Fiction Books

A Texas Ranger

William MacLeod Raine

Within the memory of those of us still on the sunny side of forty the more remote West has passed from rollicking boyhood to its responsible majority. The frontier has gone to join the good Indian. In..

The Hidden Children

Robert W. Chambers

No undue liberties with history have been attempted in this romance. Few characters in the story are purely imaginary. Doubtless the fastidious reader will distinguish these intruders at a glance, and..

The Belton Estate

Anthony Trollope

Mrs. Amedroz, the wife of Bernard Amedroz, Esq., of Belton Castle, and mother of Charles and Clara Amedroz, died when those children were only eight and six years old, thereby subjecting them to the g..

Laicus; Or, the Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish

Lyman Abbott

This book was not made; it has grown. When three years ago I left the pulpit to engage in literary work and took my seat among the laity in the pews, I found that many ecclesiastical and religious sub..

Leah Mordecai - A Novel

Belle K. Abbott

The two girls stepped out into the slippery street, and turned their faces homeward. "I am glad, Lizzie," continued Bertha, as they turned corner after corner, "that our paths run together so far; hav..

The Duke's Prize

Maturin Murray Ballou

THE DUKE'S PRIZE.A Story Of Art And Heart In FlorenceBy Lieutenant Maturin Murray BallouTHE scenes of the following story are laid in Italy, that land of the sun. They are designed to impress a goodly..

The Heart's Secret

Maturin Murray Ballou

THE locale of the following story is that gem of the American Archipelago; the Island of Cuba, whose lone star, now merged in the sea, is destined yet to sparkle in liberty's hemisphere, and radiate t..

Sisters

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Cherry Strickland came in the door of the Strickland house, and shut it behind her, and stood so, with her hands behind her on the knob, and her slender body leaning forward, and her breath rising and..