Novels

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Astrid Väring

Denna roman är en svensk 1900‑tals skildring som placerar läsaren mitt i en hård vår i en liten stad i…

The La Chance Mine Mystery

Susan Morrow Jones

The La Chance Mine Mystery is a hard‑boiled detective tale set against the bleak, frozen landscape of…

Before the Dawn: A Story of the Fall of Richmond

Joseph A. Altsheler

The novel is a Civil‑War‑era romance set against the Confederate capital’s bustling streets.

Virginia of Elk Creek Valley

Mary Ellen Chase

Virginia of Elk Creek Valley is a youthful, ranch‑life romance that opens with a lush, almost painterly…

Penny of Top Hill Trail

Belle Kanaris Maniates

Belle Kanaris Maniates’s “Penny of Top Hill Trail” opens on a spring afternoon in a western railway depot,…

Fame and Fortune; or, The Progress of Richard Hunter

Horatio Alger, Jr.

Fame and Fortune; or, The Progress of Richard Hunter is a nineteenth‑century American tale of upward…

The Dictator

Justin McCarthy

The novel opens in a richly described London hotel suite, where the exiled ruler of the South‑American…

Marjorie's Busy Days

Carolyn Wells

Marjorie's Busy Days is a juvenile fiction tale that follows the four Maynard children as they turn a bright…

Alice, or the Mysteries — Complete

Edward Bulwer Lytton

The work is a nineteenth‑century English novel by Edward Bulwer‑Lytton, opening with a tranquil Devonshire…

In Apple-Blossom Time: A Fairy-Tale to Date

Clara Louise Burnham

The work is a late‑Victorian romance that opens in a bustling eatery, where the plump Miss Upton, exhausted…

Peggy Stewart at School

Gabrielle E. Jackson

The novel opens in the elegant breakfast room of the Stewart estate, Severandale, where the heat of an August…

The Tyranny of Weakness

Charles Neville Buck

The work is a sprawling piece of nineteenth‑century fiction that opens with a vivid tableau of a boy and a…

The Indifference of Juliet

Grace S. Richmond

The Indifference of Juliet is a late‑nineteenth‑century American fiction piece that opens with a lively,…

The Madcap of the School

Angela Brazil

The Madcap of the School is a lively juvenile fiction set in an English boarding school, written by Angela…

Tom, The Bootblack; or, The Road to Success

Horatio Alger, Jr.

The work is a juvenile adventure story that follows the everyday struggles of Tom, a fifteen‑year‑old street…

The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century

Walter Runciman

Walter Runciman’s The Shellback’s Progress In the Nineteenth Century is a collection of sea stories written…

Plotting in Pirate Seas

Francis Rolt-Wheeler

The novel is a juvenile adventure set against the political intrigue of the West Indies, introducing the…

The Cheerful Smugglers

Ellis Parker Butler

The book is a comic sketch of domestic life that turns a family’s modest savings scheme into a parody of…

The White Mice

Richard Harding Davis

The work is a sprawling, episodic adventure that opens with a philosophical musing on the size of the world,…

The Grammar School Boys of Gridley; or, Dick & Co. Start Things Moving

H. Irving Hancock

The Grammar School Boys of Gridley is a turn‑of‑the‑century school story that opens in a bustling classroom…

The Adventures of Maya the Bee

Waldemar Bonsels

The work is a juvenile fiction adventure that follows Maya, a newly hatched bee, as she awakens amid a hive…

The Finer Grain

Henry James

The Finer Grain is a work of nineteenth‑century American fiction that opens with a sprawling, almost…

Betty Leicester: A Story For Girls

Sarah Orne Jewett

The book opens with a quiet breakfast scene in a Boston hotel, where fifteen‑year‑old Betty Leicester and her…

Friendship Village

Zona Gale

Friendship Village is a collection of short stories that paints a portrait of small‑town life in…