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Parnassus on Wheels

Christopher Morley

Parnassus on Wheels is a 1917 novel written by Christopher Morley and published by Doubleday, Page & Company. The title refers to the Mount Parnassus of Greek mythology; it was the home of the Mus..

The Shining Pyramid

Arthur Machen

Arthur Llewelyn Jones (1863-1947) who wrote under the pen name Arthur Machen was a leading Welsh author. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. He is also well..

Venus im Pelz

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Venus im Pelz is the German edition of Venus in Furs, a novella by the Austrian author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, and the best known of his works. The novel was to be part of an epic series that ..

Father Goriot

Honore de Balzac

Father Goriot is an 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac, included in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. Said to have been an i..

McTeague - A Story of San Francisco

Frank Norris

McTeague is a novel by Frank Norris, first published in 1899. It tells the story of a couple's courtship and marriage, and their subsequent descent into poverty, violence and finally murder as the res..

Uncle Abner, Master of Mysteries

Melville Davisson Post

Fourteen mysteries from the pages of the Saturday Evening Post, the Metropolitan, Red Book, and Pictorial Review magazines featuring Uncle Abner, who solves crimes in the pre-Civil War West Virginia h..

Germinie Lacerteux

Edmond de Goncourt

We must ask pardon of the public for offering it this book, and give it due warning of what it will find therein. The public loves fictitious novels! this is a true novel. It loves books which make a ..

The Devil's Own - A Romance of the Black Hawk War

Randall Parrish

Randall Parrish was an American author of dime novels, including Contraband, Wolves of the Sea, When Wilderness Was King, and Beyond The Frontier.It was the early springtime, and my history ..