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The Torrents of Spring - Ivan Turgenev
The Torrents of Spring - Ivan Turgenev
- Author: Ivan Turgenev
- Genre: General Fiction
The Torrents of Spring, also known as Spring Torrents (Russian: ΠΠ΅ΡΠ½ΠΈΠ΅ Π²ΠΎΠ΄Ρ), is a novel written by Ivan Turgenev during 1870 and 1871 when he was in his fifties. The story centers around a young Russian landowner named Dimitry Sanin who falls...
Twice Told Tales - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Twice Told Tales - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
Twice-Told Tales is a short story collection in two volumes by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The first was published in the spring of 1837, and the second in 1842. The stories had all been previously published in magazines and annuals, hence the name....
The Protector - Harold BINDLOSS
The Protector - Harold BINDLOSS
- Author: Harold BINDLOSS
- Genre: General Fiction
Harold Bindloss, while born in England, based most of his novels in western Canada, and The Protector is based primarily in and around Vancouver and Victoria. There is often danger involved in the mining and timber industries north of Vancouver, and...
Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
SeΓ±or Gould is a native Costaguanan of English descent who owns the silver-mining concession in Sulaco. He is tired of the political instability in Costaguana and its concomitant corruption, and puts his weight behind the Ribierist project, which he...
Round the Block - John Bell Bouton
Round the Block - John Bell Bouton
- Author: John Bell Bouton
- Genre: General Fiction
In Round the Block (1864), John Bell Bouton, a newspaper editor who later became a travel writer, stirs together comedy and pathos to explore the schemes and dreams of the average and extraordinary people inhabiting and intermingling on a single New...
Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad - L. Frank Baum
Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: General Fiction
Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad is the second of the ten book series of Aunt Jane's Nieces. The story continues with the three much loved girls - the sweet and generous Patsy, the cunning Louise, and the sullen Beth. This time they're on a tour of Europe...
The Rainbow Trail - Zane Grey
The Rainbow Trail - Zane Grey
- Author: Zane Grey
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Romance
The Rainbow Trail is a sequel to The Riders of the Purple Sage. Both novels are notable for their protagonists' mild opposition to Mormon polygamy, but in The Rainbow Trail this theme is treated more explicitly. The plots of both books revolve...
Six Feet Four - Jackson GREGORY
Six Feet Four - Jackson GREGORY
- Author: Jackson GREGORY
- Genre: General Fiction / Westerns
A hotel is robbed one night, and a cowboy makes his getaway with but few witnesses. When a young woman is also robbed, suspicion falls on one particular man who matches the description of the former thief. The robber is without a doubt a tall man;...
To Let (Forsyte Saga Vol. 3) - John Galsworthy
To Let (Forsyte Saga Vol. 3) - John Galsworthy
- Author: John Galsworthy
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
βThe Forsyte Sagaβ is the story of a wealthy London family stretching from the eighteen-eighties until the nineteen-twenties. To Let is the third and final book in the saga (although Galsworthy later published two further trilogies which extend the...
Hard Times - Charles Dickens
Hard Times - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: General Fiction / Satire
Hard Times, the shortest of Dickens's full-length novels, is set in the fictitious Victorian-England city of Coketown, where facts are the rule and all fancy is to be stamped out. The plot centers around the men and women of the town, some of whom...
Phoebe Deane - Grace Livingston Hill
Phoebe Deane - Grace Livingston Hill
- Author: Grace Livingston Hill
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction / Romance
Second book in the Marcia Schuyler trilogy. Phoebe Deane lives almost as a servant in her brother's home, tormented by her hateful sister-in-law. Schemes to marry her off swirl around her. Her fate seems to be marriage to an abusive man with several...
The Guest of Quesnay - Booth Tarkington
The Guest of Quesnay - Booth Tarkington
- Author: Booth Tarkington
- Genre: General Fiction
This is the story of two young American painters residing in Paris in a moderate way. Others are more flamboyant than them, for example Larrabee Harman, whose life is one continuous scandal, one of which involved the cousin of one of the painters....
A Little Country Girl - Susan Coolidge
A Little Country Girl - Susan Coolidge
- Author: Susan Coolidge
- Genre: General Fiction
Candace makes the first long trip of her young life alone. Everything is new, from the ocean views, to the fashionable people she encounters; from the museum-like home, to the unfamiliar cousins. How will she adapt to the new experiences and will...
