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The House of Mirth (Version 2) - Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth (Version 2) - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: General Fiction
Wharton's classic story of an aging (by Victorian-era standards) spinster socialite who would rather marry for money than for true love.(Summary by BellonaTimes)...
The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 02 - Various
The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 02 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the second volume, 44 short stories and poems have been gathered from 31 authors. This volume is sure to delight listeners. (Summary by Linette Geisel)) The Wit and Humor od America series...
Critias - Plato
Critias - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General Fiction
This is an incomplete dialogue from the late period of Plato's life. Plato most likely created it after Republic and it contains the famous story of Atlantis, that Plato tells with such skill that many have believed the story to be true. Critias, a...
Lady Anna - Anthony Trollope
Lady Anna - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction
When it appeared in 1874, Lady Anna met with little success, and positively outraged the conservative - `This is the sort of thing the reading public will never stand...a man must be embittered by some violent present exasperation who can like...
Lifted Masks - Susan Glaspell
Lifted Masks - Susan Glaspell
- Author: Susan Glaspell
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
In this collection of short stories, Susan Glaspell examines the unique character of America and its people. (Summary by wildemoose)...
Dawn of the Morning - Grace Livingston Hill
Dawn of the Morning - Grace Livingston Hill
- Author: Grace Livingston Hill
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance / Published 1900 onward
Fresh from school, mistreated and neglected by her father and stepmother, sixteen-year-old Dawn consents to marry a friend of her father's whom she has only met, but the wedding does not go as planned. Scared and confused, she runs away after the...
The Elusive Pimpernel - Baroness Orczy
The Elusive Pimpernel - Baroness Orczy
- Author: Baroness Orczy
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
First Published in 1908, The Elusive Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy is the 4th book in the classic adventure series about the Scarlet Pimpernel. (Summary from Wikipedia)...
Father Sergius - Leo Tolstoy
Father Sergius - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
Prince Stepan Kasatsky experiences a disappointment with his fiancΓ© and decides to become a monk! There is a story line, but beneath it, Father Sergius struggles to find peace and, if not happiness, then at least contentment. But he is always...
The Girls of Friendly Terrace (or Peggy Raymond's Success) - Harriet Lummis SMITH
The Girls of Friendly Terrace (or Peggy Raymond's Success) - Harriet Lummis SMITH
- Author: Harriet Lummis SMITH
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
Peggy Raymond and her friends, Amy, Priscilla and Ruth, encounter a new neighbour, Elaine, and her family. While Peggy, in her usual cheerful and practical manner, welcomes them into the neighbourhood of Friendly Terrace, a variety of mysteries...
The Spoilers - Rex Beach
The Spoilers - Rex Beach
- Author: Rex Beach
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction
Rex Beach was born in Atwood, Michigan to a prominent family and pursued a career as a lawyer before being drawn to Alaska at the time of the Klondike Gold Rush. After five years of unsuccessful prospecting, he turned to writing. His first novel,...
In the Reign of Terror: The Adventures of a Westminster Boy - G. A. Henty
In the Reign of Terror: The Adventures of a Westminster Boy - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
Like all Henty books, this one centers around a young English lad whose courtesy and courage win the day. Harry Sandwith travels to France to serve a French Marquis, despite the rumblings of a revolution. Follow along to benefit from a wholesome...
Barks and Purrs (Dramatic Reading) - COLETTE
Barks and Purrs (Dramatic Reading) - COLETTE
- Author: COLETTE
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / General Fiction
Barks and Purrs is a collection of seven episodes in the lives of Toby-Dog, a French Bulldog, and Kiki-the-Demure, a Maltese cat, living in a comfortable household. The episodes cover a hot afternoon, a train ride, and what happened when dinner was...
Pomona's Travels - Frank R. Stockton
Pomona's Travels - Frank R. Stockton
- Author: Frank R. Stockton
- Genre: General Fiction
Pomona and Jone of Rudder Grange fame travel to England and Scotland. Along the way, Pomona tangles with wild pigs, haymaking, hotels great and small, Pullman cars, comparison-makers, and a Duchess. She makes two matches and - in her usual,...
