Novels

The Ocean Wireless Boys and the Naval Code

John Henry Goldfrap

The Ocean Wireless Boys and the Naval Code is a juvenile adventure series that blends naval technology with…

The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview

Edward Stratemeyer

The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview is a juvenile adventure that centers on a summer of rowing, friendship, and…

A Young Mutineer

L. T. Meade

The work is a juvenile‑fiction story set in a sleepy English village, opening with a bustling church choir…

The Ghost Breaker: A Novel Based Upon the Play

Goddard, Charles; Dickey, Paul

The Ghost Breaker is a melodramatic detective‑mystery that opens in a dimly lit Southern parlor, where the…

George at the Fort; Or, Life Among the Soldiers

Harry Castlemon

The novel opens in the cramped headquarters of Fort Lamoine, where Colonel Brown, a hard‑nosed commander, is…

Polly's Business Venture

Lillian Elizabeth Roy

Polly’s Business Venture is a juvenile adventure set in the bustling world of early‑twentieth‑century New…

The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights

Irvin S. Cobb

The work is a crime‑fiction short story that follows the fall of Hobart W.

At Good Old Siwash

George Fitch

George Fitch’s “At Good Old Siwash” is a comic romp through the imagined world of a college that never quite…

North and South

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

The novel opens in a genteel London drawing‑room, where Margaret watches her cousin Edith drift asleep on a…

A Son of the Immortals

Louis Tracy

A Son of the Immortals is a turn‑of‑the‑century romance that blends love, art, and a dash of political…

Fair Harbor

Joseph Crosby Lincoln

The novel opens in a bustling Cape Cod kitchen where the Macomber family, six children ranging from a toddler…

Love and Lucy

Maurice Hewlett

Love and Lucy is a Victorian‑era romance that opens with a philosophic meditation on the hidden “winged…

The Ghost Girl

H. De Vere Stacpoole

The Ghost Girl is a Southern‑style love story set against the backdrop of Charleston, South Carolina, and the…

The Rider of Waroona

G. Firth Scott

The Rider of Waroona is a sprawling Australian saga that opens with a portrait of its eponymous protagonist,…

The Search for the Silver City: A Tale of Adventure in Yucatan

James Otis

The Search for the Silver City is a juvenile adventure that blends travel, exploration, and a dash of…

紅樓夢

Xueqin Cao

The Opal Serpent

Fergus Hume

The Opal Serpent is a late‑Victorian detective‑mystery that begins with a domestic clash in the modest Essex…

The Coming Wave; Or, The Hidden Treasure of High Rock

Oliver Optic

The Coming Wave is a juvenile adventure set in the world of New England yachting, the fourth entry in Oliver…

The Girl from Sunset Ranch; Or, Alone in a Great City

Amy Bell Marlowe

The novel follows Helen Morrell, a sixteen‑year‑old “cowgirl” of sturdy build, as she confronts the loss of…

When Patty Went to College

Jean Webster

When Jean Webster’s When Patty Went to College opens, the reader is dropped into a bustling dormitory scene…

Judith of the Cumberlands

Alice MacGowan

Judith of the Cumberlands is a regional novel set in the Appalachian foothills, narrated by an author who has…

Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World

Owen Johnson

The work is a sprawling school‑boy novel that follows the mischievous Skippy Bedelle from his early, almost…

The Heart of Unaga

Ridgwell Cullum

The Heart of Unaga is an adventure tale set against the vast, untamed wilderness of the Canadian north.

Across the Mesa

Helen Bagg

The novel opens with Polly Street’s restless inner monologue as she wrestles with the inconvenience of an…