Novels

Manasseh: A Romance of Transylvania

Mór Jókai

Manasseh is a sweeping historical romance set against the turbulent backdrop of 1848‑49 Europe, when…

Wood Magic: A Fable

Richard Jefferies

Wood Magic is a whimsical animal fable set in a bucolic English garden, where the young protagonist,…

The Panchronicon

Harold Steele MacKaye

The Panchronicon is a science‑fiction tale that begins in a vividly rendered New England village at the close…

The Son of Monte-Cristo

Jules Lermina

The Son of Monte‑Cristo continues the sweeping adventure of Alexandre Dumas’ original saga by focusing on…

A Venetian June

Anna Fuller

The work is a richly detailed fictional tour of Venice, opening with a vivid sweep of the Grand Canal where…

The Red Seal

Natalie Sumner Lincoln

The Red Seal opens in a bustling Washington courtroom in the winter of 1918, where a tangled web of…

At the Little Brown House

Ruth Brown MacArthur

The book is a juvenile tale set in a bucolic village, introducing readers with a vivid early‑June sunrise…

The Honour of Savelli: A Romance

S. Levett Yeats

The Honour of Savelli is a historical romance set amid the turbulent Italian wars of the early sixteenth…

Standish of Standish: A Story of the Pilgrims

Jane G. Austin

Jane G. Austin’s Standish of Standish is a historical novel that dramatizes the early years of the Plymouth…

Prudence Says So

Ethel Hueston

Prudence Says So is a juvenile‑fiction tale set in a Methodist parsonage, where the daily rituals of dress,…

The Proud Prince

Justin H. McCarthy

The Proud Prince unfolds as a lush, romantic tale set against the sun‑baked hills of Sicily, where the…

The Heart of Arethusa

Frances Barton Fox

The Heart of Arethusa is a domestic novel centered on a young woman’s life on a meticulously ordered farm.

The World Peril of 1910

George Chetwynd Griffith

The World Peril of 1910 is a speculative adventure that begins with a detailed description of a mysterious…

Left Guard Gilbert

Ralph Henry Barbour

The novel is a school‑yard sports story set in a New England preparatory academy, where the opening scene…

The Twelfth Hour

Ada Leverson

Ada Leverson’s The Twelfth Hour opens in a lavishly described drawing‑room where the young, strikingly…

Peggy

Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

Shorty McCabe on the Job

Sewell Ford

Shorty McCabe on the Job is a bustling urban caper set in early‑twentieth‑century New York, presented as a…

Amitié amoureuse

Hermine Oudinot Lecomte du Noüy

Ce texte se présente comme une réflexion sur l’amour qui ne se veut ni roman ni divertissement, mais une «…

Witch-Doctors

Charles Beadle

The novel is a colonial adventure set in a German‑run outpost on the shores of Victoria Nyanza.

Frosten: Skildring från 1860-talets Västerbotten

Astrid Väring

Boken är en historisk skildring av 1800‑talets Västerbotten, där författaren Astrid Väring låter läsaren…

When dreams come true

Ritter Brown

When the narrative opens, it places the reader in the blazing midsummer of Chihuahua, describing the stark…

Hildegarde's Holiday: A Story for Girls

Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

The novel is a juvenile conduct story that follows the lively Hildegarde Grahame as she navigates a hospital…

Irene Iddesleigh

Amanda McKittrick Ros

The work is a sprawling Victorian romance that opens with a lyrical meditation on sympathy, immediately…

Joan of Arc of the North Woods

Holman Day

The novel opens on a rough tote road in the north‑country timberlands, where the hulking foreman Craig,…