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Fifty-one Tales (version 2) - Lord Dunsany
Fifty-one Tales (version 2) - Lord Dunsany
- Author: Lord Dunsany
- Genre: Gothic Fiction / Published 1900 onward / Fantasy Fiction
A multitude of very short stories populated with things that lurk in the dark corners of human imagination. Wonderfully crafted and sometimes ending with an unexpected outcome, these stories are well rooted in mythology and speak of things beyond...
The Short Life - Francis DONOVAN
The Short Life - Francis DONOVAN
- Author: Francis DONOVAN
- Genre: Science Fiction / Published 1900 onward
At two years old, Timmy was an imbecile, incapable of talking or controlling his own body. At four years old, he abruptly stood up and began speaking in full sentences. Within a few years, he was a genius. But it was all a terrible mistake, one that...
Miss Philura's Wedding Gown - Florence Morse Kingsley
Miss Philura's Wedding Gown - Florence Morse Kingsley
- Author: Florence Morse Kingsley
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Follow-up to "The Transfiguration of Miss Philura"....will the conviction of mild-mannered Miss Philura that "Ask and you have already received" be proved right or will her hopes be dashed, and the disapproving judgement of her fellow parishioners...
The Conquest of Canaan - Booth Tarkington
The Conquest of Canaan - Booth Tarkington
- Author: Booth Tarkington
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Small town middle America in early 1900's---Ne'er-do-well Joe Louden loves daughter of wealthy judge, from afar---leaves town, goes to law school--returns to scandalize all by defending impossible cases---wins over town. Story of small town mores,...
Aunt Jane's Nieces On The Ranch - L. Frank Baum
Aunt Jane's Nieces On The Ranch - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Aunt Jane's Nieces On The Ranch sees the reappearance of Louise and Arthur Weldon after the birth of their first child, Jane. The family lives in California and hire a nurse, a local Mexican woman, much to Uncle John's disapproval. Racial tension is...
The History of Mr. Polly - H. G. Wells
The History of Mr. Polly - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
A funny and touching account of the imaginative Mr. Polly who, bored and trapped in his conventional life, makes a U-turn –- and changes everything. H.G. Wells’ early life as the son of a semi-insolvent shopkeeper and as a draper’s apprentice fueled...
The Flood - Émile Zola
The Flood - Émile Zola
- Author: Émile Zola
- Genre: Short Stories / Published 1900 onward
A well-to-do French farm family is destroyed by a flood. The story, thrilling to the very end, is told from the point of view of the family's 70-year-old patriarch. The story speaks of the helplessness of mankind in the face of the forces of nature....
Nell and Her Grandfather - Anonymous
Nell and Her Grandfather - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
If you have heard of the Dickens novel, The Old Curiosity Shop, and remember Nell Trent, the beautiful and virtuous young girl of "not quite fourteen", an orphan, who lived with her maternal grandfather in his shop of odds and ends, then you will...
The Jack-Knife Man - Ellis Parker BUTLER
The Jack-Knife Man - Ellis Parker BUTLER
- Author: Ellis Parker BUTLER
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
A lighthearted tale which revolves around old Peter Lane, who lives in a houseboat on the Mississippi River and mostly whiles away his time whittling with his jack-knife and not really doing much else. That is, until one night, a sickly woman knocks...
The Rain-Girl - Herbert George Jenkins
The Rain-Girl - Herbert George Jenkins
- Author: Herbert George Jenkins
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Richard Beresford has recently returned from the WW-I trenches. He feels he can't go back to his old life in the Foreign Office. Instead, he sells all his possessions (except his books), and sets off on a tramp through the countryside. On the very...
The Triumph of the Egg: A Book of Impressions from American Life In Tales and Poems - Sherwood ANDERSON
The Triumph of the Egg: A Book of Impressions from American Life In Tales and Poems - Sherwood ANDERSON
- Author: Sherwood ANDERSON
- Genre: Published 1900 onward / Single Author Collections
“The Triumph of the Egg” is a collection of stories and poems by Sherwood Anderson. Abandoning the interconnected quality of his more famous “Winesburg, Ohio,” the author adopts a variety of perspectives and settings while exploring similar themes:...
Windy McPherson's Son - Sherwood ANDERSON
Windy McPherson's Son - Sherwood ANDERSON
- Author: Sherwood ANDERSON
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Windy McPherson's Son is the story of Sam McPherson's rise in the world of business and search for emotional enlightenment in later life. McPherson starts out as an ambitious newsboy in Caxton, Ohio, with drunkard of a father who constantly...
