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First published in 1928 in the US, now public domain. 'Why did I want to mix myself up in a white folk's war? It ain't ever was any of black folks' affair'. When Jake Brown joined the World War I effort, he was treated more like a slave than a soldier. After briefly...
First published in 1926, the author recounts his experiences in the mid-1920s traveling through several countries (India, Burma, Malaya, Japan and America), and offers his observations on their people, cultures, and customs. Open-minded, keen-sighted, sometimes...
'Mr J. J. Connington is a name revered by all specialists on detective fiction' - Spectator In Clinton Driffield's second case he must tangle with a plethora of crimes including robbery, murder and a disappearance - not to mention a Family Curse, and a less than...
Sex and Repression in Savage Society first published in 1927 is the book by anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski (died 1942) considered "a famous critique of psychoanalysis, arguing that the 'Oedipus complex' described by Freud is not universal." Malinowski gives a...
The Flying Carpet is the airplane in which the author and his pilot-companion, Moye Stephens, Jr., follow a royal road to romance in the air.
A panoramic super-adventure western tale of the early west, 1885, with Jubal Troop as the focus, one of those indefatigable hard-loving and hard fighting men, not without a certain raw power. North Dakota, Montana, Texas—cattlehand, rancher, rawhider, miner, trader—and...
Paul I. Wellman has penned a powerful novel about the long friendship and secret adventures of Andrew Jackson and Sam Houston—two titans of America’s most colorful era. This is a novel of “Old Hickory”, of his Indian-fighting days (when he met Houston), his battle that...
Tales from the world of gamblers and small-time crooks who inhabited the world of the speakeasies during Prohibition. The Prohibition era comes alive in these comic tales featuring dames (dolls, babes, broads, or ever-loving wives) and guys (players, gamblers, citizens...
A woman who is convinced her husband is trying to murder her finds herself widowed, confined to a hospital bed, and trying to prove she's not a cold-blooded killer. When her abusive husband Fred is fatally shot and her six-year-old son Billy disappears, wealthy Anne...
Nan has written her brothers and sisters that they are invited (and must come) home for Christmas. They had not all been home together for years. No spouses or children . Just the five siblings. They really didn't want to go, it did not sound like fun. The story of a...
The Book of Small is a collection of thirty-six word sketches in which Emily Carr relates anecdotes about her life as a young girl in the frontier town of Victoria. She notes: “There were a great many things that I only half understood, such as saloons and the Royal...
This is a story of two middle-class families living in adjoining houses in a West-of-England town. In one house lives a priggish individual, his seemingly submissive wife and their three daughters who share in a varied degree the characteristics of their parents—a...
"Mr Weston's Good Wine" first published in 1927 by T. F. Powys (died 1953) is the unusual tale of the struggle between the forces of good and evil in a small Dorset village. Its action is limited to one winter's evening when time stands still and the bitter-sweet gift...
'The Three Godfathers' by Peter B. Kyne is a novel about three bank robbers who become godfathers to a newborn child after encountering a woman in labor in the wilderness. Their journey to get the baby back to civilization is fraught with danger, as they battle thirst...
Hannah Mole is a middle-aged housekeeper/companion who starts at a new household, headed by Reverend Corder. All the occupants of the house, each of whom have their own quirks and goals are affected by Hannah's presence in good and not so good ways. Book was the winner...
"The Stoneground Ghost Tales" is a collection of eerie ghost stories set in the English parish of Stoneground. E. G. Swain masterfully crafts tales that blend the supernatural with the everyday, creating an atmosphere of suspense and unease. Each story offers a unique...
In this delightful book of poems, Rose Fyleman scattered her thoughts into the world like so much dandelion fuzz. And here they have landed, over a century later, in your lap. Lucky, lucky you. I trust the faithful fairies will point from their world to things that are...
Canadian artist Emily Carr tells her life story growing up in British Columbia; attending art schools in London, San Francisco and Paris; and her work back in B.C., Canada.
W. Somerset Maugham led many lives, including that of a doctor in London's slums, a successful playwright and novelist, an agent for British Intelligence during World War I, and a world traveler. In 1917, he took the first of many voyages to the Pacific Islands and the...
Here is the journal which ultimately proved the motive force for The Magnificent Obsession, the journal as it was set down by Doctor Hudson himself. One feels that he must have been a real person (or that at any rate, in his fictional being he represented the...
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