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Prester John
John BuchanScottish novelist John Buchan's adventure novel Prester John narrates the story of a young Scotsman named David Crawfurd and his adventures in South Africa, where a Zulu uprising is tied to ..
The Man Who Lost Himself
H. De Vere StacpooleWritten by Irish Author Henry De Vere Stacpoole, this romance novel "The Man Who Lost Himself" tells the story of a luckless American visiting London on yet another of his failed business v..
Nature and Human Nature
Thomas Chandler HaliburtonNature and Human Nature is a fiction novel with fictitious character Sam Slick as protagonist, written by Nova Scotian novelist Thomas Chandler Haliburton, whose works were best selling even in c..
The Turmoil - A Novel
Booth TarkingtonThe Turmoil: A Novel is a Bildungsromans by Booth Tarkington, an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams.Excerpts:There is a midland ..
The Firm of Girdlestone
Arthur Conan DoyleThe Firm of Girdlestone is a novel by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was first published in 1890 by Chatto and Windus in London, England. In 1915 a silent film adaptation The Firm of Girdle..
The Queen's Necklace
Alexandre DumasThe Queen's Necklace is a novel by Alexandre Dumas that was published in 1849 and 1850 (immediately following the French Revolution of 1848). It is loosely based on the Affair of the Diamond Necklace,..
Mother
Maksim GorkyMother is a novel written by Maxim Gorky in 1906 about revolutionary factory workers. It was first published, in English, in Appleton's Magazine in 1906, then in Russian in 1907. The work was translat..
Die Wahlverwandtschaften
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheDie Wahlverwandtschaften is a German novel translated to English as "Elective Affinities", written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer and statesman, who has contributed to&nbs..