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Rosa Alchemica

William Butler Yeats

Rosa Alchemica is an alchemists fiction novel written by William Butler Yeats, an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of the Irish literary establishme..

Betty Gordon in Washington; Or, Strange Adventures in a Great City

Alice B. Emerson

Betty Gordon in Washington; Or, Strange Adventures in a Great City is a juvenile fiction novel written by Alice B. Emerson, a pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate for the Betty Gordon and ..

Long Live the King

Guy Boothby

Long Live the King is a fiction novel written by Guy Boothby a prolific Australian novelist and writer, noted for sensational fiction in variety magazines around the end of the nineteenth century. He ..

Growth of the Soil

Knut Hamsun

Growth of the Soil is a Norwegian fiction work by Knut Hamsun, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. Hamsun's work spans more than 70 years and shows variation with regard to the subj..

Snake and Sword - A Novel

Snake and Sword: A Novel is a fiction work of Percival Christopher Wren, an English writer, mostly of adventure fiction. He is remembered best for Beau Geste, a much-filmed book of 1924, involvin..

The Gem Collector

P. G. Wodehouse

A Gentleman of Leisure is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse. The basic plot first appeared in a novella, The Gem Collector, in the December 1909 issue of Ainslee's Magazine. A Gentleman of Leisure is a novel..

A Journey from This World to the Next

Henry Fielding

The narrator dies in the first sentence. Through relating his travels in the afterlife, Henry Fielding, author of Tom Jones and Joseph Andrews, gently satirizes life here on earth. (Summary by Denny S..

Molly Bawn

The Duchess

Molly Bawn is an 1878 novel by the Irish writer Margaret Wolfe Hungerford. In 1916 it was adapted into a silent film of the same title starring Alma Taylor. The novel is the origin of the expression "..