Scenes of Clerical Life - George Eliot
Scenes of Clerical Life - George Eliot
- Author: George Eliot
- Genre: General Fiction
Scenes of Clerical Life, which appeared in book form in 1858 (after serial publication in the previous year), was the first published fiction by George Eliot, the pen name for Mary Anne Evans. It consists of three novellas based on the lives of...
The Birthplace - Henry James
The Birthplace - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: General Fiction
Neither the name of Shakespeare nor that of Stratford appears directly in this short piece by James, and yet both are absolutely central to his plot. The story has to do with Mr. and Mrs. Gedge, tempted away from a dreary northern town library,...
Divers Women - Pansy
Divers Women - Pansy
- Author: Pansy
- Genre: General Fiction / Christian Fiction
A collection of short stories, highlighting some of the best and worst characteristics we women are capable of in our Christianity and in our home life. (Summary by TriciaG)...
Facing the Flag - Jules Verne
Facing the Flag - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
Like The Begum's Millions, which Verne published in 1879, it has the theme of France and the entire world threatened by a super-weapon (what would now be called a weapon of mass destruction) with the threat finally overcome through the force of...
The Efficiency Expert - Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Efficiency Expert - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: General Fiction
Our hero, Jimmy Torrance, Jr., has a hard time finding suitable employment after a brilliant (athletically, at least) college career, despite all kinds of assistance from his friends in the underworld and the wealthy and sophisticated young woman...
The People of the Mist - H. Rider Haggard
The People of the Mist - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Romance
Penniless Leonard Outram attempts to redress the undeserved loss of his family estates and fiancee by seeking his fortune in Africa. In the course of his adventures he and his Zulu companion Otter save a young Portuguese woman, Juanna Rodd, together...
John Caldigate - Anthony Trollope
John Caldigate - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction
After a rather dissolute youth and having been disowned by his father, John Caldigate sets sail for Australia with his friend Dick Shand hoping to make his fortune in the goldfields in New South Wales. On the voyage, he meets Euphemia Smith and they...
The Sorrows of a Show Girl - Kenneth McGaffey
The Sorrows of a Show Girl - Kenneth McGaffey
- Author: Kenneth McGaffey
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Plays
Originally printed in The Morning Telegraph in New York, this is the story of Miss Sabrina, the show girl, and her ups and downs with the unpredictable theatrical industry and the Great White Way, the lights and glamour of Broadway. "In order to set...
Aunt Jane's Nieces In Society - L. Frank Baum
Aunt Jane's Nieces In Society - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: General Fiction / Action & Adventure
Written under pseudonym of Edith Van Dyne. The story continues the adventures of three cousins, Louise, Patsy and Beth,with their debuts in society and the appearance of suitors, one of whom is rejected and kidnaps Louise. (Summary by Lynne Thompson)...
Little Eve Edgarton - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Little Eve Edgarton - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
- Author: Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Eve Edgarton is not who she seems she is. A short encounter with Mr. Barton show that first impressions are not always right or indicative of one's seemingly obvious preference or one's proclivity. (Summary by Kehinde)...
Policy and Passion - Rosa Campbell Praed
Policy and Passion - Rosa Campbell Praed
- Author: Rosa Campbell Praed
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction / Sagas
"Policy and Passion, a Novel of Australian Life" tells the story about a father and daughter, torn between the policy of the country in which they live and the passions both have. The father, Thomas, is a rising politician until his love for a...
The Riddle of the Purple Emperor - Thomas W. HANSHEW
The Riddle of the Purple Emperor - Thomas W. HANSHEW
- Author: Thomas W. HANSHEW
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Orphan Lady Margaret Cheyne returns home on her eighteenth birthday to live with her embittered maiden aunt and to take up her inheritance of the family jewels. The Cheyne jewels include a pendant featuring the Purple Emperor, a priceless jewel...
In the Year of Jubilee - George Gissing
In the Year of Jubilee - George Gissing
- Author: George Gissing
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction
The Jubilee marks the fiftieth year of the reign of Queen Victoria. Dickensian in its sweeping scope of London life, Jubilee depicts the harsh and disreputable conditions of lower-middle class life at the end of the 19th century. (Introduction by S....
The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles - Herman Melville
The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles - Herman Melville
- Author: Herman Melville
- Genre: General Fiction
The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles is a novella by American author Herman Melville. First published in Putnam's Magazine in 1854, it consists of ten philosophical "Sketches" on the Encantadas, or GalΓ‘pagos Islands. It was collected in The Piazza...
