Novels Books

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Little Lord Fauntleroy is a novel by the English-American writer Frances Hodgson Burnett, her first children's novel. It was published as a serial in St. Nicholas Magazine from November 1885 to Octobe..

King Coal

Upton Sinclair

King Coal is a 1917 novel by Upton Sinclair that describes the poor working conditions in the coal mining industry in the western United States during the 1910s, from the perspective of a single prota..

Peter and Jane

Sarah Macnaughtan

Peter and Jane; Or, The Missing Heir is a novel written by Sarah Macnaughtan. Sarah Broom Macnaughtan was a Scottish novelist. With the outbreak of the First World War, she volunteered with ..

Max Havelaar

Multatuli

Max Havelaar is a dutch fiction work by Multatuli, a Dutch writer best known for his satirical novel Max Havelaar, which denounced the abuses of colonialism in the Dutch East Indies. He is consid..

Kipps - The Story of a Simple Soul

H. G. Wells

Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul is a novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1905. Humorous yet sympathetic, the perceptive social novel is generally regarded as a masterpiece, and it was his own f..

The Forsyte Saga

John Galsworthy

The Forsyte Saga, first published under that title in 1922, is a series of three novels and two interludes published between 1906 and 1921 by Nobel Prize–winning English author John Galsworthy...

Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded

Samuel Richardson

Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded is an epistolary novel by English writer Samuel Richardson, first published in 1740. It tells the story of a 15-year-old maidservant named Pamela Andrews, whose employer, M..

Sir Percy Leads the Band

Baroness Emmuska Orczy

First published in 1936, Sir Percy Leads the Band is (chronologically) the second of the Scarlet Pimpernel series by Baroness Orczy. The novel is set in January and February 1793 and follows on from t..