Novels Books

Pollyanna

Eleanor H. Porter

Pollyanna is a best-selling 1913 novel by Eleanor H. Porter that is now considered a classic of children's literature, with the title character's name becoming a popular term for someone with the same..

The School by the Sea

Angela Brazil

The School by the Sea is a mystery novel written for young readers by Angela Brazil, who was one of the first British writers of "modern schoolgirls' stories", written from the characters' point ..

Hyperion - A Romance

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Hyperion: A Romance is one of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's earliest works, published in 1839. It is a prose romance which was published alongside his first volume of poems, Voices of the Night...

The Princess and the Goblin

George MacDonald

The Princess and the Goblin is a children's fantasy novel by George MacDonald. It was published in 1872 by Strahan & Co. Anne Thaxter Eaton writes in A Critical History of Children's Literature th..

The Deliverance - A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields

Ellen Glasgow

The Deliverance: A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields is a 1904 novel by American author Ellen Glasgow. It was the second-best selling book in the United States for 1904...

The Deserted House

E. T. A. Hoffmann

Ernst Theodor Amadeus (ne Wilhelm) Hoffmann (1776- 1822), better known by his pen name E. T. A. Hoffmann, was a German Romantic author of fantasy and horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsma..

The Reign of Greed

José Rizal

The Reign of Greed, is the second novel written by Philippine national hero José Rizal. It is the sequel to Noli me tangere and, like the first book, was written in Spanish. It was first published in ..

The Prisoner of Zenda

Anthony Hope

The Prisoner of Zenda, by Anthony Hope, is an adventure novel in which the King of Ruritania is drugged on the eve of his coronation and thus is unable to attend the ceremony. Political forces within ..