Romance
The Lady of the Basement Flat
A naive young girl strikes out on her own and ends up leading a double life in this engaging tale of love lost and found. Summary by Judi M…
Persuasion
Eight years ago, Anne Elliot fell in love with a poor but ambitious young naval officer, Frederick Wentworth. The Elliots were dissatisfied …
I Say No
Emily Brown is an orphan girl that almost no one can help but love when they meet her. She is pursued by two worthy men: Mr. Alban Morris, t…
John Caldigate
After a rather dissolute youth and having been disowned by his father, John Caldigate sets sail for Australia with his friend Dick Shand hop…
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen's classic comic romance, in which the five Bennett sisters try to find that most elusive creature: a sing…
The Bartlett Mystery
This is a fast-paced mystery, set in New York City, has two or three really interesting ("round") characters, a solid plot, no che…
Jill the Reckless
Jill had money, Jill was engaged to be married to Sir Derek Underhill. Suddenly Jill becomes penniless, and she is no longer engaged. With a…
Helen's Babies
In this hilarious novel, Harry Burton, a bachelor white-goods salesman, goes to take care of his sister Helen's two little boys for ten days…
Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton's 1911 novel Ethan Frome tells the story of a tragic love triangle. Set in the highly symbolic wintry landscape of Starkfield,…
Twenty Years After
Twenty Years After picks up the story of D'Artagnan and his fellow musketeers two decades after the events of The Three Musketeers. As the w…
Whispering Smith
Whispering Smith, like most of Frank Spearman's western novels (and some non-fiction as well) are set in the world of railroads, in the late…
The Girl on the Boat
Also published as "Three Men and a Maid". The maid of the title is red-haired, dog-loving Wilhelmina "Billie" Bennet, an…
Jo's Boys
Jo’s little men and women are grown up and entering new stages of life. Along with discovering their individual niches, there are lots of le…
When a Man Marries
A divorced playboy hosts a dinner party complete with a stand in wife to placate his aunt who financially supports him. When his chef is hos…
The Valley of the Giants
The man was John Cardigan; in that lonely, hostile land he was the first pioneer. This is the tale of Cardigan and Cardigan's son, for in hi…
The Portrait of a Lady
The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880–81 an…
Flower of the North
Flower of the North finds Philip Whittemore on an adventure which takes him up the Churchill River of northern Canada to a land which he tho…
No Thoroughfare
Two boys from the Foundling Hospital are given the same name, with disastrous consequences in adulthood. Two associates, wishing to right th…
Mary Marston
Written at the height of George MacDonald's literary career, the story centers around the life of a simple merchant's daughter. Mary Marston…
Lady Anna
When it appeared in 1874, Lady Anna met with little success, and positively outraged the conservative - `This is the sort of thing the readi…