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Rain (Version 2) - W. Somerset Maugham
Rain (Version 2) - W. Somerset Maugham
- Author: W. Somerset Maugham
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Rain charts the moral disintegration of a missionary attempting to convert a Pacific island prostitute named Sadie Thompson. (Introduction by an excerpt from Wikipedia)...
Maria Chapdelaine (version 2) - Louis Hémon
Maria Chapdelaine (version 2) - Louis Hémon
- Author: Louis Hémon
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Published 1900 onward
The novel Maria Chapdelaine portrays life in rural Quebec at the beginning of the 20th century. Published first in French in 1913, it is a famous example of the genre known as "novels of the land" ("romans du terroir"). These stories sought to...
The Power of a Lie - Johan BOJER
The Power of a Lie - Johan BOJER
- Author: Johan BOJER
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Norby is requested to guarantee a bank loan for Wangen and he obliges, signing the loan document in the presence of a witness. Some time later the witness dies. Years after that Wangen defaults on the loan, requiring Norby to pay the balance, but...
Rebellion - Joseph PATTERSON
Rebellion - Joseph PATTERSON
- Author: Joseph PATTERSON
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Cinematic in style and rich in characterization, this novel is set in early 20th century Chicago – in a barroom, at home, and in the workplace. An alcoholic convinces himself of the reasonableness of “just one drink”. A priest defends the Church’s...
A Thin Ghost And Others - M. R. JAMES
A Thin Ghost And Others - M. R. JAMES
- Author: M. R. JAMES
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Published 1900 onward / Single Author Collections
Five ghost stories, published in 1920, by the early twentieth century master of ghostery. - Summary by david wales...
My Brilliant Career - Miles FRANKLIN
My Brilliant Career - Miles FRANKLIN
- Author: Miles FRANKLIN
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Sybella: "There is no plot in this story, because there has been none in my life or in any other life which has come under my notice. I am one of a class, the individuals of which have no time for plots in their life, but have all they can do to get...
The de Bercy Affair - Louis Tracy
The de Bercy Affair - Louis Tracy
- Author: Louis Tracy
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
A beautiful French actress with concealed origins and a clandestine involvement with a group of anarchists is brutally murdered in London. Circumstances lead Scotland Yard to several suspects, including her wealthy American fiancé, a couple of the...
Lady Into Fox - David GARNETT
Lady Into Fox - David GARNETT
- Author: David GARNETT
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Published 1900 onward
When Sylvia Tebrick, the 24-year-old wife of Richard Tebrick, suddenly turns into a fox while they are out walking in the woods, Mr. Tebrick sends away all the servants in an attempt to keep Sylvia's new nature a secret. Both then struggle to come...
The Regeneration of Lord Ernie - Algernon Blackwood
The Regeneration of Lord Ernie - Algernon Blackwood
- Author: Algernon Blackwood
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Published 1900 onward
"The Regeneration of Lord Ernie is a story about a young man with no passion for life, he was very capable and the heir to a large family fortune but just not interested in life. His father employs a teacher, John Hendricks, to take him on a world...
The Rising of the Tide - Ida M. TARBELL
The Rising of the Tide - Ida M. TARBELL
- Author: Ida M. TARBELL
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
The subtitle is "the story of Sabinsport", and the town is the major character. It is a small, Midwestern town in the USA, in 1914. About a dozen characters people its story. It shows how the coming of the Great War effected each character, and the...
Michael O'Halloran - Gene STRATTON-PORTER
Michael O'Halloran - Gene STRATTON-PORTER
- Author: Gene STRATTON-PORTER
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
The story of a plucky, optimistic newsboy, Michael O’Halloran, who has been orphaned from a young age and asks nothing of the world but to “Be Square!” This is a warm and joyous story of how Michael makes life sunnier for those around him, bringing...
Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness! - Selma Lagerlöf
Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness! - Selma Lagerlöf
- Author: Selma Lagerlöf
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
“Thy Soul shall bear Witness” (Körkarlen) by the Swedish Nobel Laureate Selma Lagerlöf is a kind of spooky Novel. It was first published in 1912 and in English in 1922, the same year as the international release of the Silent Movie “The Phantom...
The Spider - Fergus Hume
The Spider - Fergus Hume
- Author: Fergus Hume
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Arthur Vernon, member of the Athenian club and member of “society,” has a secret. His father has died and left him destitute, so he has begun a private investigation agency under the name “Nemo.” It would be disastrous if this were known among his...
Running Water - A. E. W. Mason
Running Water - A. E. W. Mason
- Author: A. E. W. Mason
- Genre: Romance / Published 1900 onward
Although A.E.W. Mason is best known for The Four Feathers, an adventure novel of 1902 set in Egypt and the Sudan (and filmed several times), he was a prolific and popular writer of the period. Running Water, published in 1907, is, like its...
The Friendly Terrace Quartette (or Peggy Raymond At The Poplars) - Harriet Lummis SMITH
The Friendly Terrace Quartette (or Peggy Raymond At The Poplars) - Harriet Lummis SMITH
- Author: Harriet Lummis SMITH
- Genre: General Fiction / Published 1900 onward
The Friendly Terrace Quartette (or Peggy Raymond At The Poplars) published in 1920, finds Peggy and her friends preparing for The Great War. Young men they had known as boys are signing up to train and fight as soldiers, while the girls find...
Lonesome Land - B. M. Bower
Lonesome Land - B. M. Bower
- Author: B. M. Bower
- Genre: Westerns / Published 1900 onward
Val had come to Montana to marry a cowboy named Manley, envisioning a life of wedded bliss, freedom, and was anticipating happiness in her adopted part of the country. She would soon learn that the winters could be cruel and lonesome for a woman...
The Mirror Of Kong Ho - Ernest Bramah
The Mirror Of Kong Ho - Ernest Bramah
- Author: Ernest Bramah
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Published 1900 onward
This 1905 tongue-in-cheek book is ostensibly the letters of a dutiful son to his Chinese father describing his encounter with and experience of Western civilization in late nineteenth century London. The author is delightfully humorous. - Summary by...
The Old House - Cecile Tormay
The Old House - Cecile Tormay
- Author: Cecile Tormay
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
On a snowy winter's evening, Christopher Ulwing returns to his home, known as The New House for the last thirty years. Settled between the Buda hills and the plains of Pest, on the banks of the Danube, the suburb of Leopold has an abandoned feel,...
Captures - John Galsworthy
Captures - John Galsworthy
- Author: John Galsworthy
- Genre: Short Stories / Published 1900 onward
Brief plot lines of these 16 stories by Nobel Prize winning author John Galsworthy: 01, 02, 03 "A Feud" The breaking of an engagement ignites a feud. 04 "The Man Who Kept His Form" Ruding’s financial prospects disappoint. He adjusts. 05 "A Hedonist"...
The Home-Maker - Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The Home-Maker - Dorothy Canfield Fisher
- Author: Dorothy Canfield Fisher
- Genre: Family Life / Published 1900 onward
The Knapp family seems as though they ought to be happy, yet hidden frustrations are tearing them apart under the surface. As the family breadwinner, Lester Knapp drags himself reluctantly to his job each day, miserable in the harsh world of...
Bread - Charles G. Norris
Bread - Charles G. Norris
- Author: Charles G. Norris
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Bread by Charles G. Norris reads like a working class Great Gatsby with a tragic female main character. The author is said to have influenced F. Scott Fitzgerald. There is a kind of cadence to the writing, and arc to the story where this can be felt...
The Lonely Warrior - Claude Washburn
The Lonely Warrior - Claude Washburn
- Author: Claude Washburn
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
An idealistic American enlists and fights in The Great War. This novel focuses on his life after returning to the US “hard-boiled” and cynical, a disillusioned and embittered young man who has lost all interest in his family, his job, and his...
My Mortal Enemy - Willa Sibert Cather
My Mortal Enemy - Willa Sibert Cather
- Author: Willa Sibert Cather
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
In the small Midwestern town of Parthia, Myra Henshawe was a legend. The grandniece and ward of Parthia’s richest resident, Myra had shocked the locals by sacrificing her inheritance to run off and marry her true love Oswald. Thirty-odd years later,...
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 Three Friends; A Story of Rugby in the Forties - Arthur Gray Butler
The Three Friends; A Story of Rugby in the Forties - Arthur Gray Butler
- Author: Arthur Gray Butler
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
This is a novel that describes the life of three friends while they are attending Rugby School. The work illustrates for the reader many of the boys' pranks, challenges, sorrows, and victories and, as well, gives a good sense of school life in the...
