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Three Men on the Bummel - Jerome K. Jerome
Three Men on the Bummel - Jerome K. Jerome
- Author: Jerome K. Jerome
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Some time after "Three Men in a Boat", George, Harris and Jerome decided to go on a cycling holiday through Germany. This relaxed and gently humorous story of the three friends wandering in and around the Black Forest is coloured by anecdotes, odd...
Tommy and Grizel - J. M. Barrie
Tommy and Grizel - J. M. Barrie
- Author: J. M. Barrie
- Genre: Family Life / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / General Fiction
This book continues Sentimental Tommy, also in the Librivox catalogue. Tommy grows up and marries Grizel. But life is not only roses and rainbows. This book has all the elements of a good love story, but it is also a book about growing up and...
Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
- Author: George Eliot
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
In this enduring Victorian classic written in 1876, two stories weave in and out of each other: The first is about Gwendolen, one of Eliot's finest creations, who grows from a self-centered young beauty to a thoughtful adult with an expanded vision...
A Raw Youth - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A Raw Youth - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Genre: General Fiction
Arkady Dolgoruky, is a 19-year-old intellectual. He is the illegitimate son of a landowner and dreams to become rich. In his quest to fulfil his dream, he meets people who teach him many kinds of ideologies. Thus, the work reflects Russian society....
The Markets of Paris - Émile Zola
The Markets of Paris - Émile Zola
- Author: Émile Zola
- Genre: General Fiction
The Markets of Paris is a remarkable work, and is the one which Zola calls his very best novel, and of which he is far more proud than of any others in his Rougon-Marquart series – prouder than of L’Assommoir. It must have been in his early manhood,...
Marcella - Mary Augusta Ward
Marcella - Mary Augusta Ward
- Author: Mary Augusta Ward
- Genre: General Fiction
Mary Augusta Ward (Mrs. Humphry Ward) was a very popular author at the end of the 19th century. The arrival of Marcella was discussed a lot in the London news papers. This popular novel tells about Marcella Boyce, a beauty of the 1880s, who thinks...
The Touchstone - Edith Wharton
The Touchstone - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Stephen Glennard's career is falling apart and he desperately needs money so that he may marry his beautiful fiancee. He happens upon an advertisement in a London magazine promising the prospect of financial gain. Glennard was once pursued by...
Seven O'Clock Stories - Robert Gordon Anderson
Seven O'Clock Stories - Robert Gordon Anderson
- Author: Robert Gordon Anderson
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
"Not once upon a time but just now, in a white house by the side of a road, live three happy children.Their mother and father gave them very odd names, for two old uncles and one aunt, which pleased the old people very much. Their names are all...
The Honor of the Big Snows - James Oliver Curwood
The Honor of the Big Snows - James Oliver Curwood
- Author: James Oliver Curwood
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
What unseen force may have brought young Jan Thoreau and his music from out of the barren lands into the remote camp of Lac Bain, forever changing the lives of those few who lived there? What brought him to the home of John and Melisse Cummins as...
Dodo's Daughter - E. F. Benson
Dodo's Daughter - E. F. Benson
- Author: E. F. Benson
- Genre: General Fiction
The second in the "Dodo" sequence of novels. (Summary by Crowgirl)...
The Golden Scarecrow - Hugh Walpole
The Golden Scarecrow - Hugh Walpole
- Author: Hugh Walpole
- Genre: General Fiction
Toying with the distinctions between reader and narrator, author and character, imagination and perception, Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole's The Golden Scarecrow, in nine chapters, presents nine stories of nine children, united by location, more or less....
Hushed Up! A Mystery of London - William Le Queux
Hushed Up! A Mystery of London - William Le Queux
- Author: William Le Queux
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
A young man, Owen Biddulph, is drawn to a beautiful young woman with a mysterious past... a past that seems to have returned to cause her disappearance! Is she his new found love or his nemesis? And who is this mysterious clergyman that warns him to...
A Daughter of the Snows - Jack London
A Daughter of the Snows - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
In Jack London's first novel, he tells the story of Frona Welse, a strong and interesting heroine, "a Stanford graduate and physical Valkyrie," who heads to the Yukon gold fields after creating a stir in her hometown by being strong and forthright...
