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The Black Monk - Anton Chekhov
The Black Monk - Anton Chekhov
- Author: Anton Chekhov
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Aspiring academic Andrei Kovrin, while summering in the countryside per the advice of a physician, is haunted by the apparition of a black monk that appears only to him and encourages him in his intellectual pursuits. Although Kovrin is the only one...
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 12 - Seba Smith
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 12 - Seba Smith
- Author: Seba Smith
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Short Stories
"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith and Lawrence Labree. The editors aimed at a high quality standard in their selection of short stories and poetry....
After the Divorce - Grazia Deledda
After the Divorce - Grazia Deledda
- Author: Grazia Deledda
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Literary Fiction / Romance
Giovanna and Costantino Ledda are a happily married couple living with their young child in a Sardinian country village close to their extended family. Costantino is wrongly convicted of murdering his wicked uncle and with no way of supporting...
Captain Antifer - Jules Verne
Captain Antifer - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Literary Fiction
“No good deed goes Unpunished”, as the saying goes. A wealthy Egyptian leaves millions of buried treasure on an island and sends the location to the Captain that saved him while fleeing certain death from Napoleon Bonaparte. However the Egyptian...
A Lost Lady (Verson 2) - Willa Sibert Cather
A Lost Lady (Verson 2) - Willa Sibert Cather
- Author: Willa Sibert Cather
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Charismatic Marian Forrester, the wife of a railroad pioneer, captures the heart of every person she meets. Niel Herbert is no exception. He has adored Mrs. Forrester since the age of twelve, considering her the epitome of feminine charm and grace....
The Master's Violin - Myrtle Reed
The Master's Violin - Myrtle Reed
- Author: Myrtle Reed
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Originally published in 1904, “The Master’s Violin” is the seventh novel by Myrtle Reed. It is set in a German town of Pennsylvania, East Lancaster, giving two characters fairly difficult accents to perform. The story entails a widow, Margaret...
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 18 - Seba Smith
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 18 - Seba Smith
- Author: Seba Smith
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Poetry / Short Stories
"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith and Lawrence Labree. The editors aimed at a high quality standard in their selection of short stories and poetry....
Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 3, May 1906 - Various
Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 3, May 1906 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Literary Fiction
"Mother Earth was an American anarchist journal that described itself as "A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature". Founded in early 1906 and initially edited by Emma Goldman, an activist in the United States, it published...
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 05 - Seba Smith
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 05 - Seba Smith
- Author: Seba Smith
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Poetry / Short Stories
"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith and Lawrence Labree. The editors aimed at a high quality standard in their selection of short stories and poetry....
Unveiling a Parallel - Alice Ilgenfritz Jones
Unveiling a Parallel - Alice Ilgenfritz Jones
- Author: Alice Ilgenfritz Jones
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Science Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
In this work of utopian science fiction from the Victorian era written by Two Women of the West, a moniker for Alice Ilgenfritz Jones and Ella Marchant. A man travels to Mars to discover an Utopian world which is parallel to the Earth in some ways,...
Tales from Ariosto - Ludovico ARIOSTO
Tales from Ariosto - Ludovico ARIOSTO
- Author: Ludovico ARIOSTO
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Literary Fiction
The object of the present venture is to do something to revive the interest of the ordinary English reader in Ariosto. The present volume is intended to give some of the chief stories of the "Orlando Furioso" in such a way as to bring out also the...
The Wooden Horse - Hugh Walpole
The Wooden Horse - Hugh Walpole
- Author: Hugh Walpole
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Walpole’s first novel (1909), The Wooden Horse is the story of the Trojans, a family which accepted tranquilly the belief that they were the people for whom the world was created. But when Harry Trojan came home after twenty years in New Zealand,...
Ormond - Maria Edgeworth
Ormond - Maria Edgeworth
- Author: Maria Edgeworth
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Maria Edgeworth was one of the most popular writers of her time, a sharp and witty observer of society manners, and a favorite author for Jane Austen. “Ormond,” published in 1817, is a “coming-of-age” novel, tracing a young man’s development as he...
