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Framley Parsonage - Anthony Trollope
Framley Parsonage - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction
Framley Parsonage is the fourth novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire", first published in serial form in the Cornhill Magazine in 1860. (Summary by Wikipedia) "Of all novelists in any country, Trollope best...
Barnaby Rudge (version 2) - Charles Dickens
Barnaby Rudge (version 2) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction
One of the two Historical novels Charles Dickens wrote, Barnaby Rudge is set around the βGordonβ riots in London in 1780. The story begins in 1775 with Barnaby, his Mother, and his talking Raven Grip, fleeing their home from a blackmailer, and going...
The Border Legion - Zane Grey
The Border Legion - Zane Grey
- Author: Zane Grey
- Genre: General Fiction / Westerns
The story of a cold hearted man named Jack Kells who falls in love with Miss Joan Randle, a girl his legion has taken captive near the Idaho border. (Summary by Wikipedia)...
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell - William Blake
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell - William Blake
- Author: William Blake
- Genre: General Fiction / Poetry / Satire
The work was composed between 1790 and 1793, in the period of radical foment and political conflict immediately after the French Revolution. The title is an ironic reference to Emanuel Swedenborg's theological work Heaven and Hell published in Latin...
Selected Essays - Voltairine de Cleyre
Selected Essays - Voltairine de Cleyre
- Author: Voltairine de Cleyre
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Philosophy
Voltairine de Cleyre (1866β1912) was, according to Emma Goldman, "the most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced." Today she is not widely known as a consequence of her short life. De Cleyre was especially influenced by Thomas...
The Three Impostors - Arthur Machen
The Three Impostors - Arthur Machen
- Author: Arthur Machen
- Genre: General Fiction
Three friends in a large old dilapidated house are laughing. They seem as giddy as an acting troupe at closing night. But their laughter is callous, cruel; you might say, evil. One of them, a young woman described as piquant rather than beautiful...
Toppleton's Client - John Kendrick Bangs
Toppleton's Client - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
A pre-eminent legal firm gets far more than it bargained for when it hires the son of its late senior partner, Hopkins Toppleton, Sr., simply to retain the illustrious family name on the company masthead. Knowing Jr. is a loose cannon, their...
Literary Lapses - Stephen Leacock
Literary Lapses - Stephen Leacock
- Author: Stephen Leacock
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
Short sketches relating the humourous side of life in 1910. "Professor Leacock has made more people laugh with the written word than any other living author. One may say he is one of the greatest jesters, the greatest humorist of the age." β A. P....
The Coxon Fund - Henry James
The Coxon Fund - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: General Fiction
This novella explores the relationship between Frank Saltram, a charismatic speaker who is also a freeloader; Ruth Anvoy, a young American who visits her widowed aunt, Lady Coxon, an American who married a Brit; and George Gravener, a British...
The Outspan: Tales of South Africa - Sir James Percy Fitzpatrick
The Outspan: Tales of South Africa - Sir James Percy Fitzpatrick
- Author: Sir James Percy Fitzpatrick
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
Six poignant short stories reminiscent of life as a transport rider in the Transvaal veld in the days of the gold rush in South Africa at the end of the 19th century. From an early age Fitzpatrick believed that life should be enjoyed to the full and...
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 - 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...
Mr. Punch's Dramatic Sequels - St. John Emile Clavering Hankin
Mr. Punch's Dramatic Sequels - St. John Emile Clavering Hankin
- Author: St. John Emile Clavering Hankin
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
A collection of short and humorous one-act "sequels" to 14 major plays (many already in the Librivox catalog). Plays end too soon. They never show the whole of what I want to know. The curtain falls and I'm perplexed with doubts about what happened...
Emma (version 3) - Jane Austen
Emma (version 3) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Jane Austen famously described Emma Woodhouse, the title character of her 1815 novel, as "a heroine whom no-one but myself will much like." Yet generations of readers have loved Emma, as much for her blunders as for her wit and vivacity. Emma,...
In the Cage - Henry James
In the Cage - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: General Fiction
In the Cage is a novella by Henry James, first published as a book in 1898. This long story centers on an unnamed London telegraphist. She deciphers clues to her clients' personal lives from the often cryptic telegrams they submit to her as she sits...
