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The Country Beyond, subtitled A Romance In the Wilderness, is a story of Jolly Roger McKay, an outcast on the run from the law; Nada, the girl he falls in love with; and Peter, the devoted mixed-breed dog who links the two together as no human cou......

The Black Arrow; a Tale of Two Roses. The Black Arrow tells the story of Richard (Dick) Shelton during the Wars of the Roses: how he becomes a knight, rescues his lady Joanna Sedley, and obtains justice for the murder of his father, Sir Harry S......

Stories of King Arthur and His Knights. Retold from Malorys Morte dArthur. Head into the fabled ancient land of early Britain to find all the famous characters are here from Lancelot, Merlin, Queen Guinevere and, of course, King Arthur. Book......

Fans of the Bronte sisters should add this remarkable volume of poetry to their must-read list. Initially released in 1846, this volume was the first work published by any of the sisters. In order to protect their identities and avoid the condesce......

Count Rupert of Hentzau, banished from Ruritania after the incidents of the earlier book, is plotting his return. In furtherance of his scheme he obtains both letter and rose, and plots to place them before the King. Rudolf, Fritz and Sapt must pr......

This sequel to Eight Cousins was written by Louisa May Alcott, the author of many well beloved childrens books including Little Women, An Old Fashioned Girl, Under the Lilacs and more. Opening several years after the close of Eight Cousins, we ......

Adele Garrison was the nom de plume of Nana Springer White, an American writer. Her career included time as a schoolteacher in Milwaukee. She later worked as an editor for the Milwaukee Sentinel and then a reporter and writer for the Chicago Exami......

Phineas Finn is the sequel to Can you Forgive Her? and the second novel in Trollopes Palliser series. The eponymous hero is a young Irishman who becomes a member of the English parliament. Trollope aspired to become an M.P. himself, and he ably de......

A romantic comedy, written in 1918, but with a modern feel to it. Patricia Brent one day overhears two fellow-boarders pitying her because she never has a nice young man to take her out. In a thoughtless moment of anger she announces that the foll......

Published in 1913, O Pioneers! is the first novel in Cathers Great Plains trilogy and follows the life of its young heroine, Alexandra Bergson, as she fulfills her fathers dying wish to take care of his farm, while also ensuring her brothers are w......

At the beginning of Gene Stratton-Porters thoroughly uplifting novel Michael OHalloran, the protagonist is a scrappy 10-year-old orphan who must literally fight every day to ensure his own survival. It is only when he stumbles across a little girl......

Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor (1869) by Richard Doddridge Blackmore (1825- 1900) is a romance novel set in 17th century England in the region of Exmoor. The story follows a farmer named John Ridd who falls in love with Lorna Doone (the granddau......

Le Morte dArthur (originally spelled Le Morte Darthur, Middle French for the death of Arthur) is a compilation by Sir Thomas Malory of Romance tales about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, and the Knights of the Round Table. The book......

Jane Hathaway and her niece, Ruth Thorne, have never met. Jane invites Ruth for a visit, but leaves before Ruth comes. Ruth agrees to come to Jane for quiet and rest. When Ruth arrives, the maid gives her a letter from her aunt. In the letter, Aun......

Louisa May Alcott November 29, 1832 - March 6, 1888) was an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Little Men (1871) and Jos Boys (1886). In it, Jos children, now grown, are caught u......

Lord Ernest Borrow and Captain Anthony Fenton think they know a secret a secret that could make them both rich. En route, they are sidetracked by Sir Marcus Antonius Lark, a woman who thinks shes Cleopatra reincarnate, a Gilded Rose of an America......

Separated from his wife Irene for some years now, Soames Forsyte has resigned himself to the fact shes never coming back. But as he grows older and richer, he yearns for an heir. When he confronts Irene, the raw wounds of his past passion are expo......

One of the great literary tragedies of all time, The Hunchback of Notre Dame features some of the most well-known characters in all of fiction - Quasimodo, the hideously deformed bellringer of Notre-Dame de Paris, his master the evil priest Claude......

This road trip novel is set in the early twentieth century and follows the experiences of an aristocratic New Englander and her father as they travel by automobile from Minneapolis to Seattle. She is wooed and won by a noble but then becomes invol......

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 thought he knew. However, tucked in among the rocks and hills lies an unfamiliar outpost which hes been told i......