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By: Ellen Gould Harmon White (1827-1915) | |
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Choice Readings for the Home Circle |
By: Ellen Marriage | |
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Another Study of Woman |
By: Ellen Newbold La Motte (1873-1961) | |
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Civilization Tales of the Orient | |
By: Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler (1860-1929) | |
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The Farringdons |
By: Ellis Meredith (1865-1955) | |
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The Master-Knot of Human Fate
A tale of two people, and their search for answers to unknown questions. Adam and Robin find themselves inexplicably alone after an apparent natural cataclysm, and are compelled to learn how to survive, how to endure, but most importantly to themselves, how to enjoy, understand their new roles in life, and understand each other. (Introduction by Roger Melin) |
By: Ellis Parker Butler (1869-1937) | |
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Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective
Philo Gubb, not being content with his job as wallpaper-hanger, has higher aspirations: to become a detective, just like Sherlock Holmes. To that end, he enrolls in a correspondence course, where he gets lessons through the mail as well as the necessary disguises for a detective. Philo Gubb, not being really clever or intuitive, or even looking good in those disguises, gets involved in one case after the other - and sooner or later happens to stumble on and solve the crime... Each of these stories... | |
Pigs is Pigs | |
Solander's Radio Tomb | |
Cheerful Smugglers
Saving for the baby's education: how can a young family be disciplined so as to regularly put money in the pig (bank)? Why, put a tariff on all items coming into the house, just like the U.S. Government does/did for items coming into the country! But the devil is in the details; what about taxing items brought in by visitors? Is the housemaid herself a taxable item? What items really are 'necessaries' versus luxuries? When visitors arrive these guests stoop to either 'smuggling' in their luggage items to avoid having to pay up to 30% of the value, or wear only what they came dressed in... | |
Goat-Feathers | |
The Water goats and other troubles |
By: Ellis Wynne (1671-1734) | |
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The Visions of the Sleeping Bard |
By: Ellsworth Douglass | |
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Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner |
By: Elma Ehrlich Levinger (1887-) | |
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The New Land Stories of Jews Who Had a Part in the Making of Our Country |
By: Emerson Hough (1857-1923) | |
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The Lady and the Pirate Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive | |
The Sagebrusher A Story of the West | |
The Man Next Door |
By: Émile Gaboriau (1832-1873) | |
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Monsieur Lecoq: The Inquiry
Monsieur Lecoq is a captivating mystery, historical and love story : Around 11 o'clock, on the evening of Shrove Sunday 18.., close to the old Barrière d'Italie, frightful cries, coming from Mother Chupin's drinking-shop, are heard by a party of detectives led by Inspector Gévrol. The squad runs up to it. A triple murder has just been committed. The murderer is caught on the premises. Despite Gévrol's opinion that four scoundrels encountered each other in this vile den, that they began to quarrel, that one of them had a revolver and killed the others, Lecoq, a young police agent, suspects a great mystery... | |
Monsieur Lecoq Part 2: The Honor of the Name
Monsieur Lecoq is a captivating mystery, historical and love story: Around 11 o'clock, on the evening of Shrove Sunday 18.., close to the old Barrière d'Italie, frightful cries, coming from Mother Chupin's drinking-shop, are heard by a party of detectives led by Inspector Gévrol. The squad runs up to it. A triple murder has just been committed. The murderer is caught on the premises. Despite Gévrol's opinion that four scoundrels encountered each other in this vile den, that they began to quarrel, that one of them had a revolver and killed the others, Lecoq, a young police agent, suspects a great mystery... |
By: Émile Souvestre (1806-1854) | |
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An Attic Philosopher in Paris |
By: Émile Zola (1840-1902) | |
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L'Assommoir
Émile François Zola (French pronunciation: [emil zɔˈla]) (2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902) was an influential French writer, the most important exemplar of the literary school of naturalism. More than half of Zola’s novels were part of a set of twenty novels about a family under the Second Empire collectively known as Les Rougon-Macquart. L’Assommoir (1877) is the seventh novel in the series. Usually considered one of Zola’s masterpieces, the novel—a harsh and uncompromising study of alcoholism and poverty in the working-class districts of Paris—was a huge commercial success and established Zola’s fame and reputation throughout France and the world. | |
Therese Raquin
An unsatisfied wife kills her weak husband in order to carry on a sordid affair with another man. However, her selfish plans are spoiled when her husband continues to haunt her. This is often said to be Zola's first great novel. | |
The Flood, trans. by an unknown translator
A well-to-do French farm family is destroyed by a flood. The story, thrilling to the very end, is told from the point of view of the family’s 70-year-old patriarch. The story speaks of the helplessness of mankind in the face of the forces of nature. | |
English Translations Of Works Of Emile Zola | |
The Fat and the Thin | |
Four Short Stories By Emile Zola | |
The Downfall | |
The Fortune of the Rougons | |
