Dramatic Readings
Frank Merriwell’s Trust
Frank Merriwell is from Yale he excelled at football, baseball, basketball, crew and track at Yale while solving mysteries and righting wron…
Peeps at People
Written by a fictitious first-person narrator, this book puts a humorous spin on encounters with several famous people of the time. "I …
Imaginary Conversations
Imaginary Conversations by Walter Savage Landor presents a unique collection of dialogues featuring historical and mythical figures. Through…
Lesley Castle
Lesley Castle is a melodramatic epistolary novelette written by Jane Austen when she was sixteen years old. Although the novels Austen becam…
The Pilgrim's Progress
Probably the most famous allegory ever written of the Christian life, The Pilgrim's Progress follows the journey of Christian from his first…
The Heart's Kingdom
Charlotte Powers is a woman who loves life, and is set to marry Nickols just as soon as she can figure herself out. However, coming home and…
The Bat
A Mysterious killer—Man? Beast? Or devil?—spreading terror throughout a nation, flouting law and lawless alike … Curious GOINGS-ON in a hous…
The Blind Brother
A story of repentance and forgiveness set in the times of the the coal mines. Follow a blind boy and his brother determined to get him cure…
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The novel tells of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward. Basil is impressed by Dorian's beauty …
Lucian's Dialogues
The Dialogues of the Gods are 26 miniature dialogues mocking the Homeric conception of the Greek gods written in Attic Greek by Syrian autho…
A Fourth Form Friendship
When Aldred is sent to Birkwood Grange she meets Mabel Farrington the parlor boarder who up until Aldred came had no best friends. To Aldred…
Michael Strogoff
At a fete in the New Palace, the court seems to be in perfect order. Only two people know the truth: the telegraph wire beyond Tomsk, connec…
Barks and Purrs
Barks and Purrs is a collection of seven episodes in the lives of Toby-Dog, a French Bulldog, and Kiki-the-Demure, a Maltese cat, living in …
The Third Violet
The Third Violet is, in almost every respect, a stark departure from Stephen Crane's previous novels: a light, frothy, summertime tale of lo…
Sylvie and Bruno
Sylvie and Bruno, first published in 1889, and its 1893 second volume Sylvie and Bruno Concluded form the last novel by Lewis Carroll publis…
The Artist
The Artist, or Young Ladies' Instructor in Ornamental Painting, Drawing etc. is a delightful art instruction book from 1835. Follow Charlott…
The Box-Car Children
This is a story about four children who ran away from home after their parents died. They are trying to hide from their grandfather, and end…
Catherine Howard
Subtitled "The Throne, The Tomb, and The Scaffold - An Historical Play in 3 Acts From the Celebrated Play of that Name by Alexandre Dum…
Within and Without
Brother Julian became a monk because he thought that was how he would find God. But now, feeling further away from God than ever and rejecte…
Samson Agonistes
Samson Agonistes is a dramatic poem by John Milton based on the Old Testament story of Samson. It was first published in 1671 alongside Para…