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A Touch of the Sun and Other Stories - Mary Hallock FOOTE
A Touch of the Sun and Other Stories - Mary Hallock FOOTE
- Author: Mary Hallock FOOTE
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories / Westerns
Four short stories by Mary Hallock Foote (1847–1938), an American author and illustrator. She is best known for her illustrated short stories and novels portraying life in the mining communities of the turn-of-the-century American West. She is...
The Legacy of Cain - Wilkie Collins
The Legacy of Cain - Wilkie Collins
- Author: Wilkie Collins
- Genre: General Fiction
Eunice and Helena are sisters brought up by their father, the Reverend Abel Gracedieu. They grow up quietly and happily, until some dark secrets about their past come to light. One of the daughters is adopted: her mother was executed for murdering...
The Silent Barrier - Louis Tracy
The Silent Barrier - Louis Tracy
- Author: Louis Tracy
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction / Romance
Charles K. Spencer is a well-to-do young American mining engineer. Drinking his water in a hotel in London one day, he overhears a conversation between two young women, one of whom is to go to Switzerland. He decides to play "fairy godfather" and...
Oedipus Rex (Storr Translation) - Sophocles
Oedipus Rex (Storr Translation) - Sophocles
- Author: Sophocles
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General Fiction / Plays
Oedipus the King (often known by the Latin title Oedipus Rex) is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed c. 429 BC. It was the second of Sophocles's three Theban plays to be produced, but it comes first in the internal chronology,...
Hawk of Egypt - Joan CONQUEST
Hawk of Egypt - Joan CONQUEST
- Author: Joan CONQUEST
- Genre: General Fiction
A tragic love triangle between a beautiful English girl, an English gentleman, and a half-English, half-Egyptian plays out among the ruins and under the desert stars of 1920s era Egypt. The saga ends, as all love triangles must, in tragedy upon the...
The Great Stone of Sardis - Frank R. Stockton
The Great Stone of Sardis - Frank R. Stockton
- Author: Frank R. Stockton
- Genre: General Fiction / Science Fiction
The home of Roland Clewe, a small house plainly furnished, but good enough for a bachelor's quarters, stood not half a mile from the station, and near it were the extensive buildings which he called his Works. Here were laboratories, large...
Shirley - Charlotte Brontë
Shirley - Charlotte Brontë
- Author: Charlotte Brontë
- Genre: General Fiction
Shirley is an 1849 social novel by the English novelist Charlotte Brontë. It was Brontë's second published novel after Jane Eyre (originally published under Brontë's pseudonym Currer Bell). The novel is set in Yorkshire in the period 1811–1812,...
The Grey Woman - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
The Grey Woman - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Genre: General Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Detective Fiction
A "Bluebeard" story in which a young woman marries a man whom she discovers has killed his previous wives and is trying to kill her as well. (Summary by Jane Greensmith)...
The Opal Serpent - Fergus Hume
The Opal Serpent - Fergus Hume
- Author: Fergus Hume
- Genre: General Fiction
An old pawnbroker is found strangled with his lips pinned together with an opal serpent broach. He has a beautiful daughter who is apparently the heir of his large estate. But another claimant has made herself known as the actual daughter of the...
The Gentle Grafter - O. Henry
The Gentle Grafter - O. Henry
- Author: O. Henry
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Satire
If Jefferson "Parleyvoo" Pickens had appeared in print just a few years later, he might have been the "Gentle Grifter" instead of the "Gentle Grafter", the name O. Henry picked for him. His situation as an ethical graft artist gives Jeff an extra...
The Star of Gettysburg - Joseph A. Altsheler
The Star of Gettysburg - Joseph A. Altsheler
- Author: Joseph A. Altsheler
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction
The Army of Northern Virginia, still victorious after three hard years of fighting, capitalize on their victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, and a young Harry Kenton, is an eyewitness to the Confederate invasion of the north,...
The Broken Rosary - Grace JOHNSON
The Broken Rosary - Grace JOHNSON
- Author: Grace JOHNSON
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
County Prosecutor Wally Brighton was found shot to death one evening, a broken rosary in one hand and a .32 automatic inches away from the other. Was it murder or suicide? It takes two sharp-eyed reporters, who combine romance with amateur...
