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According to Wikipedia: "Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 November 28, 1859) was an American author, essayist, biographer and historian of the early 19th century. He was best known for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle", both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book...

According to Wikipedia: "James Oliver Curwood, (June 12, 1878 August 13, 1927), was an American novelist and conservationist. A great number of his works were turned into movies, several of which starred Nell Shipman as a brave and adventurous woman in the wilds of the north. Many films from Curwood's...

Illustrated with 67 color drawings. First published in 1906. According to Wikipedia: "Joel Chandler Harris (December 9, 1845 July 3, 1908) was an American journalist, fiction writer, and folklorist best known for his collection of Uncle Remus stories. Harris was born in Eatonton, Georgia, where he...

According to Wikipedia: "Jules Lermina (18391915) was a French writer... Lermina also penned a proto-Tarzan novel, To-Ho le Tueur d'Or (1905) (translated by Georges T. Dodds as To-Ho and the Gold Destroyers ISBN 978-1-935558-34-7, two sequels to the popular classic The Count of Monte-Cristo: Le Fils...

According to Wikipedia: "Percy Keese Fitzhugh (September 7, 1876 - July 5, 1950) is an American author of nearly 100 books for children and young adults... Fitzhugh’s Scouting based books were very popular with children and adults. His characters became so real to his readers that it was not uncommon...

According to Wikipedia: "Richard Harding Davis (18 April 1864—11 April 1916) was a popular writer of fiction and drama, and a journalist famous for his coverage of the Spanish-American War, the Second Boer War, and the First World War. Davis, whose mother Rebecca Harding Davis was also a prominent...

According to Wikipedia: "Charles Waddell Chesnutt (June 20, 1858 November 15, 1932) was an African-American author, essayist and political activist, best known for his novels and short stories exploring complex issues of racial and social identity…. Chesnutt's stories were more complex than those...

This file includes: The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig'; Carnacki, the Ghost Finder; The Ghost Pirates; The House on the Borderland; and The Night Land. According to Wikipedia: "William Hope Hodgson (15 November 1877 April 1918) was an English author. He produced a large body of work, consisting of essays,...

According to Wikipedia: "William Hope Hodgson (November 15, 1877 April 1918) was an English author. He produced a large body of work, consisting of essays, short fiction, and novels, spanning several overlapping genres including horror, fantastic fiction and science fiction. Early in his writing career...

Collection of 100 classic short stories, selected for use in middle school and high school. These include: The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche by Apuleius, Present at a Hanging and Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Bierce, The Yellow Wallpaper by Gilman, The Man Without a Country by Hale, The Wonderful...

Classic adventure novel. According to Wikipedia: "Edward Sylvester Ellis (April 11, 1840 June 20, 1916) was an American author who was born in Ohio and died at Cliff Island, Maine. Ellis was a teacher, school administrator, and journalist, but his most notable work was that that he performed as author...

Little-known novel by the author of Middlemarch. According to Wikipedia: "Mary Ann (Marian) Evans (1819 1880), better known by her pen name, George Eliot, was an English novelist. She was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Her novels, largely set in provincial England, are well known for...

Two classic 19th-century suspense novels by Robert Louis Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mister Hyde and The Master of Ballantrae.

According to Wikipedia: "Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis, better known as C. J. Dennis, (7 September 1876 - 22 June 1938) was an Australian poet famous for his humorous poems, especially "The Sentimental Bloke", published in the early 20th century."