The Terror: A Mystery - Arthur Machen
The Terror: A Mystery - Arthur Machen
- Author: Arthur Machen
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Published 1900 onward
In rural England during the time of war, a rash of unsolved murders spawns conspiracy theories, paranoia, and fear as they search for a culprit, an explanation, and an end to the terror. - Summary by A. Gramour...
Tea-table Talk - Jerome K. Jerome
Tea-table Talk - Jerome K. Jerome
- Author: Jerome K. Jerome
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Published 1900 onward
As the New York Times said in 1903, this lesser-known work by Jerome K. Jerome does not display "the wit of Congreve or even the glittering sort Mr. Jerome employs in some of his other books." It takes the form of imaginary conversations between the...
The Story of a Whim - Grace Livingston Hill
The Story of a Whim - Grace Livingston Hill
- Author: Grace Livingston Hill
- Genre: Published 1900 onward / Christian Fiction
A group of girls send gifts and letters to one whom they think to be a young woman like them. "Christie" is really a poor young bachelor tending his orange grove in sunny Florida. Through his correspondence with Hazel (who still thinks he's a girl)...
Day And Night Stories - Algernon Blackwood
Day And Night Stories - Algernon Blackwood
- Author: Algernon Blackwood
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Fifteen short stories by Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBE (1869 – 1951), an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. He was also a journalist and a broadcasting narrator. S....
The Slayer of Souls - Robert W. Chambers
The Slayer of Souls - Robert W. Chambers
- Author: Robert W. Chambers
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Tressa Norne is an American living in China. After her life was spared during a revolution in the area, Tressa finds herself taken as a slave and forced to serve Erlik, a demon-god, and his cult. She ends up escaping back to America, but only to...
Shorty McCabe - Sewell FORD
Shorty McCabe - Sewell FORD
- Author: Sewell FORD
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Yes, it's been a couple of years since I quit the ring. . . . I slid into a quiet corner for a month or so, and then I dropped into the only thing I knew how to do, trainin' comers to go against the champs. It ain't like pullin' down your sixty per...
The Golden Bowl - Henry James
The Golden Bowl - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1900 onward
The Golden Bowl is a 1904 novel by Henry James. Set in England, this complex, intense study of marriage and adultery completes what some critics have called the "major phase" of James' career. The Golden Bowl explores the tangle of...
The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance - Marie Corelli
The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance - Marie Corelli
- Author: Marie Corelli
- Genre: General Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Marie Corelli's book The Life Everlasting examines the world of past lives, mysticism, secret societies and twin souls against a backdrop of a true love based on the highest ideals. The plot follows our heroine from a yachting trip around Scotland...
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James JOYCE
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James JOYCE
- Author: James JOYCE
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
This is James Joyce's first novel, the semi-autobiographical story of a young Irish boy who struggles with family, country, and religion to become an artist and a man. (Summary by Peter Bobbe)...
The Human Boy - Eden PHILLPOTTS
The Human Boy - Eden PHILLPOTTS
- Author: Eden PHILLPOTTS
- Genre: Published 1900 onward / Single Author Collections
This collection of eleven short stories, both humorous and touching, about English school boys was published in 1900. The book was quite popular in its time. The author wrote two follow-up books: The Human Boy Again (1908) and The Human Boy And The...
Lilian - Arnold Bennett
Lilian - Arnold Bennett
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Lilian works in a typewriting office owned by Felix Grig, a middle-aged man of means. The office is run by his spinster sister, Miss Grig, who suspects that Felix is more interested in Lilian than perhaps he should be and gives Lilian the sack.Her...
The Girl From the Marsh Croft - Selma Lagerlöf
The Girl From the Marsh Croft - Selma Lagerlöf
- Author: Selma Lagerlöf
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Readers of Miss Lagerlöf will observe that in this, her latest book, "The Girl from the Marsh Croft," the Swedish author has abandoned her former world of Romanticism and has entered the field of Naturalism and Realism. This writer's romantic style...
Just As I Am - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Just As I Am - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1900 onward
The murder has finally been solved. After 20 years, Humphrey Vargas came with his dog, seemingly from no where, and informed the magistrate of the county that he murdered the popular Mr. Blake. He even told the magistrate the whole story. This book...
Breaking Point - James Edwin GUNN
Breaking Point - James Edwin GUNN
- Author: James Edwin GUNN
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Machines are infallible. Humans are not. The crew of The Ambassador knew their ship could not possibly fail, but what of themselves? And how could they defend against an unknown enemy with unknown motives and superhuman abilities, intent on driving...
The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry - Mary Roberts Rinehart
The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry - Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Letitia, Aggie and Lizzie are at it again, solving mysteries, getting into scrapes. Is there no end to the antics of these three spinster ladies? A murder at a hospital, reuniting lovers, a mangy dog or does it have fleas? The hilarious and often...
