Dead Dodo: 194 books

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Cale Young Rice, ‘Sea Poems. Cale Young Rice writes in the foreword of the book: “The poems of this volume, gathered here after many requests, are, with a few exceptions, from my previous lyrical publications. They are also in a real...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from James Henry, ‘Lady Barbarina.’   Rich and beautiful American girls heading to England to find themselves noble titles through marriage, and using their New World wealth to prop up the waning strength of the aristocracy, was almost...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Arnold Bennett, ‘The Author's Craft’. Written in 1914, this is a short exposition by Bennett on writing. He doesn't get into technique other than to expound on the need for "design" or "construction" to follow inspiration....

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from James Henry, ‘The Madonna of the Future.’   We had been talking about the masters who had achieved but a single masterpiece -- the artists and poets who but once in their lives had known the divine afflatus and touched the high level...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Arnold Bennett, ‘"The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories."’   Twenty-two short stories by Arnold Bennett, mainly set in the 'Five Towns', Bennett's name for the pottery manufacturing towns of the English midlands   Enoch...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Theodore Roosevelt, ‘Through the Brazilian Wilderness.’   A harrowing chronicle of the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition through Brazil and Paraguay to map the 950-mile River of Doubt.   Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.,...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Theodore Roosevelt, ‘Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography.’   By the 26th President of the United States, popularly known as T.R. or Teddy. He was also a widely respected historian, naturalist and explorer of the Amazon Basin; his...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Irvin S. Cobb, ‘Cobb's Bill-of-Fare.’   Upon a certain gladsome occasion a certain man went into a certain restaurant in a certain large city, being imbued with the idea that he desired a certain kind of food. Expense was with him...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Theodore Roosevelt, ‘The Naval War of 1812.’   Roosevelt was 23 when this was published. He had just been elected to the New York State Assembly; it was begun as his senior thesis at Harvard. A masterpiece, for those of us who relish...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Henry James, ‘In the Cage’.   This long story centers on an unnamed London telegrapher. She deciphers clues to her clients' personal lives from the often cryptic telegrams they submit to her as she sits in the "cage" at...

Dodo Classics brings you another classic from Henry James, ‘The Bostonians’.   This bittersweet tragicomedy centers on an odd triangle of characters: Basil Ransom, a political conservative from Mississippi; Olive Chancellor, Ransom's cousin and a Boston feminist; and Verena Tarrant,...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Arnold Bennett, ‘The Grand Babylon Hôtel’. The Grand Babylon Hotel is a novel by Arnold Bennett, published in 1902, about the mysterious disappearance of a German prince. It originally appeared as a serial in the Daily Mail. Bennett...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Arnold Bennett, ‘Mental Efficiency, and Other Hints to Men and Women’. This book on Mental Efficiency was typical of the self-improvement essays and books that Arnold Bennett produced alongside his outstanding fiction. Even all these years...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Arnold Bennett, ‘"Books and Persons; Being Comments on a Past Epoch, 1908-1911".’ ** ** The contents of this book have been chosen from a series of weekly articles which enlivened the New Ageduring the years 1908, 1909,...