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Mild-mannered investment banker, cuckold, and dipsomaniac T. Lawrence Lamb gains perspective on the human condition during a series of mysterious...

A fascinating look at the impact of war, not only at the military front, but also on issues of social class and the role of women at the "home front."

The Tower of Ivory follows Margaret Hill, a singer whose talent attracts Al Levering. He rescues her from the notorious dive in which she is performing...

A group of soldiers travel by train across the United States in the aftermath of the First World War. One of them is horribly scarred, blind and almost...

The Poor Man is a vividly written love-story in which socially awkward Edward pursues bright and sociable Emily, with sidelights on San Francisco and China...

Jody Luther is a 15 year-old white girl battling insanity at home and hate-filled 1970 Jackson, Mississippi leading to the Jackson State Massacre. Jody has...

Chios Classics brings literature's greatest works back to life for new generations.  All our books contain a linked table of contents. Carmilla...

Maria Edgeworth was a prolific Irish writer and is considered to be a significant figure in the evolution of modern novels.  Edgeworth’s works are known for...

«Повесть о двух городах» (англ. A Tale of Two Cities) — изданный в 1859 году исторический роман Чарльза Диккенса о временах Французской революции. Это не...

Richard Meaney returns to his native Colorado after three years at Oxford, accompanied by his tutor, Mr. Chatsworthy. "As swift in pace and as highly...

Atherton wrote Patience Sparhawk and Her Times, A Novel in 1897, but it proved too controversial. In 1898, and John Lane of The Bodley Head agreed to...

"This is a most amusing little story of what we may call the “genteel farce” kind. Mrs. Pendleton, who has been a pronounced flirt in her married life,...

"Three long short stories: Kenny, a charming and rather eerie tale of a fawn-like boy who wins a place for himself on an Ohio farm, grows up there, and when...

In this incredibly original satirical novel we are introduced to the two main characters as The Gardener and The Suffragette, and so they remain throughout....

"That Which Never Returns" is a short story by Louis Bromfield (1896–1956), an American author and conservationist who gained international recognition,...

Quirky inventor Hunter Hawk strikes gold when he invents a device that will enable him to turn living matter into stone and to reverse the process at will....

Hugh Gaylord, spoiled young heir to more wealth than is good for him is shamed into going on a "he-man" adventure, looking to make something more of himself...

An American best-selling author of the early twentieth century, Winston Churchill wrote the historical novel ‘Richard Carvel’, which was a huge phenomenon...

This story was first published in MacLean’s, Vol. 40, No. 20, October 15, 1927 issue, pp: 3-5,44, 45 & 47. It won a prize of $125 in MacLean's short...