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Three Girls in a Flat - Enid YANDELL
Three Girls in a Flat - Enid YANDELL
- Author: Enid YANDELL
- Genre: General Fiction
Enid Yandell (October 6, 1870 - June 13, 1934) was an American sculptor who studied with Auguste Rodin and Frederick William MacMonnies. She created numerous portraits, garden pieces and small works as well as public monuments. Ms. Yandell also...
Basil, or, Honesty and Industry - Charlotte Grace O'BRIEN
Basil, or, Honesty and Industry - Charlotte Grace O'BRIEN
- Author: Charlotte Grace O'BRIEN
- Genre: General Fiction
A poor boy discovers the value of honesty and industry. More than that, he discovers the value of his relationship with God (Introduction by Robert Harder)...
Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others - John Kendrick Bangs
Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
New York-born John Kendrick Bangs was associate editor and then editor of Life and Harper magazines, eventually finding his way into the Humour department. Here he began to write his own satire and humour. Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others is a...
Miss Lulu Bett - Zona GALE
Miss Lulu Bett - Zona GALE
- Author: Zona GALE
- Genre: General Fiction
Lulu Bett is a spinster, living at the turn of the 20th century essentially as a servant with her sister Ina and brother-in-law Dwight. She is, uncomplainingly, "the family beast of burden," living in the background and tending to the family's...
Pocket Island - Charles Clark MUNN
Pocket Island - Charles Clark MUNN
- Author: Charles Clark MUNN
- Genre: General Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Along the coast of Maine are littered thousands of small islands. One such, named 'Pocket Island' by the locals was so called because of a pocket formed twice daily by the waning of the tides. The coast of Maine holds many secrets and legends, and...
A Voice in the Wilderness - Grace Livingston Hill
A Voice in the Wilderness - Grace Livingston Hill
- Author: Grace Livingston Hill
- Genre: General Fiction
Margaret leaves her family home and security to become a school teacher in the wilds of early Arizona. Accidentally getting off her safe and warm train at the wrong place, she encounters first hand the wildness and beauty of the vast West and its...
Just William - Richmal Crompton
Just William - Richmal Crompton
- Author: Richmal Crompton
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
William is a mischievous eleven year old who is puzzled by the adult world, which is no less puzzled by him. The humor is gentle and pleasing. The series of books is better known in the United Kingdom than in the U.S. ( Summary by David Wales )...
The Thing from the Lake - Eleanor M. INGRAM
The Thing from the Lake - Eleanor M. INGRAM
- Author: Eleanor M. INGRAM
- Genre: General Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Detective Fiction
To get away from city life periodically, New Yorker Roger Locke purchases an abandoned farm house in rural Connecticut, and with the assistance of his cousin Phillida and her beau Ethan Vere, he sets about fixing up the place. Immediately however,...
The Greater Inclination - Edith Wharton
The Greater Inclination - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
This is Edith Wharton's earliest published collection of short stories (1899). Like much of her later work, they touch on themes of marriage, male/female relationships, New York society, and the nature and purpose of art. One of the stories, "The...
Jerry - Jean Webster
Jerry - Jean Webster
- Author: Jean Webster
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Jerry is the humorous story of a young man's attempt to win his lady. Jerry is waiting for his friends at a hotel in Italy, and is bored and lonely. When he hears that a beautiful American lady, Constance Wilder, is staying nearby, he tries to visit...
Captain Jim - Mary Grant BRUCE
Captain Jim - Mary Grant BRUCE
- Author: Mary Grant BRUCE
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
This book is about Norah Linton, her brother Jim, her father David and Jim's chum Wally from Australia. They all move to England during WWI because Jim and Wally want to fight in the war. When a Irish friend of the family dies, Norah inherits a big...
Robert Falconer - George MacDonald
Robert Falconer - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: General Fiction / Christian Fiction
A Victorian novel devoted to beloved character first introduced to readers in MacDonald's David Elginbrod. (Summary by Kenneth R. Morefield)...
Philosophy 4: A Story of Harvard University - Owen Wister
Philosophy 4: A Story of Harvard University - Owen Wister
- Author: Owen Wister
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Owen Wister's wry humor enlivens this comedic story of three sophomores during exam week at Harvard. (Summary by David Wales)...
