Bay Books: 428 books

* Book : Herland * Biography * Bibliography Herland is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society composed entirely of women who reproduce via parthenogenesis (asexual reproduction). The result is an ideal social order, free of war, conflict and domination.

* Book : Typee * Biography * Bibliography Based on Melville's actual experiences after having jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands, this work was extremely popular, and provoked disbelief among its readers until the events it described were corroborated by Melville's fellow castaway, Richard...

* Book : Redburn * Biography * Bibliography Wellington Redburn is a fifteen-year-old from the state of New York, with only one dream - to run away to sea. However, when he does fulfil this long-held fantasy, he quickly finds that reality as a cabin boy is far harsher than he ever imagined....

* Book : Fair Margaret * Biography * Bibliography In the turbulent reign of King Henry VII, Peter Brome finds himself with a soldier's blood on his hands -- blood the Spanish ambassador's men demand be repaid. Poor and fatherless, Peter delivered the killing blow in self-defense -- and because...

* Book : Dawn * Biography * Bibliography "You lie; you always were a liar, and you always will be a liar. You told my father how I spent the money." "Well, and what if I did? I had to look after myself, I suppose. You forget that I am only here on sufferance, whilst you are the...

* Book : Doctor Therne * Biography * Bibliography Doctor Therne is an 1898 science fiction novel about a plague that sweeps England. "James Therne is not my real name, for why should I publish it to the world? A year or two ago it was famous or infamous enough, but in that time...

* Book : Stella Fregelius * Biography * Bibliography As the title suggests, Stella Fregelius: a Tale of Three Destinies is a story of the overlapping fates of 3 people in a northern coastal region of England. The story follows Morris Monk, an aspiring inventor, as he gets engaged to his first...

* Book : Moon of Israel * Biography * Bibliography "This is the story of certain of the days that I, the scribe Ana, son of Meri, lived through, here upon this earth . . ." "I tell of Merapi -- who was named Moon of Israel! -- and of her people, the Hebrews, who dwelt...

* Book : The Virgin of the Sun * Biography * Bibliography "A tale that deals with the marvellous Incas of Peru; with the legend also that, long before the Spanish Conquerors entered on their mission of robbery and ruin, there in that undiscovered land lived and died a White God risen from the sea."

* Book : She (A History of Adventure) * Biography * Bibliography A young Cambridge University professor, Horace Holly, is visited by a colleague, Vincey, who reveals that he will soon die. Vincey proceeds to tell Holly a fantastical tale of his family heritage. He charges Holly with the task...

* Book : Eric Brighteyes * Biography * Bibliography The Saga of Eric Brighteyes is the title of an epic Viking novel by H. Rider Haggard, and concerns the adventures of its eponymous principal character in 10th century Iceland. Eric Thorgrimursson (nicknamed "Brighteyes" for his most...

* Book : Queen Sheba's Ring * Biography * Bibliography The discovery of a ring, given to the Queen of Sheba by King Solomon himself, launches this tale of romance and adventure from master storyteller H. Rider Haggard, the author of King Solomon's Mines.

* Book : The Ancient Allan (Allan Quatermain .6) * Biography * Bibliography A gripping novel which takes us and the hero, adventurer Allan Quatermain, back in time. It relates several exciting adventures like a lion hunt, wrestling with a crocodile, and a large-scale battle between various...

* Book : Nada the Lily * Biography * Bibliography Nada the Lily is set at the time of Chaka, the Zulu king, around whom much of the action turns, but essentially the book is the story of Umslopogaas, and of "his love for Nada, the most beautiful of Zulu women." They have been brought...