Novels

Patty's Social Season

Carolyn Wells

Patty’s Social Season is a light‑hearted juvenile novel that follows a young New York debutante on the…

Ravensdene Court

J. S. Fletcher

Ravensdene Court is a detective‑mystery adventure narrated by a London‑based antiquarian who is summoned in…

The Dude Wrangler

Caroline Lockhart

The Dude Wrangler is a comic‑leaning Western set in the genteel world of a seaside resort hotel, where the…

The Brown Mouse

Herbert Quick

The work is a rural‑setting love story set in Iowa, where the modest lives of a farmer’s daughter and a hired…

Which? Or, Between Two Women

Ernest Daudet

Ernest Daudet’s Which? Or, Between Two Women is a historical romance that intertwines personal intrigue with…

Five Weeks in a Balloon Or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen

Jules Verne

This work is a satirical take on the popular African travel narratives of the nineteenth century, blending…

Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2

F. Marion Crawford

Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 is a work of historical fiction that immerses the reader in…

Officer 666

Currie, Barton Wood; McHugh, Augustin

Officer 666 is a comic romp set in the glittering confines of a luxury hotel, where a cascade of absurd…

Beatrice

H. Rider Haggard

Dit is een romantisch‑avontuurlijk verhaal van H. Rider Haggard, waarin de jonge Beatrice Granger op haar…

A Nobleman's Nest

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

A Nobleman's Nest is a Russian social novel that opens with a detailed portrait of Márya Dmítrievna Kalítin,…

The Forsaken Inn: A Novel

Anna Katharine Green

The novel opens on a rain‑swept stretch of road between Albany and Poughkeepsie, where the weary narrator, on…

A Little Country Girl

Susan Coolidge

The novel opens on a bright early‑June day in Narragansett country, when the steamer Eolus departs Wickford…

Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898

Levi Jackson Hamilton

Levi Jackson Hamilton’s “Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier” unfolds as a sprawling, episodic romance…

"No Clue!": A Mystery Story

James Hay

James Hay’s “No Clue!” is a detective‑mystery set in early‑twentieth‑century America, and the opening places…

The Roman Traitor, Vol. 1

Henry William Herbert

The Roman Traitor is a historical romance that places its narrative amid the turbulent final years of the…

The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume II

Jules Lermina

The Son of Monte‑Cristo, Volume II is an adventure tale that begins in the bleak December of 1813, with…

The Brentons

Anna Chapin Ray

The Brentons is a domestic drama that opens on a winter morning in a modest household, where…

The Arbiter: A Novel

Lady Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe Bell

The novel presents a Victorian tableau of upper‑class domestic life, filtered through the concerns of Lady…

Alroy: The Prince of the Captivity

Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

The work is a sprawling historical romance set amid the waning Seljuk Empire of the mid‑twelfth century.

The island of Doctor Moreau

H. G. Wells

The work is a Victorian‑era science‑fiction narrative that begins with a frantic, newspaper‑style report of a…

Little Bobtail; or, The Wreck of the Penobscot.

Oliver Optic

Little Bobtail is the inaugural entry in Oliver Optic’s Yacht Club Series, a collection of self‑contained…

The Watchers of the Trails: A Book of Animal Life

Sir Charles G. D. Roberts

The volume presents a series of animal sketches that the author insists are “avowedly fiction” yet built on…

Rufus and Rose; Or, The Fortunes of Rough and Ready

Horatio Alger, Jr.

Rufus and Rose is a work of 19th‑century American fiction that blends social commentary with a modest…

When Grandmamma Was New: The Story of a Virginia Childhood

Marion Harland

When Grandmamma Was New is a juvenile fiction work that blends Christian moral instruction with vivid…