The Secret Agent (Version 3) - Joseph Conrad
The Secret Agent (Version 3) - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
Taking as his inspiration the historical accidental death by explosion of an anarchist outside the Royal Observatory in Greenwich Park, London in 1894, Conrad tells the dark tale of Adolf Verloc, an indolent, double-dealing secret agent of a foreign...
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 12 - Various
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 12 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Anthologies
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offering "American households a mass of good reading", the editors drew from literature of all times and all kinds...
An Outcast of the Islands (Version 2) - Joseph Conrad
An Outcast of the Islands (Version 2) - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Literary Fiction
This, Conrad's second, novel serves as an illuminating prequel of his first, 'Almayer's Folly', teasing out the origins of the factional tensions that are such a distinctive feature of the social life of the little settlement of Sambir, on the...
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 06 - Seba Smith
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 06 - Seba Smith
- Author: Seba Smith
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Poetry / Short Stories
"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith and Lawrence Labree. The editors aimed at a high quality standard in their selection of short stories and poetry....
Robert Kimberly - Frank H. SPEARMAN
Robert Kimberly - Frank H. SPEARMAN
- Author: Frank H. SPEARMAN
- Genre: Literary Fiction
The novel is set among the wealthy of the Northeast in the USA of the early 1900's. A close knit group of about ten couples in high society visit each others homes for dance, drink, conversation and partying. The male members are mostly affiliated...
The Quest of the Golden Girl - Richard le Gallienne
The Quest of the Golden Girl - Richard le Gallienne
- Author: Richard le Gallienne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Literary Fiction
The main character fears that he will never get married and performs a long pilgrimage whose goal is the perfect companion, the girl God meant for him. On the way he meets many people and encounters many interesting situations till, finally...
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 09 - Seba Smith
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 09 - Seba Smith
- Author: Seba Smith
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Poetry / Short Stories
"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith and Lawrence Labree. The editors aimed at a high-quality standard in their selection of short stories and poetry....
Heart of Darkness (version 4) - Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness (version 4) - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
In this powerful novella based on Joseph Conrad's own experiences in the Belgian Congo, Charles Marlow, an experienced seaman, tells a small group of friends about a profoundly disturbing episode in his life where he was employed by a large...
Arrowsmith - Sinclair Lewis
Arrowsmith - Sinclair Lewis
- Author: Sinclair Lewis
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1900 onward
This 1926 Pulitzer Prize winning novel centers on the title character, a promising medical student who, as a doctor and following several intervening ventures, becomes a medical researcher in New York. A widespread killer plague takes him to a...
Harmer John; An Unworldly Story - Hugh Walpole
Harmer John; An Unworldly Story - Hugh Walpole
- Author: Hugh Walpole
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Hjalmar Johanson (novel, 1926) is a boyish unworldly Swedish body builder come to Walpole’s fictional cathedral town of Polchester. His name is “simplified” by the townsfolk to Harmer John. He is attracted to Polchester by the cathedral. He has a...
Weird Tales, Volume 1 - E. T. A. Hoffmann
Weird Tales, Volume 1 - E. T. A. Hoffmann
- Author: E. T. A. Hoffmann
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance / Fantasy Fiction
These stories form the first volume of the renowned Tales of Hoffman. They are fantasies with hints of the supernatural—quintessential Romanticism. Writers of the Romantic period typically seek to lift the spirit to awe, wonder, love, horror, or...
Shirley (version 2) - Charlotte Brontë
Shirley (version 2) - Charlotte Brontë
- Author: Charlotte Brontë
- Genre: Literary Fiction
This work, Charlotte Bronte's second, is set in the England of the early 1800's, which was beset with political and social changes, represented by the Industrial Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. And there is much to do with those changes in...
The Brothers Karamazov (version 3) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov (version 3) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Originally published in serial form in 1879-80, “The Brothers Karamazov” is recognized as one of the very greatest masterpieces of world literature. It is the last and finest novel of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, who died before writing a planned sequel. The...
Anthem (Version 5) - Ayn RAND
Anthem (Version 5) - Ayn RAND
- Author: Ayn RAND
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Science Fiction
Anthem is a dystopian fiction novella by Russian-American writer Ayn Rand, written in 1937 and first published in 1938 in the United Kingdom. The story takes place at an unspecified future date when mankind has entered another Dark Age....
The Rescue - Joseph Conrad
The Rescue - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Literary Fiction
"The Rescue" is the third of Conrad's novels to feature Captain Tom Lingard, an independent buccaneer operating in the Malayan archipelago. Tom Lingard was probably based on the real-life William Lingard, a runaway from an English landed family who...
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 03 - Seba Smith
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 03 - Seba Smith
- Author: Seba Smith
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Short Stories
"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith and Lawrence Labree. The editors aimed at a high quality standard in their selection of short stories and poetry....
The House of Mystery - Richard Marsh
The House of Mystery - Richard Marsh
- Author: Richard Marsh
- Genre: Gothic Fiction / Literary Fiction / Romance
The House of Mystery is based upon the complicated plot involving two women who look exactly alike, one rich and one poor, and so mistaken identities bring about comic and tragic madness. (Summary by Jim Locke)...
Taras Bulba; a Tale of the Cossacks - Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
Taras Bulba; a Tale of the Cossacks - Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
- Author: Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
Taras Bulba is a romanticised historical novella by Nikolai Gogol set in Russia’s equivalent of America’s wild frontier, what is today Ukraine, a name which means something like “frontier” or “marches”. It was an ill-defined wild border land whose...
The Nigger of the "Narcissus" (Version 2) - Joseph Conrad
The Nigger of the "Narcissus" (Version 2) - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Today, we're likely to react to the title of this novella, on whose 'sincerity of expression' Conrad was willing to stake his artisitic reputation, with visceral disgust. There is a sad irony in this, for Conrad's title originally alluded to a...
A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas (version 12) - Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas (version 12) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Marley was dead, to begin with...until his ghost visits his miserly business partner, Ebenezer Scrooge, with a dire warning. Will Scrooge be able to change his ways, or is it already too late for him? - Summary by Geoffrey Venin...
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 21 - Seba Smith
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 21 - Seba Smith
- Author: Seba Smith
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Poetry / Short Stories
"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith and Lawrence Labree. The editors aimed at a high quality standard in their selection of short stories and poetry....
Flower of the Dusk - Myrtle Reed
Flower of the Dusk - Myrtle Reed
- Author: Myrtle Reed
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Published in 1908, this is the story of two small families and the agreeable couple who help them. The heartfelt Norths, though clouded by disabilities, maintain the joy of life while struggling through sadness and loss. Their neighbours, the...
Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life, Volume 1 - Margaret O. Oliphant
Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life, Volume 1 - Margaret O. Oliphant
- Author: Margaret O. Oliphant
- Genre: Family Life / Literary Fiction
Catherine Vernon has a firm hand on her family and on the family business. Her plans for her young protege Edward, whom she loves like a son, are disturbed by the arrival of Hester, a 14-year-old girl who is just as strong willed. The conflict...
Antic Hay - Aldous Huxley
Antic Hay - Aldous Huxley
- Author: Aldous Huxley
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Literary Fiction
The epigram to this work from Christoher Marlowe applies to the plot of this story: "My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns / Shall with their goat-feet dance the antic hay." The plot follows Huxley and his cohorts in a search for meaning and hope...
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 13 - Seba Smith
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 13 - Seba Smith
- Author: Seba Smith
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Short Stories
"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith and Lawrence Labree. The editors aimed at a high quality standard in their selection of short stories and poetry....
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 14 - Seba Smith
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 14 - Seba Smith
- Author: Seba Smith
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Poetry / Short Stories
"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith and Lawrence Labree. The editors aimed at a high quality standard in their selection of short stories and poetry....
The Crocodile (Version 2) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Crocodile (Version 2) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Literary Fiction
Fyodor Dostoevesky's "The Crocodile," first published in 1865 in the magazine "Epoch," is the story of Ivan Matveitch, a young man who gets swallowed by a crocodile, and survives. What will life be like for him, inside the crocodile? How will his...
