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Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, an impoverished St. Petersburg student who formulates and executes a plan to kill a hated, unscrupulous pawnbroker for her money, thereby solving...
The Third Person - Henry James
The Third Person - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Published 1900 onward / Single Author Collections
The Third Person is an amusing spoof on spooking. The 'ghostly man about the house' in whom two increasingly competitive maiden ladies come to take a proprietary interest is as unlikely to inspire terror as the wraith in one of James's earliest...
The Colonel's Dream - Charles Waddell Chesnutt
The Colonel's Dream - Charles Waddell Chesnutt
- Author: Charles Waddell Chesnutt
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1900 onward
In this novel, Chesnutt described the hopelessness of Reconstruction in a post-Civil War South that was bent on reestablishing the former status quo and rebuilding itself as a region of the United States where new forms of "slavery" would replace...
Finn The Wolfhound - Alec John DAWSON
Finn The Wolfhound - Alec John DAWSON
- Author: Alec John DAWSON
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Dawson published over thirty books, the one best remembered today probably being the animal adventure story Finn the Wolfhound (1908)β¦. His own dog Tynagh and her son Gareth, who was described as the largest and finest specimen of his breed to date,...
The Pretty Lady - Arnold Bennett
The Pretty Lady - Arnold Bennett
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
βThe Pretty Ladyβ is considered to be one of Bennett's most revealing and under-rated works. It is the story of a French prostitute, Christine, who has escaped from wartime Ostend, and set herself up in business in London. Though a refugee, she...
The Canterville Ghost (version 2) - Oscar Wilde
The Canterville Ghost (version 2) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Published 1900 onward
A modern American family move into a traditionally drafty and very haunted English mansion. So far so good but anyone knowing Wilde can expect twists and turns to make it interesting. In this cast the crusty old ghost has a tough time convincing the...
Laughter Limited - Nina Wilcox PUTNAM
Laughter Limited - Nina Wilcox PUTNAM
- Author: Nina Wilcox PUTNAM
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
When some people write the story of their life it is a sign that they are dead. There are in the motion-picture world also a class of dead ones who allow somebody else to write their biography. Dead from the neck up, anyways. They may be alive as...
The Milky Way - F. Tennyson Jesse
The Milky Way - F. Tennyson Jesse
- Author: F. Tennyson Jesse
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
The Milky Way - F. Tennyson Jesse's first novel - began life as a 1913 magazine serial called The Adventures of Viv. In it, poor-but-plucky Cornish painter/model Vivian Lovel recounts events of her twenty-first year: en route from Penzance to London...
Sons and Lovers (Version 2) - D. H. Lawrence
Sons and Lovers (Version 2) - D. H. Lawrence
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Lawrence summarised the plot of Sons and Lovers in a letter to Edward Garnett in 1912: βIt follows this idea: a woman of character and refinement goes into the lower class, and has no satisfaction in her own life. She has had a passion for her...
Royal Highness - Thomas MANN
Royal Highness - Thomas MANN
- Author: Thomas MANN
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Royal Highness is the story of Prince Klaus Heinrich, a member of a struggling German duchy and an exotic American heiress who comes to live as his neighbor. The novel is a microcosm of Europe before World War I, with Mann's depiction of a decaying...
At the Foot of the Rainbow - Gene STRATTON-PORTER
At the Foot of the Rainbow - Gene STRATTON-PORTER
- Author: Gene STRATTON-PORTER
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
This story is about three people, two men and a woman. Jimmy, selfish and deceitful, who has shamelessly lied to, cheated, and used his dear friend Dannie for years. His wife Mary, who loves another. And finally Dannie himself, the patient, kind,...
Wanted: A Husband - Samuel Hopkins ADAMS
Wanted: A Husband - Samuel Hopkins ADAMS
- Author: Samuel Hopkins ADAMS
- Genre: Romance / Published 1900 onward
This serious, yet witty and hilarious, romantic comedy by Samuel Hopkins Adams is a must read/listen! From the very beginning it intrigues you with the troubles and feminine woes of young Miss Darcy Cole. Being a dowdy, unkempt fledgling lady, she...
The Diamond Pin - Carolyn Wells
The Diamond Pin - Carolyn Wells
- Author: Carolyn Wells
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Eccentric and wealthy New York widow Ursula Pell loves playing cruel jokes on her guests and particularly on her niece and nephew who are destined to inherit the millions in gems left to her by her late husband. Therefore when she is found brutally...
