Published 1900 onward
The Mystery of the Ravenspurs
The Ravenspurs have for generations resided quietly in prosperity and comfort at their seaside castle. But the clan is suddenly besieged wit…
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…
Running Water
Although A.E.W. Mason is best known for The Four Feathers, an adventure novel of 1902 set in Egypt and the Sudan (and filmed several times),…
The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry
Letitia, Aggie and Lizzie are at it again, solving mysteries, getting into scrapes. Is there no end to the antics of these three spinster la…
The Man of the Desert
Fleeing from an aggressive suitor, Hazel Radcliffe becomes hopelessly lost in the Arizona desert. Exhausted, she falls unconscious from her …
Sons and Lovers
Lawrence summarised the plot of Sons and Lovers in a letter to Edward Garnett in 1912:“It follows this idea: a woman of character and refine…
Rilla of Ingleside
Rilla of Ingleside (1921) is the final book in the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery, but was the sixth of the eight "…
こころ
語り手は、鎌倉の海岸で、先生と知り合いになる。東京に戻ってからも度々、先生の家を訪ねた。先生は、苦悩持っていた。先生の友人Ｋが、先生が若い頃に自殺をした。先生は、毎月、その友人の墓を訪ねていた。 語り手が、大学を卒業し、父の病の為に帰省したままで、東京に戻れない時、先生からの遺書…
Daddy-Long-Legs
Jerusha Abbott was brought up at the John Grier Home, an old-fashioned orphanage. The children were wholly dependent on charity and had to w…
Fifty-one Tales
A multitude of very short stories populated with things that lurk in the dark corners of human imagination. Wonderfully crafted and sometime…
The Ghost Girl
Henry Kitchell Webster is an American author best know for his detective novels. The Ghost Girl opens with a murder mystery. A young woman's…
A Thin Ghost And Others
Five ghost stories, published in 1920, by the early twentieth century master of ghostery. - Summary by david wales
Mrs. Dalloway
Clarissa Dalloway is having a party. Join her and a web of connections in exploring London, their memories and their innermost thoughts and …
The Flood
A well-to-do French farm family is destroyed by a flood. The story, thrilling to the very end, is told from the point of view of the family…
Three Stories & Ten Poems
The author arranged for this collection of three short stories and ten poems to be printed in a small run of 300 copies in Dijon (France.) T…
The Financier
In Philadelphia, Frank Cowperwood, whose father is a banker, makes his first money by buying cheap soaps on the market and selling it back w…
El País del Placer
El país del placer llamada así por la primera traducción en español de esta novela de Edith Wharton publicada po…
The Affair at the Semiramis Hotel
Inspector Hanaud is a member of the French Sûreté. He is said to have been the model for Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, as w…
A Girl of the Limberlost
Set in the Limberlost swamp of Indiana, A Girl of the Limberlost follows Elnora Comstock through struggles and triumphs as she seeks educati…
Blazed Trail Stories
Thirteen short stories by a popular writer of the early 20th century (not to be confused with an earlier book Blazed Trail). White's books …