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The Wonderful Year - William John Locke
The Wonderful Year - William John Locke
- Author: William John Locke
- Genre: Travel Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Martin Overshaw and Corinna Hastings are leading dull and unproductive lives in Paris, having fled humdrum England. They fall in with Fortinbras, who calls himself a Marchand de Bonheur. He predicts a bright future for them and suggests they set out...
Ruffles and Danny, or the Responsibilty of Ruffles - Margery Watson
Ruffles and Danny, or the Responsibilty of Ruffles - Margery Watson
- Author: Margery Watson
- Genre: Family Life / Published 1900 onward
A nice little story about a widower, his 18-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son, and their vacation from their home in Colorado to the shores of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. There they meet some friendly locals, and... the story continues. The reader...
The Green Overcoat - Hilaire Belloc
The Green Overcoat - Hilaire Belloc
- Author: Hilaire Belloc
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
This rollicking novel captures the minor moral dilemma of thin, shy, nervous, Professor Higginson, psychologist, as he comes under the eye of the enemy of his soul through an encounter with a green overcoat. The quixotic adventure that follows will...
The Dream Doctor - Arthur B. Reeve
The Dream Doctor - Arthur B. Reeve
- Author: Arthur B. Reeve
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Detective Fiction / Published 1900 onward
The Dream Doctor is a compilation of detective stories featuring Professor Craig Kennedy, a Sherlock-like character who uses his scientific acumen to solve mysteries. A newspaper reporter, Walter Jameson, works with him to get to the bottom of...
The Prelude To Adventure - Hugh Walpole
The Prelude To Adventure - Hugh Walpole
- Author: Hugh Walpole
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Literary Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Olva Dune is a Cambridge undergraduate who commits a murder and at that moment feels the presence of God. In a tour de force Walpole novelizes the Francis Thompson poem The Hound of Heaven, about a fearful soul pursued by an insistently loving God....
The End Of The Tether - Joseph Conrad
The End Of The Tether - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
At an age when he should, by rights, be embarking on a well-deserved and comfortable retirement, Captain Whalley, a sailor of the old school — and even, in a small way, a pioneer of the eastern maritime trade — finds himself forced by circumstance...
The Old Ladies - Hugh Walpole
The Old Ladies - Hugh Walpole
- Author: Hugh Walpole
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Published 1900 onward
“Quite a number of years ago there was an old rickety building on the rock above Seatown in Polchester, and it was one of a number in an old grass-grown square known as Pontippy Square. In this house at one time or another lived three old ladies,…...
Molly Brown's Senior Days - Nell Speed
Molly Brown's Senior Days - Nell Speed
- Author: Nell Speed
- Genre: Family Life / Published 1900 onward
This novel is the fourth in a series of eight books written about Miss Molly Brown of Kentucky during her education at Wellington College in the early years of the 1900's. - Summary by Lynda Marie Neilson...
Bransford Of Rainbow Range - Eugene Manlove Rhodes
Bransford Of Rainbow Range - Eugene Manlove Rhodes
- Author: Eugene Manlove Rhodes
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Westerns / Published 1900 onward
A genuine cowboy who speaks a bit of Greek? Ditto a bit of The Litany? And more than a little verse, including (would you believe?) Alice In Wonderland. What kind of young man do we have here? And a young woman who matches him without effort? And a...
The Great Gatsby (version 2) - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby (version 2) - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's...
If You Touch Them They Vanish - Gouverneur Morris
If You Touch Them They Vanish - Gouverneur Morris
- Author: Gouverneur Morris
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
"No man who has not endured solitude in long doses knows how vivid, real, and necessary people and things of the imagination may become." (from the book). The touching story of a wrongly convicted youth with a creative imagination. - Summary by...
The Affair at the Semiramis Hotel - A. E. W. Mason
The Affair at the Semiramis Hotel - A. E. W. Mason
- Author: A. E. W. Mason
- Genre: Detective Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Inspector Hanaud is a member of the French Sûreté. He is said to have been the model for Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, as well as the opposite of Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. The Affair At The Semiramis Hotel (1917), a novella, is the second...
The Mother's Recompense - Edith Wharton
The Mother's Recompense - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: Romance / Published 1900 onward
Kate Cephane, now living in self-imposed exile in France, left her three-year-old daughter Anne behind when she fled her impossibly unhappy marriage for a brief affair. When Anne asks her to return because she is getting engaged, Kate risks the...
The Man of the Desert - Grace Livingston Hill
The Man of the Desert - Grace Livingston Hill
- Author: Grace Livingston Hill
- Genre: Westerns / Published 1900 onward / Christian Fiction
Fleeing from an aggressive suitor, Hazel Radcliffe becomes hopelessly lost in the Arizona desert. Exhausted, she falls unconscious from her pony. Soon she is found by John Brownleigh, a handsome missionary who lives nearby. As he cares for her, a...
