Published 1900 onward
The Rising of the Tide
The subtitle is "the story of Sabinsport", and the town is the major character. It is a small, Midwestern town in the USA, in 1914…
Saint's Progress
Edward Pierson is the widowed vicar of a London church. He has two daughters, Eve and Noel, who is 17. In essence, the novel follows the bat…
The Race Of The Swift
This 1905 collection is of the author’s short animal stories, some previously published in magazines. - Summary by David Wales
The Storm Of London
Our clothes tell our story. They reflect our rank, have to suit a perfect event, and much more. But what happens when they disappear? Sounds…
The Well Of Loneliness
The story of Stephen Gordon, a girl born in the late 19th century into a privileged English family. She knows from an early age that she is …
Windy McPherson's Son
Windy McPherson's Son is the story of Sam McPherson's rise in the world of business and search for emotional enlightenment in later life. Mc…
A Cathedral Singer
New York City in the early 20th century, a boy with an angelic voice, his devoted mother, the great Episcopal Cathedral of Saint John The Di…
Shifting Sands
After days of fog Stanley Heath, a stranger whose power-boat runs aground on the treacherous Cape Cod shoals, stumbles into the Homestead an…
The Street Called Straight
Henry Guion, a rich and successful American businessman, faces complete ruin and jail as he has embezzled all his client’s money. He tells h…
Bucking the Tiger
A group of down-and-outers decide on the ultimate gamble: they will bankroll one of themselves, chosen by lot, to live well for a year. Then…
The Enchanted April
Escaping their lives for a month in a castle on the Riviera, four women spend considerable effort suspiciously guarding their solitude, beli…
If You Touch Them They Vanish
"No man who has not endured solitude in long doses knows how vivid, real, and necessary people and things of the imagination may become…
The Dark Star
Ruhannah “Rue” Carew, who dreams of becoming an artist, has grown up listening to her father tell the story of how he came by a wooden box a…
Sasha
Kuprin is well-known to Russian readers and has been described as one of the last exponents of Russian critical realism. He first made a car…
The Old House
On a snowy winter's evening, Christopher Ulwing returns to his home, known as The New House for the last thirty years. Settled between the …
Born to Good Luck
Dick Armstrong is an enterprising young man who works his way out of a slave-labor situation to become a successful businessman at only age …
A Thin Ghost and Others
A collection of short stories involving the supernatural. This is the fourth collection of ghost stories published by the author - following…
Nell and Her Grandfather
If you have heard of the Dickens novel, The Old Curiosity Shop, and remember Nell Trent, the beautiful and virtuous young girl of "not …
Caliban by the Yellow Sands
Caliban, the primitive, savage son of the witch Sycorax and the evil frog-tiger god Setebos, seeks to obtain knowledge and become civilized …
Bread
Bread by Charles G. Norris reads like a working class Great Gatsby with a tragic female main character. The author is said to have influence…