After the death of her last remaining relative and the sale of her Virginia home, Ariel Custer heads north to a promised job as a librarian's assistant. But when the job falls through, lovely Ariel's plea to God for help is realized when she meets Judson Grannis and her life takes a different turn.
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Lady Molly of Scotland Yard is a collection of short stories about Molly Robertson-Kirk, an early fictional female detective. First published in 1910, Orczy's female detective was the precursor of the lay sleuth who relies on brains rather than brawn. As well as being one of the first novels to feat...
This 1922 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald chronicles the life of Anthony Patch, the only heir of millionaire Adam Patch, his grandfather.
Anthony is young, handsome, and well-educated. He marries the ravishingly beautiful Gloria, and together they plan for the day that Anthony receives his inheritanc...
Explorer, journalist, and novelist, William Winwood Reade was born at Murrayfield, near Crieff in 1838, and died at Wimbledon in 1875.
A nephew of Charles Reade, he explored a wide range of literary genres, including history, travelogues, and fiction.
First published in 1872, The Martyrdom of Ma...
Herbert George (H.G.) Wells was an English writer, prolific in many genres. He wrote dozens of novels, short stories, social commentary, history, satire, biography, and autobiography. Wells, however, is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called the "father of science fic...
Three novels from comic master PG Wodehouse, featuring the incomparable Psmith!
First, in Psmith In the City, Psmith takes on the world of commerce, in his genial efforts to reform bank manager Mr. Bickersdyke. Then, in Psmith Journalist, he converts twee family periodical "Cosy Moments" into the...
A delightfully self-aware classic and a must for all fantasy lovers!
Set in a fairy-tale version of medieval Spain, the story follows Ramon Alonzo's initiation to the "Dark Arts" with a magician in order to procure the gold necessary for his sister's dowry. He befriends his master's charwoman, an...
The stories of Leonard Andreyev are built around characters whose lives have been formed by the machinations of a remorseless fate. Suffering is a monumental inevitability, and people are obliged to arrange their lives to accommodate it.
In this novella, an elderly man, who has endured a lengthy p...
Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch presented by The Online Stage
Severin is a passionate man who falls head over heels in love (or maybe lust?) with the beautiful young widow Wanda, begging her to treat him as her slave. Torn between pleasure and the fight against his own self-esteem, Seve...
Hemingway's short story collection, entitled In Our Time, was published in 1935.
Big Two-Hearted River features a single protagonist, Hemingway's recurrent autobiographical character Nick Adams, whose speaking voice is heard just three times. Hemingway explores the destructive qualities of war, bu...
From the age of the Dime Novel comes The King of the Detectives - Burt Brandon, who rights wrongs, does daring do's, rescues fair maidens. He comes to grips with the terrible, ghastly villain Bayard Knight in this turn of the 19th Century thriller of bygone times in New York City. It begins in the T...
Together with Omar Khayyam and Jalāl ud-Din Mohammad Rumi, Khwaja Shams-ud-din Mohammed Hafiz-e Shirazi, more commonly known just as Háfiz, is considered one of the major figures of classical Persian literature.
Gertrude Lothian Bell (1868 - 1926) was a traveler, archeologist, political advisor, a...
