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Three Lives - Gertrude Stein
Three Lives - Gertrude Stein
- Author: Gertrude Stein
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Three Lives tells the stories of three women from the same fictitious town of Bridgeport. The first story is of Anna, a servant to the wealthy, or those who seem to be wealthy. She finds herself taking on "projects" in an effort to better the people...
Mrs. Craddock - W. Somerset Maugham
Mrs. Craddock - W. Somerset Maugham
- Author: W. Somerset Maugham
- Genre: General Fiction / Published 1900 onward
“I thought it was you I saw coming up the hill,” she said, stretching out her hand. He stopped and shook it; the touch of his big, firm fingers made her tremble. His hand was massive and hard as if it were hewn of stone. She looked up at him and...
This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald
This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
This Side of Paradise is the debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published in 1920, and taking its title from a line of the Rupert Brooke poem Tiare Tahiti, the book examines the lives and morality of post-World War I youth. Its protagonist, Amory...
Futility: A Novel on Russian Themes - William Alexander Gerhardi
Futility: A Novel on Russian Themes - William Alexander Gerhardi
- Author: William Alexander Gerhardi
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
From the preface written by Edith Wharton:Then I fell upon Futility. Some one said: “It's another new novel about Russia” –and every one of my eager feelers curled up in a tight knot of refusal. But . . . I read on, amused, moved, absorbed, till the...
A Woman's War - Warwick Deeping
A Woman's War - Warwick Deeping
- Author: Warwick Deeping
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
The fictional small English country town of Roxton boasts two doctors. This tale focuses on the struggles of their wives: Katherine and the "good" Dr. James Murchison and Betty and the "bad" Dr. Parker Steele. But, of course, no one is all good or...
The Crimson Gardenia And Other Tales Of Adventure - Rex Beach
The Crimson Gardenia And Other Tales Of Adventure - Rex Beach
- Author: Rex Beach
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Published in 1916, this book collects eleven stories originally published in several different magazines. Beach’s adventure stories were immensely popular throughout the early 1900s. - Summary by David Wales...
Botchan - Sōseki Natsume
Botchan - Sōseki Natsume
- Author: Sōseki Natsume
- Genre: General Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Botchan is the story of a young math teacher from Tokyo whose first assignment takes him to a middle school in the country side. His arrival there is not very lucky: The pupils are bound to test his perseverance and cheerily comment every one of his...
Betty Baird - Anna Hamlin Weikel
Betty Baird - Anna Hamlin Weikel
- Author: Anna Hamlin Weikel
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
This is the first book in the Betty Baird Series of boarding school books, a genre which was popular among young girls in the early 1900s. Our heroine, Betty Baird, who is herself obsessed with reading boarding school books, is sent away to The...
The Girl From Hollywood - Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Girl From Hollywood - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1900 onward
The countryside outside of Los Angeles is a paradise on Earth: nature gives bounty on the land, the animals are majestic, the oaks breathe and the natural pools and ponds are all you would want on a summer's day. And if you are a Pennington or an...
The Eye of Dread - Payne Erskine
The Eye of Dread - Payne Erskine
- Author: Payne Erskine
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
The Civil War is upon the United States, and the town of Leauvite has sent away its young men, among them Peter Junior and Richard Kildene. When they leave, Betty Ballard is but a child, but by the time the war has ended, she has become something...
Tarzan and the Golden Lion - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan and the Golden Lion - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nature & Animal Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Tarzan's amazing ability to establish kinship with some of the most dangerous animals in the jungle serves him well in this exciting story of his adventures with the Golden Lion, Jad-bal-ja, when the great and lordly animal becomes his ally and...
An Unwilling Guest - Grace Livingston Hill
An Unwilling Guest - Grace Livingston Hill
- Author: Grace Livingston Hill
- Genre: Family Life / Romance / Published 1900 onward
A young society woman travels to the country to visit her aunt, only to end up as the unwilling guest of a neighboring family. The daughter is not so sure how to deal with this unpleasant circumstance. The young man of the household has met her...
Three Elephant Power and Other Stories - Andrew Barton Paterson
Three Elephant Power and Other Stories - Andrew Barton Paterson
- Author: Andrew Barton Paterson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Culture & Heritage Fiction / Published 1900 onward
From Banjo Paterson, bush poet and favorite son of Australia, here is a collection of colorful stories from Australia that offer a window into the past and the culture of the region. - Summary by A. Gramour...
Her Mother's Secret - E.D.E.N. Southworth
Her Mother's Secret - E.D.E.N. Southworth
- Author: E.D.E.N. Southworth
- Genre: Romance / Published 1900 onward
What kind of secret could a mother be keeping that would keep long time lovers apart, and force her eldest daughter into a hasty marriage? Young Odalite and her cousin Leonidas have lived the past three years apart, with Leonidas at sea, and were...
