Category Archives: Published 1900 onward
The Ambassadors
Author(s): Henry James Henry James considered The Ambassadors his best, or perhaps his best-wrought, novel....
Silas Strong
Author(s): Irving Bacheller Per the author: “The book has one high ambition. It has tried...
So Big
Author(s): Edna Ferber The story of Selina DeJong and her son Dirk, whom she affectionately...
Settlers of the Marsh
Author(s): Frederick Philip Grove The novel “Settlers of the Marsh” (1925) is a foundational work...
Senator North
Author(s): Gertrude Atherton “When, Mr. President, a man, however eminent in other pursuits and whatever...
Souls for Sale
Author(s): Rupert Hughes Perhaps the most commercially successful Hollywood novel of the 1920s, Rupert Hughes’...
Street Called Straight
Author(s): Basil King Henry Guion, a rich and successful American businessman, faces complete ruin and...
Poor White: a Novel
Author(s): Sherwood Anderson This is a story of the effect of industrialization on a small...
Mystery of the Fires (version 2)
Author(s): Edith Lavell Mary Louise Gay decided to spend the summer holiday in her family’s...
Marriage à la Mode
Author(s): Mary Augusta Ward While travelling in the USA, Roger Barnes, a handsome Englishman, meets...
Mrs. Dalloway (Version 2)
Author(s): Virginia Woolf Clarissa Dalloway is having a party. Join her and a web of...
Rain (Version 2)
Author(s): W. Somerset Maugham Rain charts the moral disintegration of a missionary attempting to convert...
Prelude To Adventure
Author(s): Hugh Walpole Olva Dune is a Cambridge undergraduate who commits a murder and at...
Peggy Raymond’s School Days (or Old Girls And New)
Author(s): Harriet Lummis Smith Published in 1916, this third installment with The Friendly Terrace girls...
Michael O’Halloran
Author(s): Gene Stratton-Porter The story of a plucky, optimistic newsboy, Michael O’Halloran, who has been...
Old Rose And Silver
Author(s): Myrtle Reed The novel follows the lives of Rose and her widowed Aunt, Madame...
Pierre & Jean
Author(s): Guy de Maupassant This short novel’s titular characters are brothers. An old family friend...
Queen Lucia
Author(s): E. F. Benson E. F. Benson was born at Wellington College in Berkshire, where...
Ring for Nancy: A Sheer Comedy
Author(s): Ford Madox Ford Major Edward Brent Foster is on his way to a house...
Overlooked
Author(s): Maurice Baring At a summer resort, a blind man, who has never written a...
Martha by-the-day
Author(s): Julie M. Lippmann A load of meddling leads to comedic scenes in this drama...
Molly Brown’s Senior Days
Author(s): Nell Speed This novel is the fourth in a series of eight books written...
Maria Chapdelaine (version 2)
Author(s): Louis Hémon The novel Maria Chapdelaine portrays life in rural Quebec at the beginning...
Parnassus on Wheels
Author(s): Christopher Morley Parnassus on Wheels is about a fictional traveling book-selling business. The original...
Nell and Her Grandfather
Author(s): Anonymous If you have heard of the Dickens novel, The Old Curiosity Shop, and...
Passage to India
Author(s): E. M. Forster E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India (1924) is widely acclaimed...
Phyllis
Author(s): Maria Thompson Daviess Phyllis is a lonely little rich girl who comes with her...
Rainbow Valley (version 2)
Author(s): Lucy Maud Montgomery The story moves from Anne and Gilbert to their six children,...
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Author(s): James Joyce This is James Joyce’s first novel, the semi-autobiographical story of a young...
Rilla of Ingleside (version 2)
Author(s): Lucy Maud Montgomery Rilla of Ingleside (1921) is the final book in the Anne...