Clog Shop Chronicles - John ACKWORTH
Clog Shop Chronicles - 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. Clog Shop Chronicles was the first and most successful of his...
Wylder's Hand - Joseph Sheridan LE FANU
Wylder's Hand - Joseph Sheridan LE FANU
- Author: Joseph Sheridan LE FANU
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
The marriage of Mark Wylder and Dorkas Brenden is supposed to end a history of arguments between the two families. However, both people involved do not seem to like the idea. Before the wedding, Mark disappears. But to where? And how will the people...
Hedda Gabler - Henrik Ibsen
Hedda Gabler - Henrik Ibsen
- Author: Henrik Ibsen
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Plays
Hedda Gabler is a play first published in 1890 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. In it, Hedda Gabler, daughter of an aristocratic General, has just returned from her honeymoon with George Tesman, an aspiring young academic, reliable but not...
The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children - Charles Kingsley
The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children - Charles Kingsley
- Author: Charles Kingsley
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General Fiction
The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children by Charles Kingsley is a collection of three Greek mythology stories: Perseus, The Argonauts, and Theseus. The author had a great fondness for Greek fairy tales and believed the adventures of the...
Better Angel - Richard MEEKER
Better Angel - Richard MEEKER
- Author: Richard MEEKER
- Genre: General Fiction
In 1933, Forman Brown wrote, under the pseudonym Richard Meeker, a controversial novel called Better Angel, about a young man coming to terms with his homosexuality. This novel is regarded as "the first American novel to present the 'gay' experience...
The Devil's Pool - George SAND
The Devil's Pool - George SAND
- Author: George SAND
- Genre: General Fiction
George Sand (the pen name of Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin 1804-1876) is famous for flaunting the conventions of behavior expected of women of her standing in France at the time and for her numerous romantic liaisons including her long standing...
The Staircase at the Heart's Delight - Anna Katharine Green
The Staircase at the Heart's Delight - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Detective Ebenezer Gryce tells the story of the case with which he begun his career in 1840. Several wealthy men were drowned and washed ashore in New York City, and the first clue leads to a dubious money lender... (Summary by Carolin)...
Anne of Avonlea - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne of Avonlea - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Following Anne of Green Gables, the book covers the second chapter in the life of Anne Shirley. Anne of Avonlea follows Anne from the age of 16 to 18, during the two years that she teaches at Avonlea school. It includes many of the characters from...
What Katy Did (version 2) - Susan Coolidge
What Katy Did (version 2) - Susan Coolidge
- Author: Susan Coolidge
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
Follow the adventures of Katy Carr and her family, through good times and bad. (Summary by Karen Savage)...
Pride and Prejudice (version 4) - Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice (version 4) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen's classic comic romance, in which the five Bennett sisters try to find that most elusive creature: a single man in possession of a large fortune. Sparks fly when sweet, pretty Jane meets their new neighbor, Mr....
David Copperfield (version 2) - Charles Dickens
David Copperfield (version 2) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: General Fiction / Literary Fiction
The story is told almost entirely from the point of view of the first person narrator, David Copperfield himself, and was the first Dickens novel to be written as such a narration. The story deals with the life of David Copperfield from childhood to...
Anything Once - Isabel OSTRANDER
Anything Once - Isabel OSTRANDER
- Author: Isabel OSTRANDER
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Travel & Geography
An unlikely pair of wanderers they were; the orphan girl Lou and her travelling partner Jim Botts. Jim appeared in need of following some apparent 'rules' during the journey, while Lou seemed in need of better clothing, and perhaps some refinement....
The New Atlantis - Francis Bacon
The New Atlantis - Francis Bacon
- Author: Francis Bacon
- Genre: General Fiction
In 1623, Francis Bacon expressed his aspirations and ideas in New Atlantis. Released in 1627, this was his creation of an ideal land where people were kind, knowledgeable, and civic-minded. Part of this new land was his perfect college, a vision for...
McTeague - Frank Norris
McTeague - Frank Norris
- Author: Frank Norris
- Genre: General Fiction
McTeague is a simple dentist who becomes infatuated with Trina, the cousin of his friend Marcus. Trina then buys a winning lottery ticket worth $5,000, and McTeague announces his plans to marry her. But their marriage quickly falls apart as greed...
The Rover Boys on the Ocean - Arthur M. Winfield
The Rover Boys on the Ocean - Arthur M. Winfield
- Author: Arthur M. Winfield
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
The hearty, all-American Rover Boys sail by yacht to Africa in search of their kidnapped father. (Summary by BellonaTimes)...
Sir Dominick Ferrand - Henry James
Sir Dominick Ferrand - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: General Fiction
"Levity" is not a word often applied to Henry James, but this story has about it an attractively lighthearted quality. It tells of Peter Baron, a poor, young struggling writer of adequate, if not transcendent, talent, who lives in a dreary London...
The Daughter of the Commandant - Alexander Pushkin
The Daughter of the Commandant - Alexander Pushkin
- Author: Alexander Pushkin
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
"The Daughter of the Commandant" (better known as "The Captain's Daughter") is a historical novel by the Russian writer Alexander Pushkin, and is considered to be his finest prose work. The novel is a romanticized account of Pugachev's Rebellion in...
The Warden (version 3) - Anthony Trollope
The Warden (version 3) - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction
The Warden is the first novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire", making fun of the Church of England of his time, together with the religious controversies, and the press. It was his fourth novel. The Warden...
The Morgesons - Elizabeth STODDARD
The Morgesons - Elizabeth STODDARD
- Author: Elizabeth STODDARD
- Genre: General Fiction
Stoddard’s novel traces the education and development of a young female in American middle-class society. The protagonist, Cassandra Morgeson, is educated by a series of journeys she makes throughout her youth and early adulthood. Each new setting...
Robin - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Robin - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Genre: General Fiction
Starting with a summary of the 1922 novel The Head of the House of Coombe, which followed the relationships between a group of pre-WWI English nobles and commoners, this sequel, called Robin, completes the story of Robin, Lord Coombe, Donal and...
The Covered Wagon - Emerson Hough
The Covered Wagon - Emerson Hough
- Author: Emerson Hough
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
"Look at 'em come, Jesse! More and more! Must be forty or fifty families." This is an old-fashioned adventure tale set on the Oregon Trail, just before the California Gold Rush. It is the story of a wagon train bound for the west, and the conflict...
Cousin Henry - Anthony Trollope
Cousin Henry - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction
Indefer Jones struggles to name an heir to his estate. Will he choose his favorite niece, Isabel, or a male heir? The story turns on the trouble that arises when Indefer fails to tell anyone his final decision before passing away. ( Summary by Jean...
The Blithedale Romance - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Blithedale Romance - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Genre: General Fiction
The Blithedale Romance is the story of four principal characters who work with -- and sometimes against -- each other on Blithedale, a communal farm antecedent to those that sprang up later in the 1960s, and similar to one on which Hawthorne himself...
The Pupil - Henry James
The Pupil - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: General Fiction
Pemberton, a young American with an Oxford education and out of money, takes a job tutoring Morgan Moreen, the 12-year old son of an American couple living in Europe in a style not quite matched by their income. Mr. and Mrs. Moreen's main purpose in...
Beautiful Girlhood - Mabel HALE
Beautiful Girlhood - Mabel HALE
- Author: Mabel HALE
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Self-Help
The transitioning years between girlhood and womanhood are an exciting time for a girl, as well as tumultuous and confusing. Beautiful Girlhood by Mabel Hale is a lovely guide that will help the young girl understand the changes she is going through...
Indiana - George SAND
Indiana - George SAND
- Author: George SAND
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
This is George Sand's first novel. Her real name was Amantine (or Amandine) Lucile Dupin, and she later became baroness Dudevant. As an aristocratic woman living in 19th century France, she chose her first novel to be, above all, a realistic work....
People Like That - Kate Langley BOSHER
People Like That - Kate Langley BOSHER
- Author: Kate Langley BOSHER
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
A single woman from a family that is well-off, buys a house at a place that is looked down upon and disapproved by her family and friends alike. Her reason - she wants to live the life of and know people like that. (This book's got one of the cutest...