Grace Harlowe's Second Year at Overton College - Jessie Graham Flower
Grace Harlowe's Second Year at Overton College - Jessie Graham Flower
- Author: Jessie Graham Flower
- Genre: General Fiction
The four series follow Grace Harlowe and her friends through high school, college, abroad during World War I, and on adventures around America. In The High School Girls Series, Grace attends Oakdale High School with friends Anne Pierson, Nora...
Brenda, Her School and Her Club - Helen Leah Reed
Brenda, Her School and Her Club - Helen Leah Reed
- Author: Helen Leah Reed
- Genre: General Fiction
"Brenda was used to getting her own way. Her parents and older sisters spoiled her, her friends followed her lead, servants obeyed her, and she was truly beautiful. That was so, until her cousin Julia (who is everything that she is not) came to live...
The Invasion - William Le Queux
The Invasion - William Le Queux
- Author: William Le Queux
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / War & Military Fiction
This novel, also known as The Invasion of 1910, is a 1906 novel written mainly by William Le Queux (with H. W. Wilson providing the naval chapters). It is one of the more famous examples of Invasion literature and is an example of pre-World War I...
The Story of an African Farm - Olive Schreiner
The Story of an African Farm - Olive Schreiner
- Author: Olive Schreiner
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
The novel details the lives of three characters, first as children and then as adults - Waldo, Em and Lyndall - who live on a farm in the Karoo region of South Africa. The story is set in the middle- to late Nineteenth century - the First Boer War...
Mudfog and Other Sketches - Charles Dickens
Mudfog and Other Sketches - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
The Mudfog Papers was written by Victorian era novelist Charles Dickens and published from 1837β38 in the monthly literary serial Bentley's Miscellany, which he then edited. They were first published as a book as 'The Mudfog Papers and Other...
The Well-Beloved - Thomas Hardy
The Well-Beloved - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: General Fiction
'The Well-Beloved' tells the story of Jocelyn Pierston and his love for three generations of women - the grandmother, her daughter and grand-daughter over a period of forty years. Pierston is seeking for perfection in his choice of lover and in...
The Abandoned Room - Wadsworth Camp
The Abandoned Room - Wadsworth Camp
- Author: Wadsworth Camp
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
The mystery of a secret room, scene of many murders, is unraveled by Carlos Paredes, the Panamanian Sherlock Holmes. (Summary by manybooks.net)...
Tales of Folk and Fairies - Katharine Pyle
Tales of Folk and Fairies - Katharine Pyle
- Author: Katharine Pyle
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General Fiction
In "Tales of Folk and Fairies" Ms. Pyle tells 15 different children's stories from around the world; each more delightful than the last. Each story stands completely on it's own and although they were probably meant for children, adults will...
The Tragic Muse - Henry James
The Tragic Muse - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: General Fiction / Sagas
Art or politics, this is the question Nick Dormer dealls with in the course of this novel. Mirian Ruth, an aspiring actress, is the "tragic muse" of the title. Her concerns are a bit different: would proper society accept her as an actress, or would...
Jimbo - Algernon Blackwood
Jimbo - Algernon Blackwood
- Author: Algernon Blackwood
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
Fantasy novel about the mystical adventures of a lonely English boy, Jimbo. Itβs really quite beautiful and can be enjoyed by both older kids and adults, though parts may be too scary for younger children (who'd probably be bored anyway). (Summary...
One of the 28th - a Tale of Waterloo - G. A. Henty
One of the 28th - a Tale of Waterloo - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction
A tale of Victorian-style romance, maritime battles and even the penultimate Napoleonic battle - Waterloo. (Introduction by Mike Harris)...
Bartleby, the Scrivener (version 2) - Herman Melville
Bartleby, the Scrivener (version 2) - Herman Melville
- Author: Herman Melville
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street is a novella by the American novelist Herman Melville (1819β1891). It first appeared anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 editions of Putnam's Magazine, and was reprinted with...
Coffee and Repartee - John Kendrick Bangs
Coffee and Repartee - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
First released in 1893, Coffee And Repartee is a collection of breakfast chats at a gentlemans boarding house run by a Mrs. Smithers. Here these fellows repeatedly face questions and proclaimations of an inhabitant they call The Idiot. The...
