Fiction Books

When Egypt Went Broke - A Novel

Holman Day

Tasper Britt arose in the gray dawn, as usual. Some fishermen, seeking bait, stay up late and “jack” angleworms with a bull's-eye light. The big worms are abroad on the soil under cover of the darknes..

Flower of the North - A Modern Romance

James Oliver Curwood

There was a chuckling note of pleasure in Philip Whittemore's voice as he leaned half across the table, his handsome face, bronzed by snow and wind, illumined in the lamp-glow. Gregson, in strong cont..

Outpost

Jane G. Austin

So the Sun called to all the winds and all the breezes, who, poor things! had but just gone to bed after a terrible night's work, ordering them to get up directly, and sweep the sky as clear as a bell..

Standish of Standish - A Story of the Pilgrims

Jane G. Austin

The history of the Old Colony includes, among some very stern facts, a deal of sweet and tender romance, hitherto hardly known except to those who have learned it at their mother's knee. But in these ..

God's Good Man - A Simple Love Story

Marie Corelli

The last breath of a long winter had blown its final farewell across the hills,—the last frost had melted from the broad, low-lying fields, relaxing its iron grip from the clods of rich, red-brown ear..

Their Silver Wedding Journey

William Dean Howells

It was then a magazine of a new sort, which his business partner had imagined in such leisure as the management of a newspaper syndicate afforded him, and had always thought of getting March to edit. ..

The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green

Cuthbert Bede

IF you will refer to the unpublished volume of Burke's Landed Gentry, and turn to letter G, article "GREEN," you will see that the Verdant Greens are a family of some respectability and of considerabl..

The Landlord at Lion's Head

William Dean Howells

In those dim recesses of the consciousness where things have their beginning, if ever things have a beginning, I suppose the origin of this novel may be traced to a fact of a fortnight's sojourn on th..