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Charles Dickens
CHARLES JOHN HUFFAM DICKENS was born February 7, 1812, at Portsea, England, where his father was a clerk in the Navy Pay office. He died at…
David Copperfield
4 pages
The History of Pendennis
3 pages
Rudyard Kipling
RUDYARD KIPLING was born December 30, 1865, in Bombay, where his father, John Lockwood Kipling, artist and author, was professor in the…
Captains Courageous
4 pages
Quo Vadis
2 pages
H.g. Wells
HERBERT GEORGE WELLS, one of the most discussed living novelists, was born at Bromley, Kent, on September 21, 1866, the son of a famous…
The War of the Worlds
3 pages
The Marble Faun
4 pages
The Pilgrim's Progress
5 pages
The Last Days of Pompeii
2 pages
Conan Doyle
2 pages
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Jack London
JACK LONDON was born, with the love of adventure in his veins, at San Francisco, January 12, 1870. He started his education at…
The House of the Seven Gables
By NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Condensation by JOSEPHINE VAN TASSEL BRUORTON OF your courtesy, I beg you to call this tale a Romance…
File No. 113
By EMILE GABORIAU Condensation by ISABEL ANDERSON "AN exceptionally daring robbery--prominent bank entered--huge sum taken!" were…
James Lane Allen
JAMES LANE ALLEN, who lived much in New York City since 1886, had the good fortune to spend his boyhood in a country of…
Oliver Twist
By CHARLES DICKENS Condensation by REV. HOWARD LAFIELD OLIVER TWIST was born about seventy-five miles from London, in the…
Miss Mulock
DINAH MARIA MULOCK was born at Stoke-upon-Trent on April 20, 1826, the daughter of a minister. She died October 12, 1887.