Published 1900 onward
The Magnificent Adventure
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Emerson Hough
"The Magnificent Adventure" in 1916 was set at the time of the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark Expedition. This fiction…
A Spinner in the Sun
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Myrtle Reed
Myrtle Reed may always be depended upon to write a story in which poetry, charm, tenderness and humor are combined into a clever and enterta…
The Day of the Beast
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Zane Grey
Daren Lane, a World War I veteran, returns from the battlefields of Europe to the American Midwest. In Middletown USA, he encounters a postw…
Reginald
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Saki
A collection of humorous anecdotes centred on Reginald, a smug, self-centred and cynical young man, who never admits to being older than twe…
The Midlander
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Booth Tarkington
The Midlander was published in 1923 as the third novel in Booth Tarkington’s “Growth” trilogy that also includes The Turmoil and The Magnifi…
Black No More
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George Schuyler
Being an account of the strange and wonderful workings of science in the land of the free, A.D. 1933-1940. (Summary by author)
The Little Brown Jug at Kildare
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Meredith Nicholson
Two men in search of adventure and romance set off on their own journeys. Only to find themselves been drawn together to solve issues arisin…
The Shadow Flies
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Rose Macaulay
The title of the original, British release of this novel was They Were Defeated, referring, among other matters, to the English Civil War, 1…
The Auction Block
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Rex Beach
In the early twentieth century, politics were a much simpler affair, and much could be accomplished by diplomacy and compromise. But even th…
Fox Farm
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Warwick Deeping
Fox Farm is Warwick Deeping’s eloquent story of the challenges, dynamics, and fate of a family with a farm in England. It would have been mo…
The Radio Cop
Read by James R. Hedrick
Vic Whitman
Now he was not only a police announcer, but a news reporter, and the biggest story of the year was breaking right under his nose. As he desc…
The Dark Mother
Read by Jim Locke
Waldo Frank
"The Dark Mother" by Waldo David Frank is an early 20th century novel. It dives into human emotions, nature, and introspection thr…
Mr. Weston's Good Wine
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T. F. Powys
This 1927 novel describes an evening in 1923 when Mr. Weston, who is apparently a wine merchant, but is evidently God, visits the fictional …
David Blaize
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E. F. Benson
Written during World War I but set before the war, David Blaize is a coming-of-age story set in an all-boys boarding school. We follow David…
A High Wind in Jamaica
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
Richard Hughes
Childhood and piracy: an unlikely pairing, in a tragi-comic adventure. Neither Treasure Island nor Peter Pan prepares one for the kind of de…
The Thirteenth Man
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Mrs. Coulson Kernahan and Jeanie Gwynne Kernahan
Philip Barrimore is driven to distraction by his uncle, who has taken up residence in his mother's home. Against all advice, he takes a cott…
The Spirit of the Town
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Tod Robbins
A novel presentation in fiction form of the impulse and desire which mold the lives of men -- From the title page
This Finer Shadow
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Harlan Cozad Mcintosh
"This Finer Shadow" by Harlan Cozad McIntosh is a novel written in the early 20th century. The book intricately explores themes of…
Deep Moat Grange
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S. R. Crockett
Deep Moat Grange is a neglected estate in Scotland where this story of murder, mystery, humor and love abides. - Summary by Amy Gramour
Masterpieces of Mystery
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Joseph Lewis French
A selection of detective mysteries by a variety of well known authors. This collection is edited by Joseph Lewis French. - Summary by Miche…