Dodo: 279 books

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,...

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...