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By: Arthur Machen (1863-1947) | |
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![]() The Angels of Mons is a popular legend about a group of angels who supposedly protected members of the British army in the Battle of Mons at the outset of World War I. The story is fictitious, developed through a combination of a patriotic short story by Arthur Machen, rumours, mass hysteria and urban legend, claimed visions after the battle and also possibly deliberately seeded propaganda. | |
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By: Arthur Mee (1875-1943) | |
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By: Arthur Morrison (1863-1945) | |
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By: Arthur Murphy (1727-1805) | |
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By: Arthur O. (Arthur Olney) Friel (1885-1959) | |
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By: Arthur Porges (1915-2006) | |
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By: Arthur Preston Hankins (1880-1932) | |
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By: Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931) | |
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By: Arthur Shearly Cripps (1869-1952) | |
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By: Arthur Shirley (1853-1925) | |
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By: Arthur Stringer (1874-1950) | |
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By: Arthur Symons (1865-1945) | |
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By: Arthur Weir (1864-1902) | |
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By: Arthur Willis Colton | |
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By: Asa Don Dickinson (1876-1960) | |
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![]() Many librarians have felt the need and expressed the desire for a select collection of children's Christmas stories in one volume. This book claims to be just that and nothing more. Each of the stories has already won the approval of thousands of children, and each is fraught with the true Christmas spirit. It is hoped that the collection will prove equally acceptable to parents, teachers, and librarians. |
By: Aubrey De Vere (1814-1902) | |
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By: August Niemann (1839-1919) | |
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By: August Strindberg (1849-1912) | |
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![]() August Strindberg’s naturalistic one-act drama has only three characters: Julie, a passionate young noblewoman; Jean, her father’s ambitious valet; and Kristin, the cook, who is also Jean’s fiancee. The play is set on Midsummer Eve, when everyone is reveling, and Julie and Jean get a bit too intimate – with tragic results. | |
![]() Creditors is an 1889 tragicomedy by August Strindberg that plumbs the depths of the twisted triangular relationship between Tekla, her husband Adolph, and her ex-husband Gustav. | |
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By: August von Kotzebue (1761-1819) | |
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![]() Lovers' Vows (1798), a play by Elizabeth Inchbald arguably best known now for having been featured in Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park (1814), is one of at least four adaptations of August von Kotzebue's Das Kind der Liebe (1780; literally "Child of Love," or "Natural Son," as it is often translated), all of which were published between 1798 and 1800. Inchbald's version is the only one to have been performed. Dealing as it does with sex outside marriage and illegitimate birth, Inchbald in the Preface to the published version declares herself to have been highly sensitive to the task of adapting the original German text for "an English audience... | |
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By: August William Derleth (1909-1971) | |
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By: Augusta Groner (1850-1929) | |
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![]() The account of some adventures in the professional experience of a member of the Imperial Austrian Police. (from the text) | |
![]() A man is found shot dead and the man to whom all evidence points insists he is innocent. |
By: Augusta J. Evans (1835-1909) | |
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By: Augustine Birrell (1850-1933) | |
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By: Augustine D. Crake (1836-1890) | |
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By: Augustus Allen Hayes (1837-1892) | |
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By: Austin Dobson (1840-1921) | |
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By: Austin Hall | |
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By: Avis A. Burnham Stanwood | |
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By: Aylward Edward Dingle (1874-) | |
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By: Ayn Rand (1905-1982) | |
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![]() The title 'Anthem' is derived as an anthem to sense of self and self-governing thoughts. Anthem is a story of Equality 7-2521 who is a young man living in some unspecified future time and place. In this future era freedom and individual rights have been eradicated. The starring character of the novel is an inquisitive street cleaner. He lives in a society where people have lost their knowledge of individualism, to the extreme that people do not know words like 'I' or 'mine'. All the people live and work for their livelihood in collective groups, along with the people with power, namely the 'Councils'... |
By: B. (Benjamin) Barker | |
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By: B. M. Bower (1874-1940) | |
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![]() Phil Thurston was born on the range where the trails are dim and silent under the big sky. It was the place his father loved, the place he had to be. After the death of his father when he was five, his mother brought him back to the city, where he grew up and became a writer. To revive his stale writing, he returns to the West, and may just find what he is really missing. | |
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By: Bannister Merwin | |
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By: Baron Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754) | |
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![]() Niels Klim’s Underground Travels, originally published in Latin as “Nicolai Klimii Iter Subterraneum” (1741) is a satirical science-fiction/fantasy novel written by Ludvig Holberg, a Norwegian-Danish dramatist, historian, and essayist, born in Bergen, Norway. It was his first and only novel. It describes a utopian society from an outsider’s point of view, and often pokes fun at diverse cultural and social topics such as moral, science, sexual equality, religion, governments, and philosophy. |
By: Baroness Orczy (1865-1947) | |
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![]() This is a sequel novel to the Scarlet Pimpernel. The second Pimpernel book written by Orczy, it comes (chronologically) third in the series and should be read after Sir Percy Leads the Band and before The Elusive Pimpernel. |
By: Barrett Willoughby (-1959) | |
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By: Barry Cornwall (1787-1874) | |
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By: Barry Pain (1864-1928) | |
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![]() A gentle, yet deliciously humourous series of anecdotes following the life of the main character and his wife, Eliza. | |
![]() Barry Pain's parody takes a sharp knife to ASM Hutchinson's best selling novel 'If Winter Comes'.We follow the professional and marital decline of long suffering (and loving it), Luke Sharper, as his marriage to Mabel flounders while his love for Jona flourishes. It could only end in tears.....Or could it? ( | |
![]() A rollicking parody of the Margot Asquith memoirs, in which Pain’s character, Marge, beguiles us with the most personal details of her dysfunctional family, and delights in relating every cringing, if not wholly accurate, minutiae of her exciting private life. |
By: Barton Wood Currie | |
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![]() Bored with his life as a wealthy businessman's only son, Travers Gladwin learns of a plot by a renowned art burglar to rob his house, so rather than thwart the planned burglary, he borrows a police uniform from a friend and decides to confront the robber by posing as an officer. When the burglar arrives at the house, he tries to pass himself off as Travers Gladwin. From there, things only get more complicated, including the arrival of the burglar's girlfriend who believes that her beau is the wealthy man's son. Comical and timely, the book was made into a movie multiple times, each hugely successful. |
By: Basil King (1859-1928) | |
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By: Basil Wells (1912-2003) | |
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