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The Banner of the Upright Seven

Gottfried Keller

The Banner of the Upright Seven is a book by Gottfried Keller, a Swiss poet and writer of German literature. Best known for his novel Green Henry, he became one of the most popular narrators..

The Good Soldier

Ford Madox Ford

The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion by Ford Maddox Ford begins with the famous line "This is the saddest story I have ever heard." It is the tragic tale of an upper-class English couple, Edward Ashbur..

The Well-Beloved

Thomas Hardy

The Well-Beloved: A Sketch of a Temperament is a novel by Thomas Hardy, serialized in 1892, and published as a book in 1897. The main setting of the novel, the Isle of Slingers, is based on the Isle o..

Clarissa Harlowe - Volume I

Samuel Richardson

Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady is an epistolary novel by English writer Samuel Richardson, published in 1748. It tells the tragic story of a heroine whose quest for virtue is continually th..

Knulp

Herman Hesse

Knulp is a 1915 novel written by Hermann Hesse. It was Hesse's most popular book in the years before he published Demian. The novel is split up into three separate tales which are centered on the life..

The Last Day of a Condemned Man

Victor Hugo

The Last Day of a Condemned Man is a short novel by Victor Hugo first published in 1829. The novel recounts the thoughts of a man condemned to die. Victor Hugo wrote this novel to express his feelings..

Monsieur, Madame, and Bébé

Gustave Droz

Monsieur, Madame, and Bébé is a french fiction novel written by Antoine Gustave Droz, author, French man of letters and son of the sculptor Jules-Antoine Droz, was born in Paris. He was educated as an..

The Black Pearl

Mrs. Wilson Woodrow

The Black Pearl is a western fiction story written by Nancy Mann Waddel Woodrow was an American writer, often credited as Mrs. Wilson Woodrow...