Published 1900 onward
The Magnificent Adventure
"The Magnificent Adventure" in 1916 was set at the time of the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark Expedition. This fiction…
The Day of the Beast
Daren Lane, a World War I veteran, returns from the battlefields of Europe to the American Midwest. In Middletown USA, he encounters a postw…
A Spinner in the Sun
Myrtle Reed may always be depended upon to write a story in which poetry, charm, tenderness and humor are combined into a clever and enterta…
A Woman's War
The fictional small English country town of Roxton boasts two doctors. This tale focuses on the struggles of their wives: Katherine and the …
Tales of the Long Bow
These tales concern the doing of things recognized as impossible to do; impossible to believe; and, as the weary reader may well cry aloud, …
The Thirteen Travelers
The year is 1919 and peace has sprung upon the world after the unspeakable carnage of World War I. The place is Hortons, a building of expen…
Maggie Miller
From bestselling and prolific author Mary Jane Holmes, Maggie Miller or Old Hagar's Secret COMES a compelling story of deceit, love, misplac…
The Slayer of Souls
Tressa Norne is an American living in China. After her life was spared during a revolution in the area, Tressa finds herself taken as a sla…
The Jack-Knife Man
A lighthearted tale which revolves around old Peter Lane, who lives in a houseboat on the Mississippi River and mostly whiles away his time …
A Lost Lady
The young Niel Herbert idolizes Marian Forrester, the beautiful and charismatic wife of a pioneering railroad magnate. After discovering Mrs…
The Mother's Recompense
Kate Cephane, now living in self-imposed exile in France, left her three-year-old daughter Anne behind when she fled her impossibly unhappy …
The Tale of Triona
Olivia is a newly orphaned young woman looking for adventure and excitement. She rents out her house to Blaise Olifant whose friend Alexis T…
Breaking Point
Machines are infallible. Humans are not. The crew of The Ambassador knew their ship could not possibly fail, but what of themselves? And how…
The Emperor of Portugallia
Selma Lagerlöf was born in Vaermland, Sweden, in 1858 and enjoyed a long and very successful career as a writer, receiving the Nobel-Pr…
我等の一團と彼
歌人、石川啄木が書いた小説。新聞記者だった自身の体験も反映しているように思われる東京の新聞社の社会部の一団が登場する。主人公は、亀山、肺病になって結局、退社してしまう画工の松永、その松永の面倒をよく見た高橋などが登場する。The author is famous with Tan…
Memorias de un vagón de ferrocarril
Este vagón personificado nos cuenta en primera persona su vida y las historias de los pasajeros aventureros que montan en él. …
The Castlecourt Diamond Mystery
The famous Castlecourt Diamonds have gone missing and the story surrounding their disappearance is strange indeed. To help sort out th…
The Getting of Wisdom
Henry Handel Richardson was the pseudonym of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, a writer who was born in 1870 to a reasonably well-off fami…
Liliecrona's Home
Liliecrona's Home was published in Sweden 1911, translated into English by Anna Harwell and published in London in 1913. The story is set in…
The Mermaid of Druid Lake
A collection of offbeat stories. Some are a bit out of the ordinary as suggested by the title story about a freshwater mermaid; some are not…