L'Assommoir | |
Doctor Pascal | |
The Dream | |
The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris | |
The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes | |
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome | |
The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris | |
Fruitfulness | |
The Fête At Coqueville 1907 | |
Germinal (English)
This epic about French coal miners and the burgeoning labor movement is considered one of Zola's finest novels. - Summary by Matt Pierard | |
Nana
Excerpt from Introduction: "Nana" stands third in popularity among the Zola novels. It is a study of the prostitute type and it gives a memorable picture of the life of the tinsel underworld of the Paris theaters, night life, and its parasites. Perhaps Zola pursues Nana a bit too relentlessly: certainly his putting a period to her career by showing her as a putrefying corpse is more symbolic than is wholly necessary; but it remains a novel of truth and beauty, even if a beauty of a drab and often terrible sort. Summary by Burton Rascoe / Celine Major |
By: Emilie Flygare-Carlén (1807-1892) | |
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The Home in the Valley |
By: Emilie Kip Baker | |
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Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools |
By: Emily Dickinson | |
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Poems: Series One
Renowned poet Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886) wrote many many poems. This collection, “Poems: Series One”, presents the first installment of the complete poetic works of Miss Emily Dickinson. It is broken into four parts: Life, Love, Nature, and Time and Eternity. The verses of Emily Dickinson belong emphatically to what Emerson long since called “the Poetry of the Portfolio,”–something produced absolutely without the thought of publication, and solely by way of expression of the writer’s own mind. The poetry found here is then entirely honest, and indicative of the authors true feelings. | |
Poems: Series Two
"The eagerness with which the first volume of Emily Dickinson's poems has been read shows very clearly that all our alleged modern artificiality does not prevent a prompt appreciation of the qualities of directness and simplicity in approaching the greatest themes,—life and love and death. That "irresistible needle-touch," as one of her best critics has called it, piercing at once the very core of a thought, has found a response as wide and sympathetic as it has been unexpected even to those who knew best her compelling power. This second volume, while open to the same criticism as to form with its predecessor, shows also the same shining beauties." | |
Poems by Emily Dickinson, Third Series |
By: Emily Eden | |
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The Semi-Detached House
If you're a Jane Austen fan, you'll enjoy Emily Eden's comic novels of manners, The Semi-Detached House (1859) and The Semi-Attached Couple (1860). At the opening of The Semi-Detached House, the beautiful (but rather petulant) Lady Blanche Chester, newly married and pregnant, is being installed in a suburban house while her husband is away. Her encounters with her neighbors, and the intrigues of the neighborhood, soon come to absorb and annoy her. |
By: Emily Henrietta Hickey (1845-1924) | |
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Our Catholic Heritage in English Literature of Pre-Conquest Days |
By: Emily Mayer Higgins | |
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Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside |
By: Emily Post (1873-1960) | |
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The Title Market |
By: Emlyn Williams (1905-1987) | |
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Night Must Fall : a Play in Three Acts |
By: Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (1819-1899) | |
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Ishmael Or, In the Depths | |
Her Mother's Secret | |
Hidden Hand | |
Capitola's Peril A Sequel to 'The Hidden Hand' | |
Self-Raised Or, From the Depths | |
Capitola the Madcap | |
The Lost Lady of Lone | |
For Woman's Love | |
Cruel As The Grave | |
Victor's Triumph Sequel to A Beautiful Fiend |
By: Emma Gellibrand | |
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J. Cole |
By: Emma Marshall (1830-1899) | |
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Penshurst Castle In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney | |
Bristol Bells A Story of the Eighteenth Century |
By: Emma Orczy (1865-1947) | |
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The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Written by Baroness Orczy and first published in 1919, The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale, The Scarlet Pimpernel. The book consists of eleven short stories about Sir Percy Blakeney’s exploits in rescuing various aristos and French citizens from the clutches of the guillotine. The stories which are listed below, are set in 1793 but appear in no particular order. They occasionally refer to events in other books in the series. |
By: Emma Speed Sampson (1868-1947) | |
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The Comings of Cousin Ann |
By: Emma Wolf (1865-1932) | |
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Other Things Being Equal
Ruth Levice, the daughter of a rich San Francisco Jewish merchant, meats Dr. Herbert Kemp, and they slowly fall in love. However, she is Jewish and he is not. Can love overcome such an obstacle? And what is more important, duty or love? |
By: Emmuska Orczy Orczy (1865-1947) | |
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A Bride of the Plains |
By: Epes Sargent (1813-1880) | |
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The Woman Who Dared |
By: Erckmann-Chatrian | |
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The Dean's Watch |
By: Eric Mackay (1851-1898) | |
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The Song of the Flag A National Ode |