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A Noble Woman
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Ernest Protheroe
Edith L. Cavell (1865–1915) was a British nurse who attended to soldiers of both sides during World War I, and helped some 200 Allied soldie…
Inside the Lines
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Earl Derr Biggers
As World War I commences, a plucky young American woman in Europe on a business trip begins to realize that she may have remained too long. …
A Rebel's Recollections
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George Eggleston
George Cary Eggleston's Civil War memoir begins with a separate essay on the living conditions and political opinions of Virginia’s citizenr…
The Thousandth Woman
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E. W. Hornung
E. W. Hornung was an English author and poet best known for writing the A. J. Raffles series of stories about a gentleman thief in late 19th…
Death in Venice
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Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann, author of Death in Venice (German: Der Tod in Venedig) was a winner of the Nobel Prize for literature. The main character in th…
Devlin the Barber
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B. L. Farjeon
The stabbing death of a beautiful young woman in a London park at night and the disappearance of her sister; a shocked and heartbroken young…
The Last Entry
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William Clark Russell
This is a sea-faring novel set in 1837. A wealthy former seaman from London and his daughter, who is engaged to be married, set sail on his …
Nothing But the Truth
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Frederic Stewart Isham
A young man, finding himself unexpectedly impecunious, attempts to improve his fortunes by wagering that he can speak nothing but the absolu…
The Flirt
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Booth Tarkington
Laura and Cora Madison and their younger brother Hedrick live with their parents in a Midwestern American town that is fairly bursting with …
The Night Club
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Herbert George Jenkins
This work of fiction by Herbert Jenkins (1876-1923) features one of his best-loved comic characters, the affable Cockney, Joseph Bindle. It …
A Negro Explorer at the North Pole
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Matthew A. Henson
In this fascinating memoir, Matthew Henson describes the incredibly dangerous, exhausting, and bone-chilling trip to what was until then the…
Smoke
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Ivan Turgenev
Smoke is an 1867 novel by the highly acclaimed Russian writer Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883) that tells the gripping story of a secret love affai…
The Four Stragglers
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Frank L. Packard
This thrilling novel teems with intrigue and unforgettable characters. It opens during WWI with a few allied soldiers lost at night behind G…
Love in a Mask
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Honoré de Balzac
Love in a Mask, or Imprudence and Happiness, is an entertaining short novel by Honoré de Balzac, unpublished in his lifetime. Beginni…
Pierre & Jean
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Guy de Maupassant
This short novel’s titular characters are brothers. An old family friend dies, leaving without explanation his entire fortune to Jean, the y…
The Dark
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Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev
The Dark is a novella about a desperate young man, a “terrorist and nihilist”, trying to avoid arrest by taking refuge in a brothel. The sto…
From North Carolina to Southern California Without a Ticket
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John Peele
"... I have decided to write an account of a few of the many adventures and dangers that befell me while making my way, practically wit…
The Shadow
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Arthur Stringer
A manhunt for a bank robber takes a determined and fixated New York City detective on a gripping, globe-spanning adventure, with many plot t…
Take it From Dad
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George Livermore and George G. Livermore
Take It From Dad is a collection of letters written by a father to his son, Ted, at boarding school, away from home for the first time. In e…
Uncle Wiggily's Fortune
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Howard R. Garis
Uncle Wiggily Longears is the main character of a series of children's stories by American author Howard R. Garis. He began writing the stor…