The Garden of Eden - Max Brand
The Garden of Eden - Max Brand
- Author: Max Brand
- Genre: Westerns / Published 1900 onward
Ben Connor is a gambler who knows horses. He goes out west to get away from the gambling life he has been leading in New York. There he discovers a breed of grey horses that he thinks are the best horses he has ever seen. The problem is that these...
Five Tales - John Galsworthy
Five Tales - John Galsworthy
- Author: John Galsworthy
- Genre: Published 1900 onward / Single Author Collections
This 1918 book consists of five short stories or novelettes by Galsworthy. They are The First and Last (1914), A Stoic, The Apple Tree (1916), The Juryman, Indian Summer of a Forsyte (1918) This last became part of the trilogy The Forsyte Saga....
Amy Foster - Joseph Conrad
Amy Foster - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Romance / Published 1900 onward
Classic shortish story by Conrad that relates his self-thought alienation from British society, as a young foreign man survives a shipwreck off the coast of Kent, England only to be shunned by most of the townsfolk. The one exception is the loving,...
The Financier - Theodore DREISER
The Financier - Theodore DREISER
- Author: Theodore DREISER
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
In Philadelphia, Frank Cowperwood, whose father is a banker, makes his first money by buying cheap soaps on the market and selling it back with profit to a grocer. Later, he gets a job in Henry Waterman & Company, and leaves it for Tighe &...
Laddie - Gene STRATTON-PORTER
Laddie - Gene STRATTON-PORTER
- Author: Gene STRATTON-PORTER
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Based on the author's own life, this book tells the story of "little sister". The youngest of eleven, she is unwanted in the beginning. The brother who loved her most, and whom she loved most in the world, is Laddie. She is almost lonely, and it's...
Some Everyday Folk and Dawn - Miles FRANKLIN
Some Everyday Folk and Dawn - Miles FRANKLIN
- Author: Miles FRANKLIN
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
It is 1904 and women's suffrage has hit the small town of Noonoon. Though the election campaigners preen themselves for the women's vote, the fight isn't entirely won, for the male residents are bristling at this threat to their supremacy. And down...
The Ambassadors - Henry James
The Ambassadors - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Henry James considered The Ambassadors his best, or perhaps his best-wrought, novel. It plays on the great Jamesian theme of the American abroad, who finds himself in an older, and some would say richer, culture that that of the United States, with...
Tangled Trails - William MacLeod RAINE
Tangled Trails - William MacLeod RAINE
- Author: William MacLeod RAINE
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Westerns / Published 1900 onward
The aptly titled "Tangled Trails, A Western Detective Story" takes the listener through a web of curious incidents revolving around the murder of a prominent man in Denver. Kirby Lane was quite obviously the guilty party in the murder of his uncle....
Life's Little Ironies; A Set Of Tales With Some Colloquial Sketches Entitled A Few Crusted Characters - Thomas Hardy
Life's Little Ironies; A Set Of Tales With Some Colloquial Sketches Entitled A Few Crusted Characters - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Short Stories / Published 1900 onward
Eighteen short stories by a master story teller. - Summary by david wales...
The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne - William John Locke
The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne - William John Locke
- Author: William John Locke
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Marcus Ordeyne is a middle aged bachelor schoolmaster who has inherited both money and a title and thus is able to lead a life of leisure. One day, he encounters a young girl in a London park who has escaped from a Turkish harem and has come to...
The Jacket - Jack London
The Jacket - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
A framing story is told in the first person by Darrell Standing, a university professor serving life imprisonment in San Quentin State Prison for murder. Prison officials try to break his spirit by means of a torture device called "the jacket," a...
The Treasure - Kathleen NORRIS
The Treasure - Kathleen NORRIS
- Author: Kathleen NORRIS
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
The Treasure is a story about the Salisbury Family and the trivialities of employing help for the household. Mrs. and Mr. Salisbury see the work of a maid rather differently, especially depending on the level of education. Justine, the latest hired...
The Cross Brand - Max Brand
The Cross Brand - Max Brand
- Author: Max Brand
- Genre: Westerns / Published 1900 onward
Jack Bristol shot the sheriff and stole his horse. He rode off, not into the sunset, but into the mountains. The mountain man held him captive for months and then released him. Why? And why did the girl scream with terror when she saw his face? Read...
The Daredevil - Maria Thompson Daviess
The Daredevil - Maria Thompson Daviess
- Author: Maria Thompson Daviess
- Genre: Romance / Published 1900 onward
Roberta, daughter of an American soldier and a French marquise, is returning to the childhood home of her father after his death in the Great War. Upon reaching New York she realizes that her Uncle, a woman-hater, has confused the genders of her and...
