Novels Books

Ivanhoe

Sir Walter Scott

Ivanhoe is a historical novel written by Sir Walter Scott in 1819. Set in 12th-century England, Ivanhoe caused a resurgence in the popularity of the Romantic and Medieval ages. In it Scott recreates t..

Moonfleet

John Meade Falkner

Moonfleet is a 1898 novel written by English writer J. Meade Falkner. A tale of smuggling, royal treasure and shipwreck, the book was extremely popular among children worldwide up until the 1970s, mos..

Sybil

Benjamin D'israeli

Sybil is one of the most prominent political novels of the mid-nineteenth century, taking as its subject the "condition of England" question. That phrase was first used by Thomas Carlyle in an essay o..

Ben-Hur - A tale of the Christ

Lew Wallace

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a novel by Lew Wallace published by Harper and Brothers on November 12, 1880, and considered "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century". It became..

No Orchids for Miss Blandish

James Hadley Chase

No Orchids For Miss Blandish is a 1939 crime novel by the British writer James Hadley Chase. The novel was influenced by the American crime writer James M. Cain and the stories in the pulp magazine Bl..

Elsie's Motherhood

Martha Finley

Elsie's Motherhood is a juvenile fiction novel written by Martha Finley, an American teacher and author of numerous works for children, the best known being the 28-volume Elsie Dinsmore series which w..

De Lotgevallen van Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

De Lotgevallen van Tom Sawyer is the dutch version of Mark Twain's most popular novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Excerpts:Wacht! daar hoort ze plotseling een licht gedruisch achter zich en zij keer..

The Lost Girl

D. H. Lawrence

The Lost Girl is a novel by D. H. Lawrence, first published in 1920. It was awarded the 1920 James Tait Black Memorial Prize in the fiction category. Lawrence started it shortly after writing Women in..