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Henry James was an American born writer who spent most of his life in Britain.  Because of that James often wrote novels about Americans traveling to...

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Historical novel set at the beginning of the 19th century, during violent worker protests against the mechanization of the Industrial Revolution. The...

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Excerpt: "Never heard a sound," the younger of the afternoon callers admitted, getting rid of his empty cup and leaning forward in his low chair. "No more...

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On a hot summer’s day in 1880 the beautiful Lady Rosella is cutting a basket of blooms in her beloved Rose Garden at her aunt’s house in Hampshire. It is...

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In his pacey, darkly humorous first novel, Duncan Abbott doesn't pull any punches. With a searing eye for satire and a great deal of comic ingenuity he...

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Two short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne related to the legend of "the wandering Jew". According to Wikipedia: "Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 –1864) was an...

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Classic mystery/detective novel. According to Wikipedia: "Ernest William Hornung (June 7, 1866 – March 22, 1921)... was an English author, most famous for...

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Dave Woolf’s enemies are much closer to home than he realises in this shocking thriller from Bernard Bannerman. The uncontainable lawyer-detective’s...

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An essay. According to Wikipedia: "Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 - 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories....

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J. Arbuthnot Wilson (pseudonym of the real author, Grant Allen) tells this short story of his strange night spent inside "the great unopened Pyramid of Abu...

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Historical novel, first published in 1825. Set in Wales and Gloucester, England, in 1187-1192. According to Wikipedia: "Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (1771...

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Handsome, popular and much in demand in the Social world, Alstone, the Duke of Windlemere is bored with life and, seeking entertainment, he is drawn into a...

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Learning that the man she has called Father for the past thirty two years is not her biological parent, Annalee Theakston sets out to discover her true...

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Everything I have so far written, all my literary efforts both in Hungarian and English are no more than preliminary studies to this trilogy, said the author...

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Collection of essays, first published in 1914. According to Wikipedia: "Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English author, now...

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Classic mystery/detective novel. According to Wikipedia: "Ernest William Hornung (June 7, 1866 – March 22, 1921)... was an English author, most famous for...

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The Marquis of Whisinford and his friend Lord Alfred Middleton meet at White’s Club and tell each other how bored they are with the London Season and the...

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Year 2178, the Sky Project is about to begin. Sir Jonathan will use the Time-Space Translator to go and take Jesus in the year 30 and bring him to his time,...

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Three large book-length collections of essays in a single file, with links from the table of contents to each essay. Literary Friends and Acquaintances,...