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The Inheritors

Joseph Conrad

The Inheritors: An Extravagant Story is a quasi-science fiction novel on which Ford Madox Ford and Joseph Conrad collaborated. It looks at society's mental evolution and what is gained and lost in the..

King Solomon's Mines

H. Rider Haggard

King Solomon's Mines is a popular novel by the English Victorian adventure writer and fabulist Sir H. Rider Haggard. It tells of a search of an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers le..

Danger; Or, Wounded in the House of a Friend

T. S. Arthur

Danger; Or, Wounded in the House of a Friend is a temperance fiction story written by T. S. Arthur,  a popular 19th-century American author. He is famously known for his temperance novel Ten Nigh..

The Hill of Dreams

Arthur Machen

The Hill of Dreams is a horror novel written by Arthur Machen, a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fic..

Bruges-la-morte

Georges Rodenbach

Bruges-la-Morte is a short French novel by the Belgian author Georges Rodenbach, first published in 1892. The novel is notable for two reasons, it was the archetypal Symbolist novel, and was the first..

Jude the Obscure

Thomas Hardy

Jude the Obscure is a novel by Thomas Hardy, which began as a magazine serial in December 1894 and was first published in book form in 1895. It is Hardy's last completed novel. Its protagonist, Jude F..

Madame De Mauves

Henry James

Madame de Mauves is a novella by Henry James, originally published in The Galaxy magazine in 1874. The story centers on the troubled marriage of a scrupulous American wife and a far from scrupulous Fr..

L'Ingénu

Voltaire

L'Ingénu is a satirical novella by the French writer Voltaire, published in 1767. It tells the story of a Huron Indian transported to the sophistication of eighteenth century Paris, and satirizes reli..