Anna Simon
Patricia Brent, spinster
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Herbert George Jenkins
A romantic comedy, written in 1918, but with a modern feel to it. Patricia Brent one day overhears two fellow-boarders pitying her because s…
The Grand Babylon Hotel
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Arnold Bennett
Theodore Racksole, a rich American multi-millionaire, buys the Grand Babylon Hotel, a luxurious hotel in London, as a whim - and then finds …
The Praise of Folly
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Desiderius Erasmus
The Praise of Folly (Greek title: Morias Enkomion (Μωρίας Εγκώμιον), Latin: Stultitiae Laus, sometimes translated as In Praise of Folly, Dut…
Looking Backward: 2000-1887
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Edward Bellamy
Looking Backward: 2000-1887 is a utopian novel by Edward Bellamy, first published in 1888. It was the third largest bestseller of its time, …
Malcolm Sage, Detective
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Herbert George Jenkins
A collection of short stories that chronicles the first year of the Malcolm Sage Detective Bureau.Sequel or companion story of John Dene of …
The Return of Alfred
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Herbert George Jenkins
The hero of the book is at a loose end, weary and bored of his old life after returning from the Great War. After an argument with his uncle…
In Brief Authority
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F. Anstey
Satiric comedy from 1915 about a nouveau riche British family and their nanny who get whisked off to Maerchenland ('the land of Fairy Tales'…
Anarchy
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Errico Malatesta
Anarchy explained by the anarchist Errico Malatesta. (Summary by Vineshen Pillay)
An Irishman's difficulties with the Dutch language
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Cuey-Na-Gael
Jack O'Neill, an Irishman, has just returned from a month's holiday in The Netherlands. Before he left, he had boasted to his friends that h…
Anthony Trent, Master Criminal
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Wyndham Martyn
In 1918, Anthony Trent, a well-educated young man in his late twenties, lives an unsatisfactory life in a New York boarding house. He writes…
The Secret of the Silver Car
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Wyndham Martyn
Before he went to join the Armed Forces in World War I France, Anthony Trent had a successful secret 'career' as a master criminal in the U…
The Awkward Age
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Henry James
Nanda Brookenham is coming of age, and thus 'coming out' in London society - which leads to complications in her family's social set in Lond…
A Silent Witness
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R. Austin Freeman
In this detective novel, the young doctor Humphrey Jardine stumbles upon a corpse during a walk near Hampstead Heath in the middle of the ni…
The Rain-Girl
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Herbert George Jenkins
Richard Beresford has recently returned from the WW-I trenches. He feels he can't go back to his old life in the Foreign Office. Instead, he…
Hide and Seek
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Wilkie Collins
The artist Valentine Blyth has a very generous heart. He lovingly cares for his invalid wife, rescues a deaf orphan girl from maltreatment i…
The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale
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Frank L. Packard
In the previous book of adventures, we met Jimmie Dale, a wealthy playboy by day, who at night put on a disguise and became The Gray Seal, a…
God's fool
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Maarten Maartens
At the age of nine, Elias Lossell becomes deaf and blind from an accident. Communication with him becomes difficult, and mentally, he never …
Jimmie Dale and the Phantom Clue
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Frank L. Packard
Jimmie Dale, alias The Gray Seal, alias Smarlinghue, is back in the criminal underworld of New York. He is desperately trying to find the cr…
Dodo: A Detail of the Day
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E. F. Benson
Fashionably controversial bestseller at the time of appearance (1893), portraying London "society" in the Fin de Siècle. Do…
The Position of Peggy Harper
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Leonard Merrick
Novel set in the shabby world of British (third-rate) theaters circa 1900. Christopher Tatham tries to survive by going from bit part to bit…
The Crimson Circle
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Edgar Wallace
The Crimson Circle gang spreads fear by extortion and murder. Its members range from rich, powerful bankers to petty criminals, and none of …