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Top authorsOscar WildeJerome K. JeromeAndrew LangLouis AgassizGertrude Franklin Horn AthertonRex BeachArnold BennettJ. D. BeresfordJohn BuchanEdgar Rice Burroughs
Cover of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

The work is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, written by Arthur Conan Doyle, that places the famed…

Cover of The Jungle Book

The Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling

The work is a collection of short stories set in the Indian jungle, populated by animals that speak and act…

Cover of Mr. Standfast

Mr. Standfast

John Buchan

The novel opens on a weary British officer returning from the Western Front, his mind a tangle of medals,…

Cover of The Jungle

The Jungle

Upton Sinclair

The novel opens in a bustling back‑room of a Chicago saloon, where a Lithuanian wedding is in full swing.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

The novel opens in a richly described Victorian drawing‑room where Lord Henry, cigarette‑smoke curling in…

Intentions

Intentions

Oscar Wilde

The work is a literary essay framed as a theatrical dialogue, in which the characters Cyril and Vivian argue…

Cover of The Moon and Sixpence

The Moon and Sixpence

W. Somerset Maugham

The novel is a psychological portrait set in England and the exotic islands of Tahiti, tracing the life of…

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime; The Portrait of Mr. W.H., and Other Stories

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime; The Portrait of Mr. W.H., and Other Stories

Oscar Wilde

The volume gathers Oscar Wilde’s short stories, beginning with a bustling scene from “Lord Arthur Savile’s…

The Rise of Silas Lapham

The Rise of Silas Lapham

William Dean Howells

The novel is a psychological and domestic study of a self‑made New England businessman, set against the…

The Toys of Peace, and Other Papers

The Toys of Peace, and Other Papers

Saki

The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth

The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth

H. G. Wells

Cover of The Son of Tarzan

The Son of Tarzan

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Cover of The Magnificent Ambersons

The Magnificent Ambersons

Booth Tarkington

Birds and Poets : with Other Papers

Birds and Poets : with Other Papers

John Burroughs

The Summons

The Summons

A. E. W. Mason

Cover of Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence

Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence

Louis Agassiz

Iphigenia in Tauris

Iphigenia in Tauris

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Roll-Call

The Roll-Call

Arnold Bennett

The Secret City

The Secret City

Hugh Walpole

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118

Various

The Home and the World

The Home and the World

Rabindranath Tagore

Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885

Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885

Various

Rudder Grange

Rudder Grange

Frank R. Stockton

Moon of Israel: A Tale of the Exodus

Moon of Israel: A Tale of the Exodus

H. Rider Haggard

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