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His Masterpiece

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Émile Zola


“His Masterpiece" (“L’Oeuvre”) is a fictionalized account of the Parisian art world in the mid 19th century, and the emerging Realism, …

A Woman's Life

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Guy de Maupassant


Having spent her girlhood at a convent getting a good education, Jeanne has just returned home and is a happy young woman full of hope and e…

The Hound From the North

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Ridgwell Cullum


Gold! Opium! Love! Murder! Revenge! Prairie intrigue at its best:Prudence helps her mother run a ranch in southern Manitoba. Her brother has…

Tales of the Uneasy

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Violet Hunt


Nine twisty-turny tales of tragic human drama, played out in Victorian parlors, death beds and lonely country roads. This collection of Viol…

White Rose of Weary Leaf

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Violet Hunt


Isobel Violet Hunt was a British author renowned for her literary salons, which hosted such notables as H.G. Wells, D.H. Laurence, Henry Jam…

No Surrender

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Constance Elizabeth Maud


Written from the midst of the struggle for female suffrage, Constance Elizabeth Maud’s novel No Surrender (1911) is a Call to Arms. It is a …

Tongues of Conscience

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Robert Smythe Hichens


Tongues of Conscience (1898) is a collection of five thought-provoking stories where an innocent, but selfish, action leads to horrific cons…

Notes On Democracy

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H. L. Mencken


American journalist H.L. Mencken’s Notes On Democracy was originally published in 1926, yet is still relevant almost 100 years later.Mencken…

The Vertical City

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Fannie Hurst


As the city above soars gloriously skyward, the denizens of the city writhe in its dirty underbelly.The Vertical City is a collection of six…

Ginx's Baby: His Birth and Other Misfortunes

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Edward Jenkins


In the second half of the 19th century, London was becoming a wealthy, industrialized city. It attracted many working class people from near…

Chapter 3

In The Green Carnation

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Robert Smythe Hichens


The Green Carnation, first published anonymously in 1894, was a scandalous novel by Robert Hichens whose lead characters are closely based o…