Dead Dodo: 194 books

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Swallow: A Tale of the Great Trek’.   Swallow: A Tale of the Great Trek is an 1899 novel by H. Rider Haggard set in South Africa during the Boer Trek of 1836.   The novel was adapted into a 1922 South...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Finished.’   A curious effect of Haggard's successful emulation of the terse, pithy style of saga prose is that the idiom of this novel actually seems rather less dated in the early 21st century than Haggard's other...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Allan Quatermain’   This sequel to King Solomon's Mines is based on Rider Haggard's own experiences in Africa. During their search for a white race reputed to live near Mount Kenya, Allan Quatermain and his companions...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Sherwood Anderson, ‘"Poor White". It is the story of an inventor, Hugh McVey, who rises from poverty on the bank of the Mississippi River. The novel shows the influence of industrialism on the rural heartland of America.   Hugh...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Henry James, ‘The Middle Years’.   It may be the most affecting and profound of James's stories about writers. The novelist in the tale speculates that he has spent his whole life learning how to write, so a second life would make...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from W.W Jacobs, ‘Odd Craft.’   Mr. Jacobs serenely continues to distribute wholesome food for laughter. These characters elicit fresh admiration for the inexhaustible inventions of their creator.   William Wymark Jacobs...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Regeneration’   In Regeneration, Haggard talks of the work of the Salvation Army in Great Britain. Haggard sums up the Salvation Army by saying, "the religious Organization founded by this man and his wife...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Arnold Bennett, ‘"The Lion's Share."’   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...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic fromWilliam Charles Scully, ‘A Vendetta of the Desert’.   William Charles Scully (29 October 1855-25 August 1943) is one of South Africa's best-known authors, although little known outside South Africa. In addition to his work as to author,...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, ‘The Abandoned Farmers.’   A satirical story about one man's decision to leave the city.   Cobb is remembered best for his humorous stories of Kentucky and is part of the American literary regionalism...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Elinor Glyn, ‘High Noon: A New Sequel to 'Three Weeks'.’   Elinor Glyn was known for her racy novels early on in the last century. This book is hardly racy at all by today's standards, but is a well paced and literate piece of fiction,...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from George Ade ‘Fables in Slang.’ ‘Fables in Slang’ was first published in 1899. In his unique "Fables in Slang," which purveyed not so much slang as the American colloquial vernacular, Ade pursued an effectively genial satire notable...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from George Ade ‘In Pastures New.’ ‘In Pastures New’ is a humorous account of travels, chiefly in London and Egypt. Many of the letters appearing in this volume were printed in a syndicate of newspapers in the early months of 1906. With these...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Irvin S. Cobb, ‘The Thunders of Silence.’   A disturbing, and luckily impossible to implement, story of a demagogue driven to destruction by the press. He has to be destroyed because he is treasonous--he preaches peace when the country...