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The very last novel that Gene Stratton-Porter wrote before her death.The tale of a wounded World War I veteran, a beekeeper and an impish tomboy all helped by each other. A book that examines the healing power that nature and kindness can have upon someone’s life. Gene...
First published in the US in 1938 by Hillman-Curl Inc.: New York, now public domain. Was Richard Malvery really dead, or had he for some sinister purpose merely disappeared under mysteriously suspicious circumstances which pointed an accusing finger at his brother,...
The Driver is a novel by American journalist Garet Garrett. It tells the story of brilliant financial speculator Henry M. Galt. Through his own vision and work ethic, Galt takes over the failing Great Midwestern Railroad during an economic crisis, turning it into a...
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is best known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, the fictional detective who solved perplexing crimes with strict rationalism. But later in life, Doyle became fascinated by mysteries that defied rational explanation. A major proponent of...
The story follows the adventures of Joe and Sylvia, a young boy and girl who stumble into the enchanting and whimsical land of the Snergs, a race of small, jolly, and industrious creatures. Together with their Snerg friend Gorbo, Joe and Sylvia embark on an adventure...
The history of Tolerance (or the lack thereof) in the history of man as described by one of the best popular historians of all time...
First published in the US by Alfred A. Knopf in 1928 in this English translation by A. G. Chater, now public domain. Set in 13th-century Norway, The Axe is the first volume in Undset's epic tetralogy, The Master of Hestviken. In it, we meet Olav Audunsson and Ingunn...
Gore's assistance is sought by his old army colleague Colonel Margesson, who was having difficulties with his wife and children. When not only Margesson but his two children are killed, the case proves baffling until a visit to Ireland reveals the explanation.
Colonel Gore is reunited with old friends at a dinner party to mark his return from service in Africa, but is shocked to discover that one of them has fallen victim to a callous blackmailer. When the antagonist is found dead, Gore finds that civilian life can be as...
This dazzling work in economic fiction is a splendid book, not just from the point of view of economics but also as a novel. What is Satan's Bushel? It is the last bushel that the farmer puts on the market, the one that "breaks the price" — that is, reduces it to the...
First published in 1924, now public domain. "Porto Bello Gold" is a classic adventure novel written by Arthur D. Howden Smith. Set in the 1660s, the story follows the daring exploits of Bishop, an English privateer, as he sets sail on a quest for treasure. Porto Bello,...
In Sphinx, Nicholas Cabot has come to a countryhouse called Mereway where he plans to work on a machine he has invented that records dreams. He encounters a family with three marriageable daughters, and takes refuges from them in the company of some neighbors, including...
The heroine, a young, light-skinned African-American woman called Angela Murray, leaves behind her past and passes for white in order to be able to attain fulfilment in life. Only after she has lived among white Americans does she find out that crossing the racial...
First published in 1928, now public domain, this Canadian classic describes the lives of the people that make up an isolated fishing community off Nova Scotia. The book is set just before the start of theFirst World War, in the opening years of the twentieth...
While visiting friends in Lancashire, and looking for a property to settle down in when he retires from Scotland Yard, MacDonald agrees to lend his assistance to investigate some sheep-stealing. Before long he is drawn into a case involving arson, blackmail and...
“Dream Story” by Arthur Schnitzler was first published in German in 1926, this initial English translation by Otto P. Schinnerer first published in 1927, now pubic domain. Like his Viennese contemporary Sigmund Freud, the doctor and dramatist Arthur Schnitzler...
AMONG THE hills of the Welsh borders a little group of farmsteads is isolated by snow and ice, then floods. Late one afternoon there is a terrible car smash on a cross-roads in these hills. Old Dr. Robinson is found dead in his big saloon, which, thrown off the road by...
A dramatic retelling of the life of the tough and bellicose sixth-century King of Persia, Cyrus the Great.
Bess Streeter Aldrich has made a big place for herself among novel readers by her wholesome, happy and truthful stories of American small-town life. In The Cutters she takes a family that is typical of many thousands of homes and portrays it with humor and sympathy.
When a stationary car is struck by an oncoming lorry at a very dangerous hairpin bend known as Dyke's Corner and the driver killed it seems an obvious accident. However, MacDonald's methodical investigations reveal it was in fact a cleverly contrived murder....
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