Dodo: 279 books

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Fair Margaret’   In the turbulent reign of King Henry VII, Peter Brome finds himself with a soldier's blood on his hands -- blood the Spanish ambassador's men demand be repaid. Poor and fatherless, Peter delivered...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Long Odds’   The subjects and historical periods that British action-adventure writer H. Rider Haggard tackled in his vast body of work ranged considerably, but one element remains a constant thread that unites...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Arthur Quiller-Couch ‘Sir John Constantine.’ Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch was a Cornish writer, who published under the pen name of Q. He published his Dead Man's Rock (a romance in the vein of Stevenson's Treasure Island) in 1887, and...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Elinor Glyn, ‘The Price of Things.’   They both tried to talk of ordinary things for the few moments before that meal was announced, and then some kind of devilment seemed to come into Amaryllis--nothing could have been more seductive...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Elinor Glyn, ‘Elizabeth Visits America.’   "Now we are staying in a country palace with the family we met on the boat, whom the Americans we know in England would not speak to; in fact, I am sure they are rather hurt at our coming...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Arthur Quiller-Couch ‘Noughts and Crosses: Stories, Studies and Sketches.’ Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch was a Cornish writer, who published under the pen name of Q. He published his Dead Man's Rock (a romance in the vein of Stevenson's...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Arthur Quiller-Couch ‘Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts: A Book of Stories.’   I. OCEANUS Written as a letter to a family member, a brother struggles with his brother's death. He sees his brother again - or is it a dream/vision? II....

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Elinor Glyn, ‘Beyond The Rocks: A Love Story.’   Theodora Fitzgerald is a young woman who is forced to marry Josiah Brown, an older and wealthier man, but later she falls in love with someone else.   Elinor Glyn began...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, ‘One Third Off.’   Cobb is remembered best for his humorous stories of Kentucky and is part of the American literary regionalism school. These stories were collected first in the book Old Judge Priest (1915),...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Henry James, ‘Hawthorne’.   Hawthorne is a book of literary criticism by Henry James published in 1879. The book was an insightful study of James' great predecessor, Nathaniel Hawthorne. James gave extended consideration to each of...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Arnold Bennett, ‘"Over There: War Scenes on the Western Front."’   This book contains an account written by Arnold Bennett detailing the time he spent moving from town to town in France and Belgium during the early stages...

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...