Fiction Books

At Odds with the Regent

Burton Egbert Stevenson

The story had been repeated in all four corners of the kingdom, and his reputation was made from that moment. I could not but admit his comeliness, and of his courage I had already sufficient proof. W..

A Town Is Drowning

Frederik Pohl

Mickey Groff wasn't much of a waiter. There wasn't a showdog's chance of a car stopping to help him, of course—even if one came by, they'd hardly be able to see him. Anyway, Sam's Grocery couldn't be ..

The Heritage

Sydney C. Grier

They crossed the deck towards a lady in a noticeably well-cut tweed travelling-coat and hat, who sat alone, protected by the presence at a little distance of an elderly maid of the most rigid type of ..

The Highlanders of Glen Ora

James Grant

We had met repeatedly in our mutual rides, rambles, and wanderings, and the impression she made upon me, when acting as her guide to the old ruined chapels, towers, and burial-places, the high cascade..

1914

John Oxenham

They had been neighbours now for close on ten years and close friends for nine and a half of them. Noel and Honor were mischievous young things of eight when the Dares took The Red House, and in their..

The Cameronians - A Novel, Volume I

James Grant

The old Scottish regiment from which the following story takes its title, and of which the hero is described as a member, is on the point of losing its identity, and after the July of this year will b..

The Cameronians - A Novel, Volume II

James Grant

Hew, among other 'caddish' tastes and propensities, was fond of 'sherry-glass flirtations' at bars and buffets, where sham smiles are bartered for button-hole flowers, amid bantered compliments and ho..

The Cameronians - A Novel, Volume III

James Grant

Hew was far from dying yet, as the doctor averred; and Sir Piers too—he 'had seen too much of that sort of thing up country, not to know all about it;' but, in his lowness and perturbation of spirit, ..