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The Tempting of Tavernake

E. Phillips Oppenheim

The Tempting of Tavernake is a mystery novel written by the English novelist Edward Phillips Oppenheim, who was one of the most successful thriller stories.Excerpts:They stood upon the roof of a ..

Le Journal d'une Femme de Chambre

Octave Mirbeau

Le Journal d'une Femme de Chambre is a French fiction work which was translated in English The Diary of a Chambermaid, written by Octave Mirbeau,  a French journalist, art critic, and travel writ..

The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7)

Samuel Richardson

The History of Sir Charles Grandison is a multi voulme epistolary novel written by English writer Samuel Richardson, whose masterpiece works are "Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded", and "Clar..

Prester John

John Buchan

Scottish novelist John Buchan's adventure novel Prester John narrates the story of a young Scotsman named David Crawfurd and his adventures in South Africa, where a Zulu uprising is tied to ..

The Man Who Lost Himself

H. De Vere Stacpoole

Written by Irish Author Henry De Vere Stacpoole,  this romance novel "The Man Who Lost Himself" tells the story of a luckless American visiting London on yet another of his failed business v..

Nature and Human Nature

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Nature and Human Nature is a fiction novel with fictitious character Sam Slick as protagonist, written by Nova Scotian novelist Thomas Chandler Haliburton, whose works were best selling even in c..

The Turmoil - A Novel

Booth Tarkington

The Turmoil: A Novel  is a Bildungsromans by Booth Tarkington, an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams.Excerpts:There is a midland ..

The Firm of Girdlestone

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Firm of Girdlestone is a novel by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was first published in 1890 by Chatto and Windus in London, England. In 1915 a silent film adaptation The Firm of Girdle..