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By: F. Marion Crawford (1854-1909) | |
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The White Sister | |
Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 | |
Paul Patoff | |
Sant' Ilario | |
Stradella |
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) | |
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This Side of Paradise
A romantic and witty novel that has weathered time to remain one of America’s classic pieces. In the shadows of the great Gatsby is another brilliant novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. This book is evidence to Fitzgerald’s literal genius because it was written by the author in his twenties to mirror his experiences at the time. It paints a picture of what it was like to be a young man or woman in the 20th century and in the wake of the First World War. The book is set on a foundation of socialist principles... | |
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
A life lived backwards, with events happening in reverse order forms the strange and unexpected framework of one of F Scott Fitzgerald's rare short stories. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was published in Collier's in 1927 and the idea came to Fitzgerald apparently from a quote of Mark Twain's in which he regretted that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst at the end. Fitzgerald's concept of using this notion and turning the normal sequence of life on its head resulted in this delightful, thought provoking fantasy tale... | |
The Beautiful and Damned
An idle, extravagant young man is the heir presumptive of his wealthy grandfather, an industrial tycoon. His wife, divinely beautiful and utterly selfish, believes that nothing is more powerful than her own beauty. Together, this couple represents what Fitzgerald famously portrayed as the lost generation of the Jazz Age in several of his novels. In The Beautiful and The Damned, F Scott Fitzgerald explores the trivial and shallow lives of the well-heeled inheritors of the American Dream the second or third generation that can afford to live on the fortunes that their forbears worked so hard to accumulate... | |
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
Pretty but socially clueless Bernice lets her know-it-all cousin push her around, but eventually, something's gotta give! (Introduction by BellonaTimes) | |
Great Gatsby
Set in 1925, this is a novel of the Jazz Age; of ambition, of the careless rich, of wild parties and flappers and bootleg booze; and the efforts of a dreamer to reunite with his lost love. - Summary by Kara |
By: F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse (1888-1958) | |
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Secret Bread | |
The White Riband Or, a Young Female's Folly |
By: F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton) Painter (1852-1931) | |
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Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism |
By: F. W. (Francis William) Bain (1863-1940) | |
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Bubbles of the Foam | |
The Substance of a Dream | |
An Essence of the Dusk, 5th Edition |
By: F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers (1843-1901) | |
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Wordsworth |
By: Fanny Burney | |
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Evelina
In this epistolary novel, we find a young woman named Evelina, who was raised in rural seclusion until her eighteenth year because of her uncertain parentage. Through a series of harrowing and humorous events that take place in London and an English resort town, Evelina learns how to navigate the complex layers of 18th century society and earn the love of a distinguished and honorable nobleman. This comedy of manners often satirizes the society in which it is set; Evelina is a significant precursor to later works by Jane Austen and Maria Edgeworth, whose novels explore many of the same issues. (from Evelina’s wikipedia entry, modified by ettelocin) | |
Camilla
Camilla is Frances Burney's third novel. It became very popular upon its publication in 1796. Jane Austen referred to it, among other novels, in her novel Northanger Abbey:"'And what are you reading, Miss — ?' 'Oh! It is only a novel!' replies the young lady, while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame. 'It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda'; or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best–chosen language... | |
The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1 | |
Brief Reflections relative to the Emigrant French Clergy |
By: Fanny Kemble (1809-1893) | |
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Records of a Girlhood | |
Records of Later Life |
By: Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff (1871-1935) | |
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Banzai! by Parabellum |
By: Fergus Hume (1859-1932) | |
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The Secret Passage
Excellent murder mystery. On September 9, 1905, the NY Times Saturday Review of Books described this book as follows: “That painstakingly ingenious person, Fergus Hume, has devised another of his hide-and-seek, jack-o’-lantern murder mysteries. It begins with a queer and rich old woman found stabbed to death in her chair and not a clue to the murderer. Then so many clues turn up that even the story-book detective is bewildered. Then nearly everybody turns out to be somebody else under an alias, and all the clues lead nowhere…” | |
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
“The following report appeared in the Argus newspaper of Saturday, the 28th July, 18– “Truth is said to be stranger than fiction, and certainly the extraordinary murder which took place in Melbourne on Thursday night, or rather Friday morning, goes a long way towards verifying this saying. A crime has been committed by an unknown assassin, within a short distance of the principal streets of this great city, and is surrounded by an impenetrable mystery. … “On the twenty-seventh day of July, at the hour of twenty minutes to two o’clock in the morning, a hansom cab drove up to the police station in Grey Street, St... | |
