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By: Edith Wharton (1862-1937) | |
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The Choice 1916 | |
Kerfol 1916 | |
Autres Temps... 1916 | |
Artemis to Actaeon, and Other Verses |
By: Edmond About (1828-1885) | |
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The Man With The Broken Ear |
By: Edmond de Goncourt (1822-1896) | |
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Germinie Lacerteux | |
Renée Mauperin |
By: Edmond Hamilton | |
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The Stars, My Brothers
Edmond Hamilton (1904 – 1977) had a career that began as a regular and frequent contributor to Weird Tales magazine. The first hardcover publication of Science Fiction stories was a Hamilton compilation, and he and E.E. “Doc” Smith are credited with the creation of the Space Opera type of story. He worked for DC Comics authoring many stories for their Superman and Batman characters. Hamilton was also married to fellow author Leigh Brackett. – Published in the May, 1962 issue of Amazing Stories “The Stars, My Brothers” gives us a re-animated astronaut plucked from a century in the past and presented with an alien world where the line between humans and animals is blurred. | |
The Man Who Saw the Future | |
The Sargasso of Space |
By: Edmond Malone (1741-1812) | |
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Cursory Observations on the Poems Attributed to Thomas Rowley (1782) |
By: Edmond Rostand (1868-1918) | |
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L'Aiglon | |
The Romancers A Comedy in Three Acts |
By: Edmund Burke (1729-1797) | |
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Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and Speeches, etc. |
By: Edmund Day (1866-1923) | |
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The Round-Up A romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama |
By: Edmund Goldsmid | |
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Quaint Gleanings from Ancient Poetry |
By: Edmund Gosse (1849-1928) | |
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Father and Son
Father and Son (1907) is a memoir by poet and critic Edmund Gosse, which he subtitled “a study of two temperaments.” The book describes Edmund’s early years in an exceptionally devout Plymouth Brethren home. His mother, who dies early and painfully of breast cancer, is a writer of Christian tracts. His father, Philip Henry Gosse, is an influential, though largely self-taught, invertebrate zoologist and student of marine biology who, after his wife’s death, takes Edmund to live in Devon... | |
Gossip in a Library
A collection of informal essays about books in his library. He combines commentary, translations, and humorous asides about authors and their subjects. | |
Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature | |
Henrik Ibsen | |
Some Diversions of a Man of Letters | |
Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy |
By: Edmund Lester Pearson (1880-1937) | |
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The Voyage of the Hoppergrass |
By: Edmund Mitchell (1861-1917) | |
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Tales of Destiny |
By: Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) | |
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Brittains Ida or Venus and Anchises
While hunting, the boy Anchises stumbles upon Venus's forest retreat and is so kindly entertained by the goddess that he becomes the proud father of Aeneas, the hero of Vergil's Aeneid. The poem is an epyllion like Marlowe's "Hero and Leander" and Shakespeare's "Venus and Adonis," a short erotic poem with a mythological subject. The style is Spenserian, the stanzas rhyming ababbccc. When Brittain's Ida was published in 1628, the publisher ascribed it to Edmund Spenser. However, in 1926 Ethel Seaton discovered and published Fletcher's original manuscript, whose opening stanzas make clear that this is the work of Fletcher, who entitled it "Venus and Anchises." |
By: Edmund Venables (1819-1895) | |
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The Life of John Bunyan |
By: Edna Adelaide Brown | |
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The Spanish Chest |
By: Edna Ferber (1885-1968) | |
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Fanny Herself
Fanny Herself is the story of Fanny Brandeis, a sensitive, young Jewish girl coming of age in the Midwest at the turn of the 20th century. It is generally considered to have been based on Ferber’s own experiences growing up in Appleton, Wisconsin. Fanny’s inner struggle between her compassionate, artistic side and her desire for financial independence as a successful young businesswoman is the recurring theme of the novel. Ferber’s engaging style of writing will quickly draw you into her story... | |
Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed
Dawn O’Hara, the Girl Who Laughed was Edna Ferber’s first novel. Dawn, a newspaperwoman working in New York, finds herself back home in Michigan on doctor’s orders. Years of living in boarding-houses and working to pay for the care of her brilliant but mentally ill husband, Peter Orme, have taken their toll. At twenty-eight, Dawn feels like an old woman with no future. But, the loving care of her sister Norah and her family along with the attentions of the handsome German doctor, Ernst Von Gerhard, slowly bring Dawn back to life... | |
Buttered Side Down
"And so," the story writers used to say, "they lived happily ever after." Um-m-m—maybe. After the glamour had worn off, and the glass slippers were worn out, did the Prince never find Cinderella's manner redolent of the kitchen hearth; and was it never necessary that he remind her to be more careful of her finger-nails and grammar? After Puss in Boots had won wealth and a wife for his young master did not that gentleman often fume with chagrin because the neighbors, perhaps, refused to call on the lady of the former poor miller's son? It is a great risk to take with one's book-children... | |
One Basket
This sparkling collection of 7 short stories by Ferber including some that are considered her all time best like The Woman Who Tried To be Good and The Maternal Feminine. Writing for and about women, Edna Ferber touches the very heart and soul of what it means to be human; to make good choices and bad; to be weak and strong. This was a very popular book when published in 1913 | |
Emma McChesney and Company
This is the final volume in the trilogy following the smart, stylish, divorced and independent businesswoman Emma McChesney in her career from stenographer, then drummer (traveling salesman) to owner of her own company. (The first was Roast Beef, Medium and the second Personality Plus). Edna Ferber first gained success with these stories and later went on to write Show Boat, Giant and other well known books. First published in 1915, Emma's son, Jock, has moved to Chicago with his new wife. Emma decides to sell in South America and proves she has not lost her magic touch... | |
So Big
The story of Selina DeJong and her son Dirk, whom she affectionately calls So Big. After the death of her husband, Selina raises So Big on her own while managing her deceased husband's farm in Illinois. When So Big grows up, he moves to Chicago, where he finds himself drawn to the fast-money stock-broker lifestyle of the 1920s. So Big is conflicted: he wants to live in the world of speculation and finance, but he's aware that his mother are disappointed that he hasn't lived up to the hard-working, hardscrabble values instilled by his mother. - Summary by Alexandra Atiya |
By: Edna Lyall (1857-1903) | |
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The Autobiography of a Slander
The Autobiography of a Slander exposes the consequences of reckless words or, even worse, intentionally disparaging words. In this moral tale, told from the point of view of "the slander", Edna Lyall (pseudonym used by Ada Ellen Bayley) reveals her ideals and goals in life and relationships. | |
Derrick Vaughan, Novelist | |
We Two, a novel |
By: Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) | |
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A Few Figs from Thistles
A collection of 23 poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay. | |
Renascence and Other Poems
The following is a recording of the first volume of poetry published by Edna St. Vincent Millay. When the author had graduated from high school, she couldn’t afford to go to college. In the summer of 1912, Vincent’s sister, Norma, found work as a waitress at a hotel near where they lived. One night, Norma insisted that Vincent attend a masquerade ball, given at the hotel, if only to get Vincent out of the house and to meet people. Vincent finally gave in, and while there, sang songs and recited “Renascence,” the first poem in this collection... | |
Second April
A collection of poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay. | |
Aria da Capo | |
The Lamp and the Bell |
By: Edouard Laboulaye (1811-1883) | |
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Laboulaye's Fairy Book |
By: Edward Bellamy (1850-1898) | |
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Looking Backward: 2000-1887
Looking Backward: 2000-1887 is a utopian novel by Edward Bellamy, first published in 1888. It was the third largest bestseller of its time, after Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.The book tells the story of Julian West, a young American who, towards the end of the 19th century, falls into a deep, hypnosis-induced sleep and wakes up more than a century later. He finds himself in the same location (Boston, Massachusetts) but in a totally changed world: It is the year 2000 and, while he was sleeping, the U... | |
Looking Backward 2000-1887 | |
The Blindman's World 1898 | |
