Dead Dodo: 194 books

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Arnold Bennett, ‘"Lilian."’   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. Yet...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Arnold Bennett, ‘"The Title: A Comedy in Three Acts."’   Set against the backdrop of World War I, this play is a rollicking send-up of Britain's class system and its growing absurdity in the heady period of democratization...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Arnold Bennett, ‘"Denry the Audacious."’   Like many of Arnold Bennett's works of fiction, the comic novel Denry the Audacious is set among the quaint village lanes of the Potteries District of Staffordshire. It is amidst...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Jacobs W.W, ‘At Sunwich Port.’   William Wymark Jacobs was an English author of short stories and novels. Quite popular in his lifetime primarily for his amusing maritime tales of life along the London docks (many of them humorous...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from W.W. Jacobs, ‘Sailor's Knots (Entire Collection)’. Included in this volume are Jacobs's classic sea stories "Deserted," "Homeward Bound," "Self-Help," "Sentence Deferred," "'Matrimonial Openings,...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Harold Bell Wright, ‘Helen of the Old House.’   ‘In a solidly American tale, Bell Wright vivifies his characters in palpable surroundings. His narrative makes readers feel as though they are witnesses to the action as it takes place. Against...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Harold Bell Wright, ‘The Winning of Barbara Worth.’   Jefferson Worth finds an orphaned child in the desert and raises her as his daughter, Barbara. When grown, Barbara is beloved by Abe Lee, the foreman of her father's ranch and...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Harold Bell Wright, ‘The Shepherd of the Hills.’   The Shepherd of the Hills is Harold Bell Wright's most famous work. In The Shepherd of the Hills, Wright spins a tale of universal truths across the years to the modern-day reader....

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Bell Wright Harold, ‘The Calling of Dan Matthews.’   Wright was motivated to leave the ministry because he realized he could make more money writing fiction. In most of his novels, he attacked the hypocrisy and impractical nature...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, ‘Europe Revised.’   Mr. Cobb's commentary on traveling in Europe as an American around the turn of the previous century gives an interesting sense of the era, and is always at least mildly amusing. But the real...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Red Eve’.   Red Eve is a novel by H Rider Haggard set in the reign of Edward III.   H. Rider Haggard practically invented the "journey-to-a-lost-civilization" adventure genre, which captured...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Jacobs W.W, ‘Deep Waters, the Entire Collection.’   Included in this collection are "Paying Off," "Made to Measure," "Sam's Ghost," "Bedridden," "The Convert," "Husbandry,"...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘The Last Boer War’   The Last Boer War is a 1899 non-fiction book by H. Rider Haggard about the Boer War of 1881. It was originally written in 1882 but not published until years later.   Haggard wrote...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Sherwood Anderson, ‘"Triumph of the Egg and Other Stories".’   This collection of short stories solidified the author's reputation as a major American writer. Despite their narrative simplicity (similar in style to the work...