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Classic adventure novel. According to Wikipedia: "Edward Sylvester Ellis (April 11, 1840 June 20, 1916) was an American author who was born in Ohio and died at Cliff Island, Maine. Ellis was a teacher, school administrator, and journalist, but his most notable work was that that he performed as author...

Little-known novel by the author of Middlemarch. According to Wikipedia: "Mary Ann (Marian) Evans (1819 1880), better known by her pen name, George Eliot, was an English novelist. She was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Her novels, largely set in provincial England, are well known for...

Two classic 19th-century suspense novels by Robert Louis Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mister Hyde and The Master of Ballantrae.

According to Wikipedia: "Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis, better known as C. J. Dennis, (7 September 1876 - 22 June 1938) was an Australian poet famous for his humorous poems, especially "The Sentimental Bloke", published in the early 20th century."

This collection includes: Bat Wing, Brood of the Witch-Queen, Dope, Fire-Tongue, The Golden Scorpion, The Green Eyes of Bast, The Orchard of Tears, The Quest of the Sacred Slipper, The Sins of Severac Bablon, Tales of Chinatown, and The Yellow Claw. According to Wikipedia: "Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward...

According to Wikipedia: "John Jeffery Farnol (10 February 1878 9 August 1952), was an English author, known for his many romantic novels, some formulaic and set in the English Regency period, and swashbucklers. He with Georgette Heyer founded the Regency romantic genre... The success of his early...

According to Wikipedia: "Algernon Charles Swinburne (5 April 1837 10 April 1909) was a Victorian era English poet. His poetry was highly controversial in its day, much of it containing recurring themes of sadomasochism, death-wish, lesbianism and irreligion."

According to Wikipedia: "William George Gilbert Patten (October 25, 1866 - January 16, 1945) was a writer of dime novels and is best known as author of the Frank Merriwell stories, with the pen name Burt L. Standish…. He was a writer of dime novels. His first published dime novel was The Diamond Sport;...

Classic essays about Oxford University. The Preface begins: "These papers do not profess even to sketch the outlines of a history of Oxford. They are merely records of the impressions made by this or that aspect of the life of the University as it has been indifferent ages. Oxford is not an easy place...

"The ways of telling a story are as many as the tellers themselves. It isimpossible to lay down precise rules by which any one may perfecthimself in the art, but it is possible to offer suggestions by which toguide practise in narration toward a gratifying success."

The Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradisio) in the original Italian. According to Wikipedia: "Durante degli Alighieri (c.1265 - 1321), commonly known as Dante Alighieri, was a Florentine poet of the Middle Ages. His central work, the Divina Commedia (originally called "Commedia" and later...

This file includes (in the original German): Die Verwandlung; Betrachtung: Kleine Erzählungen; Ein Landarzt: Kleine Erzählungen; Ein Hungerkünstler, Erzählung; In der Strafkolonie, Erzählung; and Das Urteil, Erzählung. According to Wikipedia: Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 3 June 1924) was a major fiction...

This book-collection file includes: The Book of Pirates, Men of Iron, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, Otto of the Silver Hand, The Ruby of Kishmoor, Stolen Treasure, The Story of the Champions of the Round Table, and Twilight Land. With the active (hyperlinked) table of contents, click on a book...

Novel first published in 1899. According to Wikipedia: "Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 7 July 1930) was a Scottish physician and writer who is most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction....