General Fiction

The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 08

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Various


The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the eighth volume, 40 short stories and poems have been gathered from 35 author…

The Nether World

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George Gissing


This sad social novel revolves around the problematic issue of money. Michael returns from Australia to London a rich man. However, he hides…

The Cinder Pond

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Carroll Watson Rankin


Years ago, a manufacturer built a great dock, jutting out from and then turning parallel to the shore of a northern Michigan town. The facto…

The Pursuit of the House-Boat

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John Kendrick Bangs


This sequel to Bangs' A House-Boat on the Styx continues the "thought-experiment" of bringing various historical and fictional fig…

Stalky & Co. (More Stories)

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Rudyard Kipling


This small collection puts together stories by Kipling that feature the characters from Stalky & Co. but which for some reason were not …

The Getting of Wisdom

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Henry Handel Richardson


The Getting of Wisdom tells the story of Laura Rambotham, a 12-year-old girl who is just starting at her boarding school. This is based on H…

The Birds' Christmas Carol (version 2)

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Kate Douglas Wiggin


Born on Christmas Day, little Carol Bird is a gentle soul who touches every life around her. Despite physical illness, Carol is loved by eve…

The Painted Veil

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W. Somerset Maugham


This Maugham classic is set in England and Hong Kong and in a cholera --ridden Chinese village in the 1920's. A committed, principled, epide…

Ramona

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Helen Hunt Jackson


Ramona, a novel written by Helen Hunt Jackson (1884), is the story of a part-Scottish and part-Native American orphan girl growing up and ge…

The Return (de la Mare version)

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Walter de la Mare and Walter De La Mare


A story of psychological horror, The Return explores ideas of identity, love, and alienation. Arthur grapples with the reactions of his fami…

Grace Harlowe with the Marines at Chateau Thierry

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Jessie Graham Flower and Josephine Chase


Grace continues her war adventures over seas in France, continuing her work for the Red Cross. Set during World War I, Loyal Heart finds her…

Betty Baird's Golden Year

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Anna Hamlin Weikel


It seems that all the people close to Betty are going through major life changes. Lois is certainly spending a lot of time with Dunmore Lane…

Barbara in Brittany

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E. A. Gillie


Barbara, an English girl and the eldest of her family, spends most days helping her widowed mother care for her younger siblings. Then disas…

The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 03

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H. G. Wells


The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the third volume, 45 short stories and poems have been gathered from 33 authors…

Shakespeare Identified

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J. Thomas Looney


That one who is not a recognized authority or an expert in literature should attempt the solution of a problem which has so far baffled spec…

The Hoosier Schoolmaster

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Edward Eggleston


"Want to be a school-master, do you? You? Well, what would you do in Flat Crick deestrick, I'd like to know? Why, the boys have driv of…

Shaggy Man of Oz

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Jack Snow


The Shaggy Man of Oz (1949) is the thirty-eighth in the series of Oz books created by L. Frank Baum and his successors, and the second by Ja…

A Drama of Exile

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning


In writing her 'Drama of Exile', Barrett's subject was 'the new and strange experience of the fallen humanity, as it went forth from Paradis…

American Women's Literature, 1847 to 1922

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Various


This is a collection of 20 short stories and long-form poetry by American women writers. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

Geography and Plays

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Gertrude Stein


Geography and Plays is a 1922 collection of Gertrude Stein's "word portraits," or stream-of-consciousness writings. These stream-o…

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