The Storm Of London - Fernande Blaze De Bury
The Storm Of London - Fernande Blaze De Bury
- Author: Fernande Blaze De Bury
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Our clothes tell our story. They reflect our rank, have to suit a perfect event, and much more. But what happens when they disappear? Sounds frightening, so thought the Earl of Somerville on the first day before sinking into this new reality which...
The Magnificent Adventure - Emerson Hough
The Magnificent Adventure - Emerson Hough
- Author: Emerson Hough
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
"The Magnificent Adventure" in 1916 was set at the time of the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark Expedition. This fictional story is brimming with adventure and action, having to do with a gallant gentleman and is written well as Emerson...
The Old Peabody Pew: A Christmas Romance of a Country Church (Version 2) - Kate Douglas Wiggin
The Old Peabody Pew: A Christmas Romance of a Country Church (Version 2) - Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
A charming tale of a small New England congregation preparing for Christmas and the unexpected arrival of a woman's long held hope. - Summary by KevinS...
Portrait Of A Man With Red Hair; A Romantic Macabre - Hugh Walpole
Portrait Of A Man With Red Hair; A Romantic Macabre - Hugh Walpole
- Author: Hugh Walpole
- Genre: Gothic Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Is the father insane or merely sadistic, a man entombed in a spirit of malevolence? This 1925 novel by a perceptive observer explores the territory exceptionally.- Summary by david wales...
The Last of the Vikings - Johan BOJER
The Last of the Vikings - Johan BOJER
- Author: Johan BOJER
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction / Published 1900 onward
In a small village on the coast of Northern Norway lives the Myran family. Father is a fisher man and is, in the eyes of the oldest son, like a god on the sea. Mother spends every winter in fear of losing somebody she loves to the storms and waves....
Elsie And The Child; A Tale Of Riceyman Steps And Other Stories - Arnold Bennett
Elsie And The Child; A Tale Of Riceyman Steps And Other Stories - Arnold Bennett
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- Genre: Published 1900 onward / Single Author Collections
Thirteen short stories (1924) by a master story teller of the early twentieth century. His writings, fiction and nonfiction, were popular with the public. After contributions to the WWI war effort, he declined the Order of the British Empire (OBE)....
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest HEMINGWAY
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest HEMINGWAY
- Author: Ernest HEMINGWAY
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
The Sun Also Rises (1926) was Hemingway's first novel to be published, though there is his novella The Torrents of Spring which was published earlier in the same year. The novel describes, expressed through the voice of Jake Barnes, a short period...
The Castlecourt Diamond Mystery - Geraldine BONNER
The Castlecourt Diamond Mystery - Geraldine BONNER
- Author: Geraldine BONNER
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
The famous Castlecourt Diamonds have gone missing and the story surrounding their disappearance is strange indeed. To help sort out the mystery, you will hear eye witness statements given by the various participants in this curious case now, for the...
Sasha - Aleksandr KUPRIN
Sasha - Aleksandr KUPRIN
- Author: Aleksandr KUPRIN
- Genre: Short Stories / Published 1900 onward
Kuprin is well-known to Russian readers and has been described as one of the last exponents of Russian critical realism. He first made a career as an officer in the army, but he left this work to take on employment as varied as journalist, hunter,...
The Yarn of Old Harbour Town - William Clark Russell
The Yarn of Old Harbour Town - William Clark Russell
- Author: William Clark Russell
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction / Published 1900 onward
This novel opens in 1805, during the Napoleonic Wars between England and France. A retired sailor, Captain Acton, reminisces about his time at sea now he lives on shore and wonders about a ship seen burning at sea the previous night. But there is...
Freckles (Version 2) - Gene STRATTON-PORTER
Freckles (Version 2) - Gene STRATTON-PORTER
- Author: Gene STRATTON-PORTER
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Freckles is a young man who has been raised since infancy in a Chicago orphanage. His one dream is to find a job, a place to belong and people who accept him despite his youth and the disability of having only one hand. He finds this place in the...
Frank Merriwell at Yale; Or, Freshman Against Freshman - Burt L. Standish
Frank Merriwell at Yale; Or, Freshman Against Freshman - Burt L. Standish
- Author: Burt L. Standish
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Gilbert Patten, writing under the pen name of Burt L. Standish, wrote innumerable novels that were very popular in their time. His Frank Merriwell stories were later adapted for radio and these, too, were very popular. Frank is the All-American...
The Pink Shop - Fergus Hume
The Pink Shop - Fergus Hume
- Author: Fergus Hume
- Genre: Detective Fiction / Published 1900 onward
The Pink Shop operates outside the limits of the law by a mysterious woman concealed under a black veil. Follow the twists and turns as you unravel the secrets hidden behind the closed doors of The Pink Shop. Ask yourself: what would you give to...
"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes": the illuminating diary of a professional lady - Anita Loos
"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes": the illuminating diary of a professional lady - Anita Loos
- Author: Anita Loos
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Published 1900 onward
In this comic novel written by American author Anita Loos, we follow the adventures of the fictional character Lorelei Lee who is a young blonde flapper. This story takes place in the hedonistic Jazz Age and is written in the form of a diary from...