The Leopard's Claw - George W. ELLIS
The Leopard's Claw - George W. ELLIS
- Author: George W. ELLIS
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
A love and adventure story with the West African jungle as the main backdrop. We gain some insight into the spiritual influence of African social institutions and conditions of African inner life. (kirk202)...
The Secret Places of the Heart - H. G. Wells
The Secret Places of the Heart - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Richard Hardy, a member of the British gentry, tries to resolve problems in his marriage as he travels with a psychiatrist. The book is to a great extent autobiographical. H. G. had read some brillliantly composed articles by a writer who wrote...
The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft - George Gissing
The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft - George Gissing
- Author: George Gissing
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Literary Fiction / Published 1900 onward
This novel consists of selections from the diary of an author, starting soon after his retirement and continuing until just before his death. There is very little in the way of plot, but a great deal of quiet musing about art, nature, society, and...
A Girl of the Limberlost (version 2) - Gene STRATTON-PORTER
A Girl of the Limberlost (version 2) - Gene STRATTON-PORTER
- Author: Gene STRATTON-PORTER
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Set in the Limberlost swamp of Indiana, A Girl of the Limberlost follows Elnora Comstock through struggles and triumphs as she seeks education and the mother love she has always been denied. - Summary by Patience Charles...
Neighbors - Florence Morse Kingsley
Neighbors - Florence Morse Kingsley
- Author: Florence Morse Kingsley
- Genre: Family Life / Published 1900 onward
The final story featuring the inhabitants of the growing township of Innisfield: Mrs Philura Pettiboneβs story reaches its long-awaited conclusion and Miss Malvinaβs life is changed forever by the arrival of various βfurβnersβ. Published in 1917,...
The Double: A Petersburg Poem - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Double: A Petersburg Poem - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
This is the story of a mild-mannered civil servant, Mr. Golyadkin, who begins to see his "doppelganger" appearing in his life (at work, in society, etc). This "double" has all the qualities that the protagonist lacks. His "double" bullies and...
The Love Affairs of Pixie - Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
The Love Affairs of Pixie - Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
- Author: Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
- Genre: Family Life / Published 1900 onward
This is the third book of the Pixie OβShaughnessy trilogy. In a story of love lost and found, Pixie matures from an inexperienced young lass into a wise woman. - Summary by Judith Mason...
Dawn of the Morning - Grace Livingston Hill
Dawn of the Morning - Grace Livingston Hill
- Author: Grace Livingston Hill
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance / Published 1900 onward
Fresh from school, mistreated and neglected by her father and stepmother, sixteen-year-old Dawn consents to marry a friend of her father's whom she has only met, but the wedding does not go as planned. Scared and confused, she runs away after the...
Echoes of the War - J. M. Barrie
Echoes of the War - J. M. Barrie
- Author: J. M. Barrie
- Genre: Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Short stories with dramatic parts about civilian life in London during the First World War. Some humorous moments. By the author of "Peter Pan". ( Summary by JCarson )...
The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories (version 2) - Mark Twain
The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories (version 2) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
The Mysterious Stranger-A Romance- is the final novel attempted by Mark Twain. It was worked on periodically from roughly 1890 up until 1910. The body of work is a serious social commentary by Twain addressing his ideas of the Moral Sense and the...
Joan Thursday - Louis Joseph Vance
Joan Thursday - Louis Joseph Vance
- Author: Louis Joseph Vance
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Minor potboiler is a change of pace from the author of the Lone Wolf detective series. Tenement beauty (and wannabe stage-star) Joan Thursby seeks to raise herself up out of the gutter in 1900's New York City, in a precursor to superior soaps like...
Short Stories from Locomotive Engineers Journal, Volume 52 - Various
Short Stories from Locomotive Engineers Journal, Volume 52 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Published 1900 onward / Anthologies
These short stories are taken from the Locomotive Engineers Journal, Volume 52 which covers the year, 1918. Don't expect any trains -- these are short works on many subjects, including romance, adventure, humor, etc. -- of 5 to 15 minutes in length,...
The Sword Maker - Robert BARR
The Sword Maker - Robert BARR
- Author: Robert BARR
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Times are hard in Frankfort. Defeat in war, weak leadership, trade blockades and a starving population lead to a restive and unhappy citizenry. The one thing Frankfort does have is the best three sword-makers in the country, who form a guild to try...