"Piracy": A romantic chronicle of these days

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The novel is a psychological study set among the affluent circles of Long Island, exploring first loves,…

The Place of Honeymoons

Harold MacGrath

The Place of Honeymoons is a genteel, multi‑character tableau set on a sun‑kissed terrace overlooking the…

Making People Happy

Thompson Buchanan

The work is a stage‑like comedy set in a New York drawing‑room, where a newly married woman, Cicily Hamilton,…

Joan and Co.

Frederick Orin Bartlett

The novel opens in the glittering world of New York’s social season, where the young debutante Joan Fairburne…

The Rise of Silas Lapham

William Dean Howells

Sybil, Or, The Two Nations

Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield