Dead Dodo: 194 books

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Elinor Glyn, ‘Halcyone.’   Outside one of the park gates there was a little house. In the prosperous days of the La Sarthe it had been the land steward but when there was no longer any land to steward it had gone with the rest, and...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Irvin S. Cobb, ‘A Plea for Old Cap Collier.’   This is a short novel in which the author makes the case for the value of dime novels as a more fun, immediate read than the "classic" books more in favor with parents and educators....

Dodo Classics brings you another classic from Henry James, ‘The Real Thing and Other Tales.’   This story, often read as a parable, plays with the reality-illusion dichotomy that fascinated James, especially in the later stages of his career. For the illustrator who narrates the...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Arnold Bennett, ‘"Sacred and Profane Love: A Novel in Three Episodes."’   Enoch Arnold Bennett (always known as Arnold Bennett) was one of the most remarkable literary figures of his time, a product of the English Potteries...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Bell Wright Harold, ‘The Uncrowned King.’   The Uncrowned King is a beautiful allegory about life, religion, and how we perceive it all.   Harold Bell Wright was a best selling American author of the first part of the...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Harold Bell Wright, ‘The Eyes of the World.’   A romance that takes place among the orange groves of Southern California. This is a morality play whose lessons are as suitable to an artistic society today as they were nearly a century...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Irvin S. Cobb, ‘Roughing it De Luxe.’   “Cobb is a marvelous writer. The section about his travels in the Grand Canyon needs to be read by every person who likes both travel and humor, because it's hysterically funny. Cobb comes...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Arnold Bennett, ‘"Leonora."’   Enoch Arnold Bennett (always known as Arnold Bennett) was one of the most remarkable literary figures of his time, a product of the English Potteries that he made famous as the Five Towns....

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Oscar Wilde, ‘Intentions’. Originally published in 1891 when Wilde was at the height of his form, these brilliant essays on art, literature, criticism, and society display the flamboyant poseur’s famous wit and wide learning. A leading...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Oscar Wilde, ‘A House of Pomegranates’. A House of Pomegranates is a collection of fairy tales, written by Oscar Wilde, which was published in 1891 as a second collection for The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888). Wilde once said that this...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Oscar Wilde, ‘The Happy Prince, and Other Tales’. The Happy Prince and Other Tales (sometimes called The Happy Prince and Other Stories) is a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde first published in May 1888. It contains five...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Oscar Wilde, ‘Essays and Lectures’. It is a collection of essays, lectures, reviews, letters, and aphorisms by Oscar Wilde. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish author, playwright...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘The Mahatma and the Hare: A Dream Story’   There is a man who has lost his wife and daughter. He is the sole survivor in the accident and feels great guilt. And in this guilt, he begins to drink more and more each...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘She and Allan.’   "I believe it was the old Egyptians – a very wise people, probably indeed much wiser than we know for in the leisure of their ample centuries they had time to think out things – who declared...