The Rainbow (Version 2) - D. H. Lawrence
The Rainbow (Version 2) - D. H. Lawrence
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Briefly appearing in 1915, then banned and taken out of circulation for its adult treatment of sexuality, Lawrence's visionary novel The Rainbow attempts to situate the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family within the continuous social...
Silas Strong - Irving Bacheller
Silas Strong - Irving Bacheller
- Author: Irving Bacheller
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Published 1900 onward
Per the author: "The book has one high ambition. It has tried to tell the sad story of the wilderness itself—to show, from the woodsman's view-point, the play of great forces which have been tearing down his home and turning it into the flesh and...
The Thirteen Travelers - Hugh Walpole
The Thirteen Travelers - Hugh Walpole
- Author: Hugh Walpole
- Genre: Published 1900 onward / Single Author Collections
The year is 1919 and peace has sprung upon the world after the unspeakable carnage of World War I. The place is Hortons, a building of expensive flats on Duke Street just off Piccadilly, London. Social structures are disintegrating, expectations are...
Sleeping Fires - Gertrude Atherton
Sleeping Fires - Gertrude Atherton
- Author: Gertrude Atherton
- Genre: Romance / Published 1900 onward
The story of a love so strong that neither the rigid rules of Society in California in the 1800s nor the very bowels of hell could keep a young woman from the love she had found. A story rich in fashion ad feminism showing how determination and love...
William, An Englishman - Cicely HAMILTON
William, An Englishman - Cicely HAMILTON
- Author: Cicely HAMILTON
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / War & Military Fiction / Published 1900 onward
William – an Englishman is a 1919 novel by Cicely Hamilton. The novel explores the effect of the First World War on a married couple during the rise of Socialism and the Suffragette movement. It was originally published by Skeffington & Son...
The Measure Of A Man; A Tale Of The Big Woods - Norman Duncan
The Measure Of A Man; A Tale Of The Big Woods - Norman Duncan
- Author: Norman Duncan
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
A tale of a singular man at work among lumber-jacks. Duncan's droll style and tongue-in-cheek viewpoint keep the reader and listener much entertained. - Summary by Book preface and david wales...
The Eyes Of The World - Harold Bell WRIGHT
The Eyes Of The World - Harold Bell WRIGHT
- Author: Harold Bell WRIGHT
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
The Eyes of the World was the Best Selling Book for 1914 according to Publisher's Weekly. The novel explores what Harold Bell Wright views as the false world of artists, writers, critics, and their wealthy patrons. Two of the main characters are the...
A Fool There Was - Porter Emerson BROWNE
A Fool There Was - Porter Emerson BROWNE
- Author: Porter Emerson BROWNE
- Genre: Romance / Published 1900 onward
Two friends were asked by their respective fathers on their death beds to promise to marry a special girl, who lived across the street and who they had been very fond of since childhood. Once they reached young manhood, one of these fulfilled his...
The Vertical City - Fannie HURST
The Vertical City - Fannie HURST
- Author: Fannie HURST
- Genre: Short Stories / Published 1900 onward
As the city above soars gloriously skyward, the denizens of the city writhe in its dirty underbelly. The Vertical City is a collection of six short stories by Fannie Hurst (American). Each story, tells in gritty, dramatic style, of ugly inner city...
The Silver Horde - Rex Beach
The Silver Horde - Rex Beach
- Author: Rex Beach
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Published 1900 onward
The Silver Horde , is set in Kalvik, a fictionalized community in Bristol Bay, Alaska, and tells the story of a down on his luck gold miner who discovers a greater wealth in Alaska's run of salmon (silver horde) and decides to open a cannery. To...
The Transfiguration of Miss Philura - Florence Morse Kingsley
The Transfiguration of Miss Philura - Florence Morse Kingsley
- Author: Florence Morse Kingsley
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
What would happen if someone really believed that "Ask and you shall receive"? Amusing observations on the impact on the life of mild-mannered spinster Miss Philura and her acquaintances in their small American township after she attends a rousing...
All the Brothers Were Valiant - Ben Ames WILLIAMS
All the Brothers Were Valiant - Ben Ames WILLIAMS
- Author: Ben Ames WILLIAMS
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Joel Shore, newly appointed captain of the whaling ship Nathan Ross following his brother's apparent demise as captain of the same ship, elects to make his first cruise as captain to the very location where his brother had last been seen - the...
