Jame Books: 23 books

Arthur Machen was a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. His novella "The Great God Pan" (1890; 1894) has garnered a reputation as a classic of horror (Stephen King has called it "Maybe the best...

Earl Derr Biggers  was an American novelist and playwright. He is remembered primarily for his novels, especially those featuring the Chinese American detective Charlie Chan, from which popular films were made in the United States and China. The son of Robert J. and Emma E. (Derr) Biggers,...

Catharine Maria Sedgwick was an American novelist of what is sometimes referred to as "domestic fiction". She promoted Republican motherhood. Miss Sedgwick’s first publication was “The New England Tale.” In 1836, she commenced writing in quite a new vein, giving a series of illustrations...

Burton Jesse Hendrick was an American author. He won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for The Victory at Sea which he co-authored with William Sowden Sims, the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page and again in 1929 for The Training of An American. Hendrick wrote the Age of Big Business...

Bush Studies is the timeless short stories, published in 1902 and Human Toll is the timeless novel, published in 1907, written by Barbara Baynton an Australian writer. “Boshy, coming out to harangue the chained dog, heard the tintin jangling of their billies and pannikins in their hasty,...

Barry Eric Odell Pain was an English journalist, poet and writer. Born in Cambridge, Barry Pain was educated at Sedbergh School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He became a prominent contributor to The Granta. He was known as a writer of parody and lightly humorous stories. In 1889,...

The Alien Souls And Other Stories is a collection of short stories by Achmed Abdullah, written in 1922. This collection contains the following stories: Alien Souls, Fear, The Incubus, Pro Patria, Pell Street Blue, Mystery of the Talking Idols, Charmed Life, A Simple Act of Piety. “Above...

Eleanor H Porter was an American novelist. Porter mainly wrote children's literature, adventure stories and romance fiction. Her most famous novel is Pollyanna (1913), later followed by a sequel, Pollyanna Grows Up (1915). Her adult novels include The Turn of the Tide (1908), The Road to Understanding...

Booth Tarkington was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He is one of only three novelists (the others being William Faulkner and John Updike) to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once.   Included in...