Published 1900 onward

94 books

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Westerns

461

William MacLeod Raine - Yukon Trail

The Yukon Trail: A Tale of the North (filmed as The Grip of the Yukon in 1928) is an adventure yarn from the prodigious output of William MacLeod Raine, who averaged nearly two western novels a year for some 46 years....

Delmar H Dolbier 6 hours 54 minutes

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Friendly Terrace Quartette (or Peggy Raymond At The Poplars)

General Fiction

514

Harriet Lummis Smith - Friendly Terrace Quartette (or Peggy Raymond At The Poplars)

The Friendly Terrace Quartette (or Peggy Raymond At The Poplars) published in 1920, finds Peggy and her friends preparing for The Great War. Young men they had known as boys are signing up to train and fight as...

Daryl Wor 5 hours 10 minutes

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Peggy Raymond's School Days (or Old Girls And New)

Published 1900 onward

428

Harriet Lummis Smith - Peggy Raymond's School Days (or Old Girls And New)

Published in 1916, this third installment with The Friendly Terrace girls places them in The Girl’s High School, with an array of new characters, and a few peripherally known from the first book. A heavier edge of...

Daryl Wor 5 hours 14 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

417

Rex Beach - Silver Horde

The Silver Horde, is set in Kalvik, a fictionalized community in Bristol Bay, Alaska, and tells the story of a down on his luck gold miner who discovers a greater wealth in Alaska's run of salmon (silver horde) and...

Lynne T and 5 more 10 hours 59 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

479

Arnold Bennett - Pretty Lady

‘The Pretty Lady’ is considered to be one of Bennett's most revealing and under-rated works. It is the story of a French prostitute, Christine, who has escaped from wartime Ostend, and set herself up in business in...

Simon Evers 8 hours 9 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

521

Gene Stratton-Porter - At the Foot of the Rainbow

This story is about three people, two men and a woman. Jimmy, selfish and deceitful, who has shamelessly lied to, cheated, and used his dear friend Dannie for years. His wife Mary, who loves another. And finally...

Kevin W. Davidson and 5 more 4 hours 34 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

434

Harold Bell Wright - Eyes Of The World

The Eyes of the World was the Best Selling Book for 1914 according to Publisher's Weekly. The novel explores what Harold Bell Wright views as the false world of artists, writers, critics, and their wealthy patrons....

Tom Weiss 11 hours 33 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

520

W. Somerset Maugham - Rain (Version 2)

Rain charts the moral disintegration of a missionary attempting to convert a Pacific island prostitute named Sadie Thompson. (Introduction by an excerpt from Wikipedia)

Linda Hogan 1 hour 27 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

500

Grace Livingston Hill - Finding of Jasper Holt

Jasper Holt was a neglected child. As a consequence, he grew up to be angry and independent — generally good, but not caring what others thought of him… until he met Jean Grayson, the first truly good person he ever...

TriciaG 6 hours 19 minutes

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General Fiction

433

Sōseki Natsume - Botchan

Botchan is the story of a young math teacher from Tokyo whose first assignment takes him to a middle school in the country side. His arrival there is not very lucky: The pupils are bound to test his perseverance and...

Availle 5 hours 7 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

457

F. M. Mayor - Third Miss Symons

Miss Mayor tells this story with singular skill, more by contrast than by drama, bringing her chief character into relief against her world, as it passes in swift procession. Her tale is in a form becoming common...

Rachel Lintern 3 hours 17 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

405

Susan Glaspell - Fidelity

The small Midwestern town of Freeport was scandalized years ago when Ruth Holland, then a young girl, ran away to the West with a married man. Now that she's returned home to take care of her dying father, she faces...

Arielle Lipshaw 9 hours 11 minutes

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New

Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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