Dead Dodo: 194 books

It is in reality a gossiping history of California, and is primarily intended for children. The chapter headed “Before the Gringos Came" charmingly describes a passed-away life. “When I was a girl California was a Mexican Republic," it begins. The teller is supposed to be a very old lady looking...

Arguments are unnecessary to prove the existence of prostitution. The evil is so notorious that none can possibly gainsay it. But when its extent, its causes, or its effects are questioned, a remarkable degree of ignorance or carelessness is manifested. Few care to know the secret springs from which...

Doctor Therne is a 1898 science fiction novel about a plague that sweeps England. Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and the creator of the Lost World literary genre. His stories, situated at the lighter end of the...

My Lady Nicotine is the first-person account of a man, "a bachelor drifting towards what I now see to be tragic middle age", who is told by his wife-to-be that he can have smoking or her but not both. The fact that he's given up smoking is made clear from the start and the narrative is retrospective:...

This play was produced for the first time at Brighton, 19th February, 1923. Drinkwater was born in Leytonstone, London, and worked as an insurance clerk. In the period immediately before the First World War he was one of the group of poets associated with the Gloucestershire village of Dymock,...

Prester John was written as a boys' adventure story set mostly in South Africa. It was published in 1910 when Buchan was 35. The South African background was based on the two years from 1901 which Buchan spent as a private secretary to Lord Milner, High Commissioner to South Africa and later governor...

A different commentary on the First World War, this memoir is a compelling and insightful not from a soldier who has served in the front line but rather from a man who served in the war office. Thoroughly compulsive reading, putting so much into context and giving great insight into the major strategic decisions of the First World War.

Classic Crime Press presents you The History of the Remarkable Life of John Sheppard Containing a Particular Account of His Many Robberies and Escapes in a fantastic ebook edition.   A particular Account of his rescuing his pretended Wife from St. Giles's Round House. Of the wonderful...

The Interpretation of Dreams (German: Die Traumdeutung) is a book by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. The book introduces Freud's theory of the unconscious with respect to dream interpretation, and also first discusses what would later become the theory of the Oedipus complex. Freud revised the book...

This Housemartin Classics edition includes the full original text as well as an easy to use interactive table of contents.

This Tribeca Press edition includes the full original text as well as an easy to use interactive table of contents.

Jeremy is the story of one year, the eighth, in the life of a happy, normal but imaginative little boy, growing up with his two sisters and his dog, Hamlet, in the Cornish cathedral town of Polchester-by-the-sea, thirty years ago. A delightfully humorous chronicle; told with affection and understanding which mark it as autobiography.

It takes place in northern England. Oliver Bassett, an acter and director of a theater company is missing. A young author Mr. Copplestone, who has come to meet with Bassett and the business manager start out to find him. They track him to Scarhaven, where Copplestone meets Audrey Greyle, the cousin...

Classic Crime Press presents you Mr. Justice Raffles in a fantastic ebook edition.   Mr. Justice Raffles was a 1909 novel written by E.W. Hornung. It featured his popular character A. J. Raffles a well-known cricketer and gentleman thief. It was the fourth and last in his four Raffles...