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The White Linen Nurse (version 2) - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
The White Linen Nurse (version 2) - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
- Author: Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
Throughout three years of school, Rae Malgregor had been perfectly pliant, perfectly compliant to all the demands placed on her. But now, on the eve of graduation, she couldn’t go on with the mask of artificiality and the air of perfection. She had...
Pride and Prejudice (version 5) - Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice (version 5) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Pride and Prejudice, first published on 28 January 1813, is the most famous of Jane Austen's novels. It is one of the first romantic comedies in the history of the novel and its opening is one of the most famous lines in English literature —"It is a...
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
This is the fifth of Burrough's Tarzan novels. Tarzan finds himself bereft of his fortune and resolves to return to the jewel-room of Opar, leaving Jane to face unexpected danger at home. (Summary written by Sarah Jennings.)...
Ball-of-Fat - Guy de Maupassant
Ball-of-Fat - Guy de Maupassant
- Author: Guy de Maupassant
- Genre: General Fiction
The first significant published short story of French author Guy de Maupassant, and generally acknowledged as his greatest work, "Ball-of-Fat" (French title: Boule de Suif) is the touching story of an interrupted coach ride from Rouen to Le Havre...
All of Grace - Charles H. Spurgeon
All of Grace - Charles H. Spurgeon
- Author: Charles H. Spurgeon
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Philosophy
HE WHO SPOKE and wrote this message will be greatly disappointed if it does not lead many to the Lord Jesus. It is sent forth in childlike dependence upon the power of God the Holy Ghost, to use it in the conversion of millions, if so He pleases. No...
Great Expectations (version 2) - Charles Dickens
Great Expectations (version 2) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: General Fiction
Great Expectations is written in the first person and is virtually a fictional autobiography of “Pip” from his childhood, through often painful experiences, to adulthood. It charts his progress as he moves from the Kent marshes - his social status...
Shoes and Stockings: A Collection of Short Stories - Louisa May Alcott
Shoes and Stockings: A Collection of Short Stories - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction
Here are tales of love and war, modesty and frivolity, laughter and tears. Louisa May Alcott wrote many, many short stories. This collection shares but 6/7 of them. (Summary by Carolyn Frances )...
Reed Anthony, Cowman: An Autobiography - Andy ADAMS
Reed Anthony, Cowman: An Autobiography - Andy ADAMS
- Author: Andy ADAMS
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Westerns
Adams breathes life into the story of a Texas cowboy who becomes a wealthy and influential cattleman.. (Introduction by Wikipedia)...
The Tragic Bride - Francis Brett YOUNG
The Tragic Bride - Francis Brett YOUNG
- Author: Francis Brett YOUNG
- Genre: General Fiction
The story centers on Gabrielle Hewish, only and lonely child of Sir Jocelyn Hewish, a loveable lush and owner of the peaceful Roscarna estate nestled in the Irish countryside. In due course, young Gabrielle falls in lovewith a Navy man whose...
Buttered Side Down - Edna Ferber
Buttered Side Down - Edna Ferber
- Author: Edna Ferber
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
"And so," the story writers used to say, "they lived happily ever after." Um-m-m—maybe. After the glamour had worn off, and the glass slippers were worn out, did the Prince never find Cinderella's manner redolent of the kitchen hearth; and was it...
Calumet “K” - Samuel Merwin
Calumet “K” - Samuel Merwin
- Author: Samuel Merwin
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Romance
"A novel, with several elements of rather unusual interest. As a tale, it is swift, simple, and absorbing, and one does not willingly put it down until it is finished. It has to do with grain-elevator business, with railways, strikes, and commercial...
Miss Ashton's New Pupil - Sarah Stuart ROBBINS
Miss Ashton's New Pupil - Sarah Stuart ROBBINS
- Author: Sarah Stuart ROBBINS
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / School
Marion Park, the daughter of missionaries, is sent to Miss Ashton's boarding school. There she meets with many young girls and together they learn not just lessons in German, Logic, Arithmetic, Latin and Rhetoric, but also life lessons of study...
Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress - Daniel Defoe
Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress - Daniel Defoe
- Author: Daniel Defoe
- Genre: General Fiction
The full title of the novel is Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress Or, a History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau, Afterwards Called the Countess de Wintselsheim. The novel concerns the story of an unnamed "fallen...
