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The Voyage Out
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Virginia Woolf
The Voyage Out is the first novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1915 by Duckworth; and published in the U.S. in 1920 by Doran. One of Wool…
Find the Woman
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Frank Gelett Burgess
Who was Belle Charmion? If you really care to know, as John Fenton did, you must go with him on his quest, hither and yon over New York, int…
The Type-Writer Girl
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Grant Allen
(under the pseudonym Olive Pratt Rayner)"There is no more pathetic figure in our world to-day than the common figure of the poor young …
Miss Pim's Camouflage
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Dorothy Tennant
Mid-WWI, staid Englishwoman Miss Perdita Pim suffers a sunstroke gardening & gains the power of invisibility. She becomes a super-secre…
The Pathway of the Pioneer
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Dolf Wyllarde
The story of seven girls who have banded themselves together for mutual help and cheer under the name of "Nous Autres." They repre…
Prester John
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John Buchan
This classic adventure novel by the author of Greenmantle and The Thirty-Nine Steps relates the first-person exploits of young David Crawfur…
The Ingoldsby Legends, 1st Series
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Richard Harris Barham
The Ingoldsby Legends are a collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry supposedly written by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Mano…
The Princess Passes
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Charles Norris Williamson
An American heiress nicknamed the Manitou Princess (after her daddy's richest silver mine) is devastated to find that her fiancé only…
The Milky Way
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F. Tennyson Jesse
The Milky Way - F. Tennyson Jesse's first novel - began life as a 1913 magazine serial called The Adventures of Viv. In it, poor-but-plucky …
J. Poindexter, Colored
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Irvin S. Cobb
This comic novel relates the first-person adventures in New York City of Jefferson Poindexter, personal assistant to Cobb's famous Judge Pri…
The Plastic Age
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Percy Marks
The Plastic Age (1924) is a novel by Percy Marks, which tells the story of co-eds at a fictional college called Sanford. With contents that …
Jyl of Breyntfords Testament
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Robert Copland
Introduction - This is a collection of ten comic pieces from the 16th century and earlier, as compiled and edited by Frederick Furnivall for…
Pointed Roofs
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Dorothy Richardson
Miriam Henderson is one of what novelist Dolf Wyllarde (in her great work, The Pathway of the Pioneer) termed "nous autres," i.e.,…
Round the Block
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John Bell Bouton
In Round the Block (1864), John Bell Bouton, a newspaper editor who later became a travel writer, stirs together comedy and pathos to explor…
The Giaour
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George Gordon, Lord Byron
"The Giaour" is a poem by Lord Byron first published in 1813 and the first in the series of his Oriental romances. "The Giaou…
The Night Side of New York
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Various
This nonfiction collection of sketches, by "members of the New York press," takes the reader on a tour of 1866 New York City after…
The Mask
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Florence Irwin
The mask is the one which we all wear, even though unconsciously, to hide our thoughts and feelings. Alison Terry wore one, though she had n…
The Adventures of Master F.J.
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George Gascoigne
This story presents through letters, poems and third-person commentary the love affair between a young man named Freeman Jones and a married…
Rangy Pete
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Guy Morton
Canadian novelist Guy Morton's Rangy Pete is one of a trio of westerns he wrote in the 1920s (the other two being Black Gold and Wards of th…
EDWY: A Poem, in Three Parts
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Ann Radcliffe
In Edwy, Ann Radcliffe gives us a delightful piece of poetic moonshine, whose eponymous hero seeks assistance from the world of faerie in or…
Kashtanka
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Anton Chekhov
"Kashtanka," a shaggy-dog story penned by Anton Chekhov in seven parts and first published in 1887, relates the experiences of its…
Idomen, or The Vale of Yumuri
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Maria Gowen Brooks
Idomen (1843) is the creative-nonfiction memoir of the beautiful and brilliant American poetess Maria Gowen Brooks, who was compared in the …
The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew, King of the Beggars
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Bampfylde Moore Carew
The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew recounts the wide-ranging exploits of a real-life rogue – a wily professional mendicant w…
Save the Girls
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Mason Long
Save the Girls is an 1880 American anti-white-slavery book by reformed gambler Mason Long. In it, the author crusades against the social evi…
Hagar of the Pawn-Shop
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Fergus Hume
Hagar Stanley, a beautiful young Gypsy, is driven by sexual harassment to leave her tribe and seek refuge with her uncle Jacob, a miserly Lo…
The Lark
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E. Nesbit
"The Lark" has all the charm and freshness which have made Miss Nesbit's former novels so justly popular, and yet the story ts ent…