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Manasseh da Costa, protagonist of this hilarious novel, is a schnorrer (beggar) who lives on the charitable contributions of the Jews of lat…

California Coast Trails

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Joseph Smeaton Chase

In 1911, decades before California's coast Highway 1 was built, an Englishman rode 2000 miles on horseback the length of California, from Me…

The Curious Quest

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E. Phillips Oppenheim

A sweet, simple tale of how friendship and honesty triumph over money. The protagonist’s pun of a name—Ernest Bliss—foreshadows the plot in …

Reuben Sachs: A Sketch

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Amy Levy

Reuben Sachs is a London lawyer whose political aspirations do not include marriage to Judith Quixano, the daughter of a respectable but une…

Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets

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Edward Lear

A selection of nonsense poems, songs (not sung!), stories, and miscellaneous strangeness. The work includes the "Owl and the Pussycat&q…

Sons of the Covenant: A Tale of London Jewry

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Samuel Gordon

Born in London's poverty-stricken and heavily Jewish East End, the Lipcott boys create their own successes in life and love. The brothers' c…

Arthur Conan Doyle’s Memories and Adventures

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle first published his memories of his many various adventures around the world and his relationships with such famous figur…

The Golem: A legend of old Prague

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Rudolf Lothar

Rabbi Loeb creates a clay man to house a perfect soul that he hopes will not be blighted by human prejudices. The plan does not go as he hop…

The Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque

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William Combe

“To bury these, to christen those,And marry such fond folks who choseTo change the tenor of their lifeAnd risk the matrimonial strife.” This…

The Man with the Black Feather

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Gaston Leroux

Theophrastus Longuet is a retired manufacturer of rubber stamps in Paris. He now spends his days relaxing, safe from life’s vicissitudes. wi…

No Man's Land

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Sapper

This book was written by a British Army officer and decorated Western Front veteran. Soldiers could not publish books using their real names…

The Dark Road: Further Adventures of Chéri-Bibi

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Gaston Leroux

One of a series of exciting adventure stories featuring Leroux's criminal mastermind Chéri-Bibi. When the story starts the "asto…

An Angler's Hours

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Hugh Tempest Sheringham

One of the classic British books about angling. The author’s love was fly fishing—“…while there are trout, life is worth living…” but he was…

The Wind Boy

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Ethel Cook Eliot

A gentle, otherworldly novel featuring the mysterious “girl from the mountains” who aides a refugee family in a most unexpected way. Mystica…

The Boy Travellers in Australasia

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Thomas Wallace Knox

ADVENTURES OF TWO YOUTHS IN A JOURNEY TO THE SANDWICH, MARQUESAS, SOCIETY, SAMOAN, AND FEEJEE ISLANDS, AND THROUGH THE COLONIES OF NEW ZEALA…

When I Am Dead My Dearest

In The History of Mr. Polly

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H. G. Wells

A funny and touching account of the imaginative Mr. Polly who, bored and trapped in his conventional life, makes a U-turn –- and changes eve…

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