Maybe--Tomorrow - Jay LITTLE
Maybe--Tomorrow - Jay LITTLE
- Author: Jay LITTLE
- Genre: Erotica / Published 1900 onward
Maybe--tomorrow, by Jay Little (pseudonym for Clarence Lewis Miller) published in 1952* based in the confusing latter part of his teenage years, tells the story of the introverted and forlorn Gaylord LeClarie coming to terms with the world around...
The Mystery of the Ravenspurs - Fred M. WHITE
The Mystery of the Ravenspurs - Fred M. WHITE
- Author: Fred M. WHITE
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction / Published 1900 onward
The Ravenspurs have for generations resided quietly in prosperity and comfort at their seaside castle. But the clan is suddenly besieged with strange happenings which are dwindling the population of the family to only a few which remain, and those...
A Far Country - Winston CHURCHILL
A Far Country - Winston CHURCHILL
- Author: Winston CHURCHILL
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
The book follows the career of Hugh Paret from youth to manhood, and how his profession as a corporation lawyer gradually changes his values. The book received positive reviews, and was the second best-selling novel in the United States in 1915. -...
Thurley Ruxton - Philip Verrill MIGHELS
Thurley Ruxton - Philip Verrill MIGHELS
- Author: Philip Verrill MIGHELS
- Genre: Romance / Published 1900 onward
This is a rags to riches romance about an exceedingly beautiful, poor, young girl (Thurley Ruxton) who is mentored by one of New York’s elite hostesses. In order to draw them into her social circle, she allows all the famous and moneyed populous of...
Sisters - Ada CAMBRIDGE
Sisters - Ada CAMBRIDGE
- Author: Ada CAMBRIDGE
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Ada Cambridge (November 21, 1844 - July 19, 1926), later known as Ada Cross, was an English born Australian writer. While she gained recognition as Australia’s first woman poet of note, her longer term reputation rests on her novels. Overall she...
The Making of a Bigot - Rose Macaulay
The Making of a Bigot - Rose Macaulay
- Author: Rose Macaulay
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
“How various is man! How multiplied his experience, his outlook, his conclusions!”—H. Belloc.“And every single one of them is right.”—R. Kipling.Written while Macaulay worked in the Propaganda Department of the War Office, and reflecting her own...
Tish: The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions - Mary Roberts Rinehart
Tish: The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions - Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
The story of three "middle aged ladies". Follow along as they have all sorts of adventures. - Summary by Sandra More Tish stories The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carbery More Tish Proof-listeners: IdaLee & Maria Kasper...
Queen Lucia - E. F. Benson
Queen Lucia - E. F. Benson
- Author: E. F. Benson
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
E. F. Benson was born at Wellington College in Berkshire, where his father, who later went on to become the Archbishop of Canterbury, was the first Headmaster. He wrote 105 books in all. Queen Lucia (first published in 1920) was the first of...
The Trespasser - D. H. Lawrence
The Trespasser - D. H. Lawrence
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- Genre: Romance / Published 1900 onward
Brief Encounter meets Tristan und Isolde - on the Isle of Wight, under a vast sky florid with stars. The consequence is tragic indeed for one of the parties, Siegmund, when he sacrifices family life for a few days’ transcendent rapture. His lover,...
The Benefactress - Elizabeth von Arnim
The Benefactress - Elizabeth von Arnim
- Author: Elizabeth von Arnim
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Anna Estcourt, twenty-five and beautiful, is the penniless ward of her distant brother and his exasperating wife. Turning down all offers of marriage, scornful at the thought of leaning on a man for help and comfort, she thinks only of the...
Whirligigs - O. Henry
Whirligigs - O. Henry
- Author: O. Henry
- Genre: Short Stories / Published 1900 onward
A collection of short stories. - Summary by Richard Kilmer...
The Patrician - John Galsworthy
The Patrician - John Galsworthy
- Author: John Galsworthy
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
The book revolves around the story of two love affairs. Miltoun (an aspiring politician) proposes to Mrs Audrey Noel, only to find that she is not a widow as everyone supposes, but that her husband is still alive and therefore the match is...
Old Rose And Silver - Myrtle Reed
Old Rose And Silver - Myrtle Reed
- Author: Myrtle Reed
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
The novel follows the lives of Rose and her widowed Aunt, Madame Francesca Bernard, along with young visitor and cousin Isabel, whose lives are changed by the return of an old friend and neighbour Colonel Kent, and his grown son, Allison. Other...
Entrapped - Alice Mangold DIEHL
Entrapped - Alice Mangold DIEHL
- Author: Alice Mangold DIEHL
- Genre: General Fiction / Published 1900 onward
The story begins with a storm outside an old house and stormy scenes inside between the house’s occupants. It details the eventful life of Zoe Blount, including her involvement in a mystery and her place in a complicated family history. It also...