In the Sweet Dry and Dry - Christopher Morley
In the Sweet Dry and Dry - Christopher Morley
- Author: Christopher Morley
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Satire
Written just before Prohibition to entail the possible troubles that might happen en route. Both sides of the argument, or battle as the case may be, strike out with various over-top methods like legislating most fruits and vegetables as unsafe or...
Little Men (version 2) - Louisa May Alcott
Little Men (version 2) - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
Little Men follows the life of Jo Bhaer and the students who live and learn at the Plumfield Estate School that she runs with her husband, Professor Bhaer. The mischievous children, whom she loves and cares for as her own, learn valuable lessons as...
The Little House in the Fairy Wood - Ethel Cook ELIOT
The Little House in the Fairy Wood - Ethel Cook ELIOT
- Author: Ethel Cook ELIOT
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General Fiction
A lonely boy is taken in by the friendly inhabitants of a little house in the woods. Through this adventure, he finds the fairy folk, nature, and happiness. (Summary by A. Gramour)...
Weapons of Mystery - Joseph HOCKING
Weapons of Mystery - Joseph HOCKING
- Author: Joseph HOCKING
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Justin Blake receives an invitation from his old school-fellow Tom Temple to join him and his family for the Christmas holidays in Yorkshire. Having no other plans, he decides to go. Though he is normally much the opposite of what would be called a...
Coffee Break Collection 007 - Travel - Various
Coffee Break Collection 007 - Travel - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Travel Fiction / General Fiction / Short Stories
This is the seventh collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in length. These are great for work/study breaks, commutes, workouts, or any time you'd like to hear a whole story and only...
In Chancery (Forsyte Saga Vol. 2) - John Galsworthy
In Chancery (Forsyte Saga Vol. 2) - John Galsworthy
- Author: John Galsworthy
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance / Sagas
'The Forsyte Saga' is the story of a wealthy London family stretching from the eighteen-eighties until the nineteen-twenties. In Chancery is the second book in the saga. Five years have passed since Irene left Soames and the death of Bosinney. Old...
Barbara in Brittany - E. A. GILLIE
Barbara in Brittany - E. A. GILLIE
- Author: E. A. GILLIE
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Barbara, an English girl and the eldest of her family, spends most days helping her widowed mother care for her younger siblings. Then disaster strikes - or so the children believe! Barbara is taken to France to see Paris by her father's formidable...
Eugene Onéguine - Alexander Pushkin
Eugene Onéguine - Alexander Pushkin
- Author: Alexander Pushkin
- Genre: General Fiction / Poetry / Romance
Eugene Oneguine is a classic of Russian literature, and its eponymous protagonist has served as the model for a number of Russian literary heroes (so-called superfluous men). It was published in serial form between 1825 and 1832. The first complete...
The Shuttle - Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Shuttle - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Genre: General Fiction
Rosalie Vanderpoel, the daughter of an American multimillionaire marries an impoverished English baronet and goes to live in England. She all but loses contact with her family in America. Years later her younger sister Bettina, beautiful,...
Phaedrus - Plato
Phaedrus - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / General Fiction / *Non-fiction
“For there is no light of justice or temperance, or any of the higher ideas which are precious to souls, in the earthly copies of them: they are seen through a glass, dimly…” Socrates and his earnest friend Phaedrus, enjoying the Athenian equivalent...
Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories Volume 1, 1835 to 1842 - Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories Volume 1, 1835 to 1842 - Hans Christian Andersen
- Author: Hans Christian Andersen
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General Fiction
A collection of some of Hans Christian Andersen's works. He is a Danish author and poet most famous for his fairy tales. (Summary by Kristingj)...
The Lady of the Basement Flat - Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
The Lady of the Basement Flat - Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
- Author: Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
- Genre: General Fiction / Published 1900 onward
A naive young girl strikes out on her own and ends up leading a double life in this engaging tale of love lost and found. Summary by Judi Mason...
The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi) - Alessandro Manzoni
The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi) - Alessandro Manzoni
- Author: Alessandro Manzoni
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi) presents a kaleidoscope of individual stories, which are all tied together by the story of Lucia and Renzo, two young persons of humble origin that are deeply in love with one another. However, despite their great...
Oliver Twist (version 4) - Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist (version 4) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: General Fiction
Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress is the second novel by Charles Dickens. The story is about an orphan Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in a workhouse and then is placed with an undertaker. He escapes and travels to London...