Best Russian Short Stories - Various
Best Russian Short Stories - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction / Anthologies
In this collection of Russian stories, editor and compiler Thomas Seltzer selects from a range of the best examples of 19th and early 20th century Russian literature. As a survey of famous authors at the height of the powers, as well as some writers...
Marge Askinforit - Barry Pain
Marge Askinforit - Barry Pain
- Author: Barry Pain
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
A rollicking parody of the Margot Asquith memoirs, in which Pain's character, Marge, beguiles us with the most personal details of her dysfunctional family, and delights in relating every cringing, if not wholly accurate, minutiae of her exciting...
Alexander's Bridge (version 2) - Willa Sibert Cather
Alexander's Bridge (version 2) - Willa Sibert Cather
- Author: Willa Sibert Cather
- Genre: General Fiction
Bartley Alexander is a construction engineer and world-renowned builder of bridges going through what's known today (but not in 1912) as a mid-life crisis. Although married to his wife Winifred, Bartley resumes his acquaintance with a former lover,...
A Thief in the Night - E. W. Hornung
A Thief in the Night - E. W. Hornung
- Author: E. W. Hornung
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
Gentleman thief A.J. Raffles burgles his way through a series of homes in late Victorian England. A Thief in the Night is a short story collection and Hornung's third book in the Raffles series. (Summary by Cathy Barratt)...
Short Science Fiction Collection 052 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 052 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction / Science Fiction / Fantasy Fiction
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is possible. The only rules are those set forth by the author. The speculative nature of the genre inspires...
Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard - Eleanor FARJEON
Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard - Eleanor FARJEON
- Author: Eleanor FARJEON
- Genre: General Fiction
The wandering minstrel Martin Pippin finds a lovelorn ploughman who begs him to visit the orchard where his beloved has been locked in the well-house with six sworn virgins to guard her. Martin Pippin goes to the rescue and wins the confidence of...
Jacob's Room - Virginia Woolf
Jacob's Room - Virginia Woolf
- Author: Virginia Woolf
- Genre: General Fiction
The novel centres, in a very ambiguous way, around the life story of the protagonist Jacob Flanders, and is presented entirely by the impressions other characters have of Jacob [except for those times when we do indeed get Jacob's perspective]....
Love's Shadow - Ada Leverson
Love's Shadow - Ada Leverson
- Author: Ada Leverson
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
The first in a trilogy of books known together as 'The Little Ottleys', this is a sparkling social comedy set in Edwardian London. Ada Leverson was a great friend and staunch supporter of Oscar Wilde and shared his love for sharp, witty writing....
Run to Earth - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Run to Earth - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
A captivating Victorian “sensation” novel by the author of “Lady Audley's Secret”, Run to Earth has it all: scoundrels and mercenaries, love and lust, jealousy, intrigue, and suspense. (Introduction by Gail Mattern)...
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Version 2) - Charles Dickens
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Version 2) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: General Fiction
Nicholas Nickleby is a young Devonshire man of nineteen, handsome and hot headed, devoted to his sister Kate and his parents. Following the death of Nicholas’s father, they find themselves penniless, and travel to London to seek help from his uncle,...
Samson Agonistes - John Milton
Samson Agonistes - John Milton
- Author: John Milton
- Genre: General Fiction / Plays / Poetry
“The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.” Milton composes his last extended work as a tragedy according to the classical Unities of Time, Place and Action. Nevertheless it “never...
The Go-Getter - Peter B. KYNE
The Go-Getter - Peter B. KYNE
- Author: Peter B. KYNE
- Genre: General Fiction
A disabled veteran succeeds as a civilian with persistence and military focus. (Summary by Scott Dahlem)...
The Window at the White Cat - Mary Roberts Rinehart
The Window at the White Cat - Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
When a clumsy, well-meaning lawyer gets involved with a pair of delightful old maids and a beautiful girl, he must acquire some of the skills of his friends the detective and the newspaperman to solve the puzzle of The White Cat. That’s the name of...
