Novels Books

Nightmare Abbey

Thomas Love Peacock

Nightmare Abbey is an 1818 novella by Thomas Love Peacock, and his third long work of fiction to be published. It was written in late March and June 1818, and published in London...

The Children of the New Forest

Frederick Marryat

The Children of the New Forest is a children's novel published in 1847 by Frederick Marryat. It is set in the time of the English Civil War and the Commonwealth...

Dick and Brownie

Mabel Quiller-Couch

Dick and Brownie is children's fiction novel written by Mabel Quiller-Couch, an English editor, compiler and children's writer...

Locus Solus

Raymond Roussel

Locus Solus is a 1914 French novel by Raymond Roussel, a French poet, novelist, playwright, musician, and chess enthusiast. Through his novels, poems, and plays he exerted a profound influence on..

The Elusive Pimpernel

Baroness Emmuska Orczy

The Elusive Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy is the 4th book in the classic adventure series about the Scarlet Pimpernel. A French-language version, translated and adapted by Charlotte and Marie-Louise Des..

The Financier - A Novel

Theodore Dreiser

The Financier is a novel by Theodore Dreiser, based on real-life streetcar tycoon Charles Yerkes. Dreiser started writing his manuscript in 1911, and the following year published the first part of his..

Nobody's Boy

Hector Malot

Nobody's Boy is an 1878 French novel by Hector Malot. The most recent English translation is Alone in the World by Adrian de Bruyn, 2007. The novel was reportedly inspired by the Italian street musici..

Chums in Dixie

St. George Rathborne

Chums in Dixie; or, The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat is a juvenile fiction novel written by St. George Rathborne, an American author of boys' stories and dime novels. He is believed to have prod..