Miss Ludington's Sister | |
The Duke of Stockbridge | |
An Echo Of Antietam 1898 | |
A Love Story Reversed 1898 | |
With The Eyes Shut 1898 | |
At Pinney's Ranch 1898 | |
A Summer Evening's Dream 1898 | |
The Cold Snap 1898 | |
Hooking Watermelons 1898 | |
Two Days' Solitary Imprisonment 1898 | |
Potts's Painless Cure 1898 | |
A Positive Romance 1898 | |
The Old Folks' Party 1898 | |
Deserted 1898 | |
Lost 1898 | |
To Whom This May Come 1898 |
By: Edward Dowden (1843-1913) | |
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A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. |
By: Edward Doyle (1854-) | |
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Freedom, Truth and Beauty Sonnets |
By: Edward Dyson (1865-1931) | |
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'Hello, Soldier!' Khaki Verse | |
In the Roaring Fifties | |
The Missing Link | |
The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy |
By: Edward Eggleston (1837-1902) | |
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Hoosier Schoolmaster
"Want to be a school-master, do you? You? Well, what would you do in Flat Crick deestrick, I'd like to know? Why, the boys have driv off the last two, and licked the one afore them like blazes. You might teach a summer school, when nothin' but children come. But I 'low it takes a right smart man to be school-master in Flat Crick in the winter. They'd pitch you out of doors, sonny, neck and heels, afore Christmas." | |
Duffels | |
The Faith Doctor A Story of New York | |
The Hoosier School-boy |
By: Edward Eldridge | |
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A California Girl |
By: Edward Elmer Smith (1890-1965) | |
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Masters of Space
The Masters had ruled all space with an unconquerable iron fist. But the Masters were gone. And this new, young race who came now to take their place–could they hope to defeat the ancient Enemy of All? |
By: Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909) | |
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The Man Without a Country and Other Tales | |
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
This is a collection of ten Christmas Stories, some of which have been published before. I have added a little essay, written on the occasion of the first Christmas celebrated by the King of Italy in Rome. | |
The Brick Moon and Other Stories | |
Man Without A Country And Other Tales
Edward Everett Hale (1822 – 1909) was an American author, historian and Unitarian clergyman. Hale first came to notice as a writer in 1859, when he contributed the short story "My Double and How He Undid Me" to the Atlantic Monthly. He soon published other stories in the same periodical. His best known work was "The Man Without a Country", published in the Atlantic in 1863 and intended to strengthen support in the Civil War for the Union cause in the North. Though the story is set in the early 19th century, it is an allegory about the upheaval of the American Civil War... | |
If, Yes and Perhaps Four Possibilities and Six Exaggerations with Some Bits of Fact |
By: Edward FitzGerald (1809-1883) | |
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Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 |
By: Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) | |
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The Coming Race
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803-1873) was an English novelist, poet, playright, and politician. Lord Lytton was a florid, popular writer of his day, who coined such phrases as “the great unwashed”, “pursuit of the almighty dollar”, “the pen is mightier than the sword”, and the infamous incipit “It was a dark and stormy night.” Despite his popularity in his heyday, today his name is known as a byword for bad writing. San Jose State University holds... | |
Zanoni
Zanoni, a timeless Rosicrucian brother, cannot fall in love without losing his power of immortality; but he does fall in love with Viola Pisani, a promising young opera singer from Naples, the daughter of Pisani, a misunderstood Italian violinist. An English gentleman named Glyndon loves Viola as well, but is indecisive about proposing marriage, and then renounces his love in order to pursue occult study. The story develops in the days of the French Revolution in 1789. Zanoni has lived since the Chaldean civilization... | |
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings | |
What Will He Do with It? | |
Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes | |
A Strange Story | |
Alice, or the Mysteries | |
Eugene Aram | |
The Last of the Barons | |
The Pilgrims of the Rhine | |
Ernest Maltravers | |
The Works Of Edward Bulwer-Lytton | |
Kenelm Chillingly | |
Leila or, the Siege of Granada | |
The Disowned | |
Devereux | |
Lucretia | |
Night and Morning | |
Godolphin | |
Calderon the Courtier, a Tale | |
The Parisians |