Hunger - Knut HAMSUN
Hunger - Knut HAMSUN
- Author: Knut HAMSUN
- Genre: General Fiction
Hunger (Norwegian: Sult) is a novel by the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun and was published in its final form in 1890. The novel has been hailed as the literary opening of the 20th century and an outstanding example of modern, psychology-driven...
Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People - Charles Dickens
Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: General Fiction
Sketches by Boz is a collection of short pieces published by Charles Dickens in 1836 accompanied by illustrations by George Cruikshank. It consists of 56 passages divided into four sections: "Our Parish", "Scenes", "Characters", and "Tales". Of...
Literary Taste: How to Form It - Arnold Bennett
Literary Taste: How to Form It - Arnold Bennett
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Self-Help
Arnold Bennett describes a method for enjoying literature, and suggests the contents of a comprehensive library. Chapters 1-10 and 14 describe his method for learning to enjoy literature. Chapters 11, 12, and 13 contain detailed lists of the 337...
Red Masquerade - Louis Joseph Vance
Red Masquerade - Louis Joseph Vance
- Author: Louis Joseph Vance
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
In the beginning of his career, Michael Lanyard alias The Lone Wolf, the most talented thief of his day, made the acquaintance of the beautiful Princess Sofia, but he also made an enemy of her husband, Prince Victor. Years later, Lanyard's daughter...
That Affair at Elizabeth - Burton Egbert Stevenson
That Affair at Elizabeth - Burton Egbert Stevenson
- Author: Burton Egbert Stevenson
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
A detective novel set in turn-of-the-century New York City, in which a young lawyer plays the sleuth. Packed with plot twists (and the ubiquitous romantic complication, of course). (Summary by Cathy Barratt)...
Deephaven - Sarah Orne Jewett
Deephaven - Sarah Orne Jewett
- Author: Sarah Orne Jewett
- Genre: General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction / *Non-fiction
Sarah Orne Jewett is best known for her clean and clear descriptive powers that at once elevate common-place daily events to something remarkable, and lend dignity and grace to the most humble and homely human character. In Deephaven, go with her on...
The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
The Wings of the Dove - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: General Fiction
"The Wings of the Dove," published in 1902, represents to my memory a very old--if I shouldn't perhaps rather say a very young--motive; I can scarce remember the time when the situation on which this long-drawn fiction mainly rests was not vividly...
The Sign of Silence - William Le Queux
The Sign of Silence - William Le Queux
- Author: William Le Queux
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Edward Royle is the head of a well-known chemical manufacturer in England, which he has inherited. He is engaged to the daughter of his father’s former partner, Phrida Shand, who lives with her mother. One night he is asked by his friend, Sir Digby...
Lady Baltimore - Owen Wister
Lady Baltimore - Owen Wister
- Author: Owen Wister
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Augustus visits King's Port, South Carolina, at the request of his Aunt Carola, and at her expense. She wants him to research geneaologies and records to find proof that he is descended from royalty so that he can join her exclusive club, the...
Tono-Bungay - H. G. Wells
Tono-Bungay - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: General Fiction
Tono-Bungay is a realist semi-autobiographical novel. It is narrated by George Ponderevo, a science student who is drafted in to help with the promotion of Tono-Bungay, a harmful stimulant disguised as a miraculous cure-all, the creation of his...
Max Carrados - Ernest Bramah
Max Carrados - Ernest Bramah
- Author: Ernest Bramah
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Max Carrados is a blind detective who has developed his own remaining senses to a superior level and who has enlisted the superior observations skills of his butler to fill in for any deficiency of his own. His visual deficiency is no obstacle to...
The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. I - James Boswell
The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. I - James Boswell
- Author: James Boswell
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson is widely considered to be the greatest English-language biography ever written. It was revolutionary in its efforts to represent Johnson as he was, celebrating his flaws as well as his genius, and in Boswell's...
The Song of Hugh Glass - John Neihardt
The Song of Hugh Glass - John Neihardt
- Author: John Neihardt
- Genre: General Fiction / Poetry
This poem tells a story that begins in 1823 - just after the Leavenworth campaign against the Arikara Indians - and follows an expedition of Major Andrew Henry during a series of arduous journeys over the Trans-Missouri region. The poem focuses upon...
Resurrection, Book 2 - Leo Tolstoy
Resurrection, Book 2 - 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...
