded bliss ensue and are the patter of little feet on the horizon? Or is...
Beckside Lights - John ACKWORTH
Beckside Lights - John ACKWORTH
- Author: John ACKWORTH
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
John Ackworth was the pen name of the Rev. Frederick R. Smith, a Methodist minister who was born in Snaith, Yorkshire, but spent much of his career as a circuit preacher in Lancashire. Beckside Lights is the sequel to his popular collection of...
Resurrection, Book 1 - Leo Tolstoy
Resurrection, Book 1 - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: General Fiction
Resurrection is the last of Tolstoy's major fiction works published in his lifetime. Tolstoy intended the novel as an exposition of injustice of man-made laws and the hypocrisy of institutionalized church. It was first published serially in the...
Lilith - George MacDonald
Lilith - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
Lilith, written by the father of fantasy literature, George MacDonald, was first published in 1895. Its importance was recognized in its later revival in paperback by Ballantine Books as the fifth volume of the celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy...
Ramona - Helen Hunt Jackson
Ramona - Helen Hunt Jackson
- Author: Helen Hunt Jackson
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction
Ramona, a novel written by Helen Hunt Jackson (1884), is the story of a part-Scottish and part-Native American orphan girl growing up and getting married in Southern California, suffering racial discrimination and hardship. Originally serialized in...
The New Magdalen - Wilkie Collins
The New Magdalen - Wilkie Collins
- Author: Wilkie Collins
- Genre: General Fiction
Mercy Merrick is living a difficult life on the streets, but when she meets the young and charismatic clergyman Julian Gray, she desires to leave this life behind and start afresh. She packs her things and volunteers as a nurse in the...
Swann's Way - Marcel PROUST
Swann's Way - Marcel PROUST
- Author: Marcel PROUST
- Genre: General Fiction
Swann's Way is the first book in the seven-volume work In Search of Lost Time, or Remembrance of Things Past, by Marcel Proust. It is a novel written in the form of an autobiography. Proust's most prominent work, it is popularly known for its length...
The Dark Other - Stanley G. WEINBAUM
The Dark Other - Stanley G. WEINBAUM
- Author: Stanley G. WEINBAUM
- Genre: General Fiction
The Dark Other is a horror novel by Stanley G. Weinbaum. The novel concerns Patricia Lane who is in love with Nicholas Devine, a quiet and gentle writer. Devine undergoes sudden changes becoming cold and calculating. Frightened by this, Lane...
The Pearl of Orr's Island - Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Pearl of Orr's Island - Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Go on a journey to the coast of Maine and immerse yourself in the picturesque community on Orrβs Island. See the raindrops glistening on the pine needles and hear the waves crashing on the rocks. This is a tale of romance, tragedy, crusty sea...
Selected Short Stories - Stephen Crane
Selected Short Stories - Stephen Crane
- Author: Stephen Crane
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
At the time of his death at the age of 28, Stephen Crane had become an important figure in American literature. He was nearly forgotten, however, until two decades later when critics revived interest in his life and work. Stylistically, Crane's...
My First Book - Various
My First Book - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction / Memoirs / Essays
This is not a children's book, as may be supposed from the title, but a collection of essays first published in The Idler magazine, in which over twenty well-known authors write with characteristic style and humour of their experiences in writing...
The Valley of the Giants - Peter B. KYNE
The Valley of the Giants - Peter B. KYNE
- Author: Peter B. KYNE
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Romance
The man was John Cardigan; in that lonely, hostile land he was the first pioneer. This is the tale of Cardigan and Cardigan's son, for in his chosen land the pioneer leader in the gigantic task of hewing a path for civilization was to know the bliss...
Ramona (version 2) - Helen Hunt Jackson
Ramona (version 2) - Helen Hunt Jackson
- Author: Helen Hunt Jackson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Romance
Set in Old California in the wake of the Mexican-American War, Ramona is two stories at once. It is the story of the love between a part-Native American orphan girl, Ramona, and Alessandro, a young Indian sheepherder. It is also the story of racial...
The Adventures of Gerard - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Gerard - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction
These lesser known stories were penned by Conan Doyle during the period between killing off Sherlock Holmes in 1893 and reluctantly resurrecting him some ten years later. The swashbuckling, eponymous hero, Etienne Gerard, is one of Napoleon's...
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (version 3) - Thomas Hardy
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (version 3) - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: General Fiction
"Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented" is a novel by Thomas Hardy, first published in 1891. It initially appeared in a censored and serialised version, published by the British illustrated newspaper, The Graphic. Though now...
