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The Praise of Folly

Desiderius Erasmus

The Praise of Folly is a satirical essay written in 1509 by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam. It is considered one of the most influential works of literature in Western civilization and one of the cat..

Long Live the King

Guy Boothby

Long Live the King is a fiction novel written by Guy Boothby a prolific Australian novelist and writer, noted for sensational fiction in variety magazines around the end of the nineteenth century. He ..

All Aboard - A Story for Girls

Fannie E. Newberry

All Aboard is an adventure story for girls written by Fannie Ellsworth Stone Newberry, who wrote a long series of books, many of them stories for girls, of which the best seller was The Wrestler of Ph..

The Grey Man

S. R. Crockett

This novel is set in Scotland in turbulent times, and we are immediately introduced to intrigue and family strife. At Launcelot Kennedy's aunt's husband's funeral, he and his father are first hidden, ..

Dagdrömmar

Gustaf Hellström

Dagdrömmar is a Swedish fiction writing by Gustaf Hellström, a Swedish realist novelist, journalist, and literary critic. Beginning his career as a foreign correspondent for several Scandinavian newsp..

Milly and Olly

Mrs. Humphry Ward

Author's Preface from the book:After many years this little book is once more to see the light. The children for whom it was written are long since grown up. But perhaps the pleasure they once took in..

Some Everyday Folk and Dawn

Miles Franklin

Some Everyday Folk and Dawn is a fiction writing by Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin, known as Miles Franklin was an Australian writer and feminist who is best known for her novel My Brilliant C..

The Stark Munro Letters

Arthur Conan Doyle

The letters of my friend Mr. Stark Munro appear to me to form so connected a whole, and to give so plain an account of some of the troubles which a young man may be called upon to face right away at t..