Novels Books
The Loom of Youth
Alec WaughThe Loom of Youth is a novel by Novel by Alec Waugh. First published in 1917, this semi-autobiographical work tells the story of Gordon Caruthers' schooldays at the English public school, Fenhurs..
Before Adam
Jack LondonBefore Adam is a novel by Jack London, serialized in 1906 and 1907 in Everybody's Magazine. It is the story of a man who dreams he lives the life of an early hominid. The story offers an early view of..
Mary Louise
L. Frank BaumMary Louise is a 1916 juvenile novel for girls that L. Frank Baum wrote under his pen name Edith Van Dyne. The book was the first volume in a series that Baum continued up to his death, and which was ..
The Story of an African Farm
Olive SchreinerThe Story of an African Farm was South African author Olive Schreiner's first published novel. It was an immediate success and has become recognised as one of the first feminist novels...
City of Endless Night
Milo M. HastingsCity of Endless Night is a science fiction novel written by Milo Hastings.When but a child of seven my uncle placed me in a private school in which one of the so-called redeemed sub-sailors was a teac..
Bartleby, the Scrivener - A Story of Wall Street
Herman MelvilleBartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 issues of Putnam's ..
David Copperfield
Charles DickensDavid Copperfield is the eighth novel by Charles Dickens. The novel's full title is The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rooker..