Published 1900 onward
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…
Chalk Face
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Waldo Frank
A young alienist exposes a murderer. (Summary by Brian Fullen)
The Flying Inn
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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…
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…
Frank Merriwell at Yale
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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…
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 …
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, …
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…
Stanton White
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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 …
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…
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…
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…
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
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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 …
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 …
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 …
Jeremy At Crale
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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…
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
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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 …
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…