Tension - E. M. Delafield
Tension - E. M. Delafield
- Author: E. M. Delafield
- Genre: General Fiction
When the role of ‘Lady Superintendent’ becomes available at the Commercial and Technical College for South West England, the calm and capable Pauline Marchrose is the successful applicant. This is good news for Sir Julian, the college director, who...
Emma (version 2) - Jane Austen
Emma (version 2) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
Emma is a comic novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1816, about the perils of misconstrued romance. The main character, Emma Woodhouse, is described in the opening paragraph as "handsome, clever, and rich" but is also rather spoiled. Prior to...
Tim - Howard Overing Sturgis
Tim - Howard Overing Sturgis
- Author: Howard Overing Sturgis
- Genre: General Fiction
The first of only three novels by English author Howard Overing Sturgis, the son of wealthy American expatriates and a close friend of Henry James, Tim portrays a sensitive young boy’s affection for an older boy. (Introduction by Dorlene Kaplan)...
Uneasy Money - P. G. Wodehouse
Uneasy Money - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
Uneasy Money is a romantic comedy by P.G. Wodehouse, published during the First World War, it offers light escapism. More romantic but only a little less humorous that his mature works, it tells of the vicissitudes of poor Lord Dawlish, who inherits...
The Romance of an Old Fool - Roswell Field
The Romance of an Old Fool - Roswell Field
- Author: Roswell Field
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
A light-hearted account of a successful middle aged widower who chances to visit the small town in which he grew up to renew old acquaintances and perhaps reflect on his successes since his departure. This visit, however, becomes far more to him...
Almayer's Folly - Joseph Conrad
Almayer's Folly - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
A European businessman and his Malayan wife have a daughter, Nina. A Malayan prince comes to do trade with the businessman and falls in love with the daughter. Conflict arises when other influences cause distrust in the business partnership and the...
Marcia Schuyler - Grace Livingston Hill
Marcia Schuyler - Grace Livingston Hill
- Author: Grace Livingston Hill
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction / Romance
A compelling love triangle. Marcia is young & sweet. Her older sister Kate is vain & selfish. Marcia deeply admires the man that Kate is to marry: handsome & respected David Spafford. But on the eve of the wedding, Kate elopes with...
Quicksand - Nella Larsen
Quicksand - Nella Larsen
- Author: Nella Larsen
- Genre: General Fiction
Quicksand is a 1928 novel by Nella Larsen, a writer of the Harlem Renaissance. It focuses on Helga Crane, a mixed-race woman who is a schoolteacher in the American south. As the novel opens, she suddenly decides to give up her teaching position and...
Pointed Roofs - Dorothy Richardson
Pointed Roofs - Dorothy Richardson
- Author: Dorothy Richardson
- Genre: General Fiction
Miriam Henderson is one of what novelist Dolf Wyllarde (in her great work, The Pathway of the Pioneer) termed "nous autres," i.e., young gentlewomen who must venture forth and earn their living after their fathers have been financially ruined. Also,...
Bladys of the Stewponey - Sabine Baring-Gould
Bladys of the Stewponey - Sabine Baring-Gould
- Author: Sabine Baring-Gould
- Genre: General Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction
The setting, geography and history of this story by Rev'd Sabine Baring-Gould, author of Onward Christian Soldiers and a number of other well-known hymns, are all accurate, or at least as accurate as local lore will allow. Kinver has long been a...
The Quest of the Silver Fleece - W. E. B. Du Bois
The Quest of the Silver Fleece - W. E. B. Du Bois
- Author: W. E. B. Du Bois
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / General Fiction / Romance
The Quest of the Silver Fleece is a story of romance, race, economics and politics set around the 1900s. Here, a traditionally educated boy and an unschooled “swamp girl” each begin a journey toward love, ambition and redemption in the “Old South.”...
The Albert Gate Mystery - Louis Tracy
The Albert Gate Mystery - Louis Tracy
- Author: Louis Tracy
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
A new case for barrister and hobby detective Reginald Brett: The imperial diamonds were sent by the Sultan to London, to be cut in Albert Gate mansion by experts, all the while under the especial protection of the British government. One morning,...
