Novels

The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII.

Guy de Maupassant

The eighth volume of Guy de Maupassant’s collected works gathers a series of his French short stories…

The Slave of Silence

Fred M. White

The Slave of Silence is a mystery‑driven drama set against the glitter of a lavish hotel banquet.

Salthaven

W. W. Jacobs

The novel opens in the modest office of Mr. Hartley, a veteran clerk whose thirty‑five years of service have…

Colorado Jim

George Goodchild

The novel opens with a sweeping, almost lyrical description of sunrise over the Medicine Bow range,…

A Village of Vagabonds

F. Berkeley Smith

The novel is a French‑set adventure of an American who abandons his comfortable farm in the market town of…

Doom Castle

Neil Munro

The novel places a French aristocrat, Count Victor Jean de Montaiglon, amid the stark, autumn‑touched…

Despair's Last Journey

David Christie Murray

Despair’s Last Journey is a stark, first‑person adventure that begins with a lone traveler stepping off a…

The Fighting Edge

William MacLeod Raine

The Fighting Edge is a gritty western tale that opens on a remote Colorado homestead, where June Tolliver, a…

Old Ebenezer

Opie Percival Read

Old Ebenezer is a turn‑of‑the‑century American novel that follows Sam Lyman, a restless New Englander who…

Bert Lloyd's Boyhood: A Story from Nova Scotia

J. Macdonald Oxley

Bert Lloyd’s Boyhood is a juvenile tale set in late‑nineteenth‑century Halifax, Nova Scotia, that follows the…

Hester's Counterpart: A Story of Boarding School Life

Jean K. Baird

The novel is a juvenile boarding‑school tale that opens with a domestic scene in which Debby Alden, the stern…

The Roof Tree

Charles Neville Buck

The Roof Tree is a regional drama set in the rugged borderlands of Kentucky and Virginia, where a violent…

Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

Herman Melville

Moby‑Dick is a sprawling work of whaling fiction that begins with the iconic line “Call me Ishmael.” The…

Sangre y arena

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

El libro se presenta como una novela de la vida del torero Juan Gallardo, un matador de renombre que, tras…

Der Roman eines geborenen Verbrechers Selbstbiographie des Strafgefangenen Antonino M...

Antonino M.

Der Text ist eine autobiografische Schilderung eines italienischen Strafgefangenen, die zugleich als Beitrag…

The Lady Doc

Caroline Lockhart

The novel opens with a vivid, almost cinematic scene of a lone prospector, Dick Kincaid, descending a…

Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence; Or, The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands

Alice B. Emerson

The novel is a lively juvenile adventure that blends romance, mystery, and a dash of early‑film intrigue.

Kate Coventry: An Autobiography

G. J. Whyte-Melville

The work is a first‑person narrative that blends autobiographical reminiscence with the conventions of…

The Branding Iron

Katharine Newlin Burt

The opening of The Branding Iron drops the reader into a frozen, moon‑lit wilderness where the night is…

All Adrift; Or, The Goldwing Club

Oliver Optic

All Adrift; Or, The Goldwing Club introduces a youthful adventure set on Lake Champlain, launching the first…

The Guarded Heights

Wadsworth Camp

The Guarded Heights is a social‑class romance set against the backdrop of a rural horse‑stable and the…

A Little Girl in Old New York

Amanda M. Douglas

A modest domestic novel set in early‑nineteenth‑century New York, Douglas’s A Little Girl in Old New York…

Vice Versa; or, A Lesson to Fathers

F. Anstey

The work is a comic‑leaning tale that pits a pompous, self‑important father against the inevitable departure…

Elkan Lubliner, American

Montague Glass

The novel is a slice‑of‑life drama set in the bustling garment district of early‑twentieth‑century New York,…