Published 1900 onward
Laughter Limited
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Nina Wilcox Putnam
When some people write the story of their life it is a sign that they are dead. There are in the motion-picture world also a class of dead …
The Yarn of Old Harbour Town
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William Clark Russell
This novel opens in 1805, during the Napoleonic Wars between England and France. A retired sailor, Captain Acton, reminisces about his time …
The Blue Germ
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Maurice Nicoll
For your consideration: an English physician and a Russian research scientist jointly develop a bacillus that transforms disease causing ger…
Short Stories from Locomotive Engineers Journal, Volume 52
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Various
These short stories are taken from the Locomotive Engineers Journal, Volume 52 which covers the year, 1918. Don't expect any trains -- these…
Harmer John; An Unworldly Story
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Hugh Walpole
Hjalmar Johanson (novel, 1926) is a boyish unworldly Swedish body builder come to Walpole’s fictional cathedral town of Polchester. His name…
It's Like This, Cat (Version 3)
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Emily Neville
The Newbery-winning novel about 14-year-old Dave Mitchell, coming of age in New York City in the 1960s. A first-person narrative of everyday…
Bee and Butterfly, A Tale of Two Cousins
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Lucy Foster Madison
The wonderful evolution of a caterpillar, or grub, into a beautifully winged creature must inspire admiration in everyone. More marvelous st…
Initiation
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Robert Hugh Benson
A tale of all types of human pain (physical, spiritual, and psychological), this book teaches what it means to be truly human. An interestin…
When Woman Proposes
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Anne Warner
Does love at first sight exist? The heroine of this story, Natalie, seems to think so and is willing to move heaven and earth in order to m…
Rose Cottingham
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Netta Syrett
Rose Cottingham, orphaned at an early age, is being raised in the repressive household of her grandmother, who has old-fashioned ideas about…
Family Pride
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Mary Jane Holmes
Bestselling and prolific American Author Mary Jane Holmes never disappoints. Family Pride is another superb example of the enchanting Victor…
The Stoneground Ghost Tales, Version 2
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Edmund Gill Swain
A collection of gentle ghost stories set around a church by the fens in East Anglia. The author was an associate of Montague Rhodes James, …
Sacred and Profane Love
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Arnold Bennett
Carlotta Peel is an unusual young woman – clever, self-opinionated, a brilliant author and yearning to love and be loved but also to serve h…
Some Everyday Folk and Dawn
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Miles Franklin
It is 1904 and women's suffrage has hit the small town of Noonoon. Though the election campaigners preen themselves for the women's vote, th…
The Mahatma and the Hare: A Dream Story
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H. Rider Haggard
Haggard's interest in spiritualism and reincarnation underlie this tale of life, death, and "working out [one's] destiny." - Summa…
Weird Tales: Jules de Grandin Vol. 2
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Seabury Quinn
Seabury Grandin Quinn (also known as Jerome Burke; January 1, 1889 – December 24, 1969) was an American government lawyer, journalist, and p…
The Cross-Cut
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Courtney Ryley Cooper
A Colorado mining story dealing with an attempt by Squint Rodain and his son to wrest the Blue Poppy Silver Mine from Robert Fairchild. An e…
All Roads Lead to Calvary
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Jerome K. Jerome
"All Roads Lead to Calvary is a 1919 novel by the British writer Jerome K. Jerome. It was one of the last works written by Jerome, bett…
A Thin Ghost and Others (Version 2)
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M. R. James
A collection of short stories involving the supernatural. This is the fourth collection of ghost stories published by the author - following…
The Recording Angel
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Edwin Arnold Brenholtz
"The Recording Angel," by Edwin Arnold Brenholtz, is one of the earliest examples of an American proletarian novel, a work intende…