Madame Midas
Madame Midas is a murder mystery, In the early days of Australia, when the gold fever was at its height. Fergus Hume was born in England, the second son of Dr James Hume. At the age of three his father emigrated with his family to Dunedin, New Zealand. He was admitted to the New Zealand bar in 1885. Shortly after graduation he left for Melbourne, Australia where he obtained a post as a barristers’ clerk. He began writing plays, but found it impossible to persuade the managers of the Melbourne theatres to accept or even read them... | |
The Silent House
A mystery about a “locked door” murder committed in a house that has a reputation for being haunted. In the first half of the book, the murderer appears to be easy to figure out. The second half of the book, however, is filled with plot twists and mistaken identities and thus complicates the mystery much more. | |
The Green Mummy | |
Bishop's Secret |
By: Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa (1888-1935) | |
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Antinous: A Poem |
By: Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936) | |
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Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen | |
Observations By Mr. Dooley | |
Mr. Dooley's Philosophy | |
Mr. Dooley Says |
By: Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1836-1870) | |
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A Brace Of Boys 1867, From "Little Brother" |
By: Fitz James O'Brien (1828-1862) | |
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The Diamond Lens |
By: Fletcher Gardner | |
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Philippine Folk-Tales |
By: Flora Ross Amos (1881-) | |
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Early Theories of Translation |
By: Florence A. (Florence Antoinette) Kilpatrick (1888-) | |
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Our Elizabeth A Humour Novel |
By: Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe Bell (1851-1930) | |
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The Arbiter A Novel |
By: Florence Finch Kelly (1858-1939) | |
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With Hoops of Steel | |
Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories | |
The Fate of Felix Brand |
By: Florence Henrietta Fisher Darwin (1864-1920) | |
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Six Plays |
By: Florence L. (Florence Louisa) Barclay (1862-1921) | |
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The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century |
By: Florence Louisa Barclay (1862-1921) | |
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The Rosary
He is a wealthy gifted and handsome young pianist who worships beauty. She is a woman blessed with a divine voice, but a less than beautiful appearance. He proposes, but she cannot believe that his love will last. A tragic accident results in his losing his eyesight. She hears about the accident and takes up employment as his nurse without revealing her identity. This forgotten, 1910 best-seller still holds the power to charm and delight the modern-day reader. One of the most poignant love stories ever written, The Rosary by Florence Louisa Barclay takes its title from the name of a song that was a chart-buster in the early twentieth-century... |
By: Florence Morse Kingsley (1859-1937) | |
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An Alabaster Box | |
The Transfiguration of Miss Philura |
By: Florence Roma Muir Wilson (1891-1930) | |
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Death of Society: A Novel of Tomorrow
A weary survivor of the Great War, Major Rane Smith wanders in a great ennui amidst the mystical beauties of the fjords of Norway after the War, seeking a spiritual renewal. Deep in the forest he stumbles fatefully upon the strange, almost elvish home of Karl Ingman, an iconoclastic old Ibsen scholar. There Major Smith meets Ingman's two beautiful young daughters and his eldritch wife Rosa, entering into long days of profound dialogue with each member of the family. A rare and exquisite gem of... | |
If All These Young Men
Another remarkable World War I novel by Romer Wilson, "If All These Young Men" is a character study of a group of young 20-something friends in England dealing with the looming, grey presence of the War in their lives. The story begins on Good Friday 1918, and centers on Josephine Miller, a restless, strong-minded young woman who cannot tolerate trivialities or frivolities so long as the War goes on, and who agonizes over how to go on living in its shadow. The characters of Josephine and her friends... | |
Martin Schüler
Romer Wilson's first novel is a study in the life of Genius, a theme that would preoccupy her throughout her life. The eponymous Martin Schüler is a young German composer of genius in the years leading up to the Great War. His great passion is to create one magnificent work that will live forever. With his passions so consumed in his art, he makes sacrifices in his human relationships, going through a series of wrenching, unequal love affairs. The novel is of interest not only for Schüler's lifelong struggle to reconcile his fleshly desires with his lust for fame, but also for the Continental setting as Europe falls toward catastrophe. |
By: Floyd Dell (1887-1969) | |
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King Arthur's Socks and Other Village Plays |
By: Floyd L. Wallace (1915-2004) | |
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Accidental Flight | |
The Impossible Voyage Home | |
Forget Me Nearly | |
Student Body | |
Second Landing | |
Tangle Hold | |
Bolden's Pets |