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The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

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Dorothy L. Sayers


The author’s fourth Lord Peter Wimsey mystery, set shortly after the Great War, begins with the discovery of old general Fentiman’s body sea…

The Dinner Club

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Sapper


Herman Cyril McNeile, better known as Sapper, was one of England’s most popular fiction writers during the period between World Wars I and I…

And Even Now

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Max Beerbohm


This is a diverse collection of essays by English writer Max Beerbohm, whose circle included such notables as Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Sh…

Stories by English Authors: London

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F. Anstey, J. M. Barrie, Marie Corelli, Beatrice Harraden, Arthur Morrison, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch and Israel Zangwill


This book collects seven short stories by some of England's best turn-of-the-(last)-century's writers. The collection begins with the humor …

The Prince and Betty (version 2)

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P. G. Wodehouse


The story moves from a royal palace in Europe to a squalid tenement in New York. The European action centers on the efforts of an uncouth mi…

Number Seventeen

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Louis Tracy


The number Seventeen refers (at first) to the London apartment of a young widow who is strangled (off-scene) at the beginning of the book. H…

The Holiday Round

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A. A. Milne


Alan Alexander Milne, popularly known as A. A. Milne, is best known – perhaps to most people only known – for his children’s book, Winnie th…

Mortal Coils

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Aldous Huxley


Aldous Huxley is best known as a philosopher and novelist – notably as the author of Brave New World. He also wrote poetry, short stories an…

Gigolo

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Edna Ferber


Gigolo is a collection of short stories by Edna Ferber, best known for her novels Show Boat and So Big (for which she won the Pulitzer Prize…

Yet Again

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Max Beerbohm


This is a diverse collection of essays by English writer Max Beerbohm, whose circle included such famous men as Oscar Wilde, George Bernard …

The Late Tenant

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Louis Tracy


This is primarily a romance. It is one of the earliest works of the British journalist and prolific author, Louis Tracy, publishing under th…

The Immortal Moment

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May Sinclair


This is one of the later works of May Sinclair – a prolific author, literary critic, and feminist activist – famous in Britain and the US af…

The Celestial Omnibus, and Other Stories

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E. M. Forster


With twenty Nobel Prize nominations to his credit, E. M. Forster may reasonably be considered one of the best writers of the 20th century – …

Not That it Matters (Version 2)

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A. A. Milne


A. A. MILNE:…was best known for the perennially popular Pooh (Winnie the), arguably one of his lesser contributions to the literature of his…

Men I'm Not Married To (Version 2)

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Dorothy Parker


Dorothy Parker was a poet, writer and satirist of the foibles of the early 20th century (not least, of Prohibition), and a founding member o…

Once A Week (Version 2)

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A. A. Milne


Once A Week is a collection of short stories and slightly longer vignettes which were written for Milne's solid British Audience, including …

If I May (Version 2)

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A. A. Milne


A. A. Milne, best known as the creator of Winnie the Pooh, was a prolific author of books, plays, essays and articles. He also spent a numbe…

The Judgment of Eve

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May Sinclair


May Sinclair was a prolific author, literary critic, and feminist activist, famous in Britain and the US in the 1910’s and 20’s. The Judgmen…

The Sunny Side (Version 2)

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A. A. Milne


A. A. Milne is best known for his creation of the perennially popular Winnie the Pooh, though he was and is highly acclaimed for hundreds of…

04 - Volume I Chapter 4

In The American Senator

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The American Senator and Anthony Trollope


The American Senator is a novel written in 1875 by Anthony Trollope. Although not one of Trollope's better-known works, it is notable for it…

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