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Two narrators each tell their own story in segments, and eventually their stories will merge. First is Milly Langham, née Mortimer, who tells of her orphaned childhood and how she came to marry Lieutenant Harry Langham. The second narrator is Millicent Mortimer, who resides with her sister at their...

Lily Ramsay, age twenty-two, is the ward of her dour uncle, Sir Robert Ramsay. Sir Robert will leave her his fortune, but only if she is obedient in every way. When she falls in love with a poor barrister, Ronald Lumsden, Sir Robert not only disapproves of Ronald, but sends Lily away from Edinburgh...

Walter Methven is an indolent young man of twenty-four. To the despair of his widowed mother, he prefers a circle of friends led by the shifty Captain Underwood to the regular pleasant society of their town. It is known that Walter is a distant relation of the Scottish Lord Erradeen; but it comes...

“The Little Lame Prince and his Travelling Cloak” (often published under its shorter title The Little Lame Prince) is a story for children written by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik and first published in 1875.[1] In the story, the young Prince Dolor, whose legs are paralysed due to a childhood trauma,...

Adventures of a Brownie consists of: Brownie and the Cook, Brownie and the Cherry Tree, Brownie in the Farmyard, Brownie's Ride,Brownie on the Ice, Brownie and the Clothes. An interesting look at life at the turn of the previous century for some English children living in the country (or at least, not in a city). (Excerpt from Goodreads)

G.A. Henty originally wrote for a younger audience, the action-adventure tales of author G.A. Henty are thrilling reads for all ages. This is one of his short store in the Western genre.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton,(29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) better known as G. K. Chesterton, was an eng writer, lay theologian, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, literary and art critic, biographer, and Christian apologist. Chesterton is often referred to as the "prince of paradox."...

Gilbert Keith Chesterton,(29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) better known as G. K. Chesterton, was an eng writer, lay theologian, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, literary and art critic, biographer, and Christian apologist. Chesterton is often referred to as the "prince of paradox."...

"The Napoleon of Notting Hill" is a novel by G.K. Chesterton in 1904, set in a nearly unchanged London in 1984. Although the novel is set in the future, it is, in effect, set in an alternative reality  of Chesterton's own period, with no advances in technology or changes in the class system...

G. K. Chesterton's second novel chronicles a hot dispute between two Scotsmen, a Roman Catholic, and an atheist, whose fanatically held opinions inspire a host of comic adventures. The story's allegorical levels vigorously explore the debate between theism and atheism.

Father Brown is a fictional character created by eng novelist G. K. Chesterton, who stars in 51 detective short stories. This collection features the following twelve stories. The Absence of Mr Glass, The Paradise of Thieves, The Duel of Dr Hirsch, The Man in the Passage, The Head of Caesar, The Purple...

"The Club of Queer Trades" is a collection of stories by Gilbert Keith Chesterton first published in 1905. Each story in the collection is centred on a person who is making his living by some novel and extraordinary means (a "queer trade", using the word "queer" in the...

"Manalive " describes a group of young disillusioned people meeting a certain Mr. Innocent Smith, a bubbly, high-spirited gentleman who literally falls into their midst. Accused of murder and denounced as a bigamist and living in various houses (all of which turn out to be his own), Smith prompts his newfound acquaintances to recognise an important idea: that life is worth living.

Robert Eustace was the pen name of Eustace Robert Barton (1854–1943), an eng doctor and author of mystery and crime fiction with a theme of scientific innovation. He also wrote as Eustace Robert Rawlings. Eustace often collaborated with other writers, producing a number of works with the author...