Fiction
Little Saint Elizabeth and Other Stories
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
She had not been brought up in America at all. She had been born in France, in a beautiful château, and she had been born heiress to a…
Dawn
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Eleanor H. Porter
Dawn (also known in England as "Keith’s Dark Tower"), was published in 1919, and is set during World War I. Keith Burton is going …
The World Set Free (version 2)
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H. G. Wells
Radioactive decay is a major theme in the novel The World Set Free, published in 1914. Wells explores what might happen if the rate of decay…
The Quest of the Sacred Slipper
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Sax Rohmer
Cavanagh becomes involved in the adventurous search for a precious relic in the mysterious East. (Introduction by Laineyben)
The House of Arden
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E. Nesbit
This novel describes how Edred and Elfrida Arden and their Aunt Edith embark on a treasure hunt through time - for the famous Arden family t…
Looking Backward: 2000-1887
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Edward Bellamy
Looking Backward: 2000-1887 is a utopian novel by Edward Bellamy, first published in 1888. It was the third largest bestseller of its time, …
The Four Feathers
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A. E. W. Mason
The Four Feathers is a 1902 adventure novel by British writer A.E.W. Mason that has inspired many films of the same title.The novel tells th…
Daddy-Long-Legs Version 2
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Jean Webster
Jerusha Abbott was brought up at the John Grier Home, an old-fashioned orphanage. The children were wholly dependent on charity and had to w…
The Harbor of Doubt
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Frank Williams
Young Code Schofield had lost his schooner May Schofield in an Atlantic gale a few months ago, and now the townspeople on the small island o…
Lin McLean
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Owen Wister
Lin McLean is an unaffected, attractive young cowboy in the Wyoming territory before statehood. This book is various stories in his life. (S…
The Man Whom the Trees Loved
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Algernon Blackwood
The story of a man’s deep connection with nature and his wife’s fear of it. –Summary by Amy Larch Gramour
Uncle Wiggily and Old Mother Hubbard
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Howard R. Garis
Uncle Wiggily Longears, an old bunny gentleman now stricken with rheumatism and getting around with a cane, still is quite active. In these …
The New Swiss Family Robinson
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Owen Wister
A parody of its famous predecessor, this short piece was written by Owen Wister for the Harvard Lampoon (Summary by David Wales)
Dietegen
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Gottfried Keller
Die lebenslustigen Seldwyler leben seit alter Tradition in einem ständigen Streit mit ihren Nachbarn in Ruechenstein, einem finsteren u…