Novels

Sally of Missouri

Rose E. Young

The opening places the reader on the crest of the Tigmore Hills in the Ozark Uplift, where a young New York…

The Hunters of the Ozark

Edward Sylvester Ellis

The work is a frontier adventure set in the late eighteenth‑century Missouri territory, then part of the vast…

Down the River; Or, Buck Bradford and His Tyrants

Oliver Optic

Down the River; Or, Buck Bradford and His Tyrants is a mid‑nineteenth‑century juvenile adventure that begins…

I drammi de' campi Padre Don Giuseppe—La vendetta—Proprietari e fittaiuoli— Sequestro.

Emilio Raga

Il volume di Emilio Raga raccoglie quattro novelle ambientate nella Sicilia rurale del XIX secolo, tutte…

A Woman for Mayor: A Novel of To-day

Helen M. Winslow

Helen M. Winslow’s novel is a political fiction that foregrounds the question of women’s civic leadership at…

The Thing from the Lake

Eleanor M. Ingram

The Thing from the Lake is a gothic tale set in rural Connecticut, catalogued under haunted‑house fiction,…

Marcia Schuyler

Grace Livingston Hill

Grace Livingston Hill’s “Marcia Schuyler” opens with a vivid, pastoral scene that quickly establishes the…

The Range Boss

Charles Alden Seltzer

The Range Boss is a Western tale that launches with a lone rider and his wiry pony scaling a rugged mesa,…

Love and Life: An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume

Charlotte M. Yonge

The work is a nineteenth‑century English romance that retells the ancient Psyche‑Cupid myth in…

The Forbidden Trail

Honoré Morrow

The Forbidden Trail opens in a sun‑splashed midsummer yard where a gang of children, Roger, a lanky…

The Fighting Shepherdess

Caroline Lockhart

The Fighting Shepherdess is a Western tale that thrusts the reader straight into the rough‑and‑tumble life of…

Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party

Jacobs, Caroline Elliott Hoogs; Read, Edyth Ellerbeck

Blue Bonnet’s Ranch Party is a juvenile‑fiction adventure that follows a lively group of girls, the “We are…

The Youth of Jefferson Or, a Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764

John Esten Cooke

The work is a playful, dialogue‑driven vignette set in 1764 Williamsburg, presenting a young, flamboyantly…

The Sign of the Spider

Bertram Mitford

The novel is an adventure story set against the backdrop of South Africa’s gold‑rush era, and it opens with…

Red Rose and Tiger Lily; Or, In a Wider World

L. T. Meade

The novel is a juvenile work that centers on the domestic life of the Thornton family, introducing its…

The Convert

Elizabeth Robins

The Convert is a work of feminist fiction that introduces its heroine in a bustling household scene, where a…

Polly and Eleanor

Lillian Elizabeth Roy

Polly and Eleanor is a juvenile adventure set in the rugged Colorado frontier, where a group of spirited…

The Defiant Agents

Andre Norton

The Defiant Agents is a mid‑century science‑fiction thriller that plunges the reader straight into a tense…

Die Liebe: Novelle

Hans Kaltneker

Die Erzählung „Die Liebe“ von Hans Kaltneker ist eine experimentelle Novelle, die sich im Spannungsfeld von…

A London Life, and Other Tales

Henry James

The work is a Victorian‑era domestic narrative that opens with a rain‑soaked walk to the dower‑house of…

Uncle Sam's Boys in the Philippines; or, Following the Flag against the Moros

H. Irving Hancock

Uncle Sam’s Boys in the Philippines is a juvenile adventure that follows the same two young sergeants, Hal…

The Doomsman

Van Tassel Sutphen

The Doomsman is a speculative adventure that opens on a bright May morning, where a young man named Constans…

The Herapath Property

J. S. Fletcher

The story opens in the third week of Selwood’s brief tenure as secretary to Jacob Herapath, a well‑known…

The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle; or, The Strange Cruise of the Steam Yacht

Edward Stratemeyer

The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle is a continuation of Edward Stratemeyer’s long‑running juvenile adventure…