Grant Hurlock
The Voyage Out
The Voyage Out is the first novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1915 by Duckworth; and published in the U.S. in 1920 by Doran. One of Wool…
Prester John
This classic adventure novel by the author of Greenmantle and The Thirty-Nine Steps relates the first-person exploits of young David Crawfur…
Rangy Pete
Canadian novelist Guy Morton's Rangy Pete is one of a trio of westerns he wrote in the 1920s (the other two being Black Gold and Wards of th…
Hagar of the Pawn-Shop
Hagar Stanley, a beautiful young Gypsy, is driven by sexual harassment to leave her tribe and seek refuge with her uncle Jacob, a miserly Lo…
The Lark
"The Lark" has all the charm and freshness which have made Miss Nesbit's former novels so justly popular, and yet the story ts ent…
The Princess Passes
An American heiress nicknamed the Manitou Princess (after her daddy's richest silver mine) is devastated to find that her fiancé only…
Kashtanka
"Kashtanka," a shaggy-dog story penned by Anton Chekhov in seven parts and first published in 1887, relates the experiences of its…
Find the Woman
Who was Belle Charmion? If you really care to know, as John Fenton did, you must go with him on his quest, hither and yon over New York, int…
The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew, King of the Beggars
The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew recounts the wide-ranging exploits of a real-life rogue – a wily professional mendicant w…
Miss Pim's Camouflage
Mid-WWI, staid Englishwoman Miss Perdita Pim suffers a sunstroke gardening & gains the power of invisibility. She becomes a super-secre…
The Night Side of New York
This nonfiction collection of sketches, by "members of the New York press," takes the reader on a tour of 1866 New York City after…
The Giaour
The Giaour is a narrative poem that transports listeners to the exotic landscapes of the East, where passion, betrayal, and vengeance intert…
J. Poindexter, Colored
This comic novel relates the first-person adventures in New York City of Jefferson Poindexter, personal assistant to Cobb's famous Judge Pri…
The Type-Writer Girl
(under the pseudonym Olive Pratt Rayner)"There is no more pathetic figure in our world to-day than the common figure of the poor young …
The Ingoldsby Legends, 1st Series
The Ingoldsby Legends are a collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry supposedly written by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Mano…
Save the Girls
Save the Girls is an 1880 American anti-white-slavery book by reformed gambler Mason Long. In it, the author crusades against the social evi…
The Adventures of Master F.J.
This story presents through letters, poems and third-person commentary the love affair between a young man named Freeman Jones and a married…
The Milky Way
The Milky Way - F. Tennyson Jesse's first novel - began life as a 1913 magazine serial called The Adventures of Viv. In it, poor-but-plucky …
Pointed Roofs
Miriam Henderson is one of what novelist Dolf Wyllarde (in her great work, The Pathway of the Pioneer) termed "nous autres," i.e.,…
The Mask
The mask is the one which we all wear, even though unconsciously, to hide our thoughts and feelings. Alison Terry wore one, though she had n…