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To Whom This May Come: 1898
Edward Bellamy
A castaway wakes on a remote shore where no one speaks, only to learn he has landed among a telepathic civilization that views human speech as an obsolete relic.
Two plays for dancers
W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
Forgiveness and desire tangle on desolate hillsides and in smoke-darkened rooms where the living and the dead barter for redemption.
Unborn Tomorrow
Mack Reynolds
A hungover detective takes on a strange client, only to discover that the only thing a man can bring back from the future is an agonizingly compounded hangover.
Without a Home
Edward Payson Roe
A devoted daughter shields her family from urban poverty while struggling to save her father from the silent ruin of morphine addiction in Gilded Age New York.
Women in white raiment
John Lemley
A woman’s worth in the eyes of God is neither an invention of modern social progress nor a recent compromise with culture.
First harvests
Frederic Jesup Stimson
A biting portrait of Gilded Age ambition, this novel follows the intersection of high-society climbers, cynical financiers, and the disillusioned souls who drift in their wake. It is a sharp, atmospheric examination of a society discarding its old moral foundations for the cold, glittering allure of wealth.
Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Bret Harte
Bret Harte
The life of the California frontier is captured here through the eyes of a master storyteller who saw both the grit of the mining camp and the fading elegance of the Spanish missions. This collection serves as a comprehensive gateway to an expansive body of work that defined the Western literary imagination.
Tales for Christmas Eve
Rhoda Broughton
The veil between the living and the dead grows thin when the candles flicker low. These accounts explore the intersection of domestic life and the inexplicable, where the certainty of Victorian comfort is fractured by the uncanny.