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907-1908 - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907-1908 - 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...
The Shrieking Pit - Arthur J. REES
The Shrieking Pit - Arthur J. REES
- Author: Arthur J. REES
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
The Shrieking Pit is one of Arthur Rees's earlier works, and is a good old fashioned murder mystery story. Grant Colwyn, a private detective, is holidaying in East Anglia when he notices a young man at a nearby table behaving peculiarly. The young...
Helen - Maria Edgeworth
Helen - Maria Edgeworth
- Author: Maria Edgeworth
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction
Maria Edgeworth was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe. She held advanced views,...
True to the Old Flag - G. A. Henty
True to the Old Flag - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction
This book tells the story of the American war of Independence from the side of the British. The old flag mentioned in the title is the flag of England. This is a book for young readers, but - as a good book should be - everybody can enjoy it"....
Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave - Aphra BEHN
Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave - Aphra BEHN
- Author: Aphra BEHN
- Genre: General Fiction
Aphra Behn was the first woman writer in England to make a living by her pen, and her novel Oroonoko was the first work published in English to express sympathy for African slaves. Perhaps based partly on Behn's own experiences living in Surinam,...
O Pioneers! (version 2) - Willa Sibert Cather
O Pioneers! (version 2) - Willa Sibert Cather
- Author: Willa Sibert Cather
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
O Pioneers! tells the story of the Bergsons, a family of Swedish immigrants in the farm country near the fictional town of Hanover, Nebraska, at the turn of the 20th century. The main character, Alexandra Bergson, inherits the family farmland when...
The Harbor of Doubt - Frank WILLIAMS
The Harbor of Doubt - Frank WILLIAMS
- Author: Frank WILLIAMS
- Genre: General Fiction
Young Code Schofield had lost his schooner May Schofield in an Atlantic gale a few months ago, and now the townspeople on the small island of Grande Mignon off the coast of New Brunswick were beginning to talk suspiciously of the events surrounding...
Oscar Wilde: Art and Morality - Stuart MASON
Oscar Wilde: Art and Morality - Stuart MASON
- Author: Stuart MASON
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
βWho can help laughing when an ordinary journalist seriously proposes to limit the subject-matter at the disposal of the artist?β βWe are dominated by journalism.... Journalism governs for ever and ever.β[/i] One of the nastiest of the British...
The Getting of Wisdom - Henry Handel RICHARDSON
The Getting of Wisdom - Henry Handel RICHARDSON
- Author: Henry Handel RICHARDSON
- Genre: General Fiction
The Getting of Wisdom tells the story of Laura Rambotham, a 12-year-old girl who is just starting at her boarding school. This is based on Henry Handel Richardson's experiences of her own school, the Prebysterian Ladies College in central Melbourne....
Bertram Cope's Year - Henry Blake FULLER
Bertram Cope's Year - Henry Blake FULLER
- Author: Henry Blake FULLER
- Genre: General Fiction
This novel was perhaps the most daring and affirmative LGBT literature of the first two decades of the 20th century in America. In this story, Bertram Cope is a young college instructor, about twenty-four years old ("certainly not a day over...
A Room with a View (version 2) - E. M. Forster
A Room with a View (version 2) - E. M. Forster
- Author: E. M. Forster
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
The 1908 novel A Room With a View is the story of Lucy Honeychurch, a young English girl traveling to Italy for the first time. While staying in Florence, Lucy meets the unconventional George Emerson, with whom she shares a single passionate kiss,...
Phantoms of Reality - Ray Cummings
Phantoms of Reality - Ray Cummings
- Author: Ray Cummings
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Science Fiction
Red Sensua's knife came up drippingβand the two adventurers knew that chaos and bloody revolution had been unleashed in that shadowy kingdom of the fourth dimension. (Summary by Ray Cummings)...
Little Lord Fauntleroy - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Little Lord Fauntleroy - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
Little Lord Fauntleroy is a sentimental children's novel by American (English-born) author Frances Hodgson Burnett, serialized in St. Nicholas Magazine in 1885. It was a runaway hit for the magazine and was separately published in 1886. The book was...