Magic Words: A Tale for Christmas Time - Emilie Maceroni
Magic Words: A Tale for Christmas Time - Emilie Maceroni
- Author: Emilie Maceroni
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction
Magic Words is a Victorian tale of a community and how a few women bring a special kind of Christmas magic to the community-- Magic that can heal wounded hearts. (Introduction by Sean McGaughey)...
Persuasion (version 3) - Jane Austen
Persuasion (version 3) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
"All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone." In persuasion, her last novel, Austen explores the theme of postponed but enduring love, delayed by class boundaries and excessive pride....
The Warden - Anthony Trollope
The Warden - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction
Amongst the great popular novelists of the nineteenth century who are still read today, Anthony Trollope stands alongside his contemporary, Charles Dickens. His two series of novels, the political (The Pallisers) and the clerical (The Barsetshire...
Louise de la Valliere - Alexandre Dumas
Louise de la Valliere - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction
After The Three Muskateers and Twenty Years After the adventurous story of Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan continues! The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (French: Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus tard) is the last of the...
Clara Vaughan, Vol I. - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Clara Vaughan, Vol I. - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Author: Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
CLARA VAUGHAN, the young heroine, narrator, and namesake for R. D. Blackmore’s early detective novel, is determined to solve the mystery of her father’s murder—a crime that occurred when she was only 10 years of age. The book gives an account of...
Emma (version 5) - Jane Austen
Emma (version 5) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
A cautionary tale about the evils of interference, matchmaking and good intentions turned awry, Emma is the study of a young woman raised without sufficient discipline or occupation. Handsome, clever and rich, Emma is the epitome of what a young...
The Altar of the Dead - Henry James
The Altar of the Dead - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
A fable of literally life and death significance, the story explores how the protagonist tries to keep the remembrance of his dead friends, to save them from being forgotten entirely in the rush of everyday events. He meets a woman who shares his...
Youth, a Narrative - Joseph Conrad
Youth, a Narrative - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: General Fiction
An autobiographical short story written in 1898 and included as the first story in the 1902 volume Youth, a Narrative, and Two Other Stories. This volume also includes Heart of Darkness and The End of the Tether, which are concerned with maturity...
The Pursuit of the House-Boat - John Kendrick Bangs
The Pursuit of the House-Boat - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
This sequel to Bangs' A House-Boat on the Styx continues the "thought-experiment" of bringing various historical and fictional figures together, detailing the adventures of the ladies of Hades after they are kidnapped by pirates and the attempts of...
Anne of the Island (version 3) (dramatic reading) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne of the Island (version 3) (dramatic reading) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / General Fiction / Romance
Anne of the Island is the third book in the Anne of Green Gables series, written by Lucy Maud Montgomery about Anne Shirley. Anne of the Island was published in 1915, seven years after the bestselling Anne of Green Gables. In the continuing story of...
The Enchanted April (version 2) - Elizabeth von Arnim
The Enchanted April (version 2) - Elizabeth von Arnim
- Author: Elizabeth von Arnim
- Genre: General Fiction
Four very different women, with very different reasons for wanting to escape a cold and dreary London, come together to share a month's holiday in a medieval castle. They are brought there by the promise of the advertised 'wisteria and sunshine',...
The Ebb-Tide - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Ebb-Tide - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Three men down on their luck in Tahiti agree to ship out on a vessel whose officers have died of smallpox. Their desperate venture inspires them to a further idea: they will steal the schooner and its cargo of champagne, sell them, and live a...
Red Diamonds - Justin McCarthy
Red Diamonds - Justin McCarthy
- Author: Justin McCarthy
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction / Romance
In the South African wilderness, six men got together to mine for diamonds and become very rich. They agree that the wealth is to be split equally between them or their heirs after a few years and that the share of any one who died without leaving...
The Ruby and the Caldron - Anna Katharine Green
The Ruby and the Caldron - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction / Short Stories
A valuable ruby is lost during a disturbance in the snow before a ball at The Evergreens. A detective is called for right away to recover it, but who, of the few guests, might have the jewel, and how to solve the mystery without causing a scandal?...
Ethan Frome (version 2) - Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome (version 2) - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: General Fiction
Ethan Frome is a novel published in 1911 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Edith Wharton. It is set in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts, New England, where an unnamed narrator tells the story of his encounter with Ethan...