Tales of the Long Bow - G. K. Chesterton
Tales of the Long Bow - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Published 1900 onward
These tales concern the doing of things recognized as impossible to do; impossible to believe; and, as the weary reader may well cry aloud, impossible to read about. Did the narrator merely say that they happened, without saying how they happened,...
T. Tembarom (Version 2) - Frances Hodgson Burnett
T. Tembarom (Version 2) - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
T. Tembarom is a young man who grew up in New York City, scraping his way by blacking shoes and selling newspapers. On day, he gets notified that he has become heir to a large estate in England with a healthy income. Though this would the 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,...
Charles Rex - Ethel M. Dell
Charles Rex - Ethel M. Dell
- Author: Ethel M. Dell
- Genre: Romance / Published 1900 onward
Excerpt: "Saltash was thoroughly cosmopolitan in his tastes; he liked amusement but he abhorred boredom. He was never really wicked unless he was bored. And then- que voulez vous? He did not guide the star of destiny." On his last night in Valrosa,...
Green Valley - Katharine Yirsa Reynolds
Green Valley - Katharine Yirsa Reynolds
- Author: Katharine Yirsa Reynolds
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
"Traveling men have a poor opinion of it. Ministers of the gospel have been known to despair of it. Socially ambitious matrons move out of it, or, if that is not possible, despise it. Real estate men can not get rich in it. And humorless folk...
Phyllis - Maria Thompson Daviess
Phyllis - Maria Thompson Daviess
- Author: Maria Thompson Daviess
- Genre: General / Published 1900 onward
Phyllis is a lonely little rich girl who comes with her millionaire father and invalid mother to live in Byrdsville, Tennessee. There she meets and befriends the remainder of the Byrd family, now fallen on hard times, but determined to restore their...
Bill the Conqueror - P. G. Wodehouse
Bill the Conqueror - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Hailed as one of the funniest writers of the 20th century, P. G. Wodehouse cheerfully radiates humor that is both sophisticated and popular. In Bill the Conqueror, Wodehouse creates an array of entertaining characters who gallop around England and...
Mrs. Dalloway (Version 2) - Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway (Version 2) - Virginia Woolf
- Author: Virginia Woolf
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Clarissa Dalloway is having a party. Join her and a web of connections in exploring London, their memories and their innermost thoughts and feelings. This novel explores relationships, mental health, nostalgia, regret, and the multitude of reasons...
A Change of Air - Katharine Fullerton Gerould
A Change of Air - Katharine Fullerton Gerould
- Author: Katharine Fullerton Gerould
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Anyone can make a will by which his possessions are divided after his death but Cordelia Wheaton was ahead of the game for she willed away her fortune, leaving herself just enough to live comfortably on, in middle life. Mrs. Gerould takes this...
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...
The Valley of the Squinting Windows - Brinsley MacNamara
The Valley of the Squinting Windows - Brinsley MacNamara
- Author: Brinsley MacNamara
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Published 1900 onward
The Valley of the Squinting Shadows was the author's first novel and proved controversial. In it, he tells a realistic tale of life in a small Irish town as he saw it, rather than the romanticized version told by others, or how the locals wished to...
Black Pawl - Ben Ames WILLIAMS
Black Pawl - Ben Ames WILLIAMS
- Author: Ben Ames WILLIAMS
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Published 1900 onward
This riveting novel takes place on a whaling ship, where its captain, Black Pawl, has a troubled relationship with the first mate, his son. A minister is permitted aboard for the homeward-bound journey along with a young woman who is accompanying...
The Mistress of Shenstone - Florence Louisa BARCLAY
The Mistress of Shenstone - Florence Louisa BARCLAY
- Author: Florence Louisa BARCLAY
- Genre: Romance / Published 1900 onward
For those of you who enjoyed The Rosary by Florence Barclay, this one will come in as a close second. When Lady Myra Ingleby learns by telegram that her husband has been killed in the war, the sadness if not true grief that assails her along with...
The Hundredth Chance - Ethel M. Dell
The Hundredth Chance - Ethel M. Dell
- Author: Ethel M. Dell
- Genre: Romance / Published 1900 onward
In this prequel to "Charles Rex'' by Ethel M. Dell you will meet the aristocratic blackguard Lord Saltash for whom our distressed heroine Maude Brian still holds deep feelings. Dedicated to the care of her younger crippled brother whom she adores,...