Literary Collections

The Touchstone is a novella written by Edith Wharton. It was published in 1900 and was her first published novella. Stephen Glennard betrays a former love, selling her letters to him so that he may raise the money to marry his beautiful fiancee. Stephen...

The Triumph Of Night is a short story by Edith Wharton. Edith Wharton ( born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize...

Among Burnett's most well-known works, A Little Princess is a wonderful tale that, at times, seems rather Dickensian and is certainly worth the time taken to read it.Author: Frances Hodgson BurnettPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing...

A Lady of Quality is a novel published in 1896 by Frances Hodgson Burnett that was the second highest best-selling book in the United States in 1896. It was the first of series of successful historical novels by Burnett.Author: Frances Hodgson...

A Fair Barbarian By Frances Hodgson Burnett From the Wild West to an English Village A beautiful young heiress from Bloody Gulch, Nevada, unexpectedly descends upon her aunt in the sleepy village of Slowbridge, England. As a young woman raised...

Esmeralda - NEW COMPLETE EDITION By Frances Hodgson Burnett 'To begin, I am a Frenchman, a teacher of languages, and a poor man, -necessarily a poor man, as the great world would say, or I should not be a teacher of languages, and my wife a copyist of...

In The Closed Room A Classic Short Gothic Ghost Story By Frances Hodgson Burnett In the fierce airless heat of the small square room the child Judith panted as she lay on her bed. Her father and mother slept near her, drowned in the heavy slumber of...

Little Saint Elizabeth and Other Stories - By Frances Hodgson Burnett Children's Classics She had not been brought up in America at all. She had been born in France, in a beautiful chateau, and she had been born heiress to a great fortune, but,...

Cedric himself knew nothing whatever about it. It had never been even mentioned to him. He knew that his papa had been an Englishman, because his mamma had told him so; but then his papa had died when he was so little a boy that he could not remember...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...

"SETH" Classics of Literature By Frances Hodgson Burnett He came in one evening at sun set with the empty coal-train-his dull young face pale and heavy-eyed with weariness, his corduroy suit dusty and travel-stained, his worldly possessions tied up in...

Surly TimAuthor: Frances Hodgson BurnettPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Apr 10, 2014Number of Pages: 44 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 149910331XISBN-13: 9781499103311

Although best known for "Little Lord Fauntleroy" and "The Secret Garden," Frances Hodgson Burnett was considered one of the leading writers in America on the strength of her adult novels, which made her name in the 1870s and 1880s. Ripe for rediscovery,...

The Secret Garden : 9781499103434Author: Francis Hodgson BurnettPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Apr 10, 2014Number of Pages: 208 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1499103433ISBN-13: 9781499103434

The Pretty Sister of Jos??,BurnettAuthor: Francis Hodgson"Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Sep 08, 2014Number of Pages: 78 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1499103441ISBN-13: 9781499103441

Oswaldtwistle Writers' Oswaldtwistle Writers' were formed in 2010, when Peter Jones, already a library volunteer approached library manager, Susan Jabbari about the possibility of starting a writers' group within the library. The group meets on the...

Amores : 9781499213096Author: D. H. LawrencePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Apr 22, 2014Number of Pages: 80 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1499213093ISBN-13: 9781499213096

England, My England By D.H. Lawrence Brand New Copy England, My England is the title of a collection of short stories by D. H. Lawrence. Individual items were originally written between 1913 and 1921, many of them against the background of World War I...

This volume of travel vignettes in North Italy was first published in 1916. Since then Mr. Lawrence has increased the number of his admirers year by year. In Twilight in Italy they will find all the freshness and vigour of outlook which they have come to...

A nice phrase: "A People's Theatre." But what about it? There's no such thing in existence as a People's Theatre: or even on the way to existence, as far as we can tell. The name is chosen, the baby isn't even begotten: nay, the would-be parents aren't...

Wintry PeacockAuthor: D. H. LawrencePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Apr 22, 2014Number of Pages: 48 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 149921314XISBN-13: 9781499213140

As Don Ippolito passed down the long narrow calle or footway leading from the Campo San Stefano to the Grand Canal in Venice, he peered anxiously about him: now turning for a backward look up the calle, where there was no living thing in sight but a cat...

A Litlle Swiss SojournAuthor: W. D. HowellsPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Apr 23, 2014Number of Pages: 56 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1499226225ISBN-13: 9781499226225

A Chance Acquaintance.Author: W. D. HowellsPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Apr 23, 2014Number of Pages: 138 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1499226233ISBN-13: 9781499226232

The village stood on a wide plain, and around it rose the mountains. They were green to their tops in summer, and in winter white through their serried pines and drifting mists, but at every season serious and beautiful, furrowed with hollow shadows, and...

A Traveler Form AltruriaAuthor: W. D. HowellsPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Apr 23, 2014Number of Pages: 160 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1499226322ISBN-13: 9781499226324

A Pair of Patient Lovers : 9781499226331Author: W. D. HowellsPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Apr 23, 2014Number of Pages: 170 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1499226330ISBN-13: 9781499226331

William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. He wrote his first novel, Their Wedding Journey, in 1871, but his literary reputation really took off with the realist novel A Modern Instance, published in 1882, which...

A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent FictionAuthor: William Dean HowellsPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Apr 23, 2014Number of Pages: 54 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1499226357ISBN-13:...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts -...