Murder in Steeple Martin by Lesley Cookman published by Smashwords
First in a series of British murder mysteries featuring retired middle-aged actress and sleuth, Libby Sarjeant. Artist and ex-actress Libby Sarjeant is busy directing a play for the opening of a new...
View ArticleThe Man on the Box by Harold MacGrath published by ManyBooks
A gay romance of Washington today, carried off with admirable dash and spirit, and with just enough tragedy to give point to the comic touch. The hero masquerades as a coachman, takes service in his...
View ArticleVillette by Charlotte Brontë published by Pennsylvania State University
With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls’ boarding school in the small town of Villette. There she struggles to retain her self-possession in...
View ArticleGuy Mannering by Sir Walter Scott published by eBooks@Adelaide
On the auspicious night that Guy Mannering is shown to the house of the Bertrams of Ellengowan, the Bertrams heir is born, and Mannering, a skeptical astrologer, predicts the child s future. Five years...
View ArticleThe Shadow Out of Time by H.P. Lovecraft published by eBooks@Adelaide
This is the story of the Great Race s conquest of time and space by means of mind-projection, and the hapless fate of Professor Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee as a victim of the Great Race s quest for all...
View ArticleComing up for Air by George Orwell published by eBooks@Adelaide
Insurance salesman George “Fatty” Bowling lives with his humorless wife and their two irritating children in a dull house in a tract development in the historyless London suburb of West Bletchley. The...
View ArticleThe Return of Sherlock Holmes published by McClure, Phillips & co.
Resurrected after his apparent death three years earlier, the older and wiser Holmes of these stories shows a willingness to let his conscience prevail over the letter of the law. In The Empty House,...
View ArticleShort Story Writing by Charles Raymond Barrett published by Project Gutenberg
This book is an attempt to put into definite form the principles observed by the masters of the short story in the practice of their art. It is the result of a careful study of their work, of some...
View ArticleMothers & Other Monsters by Maureen F. McHugh published by Small Beer Press
The 13 stories in McHugh s debut collection offer poignant and sometimes heartwrenching explorations of personal relationships and their transformative power. Each story in this collection meditates in...
View ArticleThe Trespasser by D. H. Lawrence published by Pennsylvania State University
“The Trespasser” is the second novel written by D. H. Lawrence. Originally it was entitled the “Saga of Siegmund” and drew upon the experiences of a friend of Lawrence, Helen Corke, and her adulterous...
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