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By: Alfred Noyes (1880-1958) | |
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Rada A Drama of War in One Act |
By: William Dean Howells (1837-1920) | |
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My Mark Twain
William Dean Howells (1837-1920) became fast friends with Mark Twain from the moment in 1869 when Twain strode into the office of The Atlantic Monthly in Boston to thank Howells, then its assistant editor, for his favorable review of Innocents Abroad. When Howells became editor a few years later, The Atlantic Monthly began serializing many of Twain’s works, among them his non-fiction masterpiece, Life on the Mississippi. In My Mark Twain, Howells pens a literary memoir that includes such fascinating scenes as their meetings with former president Ulysses Grant who was then writing the classic autobiography that Twain would underwrite in the largest publishing deal until that time... | |
Indian Summer
In his novel Indian Summer, William Dean Howells presents a mellow but realistic story that has the complete feel of that delightful time of the year, although the plot actually spans several seasons. The Indian summer aspect applies to a sophisticated gentleman, Theodore Colville, who has just entered his middle years as he returns to a scene, Florence, Italy, that played an important part in his early manhood. It was here twenty years earlier that he first fell in love, seemingly successfully until a sudden and harsh rejection... | |
A Little Swiss Sojurn
A charming brief account of a two months' autumnal stay on the shores of the Lake of Geneva. Howells, who was there with his family traveling from England to Italy, has a sharp eye not only for scenery and architecture, but for people and customs, both Swiss and foreign. | |
Annie Kilburn
After 11 years in Rome, Annie Kilburn returns home to the US after the death of her father. But the home she knew is dramatically changed in many ways. She starts to work with sick children, and finds herself attached to them, and to the minister who helps her, Mr. Peck. | |
Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life) | |
William Dean Howells Works | |
Hazard of New Fortunes
Howell’s novel is set in New York of the late nineteenth century, a city familiar to readers of Edith Wharton and Henry James. Basil March, a businessman from Boston of a literary bent, moves with his family to New York to edit a new journal founded by an acquaintance. Its financial support, however, comes from a Mr. Dryfoos, a Pennsylvania Dutch farmer suddenly become millionaire by the discovery of natural gas on his property, and now living in New York with his family in a style he hopes will befit his new wealth... | |
Literature and Life (Complete) | |
A Modern Instance | |
Shapes that Haunt the Dusk | |
My Literary Passions | |
Emile Zola | |
Criticism and Fiction | |
William Dean Howells Literature Essays | |
Quaint Courtships | |
Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship | |
The Man of Letters as a Man of Business | |
The Landlord at Lion's Head | |
Ragged Lady | |
Quotes and Images From The Works of William Dean Howells | |
Buying a Horse | |
The Daughter of the Storage And Other Things in Prose and Verse | |
Dr. Breen's Practice | |
A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories | |
The Quality of Mercy | |
The Elevator | |
A Foregone Conclusion | |
The Lady of the Aroostook | |
Henry James, Jr. | |
The Sleeping-Car, a farce | |
Their Silver Wedding Journey | |
American Literary Centers (from Literature and Life) | |
Spanish Prisoners of War (from Literature and Life) | |
A Belated Guest (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) | |
April Hopes | |
The Albany Depot : a Farce | |
A Chance Acquaintance | |
Coast of Bohemia
William Dean Howells is at his iconoclastic best in this exploration of bourgeois values, particularly in the clash between respectable society and the dubious bohemian world of Art and Poetry. Cornelia Saunders has everything going for her in her middle-class world: comfort, good looks, attentive young men. She seems willing to risk it all for the sake of what might be an artistic Gift, venturing with great trepidation to put her foot over the line into Bohemia to see if it might be the thing for her. Skewering the conventions of sentimental literature as usual, Howells keeps the reader guessing to the end as to the fate of Cornelia and her Gift. | |
Five O'Clock Tea Farce | |
My First Visit to New England (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) | |
The Garotters | |
A Pair of Patient Lovers | |
A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction | |
Evening Dress Farce | |
The Story of a Play A Novel | |
