Novels Books

The Accused

Harold Daniels

The Accused is a fine crime story made finer by the courtroom trial.  The plot, the atmosphere, and the characterization in The Accused (1958) by American crime writer Harold R. Daniels are so re..

The World Set Free

H. G. Wells

The World Set Free is a novel written in 1913 and published in 1914 by H. G. Wells. The book is based on a prediction of a more destructive and uncontrollable sort of weapon than the world has yet see..

The Purple Land

W. H. Hudson

The Purple Land is a novel set in 19th century Uruguay by William Henry Hudson, first published in 1885 under the title The Purple Land that England Lost. Initially a commercial and critical failure, ..

Hopalong Cassidy's Rustler Round-Up; Or, Bar-20

Clarence Edward Mulford

Hopalong Cassidy's Rustler Round-Up; Or, Bar-20 is a novel written by Clarence Edward Mulford, who was the creator of the character Hopalong Cassidy and who wrote many works of fiction and nonfiction...

The Lost Prince

Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Lost Prince is about Marco Loristan, his father, and his friend, a street urchin named The Rat. Marco's father, Stefan, is a Samavian patriot working to overthrow the cruel dictatorship in the kin..

The Tragedy of the Korosko

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Tragedy of the Korosko is a novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was serialized a year earlier in The Strand magazine between May and December 1897, and was later turned into a play Fires of Fate.&..

Hard Times

Charles Dickens

The shortest of Charles Dickens’s novels, Hard Times is also his most pointed and impassioned satire of social injustice. Set in Coketown, a fictional industrial town in the north of England, Hard Tim..

The Sea Fairies

L. Frank Baum

The Sea Fairies is a children's fantasy novel written by L. Frank Baum, illustrated by John R. Neill, and published in 1911 by the Reilly & Britton Company, the publisher of Baum's series of Oz bo..