Dodo: 279 books

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘The Ghost Kings.’   "The Zulus have a strange story of a white girl who in Dingaan's day was supposed to 'hold the spirit' of some legendary goddess of theirs who is also white. This girl, they say, was very...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Arthur Quiller-Couch ‘Dead Man's Rock.’ "Dead Man's Rock" was Q's first published novel. The genesis came from a curious bit of family lore, in which his great grandfather Richard had a key hanging from a beam, with instructions...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Nada the Lily.’   “On the third day he asked Zweete how it was that his left hand was white and shriveled, and who were Umslopogaas and Nada, of whom he had let fall some words. Then the old man told him the tale...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from James Henry, ‘A London Life, and Other Tales.’ Henry James surprises one with every work, even after years of reading him. Here in A London Life is the familiar calm omniscient anonymous narrative voice telling the story, but the story itself...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘The People of the Mist.’   The People of the Mist is the tale of a British adventurer seeking wealth in the wilds of Africa, finding romance, and discovering a lost race and its monstrous god.   Sir...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Smith and the Pharaohs, and other Tales.’   Sir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and the creator of the Lost World literary genre. His...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Cetywayo and his White Neighbors’.   Cetywayo and His White Neighbors, or Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal and the Transvaal is an 1882 non-fiction book by H. Rider Haggard, his first full-length published...

Dodo Classics brings you another classic from Henry James, ‘Confidence’.   Confidence is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in Scribner's Monthly in 1879 and then as a book later the same year. This light and somewhat awkward comedy centers on artist Bernie Longueville,...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Walt Whitman, ‘The Wound Dresser’. Walt Whitman’s “The Wound-Dresser” is a sixty-five-line free-verse poem in four sections describing the suffering in the Civil War hospitals and the poet’s suffering, faithfulness to duty, and developing...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Max Brand, ‘Trailin'!’   Trailin’ tells the story of Anthony Bard, a young aristocrat from the east with a hunger for adventure, who sees his father murdered in the yard of their home. This starts young Anthony on a trail of vengeance...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Max Brand, ‘The Seventh Man.’   This book tells part of the story of the larger-than-life western character, Dan Barry, known as “Whistling Dan,” and his alter-ego companions, Black Bart, the wolf-dog, and Satan, the indomitable...

In the course of May 1916, the Italian authorities expressed a desire that some independent observer from Great Britain should visit their lines and report his impressions. It was at the time when our brave and capable allies had sustained a set-back in the Trentino owing to a sudden concentration...

Published in 1875, The vain tenderness is a poetic work of René-François Sully Prudhomme. French poet Sully Prudhomme (1839-1907) was the first recipient of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1901. Combining the formal precision of the Parnassian poets with subjects reflecting his keen interest in philosophy...

The British writer Anthony Hope (1863- 1933) is remembered today for his great adventure novel The Prisoner of Zenda. Prior to the success of that novel, he worked as a barrister while trying to establish himself as a writer. In the 1890s, he published a series of sketches in the Westminster Gazette. In 1894, these were collected together in book form as The Dolly Dialogues.