Some Anomalies of the Short Story (from Literature and Life) | |
The Minister's Charge | |
Studies of Lowell (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) | |
Roundabout to Boston (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) | |
Imaginary Interviews | |
Poems | |
Complete March Family Trilogy | |
The Man of Letters as a Man of Business | |
Cambridge Neighbors (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) | |
The Register | |
Their Wedding Journey | |
The Parlor Car | |
A Likely Story | |
An Open-Eyed Conspiracy; an Idyl of Saratoga | |
Fennel and Rue | |
Standard Household-Effect Company, the (from Literature and Life) | |
Literary Boston as I Knew It (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) | |
The Kentons | |
Editor's Relations with the Young Contributor (from Literature and Life) | |
Oliver Wendell Holmes (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) | |
Staccato Notes of a Vanished Summer (from Literature and Life) | |
Confessions of a Summer Colonist (from Literature and Life) | |
White Mr. Longfellow, the (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) | |
Last Days in a Dutch Hotel (from Literature and Life) |
By: Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) | |
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Rootabaga Stories
Carl Sandburg is beloved by generations of children for his Rootabaga Stories and Rootabaga Pigeons (which is not in the public domain), a series of whimsical, sometimes melancholy stories he originally created for his own daughters. The Rootabaga Stories were born of Sandburg’s desire for “American fairy tales” to match American childhood. He felt that the European stories involving royalty and knights were inappropriate, and so populated his stories with animals, skyscrapers, trains, corn fairies, and other colorful characters. |
By: Ernest Bramah (1868-1942) | |
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Four Max Carrados Detective Stories
Ernest Bramah is mainly known for his ‘Kai Lung’ books – Dorothy L Sayers often used quotes from them for her chapter headings. In his lifetime however he was equally well known for his detective stories. Since Sherlock Holmes we have had French detectives, Belgian detectives, aristocratic detectives, royal detectives, ecclesiastical detectives, drunken detectives and even a (very) few quite normal happily married detectives. Max Carrados was however probably the first blind detective. | |
Wallet of Kai Lung
The Wallet of Kai Lung is a collection of fantasy stories by Ernest Bramah, all but the last of which feature Kai Lung, an itinerant story-teller of ancient China. The collection's importance in the history of fantasy literature was recognized by the anthologization of two of its tales in the celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series. |
By: Mary Godolphin (1781-1864) | |
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Robinson Crusoe in Words of One Syllable
Mary Godolphin was the pseudonym of Lucy Aikin who undertook translating great literature into single-syllable words so that young readers could enjoy plots that were considerably more interesting than, say, the McGuffey readers of the 1880’s or the “Dick and Jane” primers of the 1950s (still around today as “decodable readers” in elementary schools). She produced this volume based on Daniel Defoe’s most famous work, considered by many to be the first English novel (1719). She also rendered Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress and Wyss’ Swiss Family Robinson, which she translated as well. |
By: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) | |
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Case of Wagner / Nietzsche Contra Wagner / Selected Aphorisms
A collection of three of Nietzsche's writings concerning the music of Wagner. In particular, he relates Wagner's music as degenerate, unrefined and unintelligent and relates it to a gradually degenerating German culture and society. The translator provides a detailed introduction. |
By: Hilaire Belloc | |
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First and Last
“When a man weighs anchor in a little ship or a large one he does a jolly thing! He cuts himself off and he starts for freedom and for the chance of things. He pulls the jib a-weather, he leans to her slowly pulling round, he sees the wind getting into the mainsail, and he feels that she feels the helm. He has her on a slant of the wind, and he makes out between the harbour piers.” (quotation from Hilaire Belloc) | |
On Something
“Now that story is a symbol, and tells the truth. We see some one thing in this world, and suddenly it becomes particular and sacramental; a woman and a child, a man at evening, a troop of soldiers; we hear notes of music, we smell the smell that went with a passed time, or we discover after the long night a shaft of light upon the tops of the hills at morning: there is a resurrection, and we are refreshed and renewed.” – Hilaire Belloc | |
