Don W. Jenkins
Our Mutual Friend, Version 2
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Charles Dickens
Our Mutual Friend (written in the years 1864–65) is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, …
The Coming of Bill (or: Their Mutual Child; or: The White Hope)
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P. G. Wodehouse
The Coming of Bill tells the story of Kirk Winfield, his marriage to Ruth, and their child called Bill. Bill's upbringing is threatened by t…
Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man
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Sinclair Lewis
"At thirty-four Mr. Wrenn was the sales-entry clerk of the Souvenir Company. He was always bending over bills and columns of figures at…
The Innocents, A Story for Lovers
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Sinclair Lewis
“Mr. and Mrs. Seth Appleby were almost old. They called each other 'Father' and 'Mother.' But frequently they were guilty of holding hands, …
Jill the Reckless
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P. G. Wodehouse
Jill had money, Jill was engaged to be married to Sir Derek Underhill. Suddenly Jill becomes penniless, and she is no longer engaged. With a…
Widdershins
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Oliver Onions
Onions wrote several collections of ghost stories, of which the best known is Widdershins (1911). It includes the novella The Beckoning Fair…
The Prince and Betty
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P. G. Wodehouse
The Prince and Betty is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse. It was originally published in Ainslee's Magazine in the United States in January 1912, …
The Pagan Madonna
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Harold Macgrath
The Pagan Madonna, one of Harold MacGrath's numerous novels, set in Shanghai, tells a story of intrigue, murder, and illicit art “collecting…
The Secret of the Night
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Gaston Leroux
Gaston Leroux, perhaps best known as the author of The Phantom of the Opera in its novel form, was also the author of a popular series of my…
The Green Rust
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Edgar Wallace
A millionaire is taken suddenly ill, and sensing his mortality, he asks his attorney to do him one last favor—to find and secretly watch ove…
Louis Lambert
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Honoré de Balzac
Louis Lambert is an 1832 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), included in the Études philosop…
The Exploits of Juve
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Marcel Allain
Fantômas was introduced a few years after Arsène Lupin, another well-known thief. But whereas Lupin draws the line at murder, F…
Messengers of Evil
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Marcel Allain
Fantômas was introduced a few years after Arsène Lupin, another well-known thief. But whereas Lupin draws the line at murder, F…
The King of Ireland's Son
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Pádraic Colum
The King of Ireland's Son is a children's novel published in Ireland in 1916 written by Padraic Colum, and illustrated by Willy Pogany. It i…
Tarzan the Terrible
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
In the previous novel, during the early days of World War I, Tarzan discovered that his wife Jane was not killed in a fire set by German tro…
The Secret House
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Edgar Wallace
A stranger and foreigner arrives at the offices of a small publication in London only to be faced by the “editor” whose face is completely s…
More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter
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Robert Louis Stevenson
More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter (1885) is a collection of linked short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Vandegrift. Three …
New Arabian Nights
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Robert Louis Stevenson
New Arabian Nights is a collection of short stories which include Robert Louis Stevenson's earliest fiction as well as those considered his …
Tales of the Jazz Age
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) is a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Divided into three separate parts, according to…
Max Carrados
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Ernest Bramah
Max Carrados is a blind detective who has developed his own remaining senses to a superior level and who has enlisted the superior observati…
The Gloved Hand
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Burton Egbert Stevenson
Mr. Lester, a private investigator, and his friend Godfrey are caught up in a strange case that takes them to a large estate in the country …
Adventures of Bindle
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Herbert George Jenkins
Jenkins' most popular fictional creation was Mr. Joseph Bindle, who first appeared in a humorous novel in 1916 and in a number of sequels. I…
Bindle
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Herbert George Jenkins
Herbert Jenkins' most popular fictional creation was Mr. Joseph Bindle, who first appeared in a humorous novel in 1916 and in a number of se…
Mrs. Bindle
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Herbert George Jenkins
Herbert Jenkins' most popular fictional creation was Mr. Joseph Bindle, who first appeared in a humorous novel in 1916 and in a number of se…
History and Records of the Elephant Club
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Q. K. Philander Doesticks
Mortimer Q. Thomson (September 2, 1832 – June 25, 1875) was an American journalist and humorist who wrote under the pseudonym …
A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories
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Bill Nye
Bill Nye was a respected journalist who also became known as a humorist. His short pieces range from a description of a visit to a friend re…
The Tinted Venus
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F. Anstey
When a young newly engaged man finds himself bound for an amusement garden with an old flame, not his fiancee, it is not surprising that he …
A Bayard from Bengal
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F. Anstey
The estimable gentleman, Chunder Bindabun Bhosh, ESQ., B.A., travels from his native India to England, with his impeccable English and manne…
Voces Populi
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F. Anstey
F. Anstey was the nom de plume of Thomas Anstey Guthrie, a Londoner who was trained for the bar but found success as a writer of humorous pi…
Mr. Punch's Model Music-hall Songs & Dramas
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F. Anstey
F. Anstey was the nom de plume of Thomas Anstey Guthrie, a Londoner who was trained for the bar but found success as a writer of humorous pi…
Tales of the Fish Patrol
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Jack London
Wildest among the fisher-folk may be accounted the Chinese shrimp-catchers. It is the habit of the shrimp to crawl along the bottom in vast …
A Daughter of the Snows
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Jack London
In Jack London's first novel, he tells the story of Frona Welse, a strong and interesting heroine, "a Stanford graduate and physical Va…
When God Laughs, and Other Stories
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Jack London
This collection of Jack London's short stories touches on a variety of topics, from his love of boxing, to relationships between criminals, …
Dutch Courage and Other Stories
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Jack London
Jack London was quoted as saying, "I've never written a line that I'd be ashamed for my young daughters to read, and I never shall writ…
Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War
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Finley Peter Dunne
In Chicago lay a street called Archey Road, which stretched through a neighborhood which was mostly Irish immigrants, among whom was Martin …
A Deal in Wheat and other Stories of the New and Old West
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Frank Norris
This collection of Frank Norris' stories was published after his death in 1902. These stories range in topic from the machinations of the co…
Brood of the Witch Queen
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Sax Rohmer
A swan suffers a mysterious death, its neck wrung by apparent supernatural forces. A young woman dies alone in a hospital room, apparently s…
The Sorcery Club
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Elliott O'Donnell
Leon Hamar and his friends were out-of-work and starving in San Francisco after the firm they worked for went out of business. Leon acquired…
The Spider
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Fergus Hume
Arthur Vernon, member of the Athenian club and member of “society,” has a secret. His father has died and left him destitute, so he has begu…
The Crimson Cryptogram
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Fergus Hume
Young Dr Ellis, a struggling new physician, is enjoying a quiet evening smoking and enjoying conversation with his journalist friend Cass, w…