Published 1900 onward
Ring for Nancy: A Sheer Comedy
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Ford Madox Ford
Major Edward Brent Foster is on his way to a house in the country to stay with his aunt and uncle. So are his fiancée Olympia Peabody…
Show Boat
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Edna Ferber
Published in 1926, Show Boat tells of three generations of the Hawks-Ravenal family and the Cotton Blossom Floating Palace Theatre on the Mi…
The Meredith Mystery
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Natalie Sumner Lincoln
While spending a weekend at Ten Acres, David Curtis, a blind physician, in grouping (sic) his way along the passage to his room stumbles upo…
My Friend Annabel Lee
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Mary MacLane and Mary Maclane
Published in 1903, this selection of dialogues by Mary MacLane entails a mystery of wondering who she is speaking with. Is it the statue she…
A Study in Shadows
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William John Locke
Among the mixture of people spending the summer in a pension (boarding house) in Geneva are Felicia, a 20-year-old, and Katherine (30) who b…
Her Prairie Knight
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B. M. Bower
When Miss Beatrice Lansell arrives in Montana from the east for a visit to her brother's ranch, she is swept off her feet by the majestic, r…
Shorty McCabe
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Sewell Ford
Yes, it's been a couple of years since I quit the ring. . . . I slid into a quiet corner for a month or so, and then I dropped into the only…
When a Man's a Man
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Harold Bell Wright
When a Man's a Man is a novel written by Harold Bell Wright, an author who was quite popular in the first decades of the 20th Century. This …
The Lost Valley
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Algernon Blackwood
A set of twin brothers have spent every waking moment of their lives together and are terrified of separating. However, when both men set th…
Short Stories From Life
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Various
Life Magazine held a short story contest. Stories must be no more than 1500 words. Authors were paid for the number of words under that maxi…
An Iceland Fisherman
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Pierre Loti
'An Iceland Fisherman' is an 1886 romance by the celebrated - he was elected to the French Academy in May, 1891 - novelist and naval officer…
Senator North
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Gertrude Atherton
"When, Mr. President, a man, however eminent in other pursuits and whatever claims he may have to public confidence, becomes a member o…
The Incubator Baby
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Ellis Parker Butler
Marjorie Fielding is born premature and spends her first months of life in an incubator. Her mother is a modern, broad-minded woman eschewin…
Green Valley
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Katharine Yirsa Reynolds
"Traveling men have a poor opinion of it. Ministers of the gospel have been known to despair of it. Socially ambitious matrons move out…
A Change of Air
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Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Anyone can make a will by which his possessions are divided after his death but Cordelia Wheaton was ahead of the game for she willed away h…
Poor White: a Novel
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Sherwood Anderson
This is a story of the effect of industrialization on a small town and its people, around the beginning of the 20th Century. The lead charac…
The Rising of the Tide
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Ida M. Tarbell
The subtitle is "the story of Sabinsport", and the town is the major character. It is a small, Midwestern town in the USA, in 1914…
The Outcry
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Henry James
The story concerns the contemplated sale of a famous painting by a proud but relatively cash-strapped British aristocrat to a wealthy Americ…
The Race Of The Swift
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Edwin Carlile Litsey
This 1905 collection is of the author’s short animal stories, some previously published in magazines. - Summary by David Wales
The Storm Of London
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Fernande Blaze De Bury
Our clothes tell our story. They reflect our rank, have to suit a perfect event, and much more. But what happens when they disappear? Sounds…