Pariah Planet (version 2) - Murray Leinster
Pariah Planet (version 2) - Murray Leinster
- Author: Murray Leinster
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Science Fiction
When the blue plague appeared on the planet of Dara, fear struck nearby worlds. The fear led to a hate that threatened the lives of millions and endangered the Galactic peace. (Summary by Gutenberg text)...
Jane Austen's Juvenilia - Jane Austen
Jane Austen's Juvenilia - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction / General Fiction / Short Stories
Before becoming the author of such classics as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma, Jane Austen experimented with various writing styles as a teenager in the early 1790s. This is a collection of her juvenilia, including the...
Rilla of Ingleside (version 2) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Rilla of Ingleside (version 2) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: General Fiction / Plays / War & Military Fiction
Rilla of Ingleside (1921) is the final book in the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery, but was the sixth of the eight "Anne" novels she wrote. This book draws the focus back onto a single character, Anne and Gilbert's youngest...
The Light That Failed - Rudyard Kipling
The Light That Failed - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: General Fiction
This novel, first published in 1890, follows the life of Dick Heldar, a painter. Most of the novel is set in London, but many important events throughout the story occur in Sudan or India. It was made into a 1916 film with Jose Collins and a 1939...
The Rustlers of Pecos County - Zane Grey
The Rustlers of Pecos County - Zane Grey
- Author: Zane Grey
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance / Westerns
The town of Linrock, located in Pecos Couty is south Texas has fallen under the control of a gang of rustlers. Two Texas Lone Star Rangers are sent to Linrock to clean up the town .They soon fall in love with two girls who may be related to the...
Space Viking - H. Beam Piper
Space Viking - H. Beam Piper
- Author: H. Beam Piper
- Genre: General Fiction / Science Fiction
A galactic war has left the Terran Federation in ruins. Formerly civilized planets have decivilized into barbarism. Space Vikings roam the wreckage, plundering and killing for gain. Lord Lucas Trask of Traskon was no admirer of the Space Vikings,...
A Deal With The Devil - Eden PHILLPOTTS
A Deal With The Devil - Eden PHILLPOTTS
- Author: Eden PHILLPOTTS
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Satire
A Deal with the Devil is a classic tale with a humorous twist. We find that on the night preceeding his 100th birthday Grandpapa, a cantankerous yet loveable sort, has made a deal with the devil, which his granddaughter, in part, will pay. - Summary...
Helping Himself, or Grant Thornton's Ambition - Horatio Alger, Jr.
Helping Himself, or Grant Thornton's Ambition - Horatio Alger, Jr.
- Author: Horatio Alger Jr.
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / General Fiction
Helping Himself, or Grant Thornton's Ambition deals with the grit and determination of Grant, a 15 year old farmer's boy whose father is dead and in order to pay his minister father's debts, and to help his mother deal with their abject poverty...
The Lost House - Richard Harding Davis
The Lost House - Richard Harding Davis
- Author: Richard Harding Davis
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Austin Ford, the London correspondent of the New York Republic, is spending some idle time in the American Embassy chatting with the Second Secretary, when suddenly a note is brought in. This note is an appeal for help, found in the gutter in a dark...
Great Expectations (Version 3) - Charles Dickens
Great Expectations (Version 3) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: General Fiction
In one of Charles Dickensβ most beloved stories, Philip Pirrip, known as βPipβ, narrates his own journey, from the hindsight of 50 years. Pip grows up with his older sister after losing his parents at a very early age. His sister, a tough unloving...
Ten Years Later - Alexandre Dumas
Ten Years Later - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction
After The Three Muskateers and Twenty Years After the adventurous story of Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan continues! The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (French: Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus tard) is the last of the...
Sense and Sensibility (version 5 dramatic reading) - Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility (version 5 dramatic reading) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / General Fiction
The story is about Elinor and Marianne, two daughters of Mr Dashwood by his second wife. They have a younger sister, Margaret, and an older half-brother named John. When their father dies, the family estate passes to John, and the Dashwood women are...
Wessex Tales - Thomas Hardy
Wessex Tales - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
Wessex Tales is a collection of six short stories written by Hardy in the 1880βs. If youβve never read Hardy theyβll serve as a good introduction to his writing. Though not as comprehensive as his major works they do contain all the ingredients that...
Transition - Emma Francis BROOKE
Transition - Emma Francis BROOKE
- Author: Emma Francis BROOKE
- Genre: General Fiction
Honora Klaper is beautiful, distinguished, smart, and charming. A woman who turns heads. She is on an errand. No, it is not an errand to get a man. No, it is not an errand to make money. It is a revolutionary errand: to get an education! Not just...
