Published 1900 onward
The Guest of Quesnay
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Booth Tarkington
This is the story of two young American painters residing in Paris in a moderate way. Others are more flamboyant than them, for example Larr…
Everybody's Book of Luck
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William James Mcglothlin
The book of luck or, a guide to your success, fortune, future, palmistry, astrology, etc . is an engrossing compendium of legends, myths and…
A Call: The Tale of Two Passions
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Ford Madox Ford
The story of an English gentleman's relationship with two women. Ford's themes are reminiscent of Henry James: the tensions between desire a…
Jean-Christophe In Paris
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Romain Rolland
After fleeing to Paris, Jean-Christophe finds himself in great financial difficulty and takes up music teaching in wealthy families. As for …
Ruth Fielding At the War Front
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Alice B. Emerson
Ruth Fielding, a Red Cross worker in France during the First World War must travel behind enemy lines to find a lost American soldier. An ex…
Fairhaven; a Story of Pilgrim Land
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Henry Grattan Donnelly
Fairhaven is the story of a very wealthy couple who lived in New York City in a palatial mansion. They had all the trappings of the super ri…
Chalk Face
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Waldo Frank
A young alienist exposes a murderer. (Summary by Brian Fullen)
The Christmas Bishop
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Winifred M. Kirkland
This 1913 story is far more than a Christmas tale. It is a story about spiritual wisdom; the seeking of wisdom, the getting of wisdom, even…
Gilead Balm, Knight Errant
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Bernard Capes
Gilead Balm, a young Government clerk of philanthropic predilections, always read the "Daily Post" for the sake of its agony colum…
The Flying Inn (Version 2)
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G. K. Chesterton
Captain Patrick Dalroy and Humphrey Pump take to the road in a donkey cart with a cask of good rum, a giant round of cheese, and the signpos…
Frank Merriwell at Yale; Or, Freshman Against Freshman
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Burt L. Standish
Gilbert Patten, writing under the pen name of Burt L. Standish, wrote innumerable novels that were very popular in their time. His Frank Mer…
The Valley of the Squinting Windows
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Brinsley Macnamara
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 sma…
Dormant
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E. Nesbit
Dormant is a gothic novel. It begins breezily enough with seven friends starting out in life. Rose, the artist, falls in love with Anthony, …
Human Affairs
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Vincent O'Sullivan
Vincent O'Sullivan was a celebrated writer of decadent and morbid fiction of his time, a notable contemporary of Oscar Wilde. While O'Sulliv…
Manhattan Transfer
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John Dos Passos
Manhattan Transfer is novel that follows several individuals and their overlapping stories in New York City from the Gilded Age to the Jazz …
Stanton White: A Romance of the New South
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Asa Zadel Hall
In this tome the Northern narrator, Harold Edson, visits the American South with his college friend, Stanton White, in order to study first …
A Town is Drowning
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Frederik Pohl
TORN FROM TODAY'S HEADLINESThis novel takes you right into the heart of the new flood country, the Northeast United States which had general…
Behind the Throne
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William Le Queux
Frank Spalding, a young diplomat, finds himself embroiled in political intrigue and global espionage when he is stationed in Italy. With ma…
The House of Moonlight
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August Derleth
As a boy living in Sac Prairie, Wisconsin, with his grandfather Jasper, Steve goes to visit up-and-coming pianist Joel Merrihew and his moth…
The Three Friends; A Story of Rugby in the Forties
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Arthur Gray Butler
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 …