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By: Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909) | |
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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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Last Days of Pompeii
The Last Days of Pompeii, a novel by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton tells the love story of the Greeks Glaucus and Ione who were living in Pompeii when Mt. Vesuvius erupted and destroyed the city. But aside from telling their romance, the book is also full of insights about the decadent lifestyle of the Romans during the later part of their empire’s history. The different characters in the story represent the different civilizations which they come from. Glaucus, the main protagonist in the novel was portrayed as a handsome Greek nobleman... | |
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 | |
My Novel | |
Falkland | |
Zicci | |
Tomlinsoniana | |
Pelham |
By: Edward Henry Peple (1869-1924) | |
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A Night Out |
By: Edward Howard (-1841) | |
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Rattlin the Reefer |
By: Edward Jenkins (1838-1910) | |
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Ginx's Baby: his birth and other misfortunes; a satire |
By: Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany (1878-1957) | |
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Plays of Near & Far | |
If: a play in four acts |
By: Edward Lear (1812-1888) | |
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A Book of Nonsense
In 1846 Lear published A Book of Nonsense, a volume of limericks that went through three editions and helped popularize the form. This book contains 112 of these funny, imaginative verses that have been well loved by many generations of children (and adults). ( | |
Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets
A selection of nonsense poems, songs (not sung!), stories, and miscellaneous strangeness. The work includes the "Owl and the Pussycat" and a recipe for Amblongus Pie, which begins "Take 4 pounds (say 4½ pounds) of fresh ablongusses and put them in a small pipkin."Edward Lear was an English writer, poet, cat-lover, and illustrator (his watercolours are beautiful). This recording celebrates the 200th anniversary of Lear's birth. | |
Nonsense Drolleries The Owl & The Pussy-Cat—The Duck & The Kangaroo. | |
More Nonsense |
By: Edward Lucas White (1866-1934) | |
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The Unwilling Vestal |
By: Edward M. Forster (1879-1970) | |
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Howards End
It's sad, but true to say that today Edward Morgan Forster's works are known more from their film and television adaptations rather than from their original novels. Yet, these adaptations have spurred many a fascinated viewer into going back to the library and finding the book that the film or miniseries was based on and this is ultimately the power of Forster's literary appeal. Howard's End was published in 1910 and it marked Forster's first taste of critical and commercial success. He had published three other novels earlier, Where Angels Fear To Tread (1905), The Longest Journey (1907) and A Room With a View (1908) but none of them had been received with so much acclaim... | |
Where Angels Fear to Tread
On a journey to Tuscany with her young friend and traveling companion Caroline Abbott, widowed Lilia Herriton falls in love with both Italy and a handsome Italian much younger than herself, and decides to stay. Furious, her dead husband’s family send Lilia’s brother-in-law to Italy to prevent a misalliance, but he arrives too late. Lilia marries the Italian and in due course becomes pregnant again. When she dies giving birth to her child, the Herritons consider it both their right and their duty to travel to Monteriano to obtain custody of the infant so that he can be raised as an Englishman. | |
The Longest Journey
Frederick Elliot is a student at early 20th century Cambridge, a university that seems like paradise to him, amongst bright if cynical companions, when he receives a visit from two friends, an engaged young woman, Agnes Pembroke, and her older brother, Herbert. The Pembrokes are Rickie’s only friends from home. An orphan who grew up living with cousins, he was sent to a public (boarding) school where he was shunned and bullied because of his lame foot, an inherited weakness, and frail body. Agnes, as it happens, is engaged to Gerald, now in the army, who was one of the sturdy youths who bullied Rickie at school... |
By: Edward M. Hull (1880-1947) | |
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Sheik
The novel on which the famous silent movie starring Rudolf Valentino was based. The plot is set in motion as Lady Conway disapproves of Diana's planning a desert trip with just her Arab guides to accompany her. Diana gets kidnapped by the Sheik, Ahmed Ben Hassan. Finally allowed to ride in the desert alone, she plans an escape. However, the Sheik recaptures her. And so the story unfolds. |
By: Edward Marshall (1870-1933) | |
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The Old Flute-Player A Romance of To-day |
By: Edward N. Hoare (1842-) | |
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A Child of the Glens or, Elsie's Fortunes |
By: Edward Noyes Westcott (1847-1898) | |
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The Christmas Story from David Harum | |
David Harum A Story of American Life |
By: Edward P. Roe (1838-1888) | |
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He Fell in Love with His Wife
James desperately needs someone to help him keep his farm going, but has failure after colossal failure finding a good housekeeper. Alida marries a man only to find out he's already married. She's so undone when she finds out that she just wants to go somewhere where no one will judge her for her misfortune, where she can work and keep herself fed and clothed. James and Alida meet and arrange for a strictly business marriage, leaving loving and honoring out of the vows. The title of the book tells the rest of the story, but the way it gets there is worth the journey. (Introduction by TriciaG) |
By: Edward Payson Roe (1838-1888) | |
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Taken Alive | |
Barriers Burned Away | |
A Face Illumined | |
An Original Belle | |
The Earth Trembled |