Treasureword Classics: 174 books

The story of an engaged man who is infatuated with another woman who has a dark secret.

A classic of post-Civil War American local-color literature.

Wounds in the Rain, published in September 1900, contains fictional tales based on Crane's reports for the World and the Journal during the Spanish-American War. These stories, which Crane wrote while desperately ill, include "The Price of the Harness" and "The Lone Charge of William B. Perkins" and are dramatic, ironic and sometimes humorous.

A classic Victorian sensation novel involving intrigue and mystery, and women being forced to marry for money and not love.

A classic mystery which takes place in New York.

A classic Victorian sensation novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon.

A fictional collection of letters sent between English educators, during the turn of the century.

Galloping, scintillating, sparkling fun from beginning to end--and clean and sweet as a girl's fresh laughter. Trouble arises from the fact that the hero has led his friends to believe he is an athlete, when, as a matter of fact, he never did anything more athletic than lead the cheering for others.

A fascinating novel of transmigrations of the soul and reincarnations from ancient Egypt.

The young hero goes in disguise into one of the dervish camps, is captured by Arabs and has other adventures at the time of Kitchener's Sudan campaign.

Historical novel, set in Portugal, during the Peninsular War, in which the British battled the armies of Napoleon.

A Group of Noble dames is an 1891 collection of short stories written by Thomas Hardy. It is a frame narrative in which ten members of a club each tell one story about a noble dame in the 17th or 18th century.

An entertaining novel about an art patron, his attempts to marry a younger woman, and his relationship with a pair of geniuses, a painter and a playwright.

From the preface:    Eight years ago, "Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks" was published, being heralded, truthfully, as the work of an "unknown author." It met with favour from reviewers and the reading public. My pleasantest souvenirs are hundreds of letters,...