Novels Books
The Congressman’s Wife
John D. BarryIn this story my aim has not been primarily to depict conditions in American politics. This work has already been done far better than I could do it by several writers, among others, by Mr. Brand Whit..
Bob Bowen Comes to Town
H. Bedford-JonesThat evident recognition, that low murmur of confidential speech, that friendly slap on the shoulder, turned the trick. This Robert Bowen of Tonopah was manifestly known to the great Dickover; was pal..
The Wilderness Trail
H. Bedford-JonesJohn Norton was lost in amazement at the manner in which he had chanced on the one man in the country he most desired to meet. Daniel Boone was not greatly honoured in that day. He had been out of the..
An Experiment in Altruism
Margaret Pollock SherwoodThe race fell short of its grandest possibilities, he said, in losing its hold on abstract truths. Devotion to an ideal was forgotten in the adjustment of human lives to one another, rather than to so..
The Sin of Monsieur Antoine, Volume 1 (of 2)
George SandThe diametrically opposite idea, that of common ownership by association, should be the least dangerous of all in the eyes of the conservatives, since it is unfortunately the least understood and the ..
The Day of Resis
Lillian Frances MentorHarry first looked up the reputation of Sedai, the Abyssinian, and finding this to be good, he then went in search of the man himself. He was found on the quay with a lot of natives, and upon Harry te..
Tomorrow's Tangle
Geraldine BonnerThe man and woman turned, startled, and saw him. Looking back they saw Fletcher, who was coming slowly, and evidently not very willingly, forward. The sight of the exhausted pioneers was a too familia..
The Amateur Inn
Albert Payson TerhuneCreede was a Scotchman, who had begun life as a schoolmaster; and who had come to America, with his invalid wife, to better his fortunes. A final twist of fate had stranded the couple on this Berkshir..