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The Light That Failed
Rudyard KiplingThe Light That Failed is a novel by the Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling that was first published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine dated January 1891. Most of the novel is set in Lon..
Round the Sofa
Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellRound the Sofa is an 1859 2-volume collection consisting of a novel with a story preface and five short stories by Elizabeth Gaskell. The first volume consists of the novel My Lady Ludlow prefac..
Aunt Jane’s Nieces
L. Frank BaumAunt Jane's Nieces is the title of a juvenile novel published by Reilly & Britton in 1906, and written by L. Frank Baum under the pen name "Edith Van Dyne." Since the book was the first in a serie..
The Man Of Property (The Forsyte Saga, Volume I)
John GalsworthyThe Forsyte Saga is the story of a wealthy London family stretching from the eighteen-eighties until the nineteen-twenties. The Man of Property is the first book in the saga. The 'man of propert..
Trilby
George Du MaurierTrilby is a novel by George du Maurier and one of the most popular novels of its time. Trilby O'Ferrall, the novel's heroine, is a half-Irish girl working in Paris as an artists' model and laundress; ..
A Modern Instance
William Dean HowellsA Modern Instance is a realistic novel written by William Dean Howells. The novel is about the deterioration of a once loving marriage under the influence of capitalistic greed. It is the first Americ..
The Coming Race
Edward Bulwer-LyttonThe Coming Race is a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, published anonymously in 1871. It has also been published as Vril, the Power of the Coming Race. Some readers have believed the account of a superio..
Les Chants de Maldoror
comte de LautréamontLes Chants de Maldoror is a poetic novel (or a long prose poem) consisting of six cantos. It was written between 1868 and 1869 by the Comte de Lautreamont, the pseudonym of Isidore Lucien Ducasse. Man..