A Sicilian Romance - Ann Radcliffe
A Sicilian Romance - Ann Radcliffe
- Author: Ann Radcliffe
- Genre: General Fiction
A Sicilian Romance is a Gothic novel by Ann Radcliffe. It was her second published work, and was first published anonymously in 1790. The plot concerns the turbulent history of the fallen aristocrats of the house of Mazzini, on the northern shore of...
The Shaving of Shagpat - George Meredith
The Shaving of Shagpat - George Meredith
- Author: George Meredith
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
The novel is a humorous oriental romance and allegory written in the style of the Arabian Nights. Like its model, it includes a number of stories within the story, along with poetic asides. (Summary by Wikipedia.) βThe variety of scenes and images,...
Harrington - Maria Edgeworth
Harrington - Maria Edgeworth
- Author: Maria Edgeworth
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Harrington follows the protagonist of the same name who tries to explore his memories in order to understand his views on Jews. It begins with Harrington's early images of Jews, which are formed by a collection stories told by his maid, of Simon the...
The Agony Column - Earl Derr Biggers
The Agony Column - Earl Derr Biggers
- Author: Earl Derr Biggers
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
English romantic adventure starring a young American in London and inspired by the personal ads (agony columns) in the London papers. In this treacherous tale of murder and intrigue young American Geoffrey West tracks a killer from the posh dining...
Two On A Tower - Thomas Hardy
Two On A Tower - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
The plot concerns two β literally starcrossed β lovers: Swithin St. Cleeve, a very young amateur astronomer, and Viviette Constantine, an unhappily married and abandoned woman 8 or 9 years his senior. Each night Swithin climbs the old tower of the...
Little Fishers and Their Nets - Pansy
Little Fishers and Their Nets - Pansy
- Author: Pansy
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction / Christian Fiction
Thirteen year old Nettie Decker is called home after having lived with another family for 7 years, to find that her father is a drunkard and her family is in poverty and hopelessness because of it. Her stepmother has given up, and her stepbrother is...
A Christmas Carol (version 04) - Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol (version 04) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens first published by Chapman & Hall on 17 December 1843. The story tells of sour and stingy Ebenezer Scrooge's ideological, ethical, and emotional transformation after the...
Alcatraz - Max Brand
Alcatraz - Max Brand
- Author: Max Brand
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
This is a story of a wild horse who many said could not be caught or broken, and the man who set out to prove them wrong. (Summary by Richard Kilmer)...
Consequences - E. M. Delafield
Consequences - E. M. Delafield
- Author: E. M. Delafield
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction
Set in late Victorian England, βConsequencesβ follows the life of Alexandra Clare, a girl born into an upper class Catholic London family. Raised from birth for the privileged life of a wife and mother, Alexandra never quite fits in with her or her...
Grace Harlowe's Fourth Year at Overton College - Jessie Graham Flower
Grace Harlowe's Fourth Year at Overton College - Jessie Graham Flower
- Author: Jessie Graham Flower
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
The four series follow Grace Harlowe and her friends through high school, college, abroad during World War I, and on adventures around America. In The High School Girls Series, Grace attends Oakdale High School with friends Anne Pierson, Nora...
For Treasure Bound - Harry Collingwood
For Treasure Bound - Harry Collingwood
- Author: Harry Collingwood
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
For Treasure Bound is one of the earlier novels by Harry Collingwood (William Joseph Cosens Lancaster), published in 1897. We follow the hero, whose name is incidentally also Harry Collingwood, on a quest to the pacific islands for treasure and his...
Main Street - Sinclair Lewis
Main Street - Sinclair Lewis
- Author: Sinclair Lewis
- Genre: General Fiction
Carol Milford is a liberal, free-spirited young woman, reared in the metropolis of Minneapolis. She marries Will Kennicott, a doctor, who is a small-town boy at heart. When they marry, Will convinces her to live in his home-town of Gopher Prairie,...
The Girls of St. Wode's - L. T. Meade
The Girls of St. Wode's - L. T. Meade
- Author: L. T. Meade
- Genre: General Fiction
This is a story about the life of a school girl. The story centres around the girls' college of St. Wode's, Wingfield. This is the place in all England where women who wish to distinguish themselves should go to receive training. The girls come from...
