Novels Books
Growth of the Soil
Knut HamsunGrowth of the Soil is a Norwegian fiction work by Knut Hamsun, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. Hamsun's work spans more than 70 years and shows variation with regard to the subj..
Snake and Sword - A Novel
Snake and Sword: A Novel is a fiction work of Percival Christopher Wren, an English writer, mostly of adventure fiction. He is remembered best for Beau Geste, a much-filmed book of 1924, involvin..
The Gem Collector
P. G. WodehouseA Gentleman of Leisure is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse. The basic plot first appeared in a novella, The Gem Collector, in the December 1909 issue of Ainslee's Magazine. A Gentleman of Leisure is a novel..
A Journey from This World to the Next
Henry FieldingThe narrator dies in the first sentence. Through relating his travels in the afterlife, Henry Fielding, author of Tom Jones and Joseph Andrews, gently satirizes life here on earth. (Summary by Denny S..
Molly Bawn
The DuchessMolly Bawn is an 1878 novel by the Irish writer Margaret Wolfe Hungerford. In 1916 it was adapted into a silent film of the same title starring Alma Taylor. The novel is the origin of the expression "..
The Shoulders of Atlas - A Novel
Mary Eleanor Wilkins FreemanThe Shoulders of Atlas: A Novel written by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman was a prominent 19th-century American author. She is also the author of "By the Light of the Soul" "The Debtor", "Jero..
The Hand but Not the Heart
T. S. ArthurThe Hand but Not the Heart is a married women fiction written by T. S. Arthur, a popular 19th-century American author. He is famously known for his temperance novel Ten Nights in a Bar-Room..
She
H. Rider HaggardAt 5 years old Leo Vincey is left in the care of a Cambridge professor by the name of Horace Holly. His father leaves him a strange casket which he is to open on his 25th Birthday. On opening the Cask..