Cynthia Lyons (1946-2011)

14 books

New Discussed TOP By time

Children's Fiction

547

Margaret Sidney - Five Little Peppers Abroad

This book is the next in the series of the Five Little Peppers, by Margaret Sidney, after Five Little Peppers and How They Grew and Five Little Peppers Midway. It continues the series where Ben, Polly, Joel, Davie,...

Elli and 15 more 8 hours 38 minutes

No comments

Published 1800 -1900

689

Charles Dickens - Dombey and Son (version 2)

Dombey and Son is a novel by the Victorian author Charles Dickens. The story concerns Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company of the book's title, whose dream is to have a son to continue his business....

Cynthia Lyons 44 hours 35 minutes

No comments

General Fiction

663

Charlotte Brontë - Shirley

Shirley is an 1849 social novel by the English novelist Charlotte Brontë. It was Brontë's second published novel after Jane Eyre (originally published under Brontë's pseudonym Currer Bell). The novel is set in...

Shirley Anderson and 20 more 23 hours 21 minutes

No comments

Published 1800 -1900

652

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Ruth

The book is a social novel, dealing with Victorian views about sin and illegitimacy. It is a surprisingly compassionate portrayal of a 'fallen woman', a type of person normally outcast from respectable society. The...

Cynthia Lyons 18 hours 41 minutes

No comments

General Fiction

495

Henry James - Portrait of a Lady Vol 2

The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880-1881 and then as a book in 1881. It is the story of a spirited young American...

Gesine and 13 more 12 hours 9 minutes

No comments

Travel & Geography

537

Clarence Edgar Edwords - Bohemian San Francisco

While describing his dining experiences throughout «Bohemian San Francisco,» Clarence Edwords paints an historic panorama of California cuisine with all its cosmopolitan influences. Best of all, he offers tantalizing...

Denny Sayers and 8 more 4 hours 36 minutes

No comments

Action & Adventure Fiction

580

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Don Quixote - Vol. 1

Don Quixote is an early novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story in the character of the Morisco historian, Cide Hamete Benengeli, whom he...

Chip and 16 more 21 hours 16 minutes

No comments

Nature

496

John Muir - Yosemite

John Muir's adventure guide for the Yosemite Valley.

Denny Sayers and 13 more 6 hours 59 minutes

No comments

Historical Fiction

758

Geoffrey Chaucer - Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the rest in verse). The tales, some of which are originals and others not, are...

Gesine and 18 more 19 hours 23 minutes

No comments

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

590

Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey is a hilarious parody of 18th century gothic novels. The heroine, 17-year old Catherine, has been reading far too many “horrid” gothic novels and would love to encounter some gothic-style terror —...

Kara Shallenberg and 17 more 8 hours 12 minutes

No comments

Black Beauty (The Autobiography of a Horse)

Animals & Nature

696

Anna Sewell - Black Beauty (The Autobiography of a Horse)

Black Beauty is Anna Sewell’s first and only novel. The story is told in the “first person” (or first horse) as an autobiographical memoir of a highbred horse named Black Beauty, from his carefree days as a foal on an...

Kara Shallenberg and 18 more 6 hours 15 minutes

No comments

Action & Adventure Fiction

521

Unknown - Beowulf

Beowulf. [Translated by Francis Barton Gummere].This is a short but beautiful book, and the Gummere translation really captures the feel of the Old English. Beowulf tells the story of a mysterious young warrior who...

Kara Shallenberg and 6 more 3 hours 1 minute

No comments

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

Show all