Dead Dodo: 194 books

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Arnold Bennett, ‘The Human Machine’. This is a typical example of the sort of self-improvement essays or book that Arnold Bennett produced so readily during his heyday. In Britain in the first decades of the 20th century, there was a demand...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Elinor Glyn, ‘One Day.’   Elinor Glyn began her writing in 1900, starting with a book based on letters to her mother, 'The Visits of Elizabeth'. And thereafter she more or less wrote one book each year to keep the wolf from the door,...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Elinor Glyn, ‘Red Hair.’   The story revolves around the young, bold Evangeline who is determined to run away and embark on an exciting adventure. Elinor Glyn (1864 - 1943) was a British novelist and scriptwriter. She became famous...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Oscar Wilde, The Nihilists. The Nihilists is a play by Oscar Wilde. It is a melodramatic tragedy set in Russia and is loosely based on the life of Vera Zasulich. It was Wilde's first play, and the first to be performed. In 1880, with only a few...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Irvin S. Cobb, ‘Fibble, D.D..’   A collection of three short stories originally published in the Saturday Evening Post, telling the comic misadventures of the Rev. Roscoe Titmarsh Fibble, D.D.   Cobb joined the staff...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Benita, an African Romance.’   An adventurous trader, it is said, hearing the legend of a great treasure buried a party of Portuguese hundreds of years before, as a last resource attempted its discovery by the help...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Colonel Quaritch, V.C.’   This is not a typical adventure book yet it is full of mystery and intrigue including a coerced marriage, bigotry, adultery, murder and a buried treasure!   This is the tale...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Love Eternal’.   Although English author H. Rider Haggard is popularly known today as "the father of the lost race novel," such adventure tales of vanished civilizations were scarcely his sole concern....

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Allan Quatermain’   The tale of Allan Quatermain's second wife, Stella, is also a classic fantasy African adventure, complete with magic and ghosts, plus Haggard's trademark gripping narrative style.   Sir...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Arnold Bennett, ‘"Hilda Lessways”.   In the second volume of the trilogy, events in Clayhanger are retold from the perspective of Hilda Lessways, who is embarking upon a relationship with George Cannon, a charismatic entrepreneur,...

Dodo Classics brings you another classic from Henry James, ‘The Lesson of the Master.’   Exemplifying Henry James's famous belief that "Art makes life," The Lesson of the Master is a piercing study of the life that art makes. When the tale's protagonist—a gifted young...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Irvin S. Cobb, ‘Eating in Two or Three Languages.’   The famous book of wartime culinary memoirs by Irvin S. Cobb.   Cobb joined the staff of the magazine Saturday Evening Post during 1911, and covered the Great War...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, ‘Local Color.’   Felix Looms, the well-known author, disappeared - or, rather, he went away - on or about June fifteenth, four years ago. He told his friends, his landlady and his publisher - he had no immediate...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Arthur Quiller-Couch ‘Foe-Farrell.’ Foe-Farrell is told by an English officer in a dugout this is a story of hate and its influence on the hater and his victim. Worked out in an ingenious atmosphere which sometimes combines farce with real...