Sabine: 329 books

BEING THE NOVEL OF CASHEL BYRON'S PROFESSION DONE INTO A STAGE PLAY IN THREE ACTS, AND IN BLANK VERSE, WITH A NOTE ON MODERN PRIZE FIGHTING.

Poetaster is a late Elizabethan satirical comedy written by Ben Jonson that was first performed in 1601.

Though recognized primarily as a writer of 'weird' horror fiction for adults, Algernon Blackwood also wrote a number of delightful tales for children and young adults. A Prisoner in Fairyland is an engaging and imaginative romp through a mystical dimension that served as the basis for the popular children's play The Starlight Express.

Though Henry James is best remembered as a titan of nineteenth-century American literature and an important innovator in the domain of literary realism, he was also a key figure in the literary criticism of the period and helped to shape the era's critical sensibility. In this fascinating volume,...

In the early part of his career, J. S. Fletcher worked as a historian, producing a number of important scholarly works. When he later turned to writing mysteries, he imbued his tales with rich detail and fascinating, well-drawn characters that highlight his training as a historian. The Rayner-Slade...

Could a tyrannical plantation owner be responsible for his own murder? An unusual and stirring story of mystery and tragedy, in which the portrayal of life on a Southern plantation and the horror and fear roused in the negroes by what they believed manifestations of the ancestral "ha'nt" is clearly and vividly done. It is a book to keep its readers up nights.

Like many of Henry James' tales, A Passionate Pilgrim plays on tensions between American and European culture. Two Americans living in England attempt to secure a contested inheritance before one of the pair, the destitute and terminally ill Clement Searle, finally succumbs to his illness.

First published in 1909, A Thief in the Night is the first novel detailing the exploits and intrigues of gentleman thief A. J. Raffles in late Victorian England. The novel is a darker work than the three preceding short story collections (The Amateur Cracksman, The Black Mask and A Thief in the Night.)...

This ingeniously constructed mystery is one of American author Anna Katharine Green's most acclaimed tales. A distraught woman solicits the assistance of a private investigator, telling him that her husband has gone missing and has been reported as dead. But she also received a note from him — two days after he supposedly met his maker. Can this vexing case be cracked?

A light-hearted romance set in the countryside of Kent.

A short collection of seven ghostly tales by the author better known for her works for younger readers, like The Railway Children and Five Children and It. Of the seven, two are extraordinarily slight (one has the feel of a retold urban legend), and most of the seven are a tad predictable in that they hinge on the meme of love being more powerful than death.

"The Miraculous Revenge" is about a supposed supernatural event happening in a graveyard. Zeno a disagreeable nephew of the Cardinal Archbishop. He is sent to investigate the truth of the miracle in a small place called Four Mile Water. Zeno tends to dislike other people who do not appreciate...

“Tommy and Co." is the nickname of the staff of a Fleet Street newspaper called Good Humour. Jerome's witty tale relates the highly unceremonious way in which the paper's various staff members drifted under the employment of Mr. Peter Hope, its editor in chief, and what they did or didn't do to render their services invaluable.

Though Jerome K. Jerome achieved literary fame on the strength of his humor writing, this collection of tales spans humor and a number of other genres. The title story, "John Ingerfield," is regarded by critics and fans alike as one of Jerome's finest works.