Lee Smalley
The Night Club
This work of fiction by Herbert Jenkins (1876-1923) features one of his best-loved comic characters, the affable Cockney, Joseph Bindle. It …
A Negro Explorer at the North Pole
In this fascinating memoir, Matthew Henson describes the incredibly dangerous, exhausting, and bone-chilling trip to what was until then the…
Smoke
Smoke is an 1867 novel by the highly acclaimed Russian writer Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883) that tells the gripping story of a secret love affai…
The Four Stragglers
This thrilling novel teems with intrigue and unforgettable characters. It opens during WWI with a few allied soldiers lost at night behind G…
Love in a Mask, or Imprudence and Happiness
Love in a Mask, or Imprudence and Happiness, is an entertaining short novel by Honoré de Balzac, unpublished in his lifetime. Beginni…
Pierre & Jean
This short novel’s titular characters are brothers. An old family friend dies, leaving without explanation his entire fortune to Jean, the y…
The Dark
The Dark is a novella about a desperate young man, a “terrorist and nihilist”, trying to avoid arrest by taking refuge in a brothel. The sto…
From North Carolina to Southern California Without a Ticket and How I Did It
"... I have decided to write an account of a few of the many adventures and dangers that befell me while making my way, practically wit…
The Shadow
A manhunt for a bank robber takes a determined and fixated New York City detective on a gripping, globe-spanning adventure, with many plot t…
Take it From Dad
Take It From Dad is a collection of letters written by a father to his son, Ted, at boarding school, away from home for the first time. In e…
Uncle Wiggily's Fortune
Uncle Wiggily Longears is the main character of a series of children's stories by American author Howard R. Garis. He began writing the stor…
Arrowsmith
This 1926 Pulitzer Prize winning novel centers on the title character, a promising medical student who, as a doctor and following several in…
The Power of a Lie
Norby is requested to guarantee a bank loan for Wangen and he obliges, signing the loan document in the presence of a witness. Some time lat…
Rudin
Rudin is the first and perhaps least known novel by Ivan Turgenev, a famous Russian writer best known for his short stories and the novel Fa…
Eighteen Months' Imprisonment
This is an absorbing memoir of an inmate's experiences and impressions while in a London prison. He describes himself as "a man of educ…
The Logic of Vegetarianism
With clear logic and entertaining dialogues, the author presents many reasons for a vegetarian rather than a “flesh-eating” diet, and his ar…
The Doom of London
Here are six stories, each one describing a disaster afflicting London, that were popularly serialized during 1903-1904 in Pearson’s Magazin…
Meadowlark Basin
This is an action-packed tale of the old west with richly drawn characters including the notorious Butch Cassidy, most of them upstanding bu…
A Lear of the Steppes, etc.
This book contains three novellas by one of the major writers of Russian literature. The first, A LEAR OF THE STEPPES, is a brilliant re-ima…
Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is universally regarded as one of the greatest authors in history. This brief biography discusses, among other thing…