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Bouvard and Pécuchet - A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life, part 1

Gustave Flaubert

As there were thirty-three degrees of heat the Boulevard Bourdon was absolutely deserted. Farther down, the Canal St. Martin, confined by two locks, showed in a straight line its water black as ink. I..

A Little Maid of Old Philadelphia

Alice Turner Curtis

Ruth Pennell and Winifred Merrill lived in Philadelphia. The city had been for some time in the hands of General Howe and the British army. Ruth's father was with Washington at Valley Forge, and the l..

Förvillelser

Hjalmar Söderberg

Förvillelser is a Swedish fiction novel written by Hjalmar Söderberg. He was a Swedish novelist, playwright, poet and journalist. His works often deal with melancholy and lovelorn characters, and offe..

The Abbot's Ghost

Louisa May Alcott

Written by Louisa May Alcott under her pseudonym, A. M. Barnard, this Christmas story deals with the themes of love and defending one's honor. Although he is disinherited and poor, Maurice Traherne tr..

Tom Swift and The Visitor from Planet X

Victor Appleton

A great classic for the home or classroom, an interesting old-fashioned reference book.Tom Swift Jr. and his associates at Swift Enterprises wait breathlessly for what may well be the most important s..

Captain Gardiner of the International Police

Robert Allen

It was on one of the hottest nights of that unusually hot September that Mrs. Thornton gave a dance. The moist, lifeless air enveloped the earth like a heavy cloak and even the carefully shaded lights..

Deadwood Dick's Doom; or, Calamity Jane's Last Adventure

Edward L. Wheeler

This western, published around 1899, is a dime novel that has it all: roguish gun men, hostile Indians, chivalrous gentlemen to protect the hapless females, and - in Calamity Jane - even a female who ..

My Father's Dragon

Ruth Stiles Gannett

My Father's Dragon is a animal fiction story written by Ruth Stiles Gannett, an American children's writer best known for My Father's Dragon and its two sequels—collectively sometimes called the ..