The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Genre: General Fiction
"The wrongdoing of one generation lives into the successive ones and... becomes a pure and uncontrollable mischief." Hawthorne's moral for "The House of the Seven Gables," taken from the Preface, accurately presages his story. The full weight of the...
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
Little Women is the classic story of The March family, which consists of Mr. and Mrs. March and their four girls--Practical, yet fashion conscious Meg, who longs for the nice things they used to have. Rambunctious, book worm, Jo, who wants to become...
The Warden (version 2) - Anthony Trollope
The Warden (version 2) - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction
Anthony Trollope sets the scene for his wonderful Chronicles of Barsetshire with this short novel about Septimus Harding's challenged ecclesiastical seat as the warden of Hiram's Hospital. To make things more interesting, the man doing the...
The Secret House - Edgar Wallace
The Secret House - Edgar Wallace
- Author: Edgar Wallace
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
A stranger and foreigner arrives at the offices of a small publication in London only to be faced by the βeditorβ whose face is completely swathed in a veil. Nothing is as it seems, and it quickly becomes evident that both are bent on more than...
Emma McChesney and Company - Edna Ferber
Emma McChesney and Company - Edna Ferber
- Author: Edna Ferber
- Genre: General Fiction
This is the final volume in the trilogy following the smart, stylish, divorced and independent businesswoman Emma McChesney in her career from stenographer, then drummer (traveling salesman) to owner of her own company. (The first was Roast Beef,...
Middlemarch (version 2) - George Eliot
Middlemarch (version 2) - George Eliot
- Author: George Eliot
- Genre: General Fiction
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Anne Evans, later Marian Evans. It is her seventh novel, begun in 1869 and then put aside during the final illness of Thornton Lewes, the son of her companion...
Olive - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Olive - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
- Author: Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
- Genre: General Fiction
Inspired by Jane Eyre, Dinah Maria Craik's 1850 novel, Olive, was one of the first to feature a disabled central character. 'Slightly deformed' from birth, Olive believes that she will never be able to marry like other women, so she devotes her life...
Jo's Boys - Louisa May Alcott
Jo's Boys - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Jo's Boys is the third book in the Little Women trilogy by Louisa May Alcott, published in 1886. In it, Jo's "children", now grown, are caught up in real world troubles. All three books - although fiction - are highly autobiographical and describe...
She - H. Rider Haggard
She - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
At 5 years old Leo Vincey is left in the care of a Cambridge professor by the name of Horace Holly. His father leaves him a strange casket which he is to open on his 25th Birthday. On opening the Casket Leo and Horace discover the strange history of...
A Tale of Two Cities (version 2) - Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities (version 2) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 million copies sold, it is among the most famous works of fiction. The novel depicts the plight of the...
The Prairie - A Tale - James Fenimore Cooper
The Prairie - A Tale - James Fenimore Cooper
- Author: James Fenimore Cooper
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction
The story opens with Ishmael, his family, Ellen and Abiram slowly making their way across the virgin prairies of the Midwest looking for a homestead, just two years after the Louisiana Purchase, and during the time of the Lewis and Clark Expedition....
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions - Edwin Abbott Abbott
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions - Edwin Abbott Abbott
- Author: Edwin Abbott Abbott
- Genre: General Fiction / Satire / Science Fiction
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 science fiction novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. As a satire, Flatland offered pointed observations on the social hierarchy of Victorian culture. However, the novella's more...
Heart and Science: A Story of the Present Time - Wilkie Collins
Heart and Science: A Story of the Present Time - Wilkie Collins
- Author: Wilkie Collins
- Genre: General Fiction
Heart and Science is one of Wilkie Collins' didactic novels. It is the story of young doctor Ovid Vere, who fights for his love against all resistance of his family and their immediate circle of acquaintances. The novel features a large inheritance,...
Creatures of the Abyss - Murray Leinster
Creatures of the Abyss - Murray Leinster
- Author: Murray Leinster
- Genre: General Fiction
Orejas de ellos, "the things that listen", whispered the superstitious fishermen when the strange occurrences began off the Philippine coast. How else explain the sudden disappearance of a vessel beneath a mysterious curtain of foam? The writhings...
