General Fiction
Magna Carta
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Amice Macdonell
A one-act play which describes the setting and writing of the Magna Carta, including the famous line "now is justice bought and sold&qu…
Historical Tales
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Charles Morris and Charles Mclean Andrews
Volume VII of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This seventh volume cover…
The Song of Hugh Glass
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John Neihardt
This poem tells a story that begins in 1823 - just after the Leavenworth campaign against the Arikara Indians - and follows an expedition of…
Almayer's Folly
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Joseph Conrad
A European businessman and his Malayan wife have a daughter, Nina. A Malayan prince comes to do trade with the businessman and falls in love…
Our Little Australian Cousin
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Mary F. Nixon-Roulet
Another delightful look back at how people and children lived in the late 1800s in this part of the British Empire. This book introduces us …
The Cowardly Lion of Oz
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Ruth Plumly Thompson
Mustafa of Mudge has heard of the famous Cowardly Lion of Oz, and decides to capture him and put him into a zoo! He enlists the help of Bob …
Entrapped
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Alice Mangold Diehl
The story begins with a storm outside an old house and stormy scenes inside between the house’s occupants. It details the eventful life of Z…
The Sport of the Gods
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Sport of the Gods is a novel by Paul Laurence Dunbar, first published in 1902, centered around urban black life. Forced to leave the Sou…
Adeline Mowbray
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Amelia Opie
Everybody makes mistakes, and everything has a price. This novel describes, according to its name, the life of Adeline Mowbray, full of ever…
The Shaving of Shagpat
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George Meredith
The novel is a humorous oriental romance and allegory written in the style of the Arabian Nights. Like its model, it includes a number of st…
The Little Colonel
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Annie Fellows Johnston
The Little Kentucky "Colonel," so much of a favorite with young readers, has reached the age for interest in other people's love a…
Collection
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Various
This is what people were reading in 1903, short stories, poetry, and non-fiction articles. (Summary by BellonaTimes)
Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal
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Life in the Grey Nunnery was first published in Boston, in 1857 by Edward P. Hood, who was credited as the book's editor. It is likely that …
Christina
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L. G. Moberly
"Christina is a story of two people: Christina, a strong young and poor woman who searches for work and finds more than she bargained f…
Douglas Duane
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Edgar Fawcett
An introverted, kind-hearted book collector befriends a mad scientist, who isn’t exactly a good friend. When the scientist falls in love wit…
A Little Book for a Little Cook
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L. P. Hubbard
This charming little book compiles together a number of recipes, set out in an easy to understand manner, along with a poetic story about th…
Northern Trails
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William J. Long
The reader who follows these trails will find them leading into a new country, a land of space and silence where it is good to be, away up a…
Beckside Lights
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John Ackworth
John Ackworth was the pen name of the Rev. Frederick R. Smith, a Methodist minister who was born in Snaith, Yorkshire, but spent much of his…
Trains at Work
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Brigham Henry Roberts, Mary Elting, David Lyle Millard and Mary Elting Folsom
This is a wonderful children's book about trains, specifically those exciting steam engines that covered our country in the early 1900's. I…
The Lady's Mile
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
If you drive through the Lady's Mile, the most fashionable district in London, you will see people whose most distinguished ambition was to …