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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
Sir Nigel
5 pages
Sir Walter Scott
WALTER SCOTT was born in Edinburgh on August 15, 1771. His father was a lawyer, the first of the Scott line to leave the open country for…
The Heart of Midlothian
3 pages
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 surpassing…
By James Lane Allen
2 pages
Les Miserables
3 pages
Robinson Crusoe
4 pages
The Arabian Nights
By THE PRINCESS SHEHERAZADE Condensation by ALFRED S. CLARK SHEHERAZADE was a vizier's daughter and when she besought her father to wed her…
The Story of Aladdin's Lamp
Of Aladdin, son of a poor tailor in China, a prankish scamp. An African magician guided him to a subterranean cave where he found the lamp…
The Story of Sinbad
Of Sinbad the sailor and his marvelous voyages. Wherein it is related that Sinbad landed upon what seemed an island, but which was a great…
The Story of the Forty Thieves
Of Ali Baba and his discovery of the stone that swung wide when a voice cried "Open, Sesame!" In the cave was the booty of forty thieves…
Many Other Fascinating Stories
Of the Magic Horse of ebony and ivory, so fashioned that its rider, by pressing divers buttons, could fly whither he willed. It bore a…
About Harun-Al-Rashid
And of many tales concerning the Caliph Harun-al-Rashid and his going disguised into the lanes and bazaars of Bagdad, where he chanced upon…
Anthony Hope
ANTHONY HOPE, known outside the world of books as Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, was born in London, February 9, 1863, the son of a clergyman…
The Prisoner of Zenda
3 pages
Robert Louis Stevenson
4 pages
James Fenimore Cooper
COOPER was born in New Jersey in 1789, but when only about a year old removed to his father's almost feudal domain at Cooperstown, New…
The Pilot
3 pages
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…
The Sea Wolf
3 pages
The Master of Ballantrae
3 pages
By James Fenimore Cooper
3 pages
File No. 113
2 pages
Margaret Deland
MARGARETTA WADE CAMPBELL was born at Allegheny, Pennsylvania, February 23, 1857. When only sixteen she went to New York to study drawing…
The Awakening of Helena Richie
3 pages
Lew Wallace
LEWIS WALLACE, generally known by the shorter name Lew, was born in 1827 at Brookville, Indiana, and perhaps was, quite unconsciously…
Ben-Hur: a Tale of the Christ
3 pages
Henry Esmond
3 pages
The Toilers of the Sea
5 pages
Booth Tarkington
BOOTH TARKINGTON was born at Indianapolis, July 29, 1869. Indiana had not then become so firmly convinced as she is now that the literary…
By Booth Tarkington
6 pages
By Charles Dickens
4 pages
By Helen Hunt Jackson
2 pages
By Sir Walter Scott
3 pages
George Du Maurier
5 pages
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.
John Halifax, Gentleman
4 pages
Jane Porter
JANE PORTER, British novelist, was born at Durham in 1776. Her life and literary reputation were closely linked with those of her sister…
Thaddeus of Warsaw
4 pages
James M. Barrie
JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE is one of that great army of Scotchmen who take general charge of England. He was born at Kirriemuir, May 9, 1860. He…
The Little Minister
4 pages
Vanity Fair
3 pages
Charlotte Bronte
CHARLOTTE BRONTE, sister of Emily and Anne Bronte, was born April 21, 1816, and died March 31, 1855.