The Friendly Terrace Quartette (or Peggy Raymond At The Poplars) - Harriet Lummis SMITH
The Friendly Terrace Quartette (or Peggy Raymond At The Poplars) - Harriet Lummis SMITH
- Author: Harriet Lummis SMITH
- Genre: General Fiction / Published 1900 onward
The Friendly Terrace Quartette (or Peggy Raymond At The Poplars) published in 1920, finds Peggy and her friends preparing for The Great War. Young men they had known as boys are signing up to train and fight as soldiers, while the girls find...
Strangers And Pilgrims - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Strangers And Pilgrims - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: General Fiction
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Ask Mamma: or The Richest Commoner In England - Robert Smith Surtees
Ask Mamma: or The Richest Commoner In England - Robert Smith Surtees
- Author: Robert Smith Surtees
- Genre: General Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Considering that Billy Pringle, or Fine Billy, as his good-natured friends called him, was only an underbred chap, he was as good an imitation of a Swell as ever we saw. He had all the airy dreaminess of a hereditary high flyer, while his big talk...
The Judgment of Eve - May Sinclair
The Judgment of Eve - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: General Fiction / Literary Fiction / Satire
May Sinclair was a prolific author, literary critic, and feminist activist, famous in Britain and the US in the 1910βs and 20βs. The Judgment of Eve, like most of her novels, uses irony and understatement to expose the hypocrisy of the social order...
The "Mind The Paint" Girl - Louis Tracy
The "Mind The Paint" Girl - Louis Tracy
- Author: Louis Tracy
- Genre: General Fiction
"The "Mind The Paint" Girl, by Louis Tracy, is a delightful novelization of Sir Arthur Pinero's sparkling comedy now having a successful New York run.... Mr. Tracy has caught the very spirit of the drama and has told its story with much of the same...
Falkner - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Falkner - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Genre: General Fiction
Falkner is the last novel by Mary Shelley, best known as the author of Frankenstein and The Last Man. It tells the impossible love story between Elizabeth Raby and Gerald Neville. She is an orphan, raised by a tyrannical father figure. The man who...
Footsteps of Fate - Louis COUPERUS
Footsteps of Fate - Louis COUPERUS
- Author: Louis COUPERUS
- Genre: General Fiction
A short but intense novel, Footsteps of Fate tells of the friendship of two young Dutchmen in London, Frank and Bertie. Arriving destitute at Frank's home one night, Bertie is taken in by his old friend and soon begins to enjoy a life of fashion and...
Short Stories (Version 2) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Short Stories (Version 2) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Humorous Fiction
This is a collection of short stories written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Dostoevsky), who is arguably better-known for his lengthy, contemplative novels. Several of his trademark philosophical, political and religious themes are interwoven throughout...
Ships That Pass in the Night - Beatrice Harraden
Ships That Pass in the Night - Beatrice Harraden
- Author: Beatrice Harraden
- Genre: General Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
This short novel by Beatrice Harraden, who was known for her work as a suffragist, was a bestseller in its time. In it, teacher and activist Bernardine Holme takes up residence at a tuberculosis sanatorium after falling ill. There she meets Robert...
First Chapter Collection 008 - Various
First Chapter Collection 008 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction
The first chapter of a book is often the hook to draw a reader in. It could make you eager for more or realize it isn't for you. In this, the 8th First Chapter Collection, we offer you old favorites, such as Pride and Prejudice and The Call of the...
Herb of Grace - Rosa Nouchette Carey
Herb of Grace - Rosa Nouchette Carey
- Author: Rosa Nouchette Carey
- Genre: General Fiction
Malcolm Herrick has it all: he is a lawyer, he has no financial problems, and he has wonderful friends and even an adopted sister. He is a dutiful boy to his mother. He is a loving friend. But he wanted something else. He wanted to be a poet or an...
The Younger Sister - Catherine Anne Hubback
The Younger Sister - Catherine Anne Hubback
- Author: Catherine Anne Hubback
- Genre: General Fiction
Emma Watson, the youngest child of six from a poor family, was sent away as a child to be raised by her wealthy aunt and uncle. When her uncle dies and her aunt remarries, Emma (now a pretty, well-educated, and opinionated young woman) returns home...
Ideala - Sarah Grand
Ideala - Sarah Grand
- Author: Sarah Grand
- Genre: General Fiction
She came among us without flourish of trumpets. She just slipped into her place, almost unnoticed, but once she was settled there it seemed as if we had got something we had wanted all our lives, and we should have missed her as you would miss the...