An Outcast Of The Islands - Joseph Conrad
An Outcast Of The Islands - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
An Outcast of the Islands is the second novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1896, inspired by Conrad's experience as mate of a steamer, the Vigar. The novel details the undoing of Peter Willems, a disreputable, immoral man who, on the run from a...
Salammbô - Gustave Flaubert
Salammbô - Gustave Flaubert
- Author: Gustave Flaubert
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction
After completing the famous Mme Bovary, Flaubert put all his efforts into researching the Punic Wars and completed the lesser known Salammbô. In this volume, Flaubert describes in detail the Mercenary Revolt and the fight of the Mercenaries against...
The Moon Pool - Abraham Merritt
The Moon Pool - Abraham Merritt
- Author: Abraham Merritt
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction
Dr. David Throckmartin’s scientific expedition to the South Sea Islands discovers among ancient ruins a portal into Muria, an unknown underground world. After the disappearance of Throckmartin, his wife and two companions, his old friend Dr. Walter...
Prelude - Katherine Mansfield
Prelude - Katherine Mansfield
- Author: Katherine Mansfield
- Genre: General Fiction
One of the first books to be published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press, Prelude is among Katherine Mansfield's most accomplished stories, inspired by her childhood in New Zealand. (Introduction by iremonger)...
Tom Swift and His War Tank - Victor Appleton
Tom Swift and His War Tank - Victor Appleton
- Author: Victor Appleton
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
Tom Swift, that prolific youthful inventor, is engaged in trying to help the Allies win WWI. After reading newspaper accounts of the British tanks, Tom takes a sheet of paper and sets out to design a better one from scratch. And fortunately, he can...
Nigger of the Narcissus - Joseph Conrad
Nigger of the Narcissus - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
This is the story of a voyage of a merchant sailing ship from Bombay to England, set in the very late 19th century. “It was a bad winter off the Cape that year.” From Wikepedia: “The novel is seen as an allegory about isolation and solidarity, the...
The Lost World (version 2) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Lost World (version 2) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
Imagine a strange, tropical place that is almost inaccessible. Time appears to have stood still there. Species of animal and plant life not seen elsewhere on Earth, except in the fossil record, inhabit the place. The lakes heave with the shapes of...
No Thoroughfare - Charles Dickens
No Thoroughfare - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: General Fiction
Two boys from the Foundling Hospital are given the same name, with disastrous consequences in adulthood. Two associates, wishing to right the wrong, are commissioned to find a missing heir. Their quest takes them from fungous wine cellars in the...
Sintram and His Companions - Friedrich de la Motte FOUQUÉ
Sintram and His Companions - Friedrich de la Motte FOUQUÉ
- Author: Friedrich de la Motte FOUQUÉ
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General Fiction
Friedrich de la Motte Fouque, also the author of Undine, was a German Romantic writer whose stories were filled with knights, damsels in distress, evil enchantments, and the struggle of good against overpowering evil. 'My strength is as the strength...
The Missing Bride - E.D.E.N. Southworth
The Missing Bride - E.D.E.N. Southworth
- Author: E.D.E.N. Southworth
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
Prepare yourself for a journey, full of adventures and plot twists which will keep you guessing until the very end. This is psychological romance at it's best. In the war of 1814, an American heiress falls in love with a British officer. This...
Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens
Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: General Fiction
Dickens' last complete novel was published serially 1864-5. It begins with an intriguing fortune offered to John Harmon by his late father, a rich dust contractor, in his will. To receive the money, John must marry a certain Bella Wilfer who he does...
Operation: Outer Space - Murray Leinster
Operation: Outer Space - Murray Leinster
- Author: Murray Leinster
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
Jed Cochrane is about to take off on man's first interstellar voyage. His mission: Make sure it's good television! (Introduction by Mark Nelson)...
O Pioneers! - Willa Sibert Cather
O Pioneers! - Willa Sibert Cather
- Author: Willa Sibert Cather
- Genre: General Fiction / Published 1900 onward
O Pioneers! tells the story of the Bergsons, a family of Swedish immigrants in the farm country near Hanover, Nebraska, (a fictional town near Glenvil) around the turn of the 20th century. The main character, Alexandra Bergson, inherits the family...
Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev
Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev
- Author: Ivan Turgenev
- Genre: General Fiction
The fathers and children of the novel refers to the growing divide between the two generations of Russians, and the character Yevgeny Bazarov has been referred to as the "first Bolshevik", for his nihilism and rejection of the old order. Turgenev...