Jane Eyre
3 pages
The Last of the Barons
3 pages
Oliver Goldsmith
OLIVER GOLDSMITH, English poet, playwright, novelist, and man of letters, was born in 1728. There has been some question as to the place of…
The Vicar of Wakefield
5 pages
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
4 pages
Dean Swift
THE great Dean of St. Patrick's who ranks among the mighty satirists of all ages and all lands, was born in Hoey's Court, Dublin, November…
Gulliver's Travels
4 pages
The Newcomes
3 pages
Jules Verne
JULES VERNE was born at Nantes, February 8, 1828. Though he had gone to Paris to study for the bar, he followed in the footsteps of the…
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
2 pages
Louisa M. Alcott
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT was born in 1832 and died in 1888. She was the daughter of A. Bronson Alcott, the "Sage of Concord." Her early…
Little Women
3 pages
Winston Churchill
2 pages
Richard Carvel
3 pages
The White Company
4 pages
A Tale of Two Cities
3 pages
Charles Kingsley
9 pages
George Sand
LUCILE-AURORE DUPIN, as she was born in Berry in 1804, was the great-great-granddaughter of the famous Marshal Saxe. She had in her veins…
Consuelo, the Gypsy Singer
3 pages
R. D. Blackmore
RICHARD DODDRIDGE BLACKMORE was born at Longworth, Berkshire, England, June 7, 1825. He was educated at Blundell's School, Tiverton, and at…
Lorna Doone
4 pages
Little Dorrit
3 pages
George Eliot
5 pages
Adam Bede
2 pages
Thomas Hardy
THOMAS HARDY, probably the most searching and profound novelist of our time, was born June 2, 1840, in Dorsetshire, England. He died on…
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
2 pages
Cerv Antes
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, dramatist and novelist, was born in 1547, the son of a Spanish druggist and surgeon. He died in Madrid in…
Don Quixote
2 pages
Mrs. Henry Wood
ELLEN PRICE was born at Worcester, England, January 17, 1814, the daughter of a glove manufacturer. In 1836 she married Henry Wood, head of…
East Lynne
3 pages
The Count of Monte Cristo
2 pages
Paul and Virginia
2 pages
Thomas Hughes
THOMAS HUGHES was born October 20, 1822, at Uffington, Berks. He died on March 22, 1896. In 1834 his father sent Tom to Rugby to be under…
Tom Brown's School Days
5 pages
Dombey and Son
4 pages
Washington Irving
WASHINGTON IRVING was born in New York in 1783 and died at his home "Sunnyside" on the Hudson in 1859. Intended for the law, in which he…
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
4 pages
The Last of the Mohicans
4 pages
W. Clark Russell
3 pages
Sir Gilbert Parker
GILBERT PARKER, British novelist, was born at Camden East, Addington, Ontario, on the 23d of November, 1862. He was educated at Ottawa and…
The Right of Way
7 pages
Far from the Madding Crowd
3 pages
Wilkie Collins
2 pages
The Woman in White
3 pages
Hall Caine
THOMAS HENRY HALL CAINE, since 1918 Sir Hall, of Manx descent, was born at Runcorn, May 14, 1853.
The Deemster
6 pages
Oliver Twist
4 pages
Le Sage
ALAIN RENE LE SAGE, author of one of the world's most remarkable books, was born on December 13, 1668, in a small town of western France…
Gil Blas
3 pages
Charles Reade
CHARLES READE, English dramatist and novelist, was born at Ipsden, Oxfordshire, on June 8, 1814.
By Charles Reade
5 pages
The Virginians
6 pages
Harriet Beecher Stowe
HARRIET BEECHER was born at Litchfield, Connecticut, in 1811. She died at Hartford, Conn, on July 1, 1896. She came of a family which…
Uncle Tom's Cabin
4 pages
The Scarlet Letter
5 pages
Lewis Carroll
LEWIS CARROLL (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) was born in the village of Darebury, Cheshire, England, January 27, 1832. He was a mathematician…
Alice in Wonderland
3 pages
Eugene Sue
EUGENE SUE was born at Paris, January 20, 1804. His father was a distinguished surgeon in Napoleon's army, and he himself served in a like…
The Mysteries of Paris
3 pages
Sir Walter Besant
SIR WALTER BESANT, novelist and biographer, lover of London and of the poor folk who lived in the slums of the British metropolis, was born…
All Sorts and Conditions of Men
4 pages
Anna Karenina
4 pages
Vivian Grey
3 pages
Abbe Constantin
3 pages
Frances Hodgson Burnett
THIS very large number of novels credited to the name of Mrs. Burnett includes important studies of life in both countries she has known…
The Shuttle
3 pages
Homer's Iliad
3 pages
Homer's Odyssey
2 pages
Virgil's Aeneid
2 pages
Captain Marryat
3 pages
The Old Curiosity Shop
4 pages
The Deerslayer
4 pages
On the Heights
4 pages
The Three Musketeers
5 pages
Twenty Years After
4 pages
The Moonstone
2 pages
Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman
MRS. MARY ELEANOR WILKINS-FREEMAN is a direct descendant of the Puritans. In her was born an understanding of old New England, its quaint…
Jerome: a Poor Man
5 pages
John Lamson
P.S.--I meant Jerome's twenty-five thousand to be used as he used it.--J.L. DICKENS DICKENS did not live to be an old man, as "old age" is…
Died June the Ninth 1870
Near him lies David Garrick; and facing the grave on its left and right are the monuments of Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Dryden.
Bleak House
5 pages
The House of the Seven Gables
2 pages
Mark Twain
"I AM sorry to know you are smoking so much, Mr. Clemens," remarked a lady in Mark Twain's early days. "This is the second time within the…
Pudd'nhead Wilson
3 pages
Treasure Island
3 pages
The Crisis
3 pages