Meredith Nicholson Books


The House of a Thousand Candles

Meredith Nicholson

A top ten bestseller of 1906, The House of a Thousand Candles is part adventure/mystery and part romance. The book begins with young Jack Glenarm returning from various exploits in Europe and Africa f..

A Reversible Santa Claus

Meredith Nicholson

A Reversible Santa Claus tells the humorous and exciting story of a burglar who reforms on Christmas Eve and returns the things he had stolen, subsequently acting like and impressing St. Nick...

The Valley of Democracy

Meredith Nicholson

The first months of the present year have been so crowded with incidents affecting the whole world that we recall with difficulty the events of only a few years ago. We have met repeated crises with a..

The Proof of the Pudding

Meredith Nicholson

The John Cecil Eaton thus limned was not the austere person Nan knew. Her Eaton was a sedate gentleman who made cryptic remarks to her at parties and was known to be exceedingly conservative in social..

Style and the Man

Meredith Nicholson

Few writers of the Victorian period wielded a more flexible English than Matthew Arnold, and few writers of any period have shown greater versatility. His power of direct statement was very great and ..

The Lords of High Decision

Meredith Nicholson

Colonel Craighill was a capital talker and he gave an intimate turn to his account of the Washington meeting, uttering the names of his distinguished associates in the Federation with frank pride in t..

Broken Barriers

Meredith Nicholson

Ethel and her father were almost equally out of sympathy. Ethel was intensely religious, zealous in attendance upon a down-town church, a teacher in its Sunday school and active in its young people’s ..