We of the Never-Never - Jeannie GUNN
We of the Never-Never - Jeannie GUNN
- Author: Jeannie GUNN
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
We of the Never Never is the second book written by Jeannie Gunn under the name of “Mrs Aeneas Gunn”. It is considered by many as a classic of Australian writing. The book was published as a novel but draws on the author’s own experience in settling...
The Doctor's Christmas Eve - James Lane ALLEN
The Doctor's Christmas Eve - James Lane ALLEN
- Author: James Lane ALLEN
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
A gentle reminiscence of a fictional country doctor as the year is drawing to a close. Unlike city doctors, the personal and professional life of a country doctor are closely intertwined. - Summary by Lynne Thompson...
A Cathedral Singer - James Lane ALLEN
A Cathedral Singer - James Lane ALLEN
- Author: James Lane ALLEN
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Religious Fiction / Published 1900 onward
New York City in the early 20th century, a boy with an angelic voice, his devoted mother, the great Episcopal Cathedral of Saint John The Divine. - Summary by david wales...
Human Toll - Barbara BAYNTON
Human Toll - Barbara BAYNTON
- Author: Barbara BAYNTON
- Genre: Family Life / Published 1900 onward
Ursula (Ursie) Ewart, orphaned as a young child, is sent away from her home in the Australian bush. While Ursie was previously doted on by station hands, Boshy, Nungi,and Queeby, at her new home, in a nearby country town, she is barely tolerated....
The Metamorphosis (version 3) - Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis (version 3) - Franz Kafka
- Author: Franz Kafka
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Literary Fiction / Published 1900 onward
The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung, also sometimes translated as The Transformation) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It has been cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is studied in...
City of Endless Night - Milo HASTINGS
City of Endless Night - Milo HASTINGS
- Author: Milo HASTINGS
- Genre: Science Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers / Published 1900 onward
An example of early dystopian science fiction written shortly after World War I, "City of Endless Night" imagines a future with a very different ending to the Great War. Set in 2151 and in an underground Berlin, our protagonist is Lyman De Forrest,...
Before Adam - Jack London
Before Adam - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Science Fiction / Published 1900 onward
"Before Adam is a mixture of sound science and sci-fi speculation. It is based around Darwin's theory of evolution and the idea of racial memory. The main character lives in the current world but has dreams and nightmares that he relives the...
Love in a Mask, or Imprudence and Happiness - Honoré de Balzac
Love in a Mask, or Imprudence and Happiness - Honoré de Balzac
- Author: Honoré de Balzac
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Love in a Mask, or Imprudence and Happiness, is an entertaining short novel by Honoré de Balzac, unpublished in his lifetime. Beginning with a flirtatious conversation at a masked ball, Balzac introduces his two main characters, a beautiful wealthy...
Betty Baird's Ventures - Anna Hamlin Weikel
Betty Baird's Ventures - Anna Hamlin Weikel
- Author: Anna Hamlin Weikel
- Genre: General Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Betty has graduated from the Pines and is now with her parents at their new home on Long Island. When Betty finds out that her father is having trouble paying the mortgage, she decides to spread her entrepreneurial wings and help with the family...
The Yukon Trail - William MacLeod RAINE
The Yukon Trail - William MacLeod RAINE
- Author: William MacLeod RAINE
- Genre: Westerns / Published 1900 onward
The Yukon Trail: A Tale of the North (filmed as The Grip of the Yukon in 1928) is an adventure yarn from the prodigious output of William MacLeod Raine, who averaged nearly two western novels a year for some 46 years. Twenty of his novels have been...
Fidelity - Susan Glaspell
Fidelity - Susan Glaspell
- Author: Susan Glaspell
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
The small Midwestern town of Freeport was scandalized years ago when Ruth Holland, then a young girl, ran away to the West with a married man. Now that she's returned home to take care of her dying father, she faces some hard truths about who her...
A Lost Lady - Willa Sibert Cather
A Lost Lady - Willa Sibert Cather
- Author: Willa Sibert Cather
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
The young Niel Herbert idolizes Marian Forrester, the beautiful and charismatic wife of a pioneering railroad magnate. After discovering Mrs Forrester’s affair with another man, Herbert loses faith in her and all he thought she represented. Content...
Parnassus on Wheels - Christopher Morley
Parnassus on Wheels - Christopher Morley
- Author: Christopher Morley
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Parnassus on Wheels is about a fictional traveling book-selling business. The original owner of the business, Roger Mifflin, sells it to 39-year-old Helen McGill, who is tired of taking care of her ailing older brother, Andrew. (summary from...
