Novels Books

Fantasy: A Novel

Matilde Serao

The naturalism of Matilde Serao deserves to be distinguished from that of the French contemporaries with whom she is commonly classed. She has a finer passion, more of the true ardour of the South, th..

The King Who Went on Strike

Pearson Choate

The trees in the densely thronged Mall were hung with innumerable, coloured electric lights. A blaze of yellow, smokeless flambeaux, on the left, marked the line of Carlton House Terrace. "God Save th..

The King's Own Borderers: A Military Romance, Volume 2 (of 3)

James Grant

Breakfast was hurried over in silence and constraint, then Cosmo, kissing the brow of his mother, who was already in tears,—for the only real emotion that lingered in the Master's heart was a regard f..

The King's Own Borderers: A Military Romance, Volume 3 (of 3)

James Grant

Young though he was, Quentin could not forget Flora Warrender, and that sweet evening by the Kelpie's Pool, and the first thrill of boyish love, with all the anxious moments, the feverish hopes that s..

An Open Verdict: A Novel, Volume 1 (of 3)

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

The Vicar spoke with some soreness. Poor Mrs. Dulcimer’s good-nature, and sometimes misdirected energy, had been getting her into trouble for the last twenty years. Everybody liked her; everybody drea..

Southern Soldier Stories

George Cary Eggleston

Joe was there, but Joe wasn’t talking that night. Joe was surly and sullen. He had had to kill his horse at Pocotaligo the day before, and all the honors he had harvested from that action had not reco..

As Others See Us

W. H. P. Jarvis

The books mentioned are significant of a popular move. That this move should have originated in the “Land of the Free” is remarkable. That popular appreciation should have been held from the Canadian ..

The Virgins of the Rocks

Gabriele D'Annunzio

Bending and breaking as they were beneath the weight of their own maturity, like autumn trees overladen with bounteous fruit, they were unable either to sound the depth of their misery or to give voic..