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The Dinner Club

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Sapper


Herman Cyril McNeile, better known as Sapper, was one of England’s most popular fiction writers during the period between World Wars I and I…

Stories by English Authors: London

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F. Anstey, J. M. Barrie, Marie Corelli, Beatrice Harraden, Arthur Morrison, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch and Israel Zangwill


This book collects seven short stories by some of England's best turn-of-the-(last)-century's writers. The collection begins with the humor …

The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley

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Louis Tracy


At the country estate of Mortimer Fenley, artist John Trenholme works at an oil painting of Sylvia, the financier’s beautiful ward. She has …

The Prince and Betty (version 2)

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P. G. Wodehouse


The story moves from a royal palace in Europe to a squalid tenement in New York. The European action centers on the efforts of an uncouth mi…

The Holiday Round

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A. A. Milne


Alan Alexander Milne, popularly known as A. A. Milne, is best known – perhaps to most people only known – for his children’s book, Winnie th…

Mortal Coils

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Aldous Huxley


Aldous Huxley is best known as a philosopher and novelist – notably as the author of Brave New World. He also wrote poetry, short stories an…

Number Seventeen

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Louis Tracy


The number Seventeen refers (at first) to the London apartment of a young widow who is strangled (off-scene) at the beginning of the book. H…

Gigolo

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Edna Ferber


Gigolo is a collection of short stories by Edna Ferber, best known for her novels Show Boat and So Big (for which she won the Pulitzer Prize…

The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

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Dorothy L. Sayers


The author’s fourth Lord Peter Wimsey mystery, set shortly after the Great War, begins with the discovery of old general Fentiman’s body sea…

Yet Again

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Max Beerbohm


This is a diverse collection of essays by English writer Max Beerbohm, whose circle included such famous men as Oscar Wilde, George Bernard …

The Late Tenant

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Louis Tracy


This is primarily a romance. It is one of the earliest works of the British journalist and prolific author, Louis Tracy, publishing under th…

The Immortal Moment

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May Sinclair


This is one of the later works of May Sinclair – a prolific author, literary critic, and feminist activist – famous in Britain and the US af…

Not That it Matters (Version 2)

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A. A. Milne


A. A. MILNE:…was best known for the perennially popular Pooh (Winnie the), arguably one of his lesser contributions to the literature of his…

Once A Week (Version 2)

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A. A. Milne


Once A Week is a collection of short stories and slightly longer vignettes which were written for Milne's solid British Audience, including …

Men I'm Not Married To (Version 2)

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Dorothy Parker


Dorothy Parker was a poet, writer and satirist of the foibles of the early 20th century (not least, of Prohibition), and a founding member o…

The Celestial Omnibus, and Other Stories

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E. M. Forster


With twenty Nobel Prize nominations to his credit, E. M. Forster may reasonably be considered one of the best writers of the 20th century – …

If I May (Version 2)

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A. A. Milne


A. A. Milne, best known as the creator of Winnie the Pooh, was a prolific author of books, plays, essays and articles. He also spent a numbe…

The Judgment of Eve

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May Sinclair


May Sinclair was a prolific author, literary critic, and feminist activist, famous in Britain and the US in the 1910’s and 20’s. The Judgmen…

The Sunny Side (Version 2)

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A. A. Milne


A. A. Milne is best known for his creation of the perennially popular Winnie the Pooh, though he was and is highly acclaimed for hundreds of…

Knocking The Town Endways

In Trent's Last Case (Version 2)

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E C Bentley and Edmund Clerihew Bentley


This is one of a series of EC Bentley novels featuring the highly erudite artist qua reporter / detective, Philip Trent.In it, Trent is sent…

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