Novels Books

The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel

Baroness Emmuska Orczy

The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel, first published in 1922, is a book in the series about the Scarlet Pimpernel's adventures by Baroness Orczy...

The Naulahka

Rudyard Kipling

The Naulahka, A Story of West and East, written by Rudyard Kipling in collaboration with Wolcott Balestier, was serialised in the Century Magazine from November 1891 to July 1892. However, after two i..

The Light That Failed

Rudyard Kipling

The Light That Failed is a novel by the Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling that was first published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine dated January 1891. Most of the novel is set in Lon..

Round the Sofa

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Round the Sofa is an 1859 2-volume collection consisting of a novel with a story preface and five short stories by Elizabeth Gaskell.  The first volume consists of the novel My Lady Ludlow prefac..

Aunt Jane’s Nieces

L. Frank Baum

Aunt Jane's Nieces is the title of a juvenile novel published by Reilly & Britton in 1906, and written by L. Frank Baum under the pen name "Edith Van Dyne." Since the book was the first in a serie..

The Man Of Property (The Forsyte Saga, Volume I)

John Galsworthy

The Forsyte Saga  is the story of a wealthy London family stretching from the eighteen-eighties until the nineteen-twenties. The Man of Property is the first book in the saga. The 'man of propert..

Trilby

George Du Maurier

Trilby is a novel by George du Maurier and one of the most popular novels of its time. Trilby O'Ferrall, the novel's heroine, is a half-Irish girl working in Paris as an artists' model and laundress; ..

A Modern Instance

William Dean Howells

A Modern Instance is a realistic novel written by William Dean Howells. The novel is about the deterioration of a once loving marriage under the influence of capitalistic greed. It is the first Americ..