On Nothing & Kindred Subjects
“I knew a man once, Maurice, who was at Oxford for three years, and after that went down with no degree. At College, while his friends were seeking for Truth in funny brown German Philosophies, Sham Religions, stinking bottles and identical equations, he was lying on his back in Eynsham meadows thinking of Nothing, and got the Truth by this parallel road of his much more quickly than did they by theirs; for the asses are still seeking, mildly disputing, and, in a cultivated manner, following the... | |
Cautionary Tales for Children | |
The Free Press
I propose to discuss in what follows the evil of the great modern Capitalist Press, its function in vitiating and misinforming opinion and in putting power into ignoble hands; its correction by the formation of small independent organs, and the probably increasing effect of these last. (Introduction by Hilaire Belloc) | |
More Peers : Verses | |
Avril Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance |
By: Lieh-Tzu | |
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The Book of Lieh-Tzü
The Liezi (Chinese: 列子; pinyin: Lièzĭ; Wade-Giles: Lieh Tzu; literally “[Book of] Master Lie”) is a Daoist text attributed to Lie Yukou, a circa 5th century BCE Hundred Schools of Thought philosopher, but Chinese and Western scholars believe it was compiled around the 4th century CE. During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, the Liezi was designated a Daoist classic, completing the trilogy with the more famous Daodejing and Zhuangzi. The Liezi is generally considered to be the most practical of the major Daoist works, compared to the philosophical writings of Laozi and the poetic narrative of Zhuangzi... |
By: L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) | |
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A Kidnapped Santa Claus |
By: E. E. Smith (1895-1965) | |
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Spacehounds of IPC
When the Inter-Planetary Corporation's (IPC) crack liner “IPV Arcturus” took off on a routine flight to Mars, it turned out to be the beginning of a unexpected and long voyage. There had been too many reports of errors in ship's flight positions from the Check Stations and brilliant physicist Dr. Percival (“Steve”) Stevens is aboard the Arcturus on a fact-finding mission to find out what's really happening, and hopefully save the honor of the brave pilots of the space-liner Arcturus from the desk-jockeys' in the Check Stations implications of imprecision - the nastiest insult you could cast at a ships pilot... | |
Skylark Three
This is a sequel to The Skylark of Space. The novel concerns Richard Seaton and his allies who have encounters with aliens while fighting DuQuesne and the Fenachrone.. |
By: R. Austin Freeman (1862-1943) | |
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The Eye of Osiris
The Eye of Osiris is an early example from the Dr. Thorndyke series of detective stories written by R. Austin Freeman. In these stories, the author drew on his extensive medical and scientific knowledge for his main character, a medico-legal expert who relies on forensic evidence and logical deduction in solving cases. In this case, Thorndyke steps in to investigate the disappearance of one John Bellingham, an English gentleman and amateur Egyptologist, who has vanished under very mysterious circumstances... | |
The Mystery of 31 New Inn
Jeffrey Blackmore suspiciously made two wills, both deceptively alike, but still, in a cunning way, completely different. John Thorndyke, equally cunning and smart, smells something fishy. With stylish cool and logic, he leads the story up to its marvelous and fully credible climax. | |
The Red Thumb Mark
Missing diamonds, untouched safe, two blood smeared thumb prints and a mysterious Mr X. If these are present, Dr Thorndyke must be there too. Will he be able to solve this case?The Red Thumb Mark is the first novel of Freeman’s best-selling Thorndyke series. |
By: Bret Harte (1837-1902) | |
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Selected Stories
Bret Harte (1837–1902) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California. | |
Condensed Novels | |
The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers | |
From Sand Hill to Pine | |
Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories
A collection of short stories set in the American West at the end of the 19th century. | |
In a Hollow of the Hills | |
Under the Redwoods | |
Legends and Tales | |
Tales of the Argonauts | |
The Twins of Table Mountain | |
Tales of Trail and Town |