Published 1900 onward
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 …
Jeremy At Crale; His Friends, His Ambitions And His One Great Enemy
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Hugh Walpole
This 1927 work is the third and final in Walpole’s Jeremy series. (The others are Jeremy and Jeremy And Hamlet.) Jeremy’s home is in Polches…
The Unlit Lamp
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Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
An emotionally charged social drama from 1922, filled with the issues that burned so bright during the Roaring 20s as changing morals began …
Go She Must!
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David Garnett
Anne Dunnock is desperately unhappy. Her widowed father is an unpopular clergyman, who takes his work more seriously than his parishioners w…
Ladies Whose Bright Eyes: A Romance (1911 version)
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Ford Madox Ford
After a train accident, one Mr. Sorrell finds himself transported back to the Middle Ages, where he is mistaken for a Greek slave who works …
Overlooked
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Maurice Baring
At a summer resort, a blind man, who has never written a thing, is prodded to pen a novel by his friend who insists that there is one novel …
The Crux
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"This story is, first, for young women to read; second, for young men to read; after that, for anybody who wants to. Anyone who doubts …
The Midlander
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Booth Tarkington
The Midlander was published in 1923 as the third novel in Booth Tarkington’s “Growth” trilogy that also includes The Turmoil and The Magnifi…
Black No More
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George Schuyler
Being an account of the strange and wonderful workings of science in the land of the free, A.D. 1933-1940. (Summary by author)
The Little Brown Jug at Kildare
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Meredith Nicholson
Two men in search of adventure and romance set off on their own journeys. Only to find themselves been drawn together to solve issues arisin…
The Shadow Flies
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Rose Macaulay
The title of the original, British release of this novel was They Were Defeated, referring, among other matters, to the English Civil War, 1…
All Else Is Folly
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Peregrine Acland
This novel, published in 1929, more than a decade after the close of the First World War, is an insightful and disturbing view of a Canadian…
The Auction Block
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Rex Beach
In the early twentieth century, politics were a much simpler affair, and much could be accomplished by diplomacy and compromise. But even th…
Reginald
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Saki
A collection of humorous anecdotes centred on Reginald, a smug, self-centred and cynical young man, who never admits to being older than twe…
The Radio Cop
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Vic Whitman
Now he was not only a police announcer, but a news reporter, and the biggest story of the year was breaking right under his nose. As he desc…
Fox Farm
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Warwick Deeping
Fox Farm is Warwick Deeping’s eloquent story of the challenges, dynamics, and fate of a family with a farm in England. It would have been mo…
The Dark Mother
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Waldo Frank
"The Dark Mother" by Waldo David Frank is an early 20th century novel. It dives into human emotions, nature, and introspection thr…
Mr. Weston's Good Wine
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T. F. Powys
This 1927 novel describes an evening in 1923 when Mr. Weston, who is apparently a wine merchant, but is evidently God, visits the fictional …