Cricket House Books: 13 books

The Mesmerist's Victim (or The Countess de Charnay) was originally published in 1853 and is the 4th of 5 books in the Marie Antoinette romances by Alexandre Dumas.

The Prince is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, De Principatibus (About Principalities). But the printed version was not published...

In The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins, Rachel Verinder, a young Englishwoman, inherits a large Indian diamond on her eighteenth birthday. The diamond is stolen from her bedroom, and a period of turmoil, unhappiness, misunderstanding, and ill-luck ensues.

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King Lear is considered one of William Shakespeare's greatest works. King Lear descends into madness after wrongly distributing his estate on the strength of flattery. The tragedy is particularly noted for its probing observations on the nature of human suffering and kinship. It has been widely adapted...

This book contains the titles Heretics (1905) and Orthodoxy (1908) by G. K. Chesterton. Considered companion volumes to each other by Chesterton. Heretics explores the usage and meanings and evolutions of the words "heretic" and "orthodoxy" through 20 essays. Orthodoxy was was...

Tarzan of the Apes tells the story of John Clayton, born in the western coastal jungles of equatorial Africa to a marooned couple from England, John and Alice (Rutherford) Clayton, Lord and Lady Greystoke. Adopted as an infant by the she-ape Kala after his parents died (his father is killed by the...

My Ántonia, first published 1918, is considered one of the greatest novels by American writer Willa Cather. It is the final book of her "prairie trilogy" of novels, the companion volumes being O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark. My Ántonia's narrator, Jim Burden,...

Elizabeth and Her German Garden is a novel by Elizabeth von Arnim, first published in 1898; it was very popular and frequently reprinted during the early years of the 20th century. The story is a year's diary written by the protagonist Elizabeth about her experiences learning gardening and...

Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola was originally published in France in 1867. It tells the story of a young woman who is unhappily married to her first cousin by an overbearing aunt. Thérèse's husband, Camille, is sickly and selfish, and when the opportunity arises,...

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The Solitary Summer is a bitter-sweet memoir and companion to the beloved Enchanted April, by Elizabeth von Arnim. "I went along the edge of the stream to the seat round the oak in my spring garden, where I sat a little, looking at the morning from there, drinking it in in long breaths, and determining to think of nothing but just be happy."

The New Freedom by Woodrow Wilson is a compilation of the speeches and ideals set forth by Wilson during the 1912 presidential campaign. Amongst the platform he based his election on, these speeches include his thoughts on Tariff Reform, Business Reform, and Banking Reform.