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Up the Hill and Over
Isabel Ecclestone Mackay
A weary, wandering physician and a spirited schoolteacher find their lives inextricably bound by the secrets and fragile hopes of a quiet Canadian town.
Who Was She?: From "The Atlantic Monthly" for September, 1874
Bayard Taylor
A man receives a series of mysterious letters from an anonymous woman, leading him on a long, introspective quest to identify her among his social acquaintances.
Lancaster's Choice
Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.
The tension between inherited duty and individual heart is at the center of this Victorian-era drama. A young captain must navigate his aunt’s pressure to marry for money, only to find his own path complicated by a woman who is not what she seems.
Outside the universe
Edmond Hamilton
The fate of the galaxy rests upon a desperate, trans-universal journey to secure an alliance against an implacable, invading swarm. It is a race against extinction through the cold, uncharted reaches of the void.
The Family at Gilje: A Domestic Story of the Forties
Jonas Lie
A Captain and his wife struggle to maintain the appearance of gentility in a remote mountain home, while their children’s dreams of a broader world collide with the crushing weight of limited means and social expectation.
The Hidden Places
Bertrand W. Sinclair
A man hideously scarred by the Great War seeks refuge in the British Columbia wilderness, where he discovers an unexpected, profound connection with a blind woman who loves him for the spirit he possesses, not the face he fears to show.
The Inn at the Red Oak
Latta Griswold
A quiet, aging inn becomes the stage for a desperate struggle as a mysterious French nobleman arrives, triggering a dangerous hunt for a hidden fortune.
World of the Drone
Robert Abernathy
In a world of nomadic, warring machine-cultures, a young warrior discovers a terrifying mechanical threat that forces ancient enemies to choose between annihilation and a new, fragile unity.
A Bride of the Plains
Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
A young woman’s devotion is tested by the rigid traditions of the Hungarian plains, where pride, social hierarchy, and an unexpected death collide with the promise of a new life.
The Field of Clover
Laurence Housman
The world of this collection is one where the boundary between the living and the inanimate is porous, and every heart’s desire comes with a price that is paid in iron or spirit. These are tales of wonder that refuse to offer easy endings, favoring the strange, the melancholy, and the profound.
The Old Countess
Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
The secrets of the past reach across the Atlantic, binding the fate of a humble music student to the cold, cloistered lives of the British aristocracy. It is a story of stolen identities, long-buried sacrifices, and the enduring pull of one’s true heritage.
Basil and Annette: A Novel
B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon
Two lives collide in the Australian wilderness, setting in motion a long, treacherous game of identity theft that stretches from colonial goldfields to the heart of London.
The Other World
Frank Frankfort Moore
HOOK This collection of tales explores the porous boundary between our own reality and the shadow-realm of the supernatural, where human desire and ancient, unseen forces often collide.
The Spoilt Child: A Tale of Hindu Domestic Life
Peary Chand Mitra
Spoiled by indulgence, a young heir plunges his household into chaos before encountering the severe friction of the world.
My Austrian Love: The History of the Adventures of an English Composer in Vienna. Written in the Trenches by Himself
Maxime Provost
The life of a composer in pre-war Vienna unravels against the brutal, muddy backdrop of the trenches, where memories of music and romance compete with the harsh realities of a world at war. This is a story of how a young man’s creative ambitions and a mysterious, fleeting encounter with a woman in Vienna are…
Pepita Ximenez
Juan Valera
A young seminarian, intent on a life of holy devotion, finds his resolve shattered by an unexpected and intense attraction to a beautiful young widow.
The Fate of Felix Brand
Florence Finch Kelly
The architect Felix Brand is a man of refined tastes and social grace, but he hides a terrifying secret: he is losing his body to a rival personality who exists within him. This psychological thriller explores the disintegration of a man’s identity and the violent emergence of the "hidden" self he tried to suppress.
The Sign of Flame
E. Werner
The Sign of Flame is a sweeping historical drama that follows a man’s journey from social pariah to heroic redeemer. Haunted by his past and searching for honor, he faces the ultimate test of loyalty in the fires of war.
The Valley of Squinting Windows
Brinsley MacNamara
A narrow, watchful Irish valley feeds on the secrets of its people until private vanity and malicious gossip drive a fragile young family into tragedy.
To Win the Love He Sought: The Great Awakening: Volume 3
E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
Beneath a web of ancient Sicilian oaths and scientific arrogance lies a world where broken vows and forgotten identities threaten to destroy every chance at love.
Garryowen
H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
To save his ancient Irish estate, an eccentric landlord pins all his fortunes on a gifted racehorse. He must outwit bailiffs, scheming relatives, and bad luck across Ireland and England to secure a desperately needed victory at Epsom.
Lady Eureka
Robert Folkestone Williams
In a sprawling 19th-century speculative adventure, a high-minded young merchant sails across uncharted seas to escape heartbreak, only to encounter fraudulent traders, sea fires, and treacherous pirates.
Leon Roch: A Romance, vol. 2 (of 2)
Benito Pérez Galdós
Dogmatic piety and social hypocrisy collide in the closing chapter of a broken marriage, leaving two lovers to weigh personal happiness against moral order.
Marion: The Story of an Artist's Model
Onoto Watanna
A spirited girl leaves a cramped home in Montreal for the independence of the American art world, discovering that survival requires as much grit as grace.
Prince Charlie
Burford Delannoy
A small seaside town, a web of silent assumptions, and a writer who mistake a child's devoted mother for a woman of loose morals.
The Dominant Strain
Anna Chapin Ray
High society and artistic ambition collide when a refined woman marries a charming man to save him, only to face the limits of her influence.
The Last Miracle
M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel
Forged miracles, stolen clerics, and a grand, ruthless conspiracy collide in a twilight Europe where a dying faith is systematically dismantled by a single terrifying will.
The Man from Mars: His Morals, Politics and Religion
William Simpson
A recluse observing nature through a telescope meets a Martian visitor who reveals how an advanced society solved Earth's worst systemic failures.
Under the Shadow of Etna: Sicilian Stories from the Italian of Giovanni Verga
Giovanni Verga
On the scorched, malarial plains of nineteenth-century Sicily, passions cut as deep as the poverty that feeds them, bound only by brute force, pride, and the unrelenting struggle to survive.
Barnaby: A Novel
Rina Ramsay
To step into the estate houses of Rina Ramsay’s Edwardian fox-hunting country is to enter a world of high-spirited mischief, reckless midnight steeplechases, and fiercely guarded family pride.
M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur."
G. J. (George John) Whyte-Melville
In a dark, stormy night on the English Channel, human passions burn as recklessly as the sea itself, igniting a tale of hidden parentage, deceptive hearts, and fatal misunderstandings.
Sant' Ilario
F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
A web of duty, deceit, and misdirected jealousy threatens the highest circles of nineteenth-century Roman nobility, where honor is absolute and a single secret can tear a marriage apart.
The Enormous Room
H. L. (Horace Leonard) Gold
An unseen hand snatches a coaster car mid-descent, pulling its occupants into a vast, baffling realm where they are treated less like prisoners than prized specimens.
The Masked Bridal
Sheldon, Georgie, Mrs.
A young copyist agrees to play the bride in a private theatrical performance, only to discover her fake marriage was real and her new life a web of deceit.
Creatures That Once Were Men
Maksim Gorky
Discards, dockworkers, and outcasts cling to life along the margins of an unforgiving world, holding fast to their humanity even as society casts them aside.
Pelle the Conqueror
Martin Andersen Nexø
Labor is the quiet force that shapes the earth, yet those who clear the roads and stitch the boots spend their lives pushed to the very edge of the dark.
Rupert Godwin
M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
A ruthless London banker's desperate attempt to cover up a midsummer murder unravels as a sea captain's vengeful family exposes his web of blackmail, abduction, and betrayal.
The 13th Immortal
Robert Silverberg
Stripped of his memories, a simple farmer discovers he is the true heir to an immortal lineage, holding the power to shatter the despotic rulers who keep a post-apocalyptic world frozen in time.
A World is Born
Leigh Brackett
High above a dead world's storms, a cynical fugitive and a desperate idealist discover that human redemption is as sudden and unpredictable as a lightning strike on Mercury.
Harry Harding's Year of Promise
Alfred Raymond
A boy learns that work is its own kind of adventure in a big department store.
Local option in Loco-Land
W. C. (Wilbur C.) Tuttle
When two dry-prospecting panners return to town, they stumble right into the crossfire of a local prohibition campaign and an election that no one seems to understand.
Cicely and Other Stories
Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston
Five young women navigate poverty, pride, and social expectations, discovering that true gentlehood rests on helpfulness, self-reliance, and genuine warm-heartedness rather than idle tradition or superficial vanity.
For the Right
Karl Emil Franzos
A man of unwavering moral conviction finds himself forced to become an outlaw to defend the truth. His journey from a humble peasant to a symbol of justice reveals the terrible cost of seeking righteousness in a broken world.
The Hearts of Men
H. (Harold) Fielding
Religion is the music of the infinite echoed from the hearts of men. It is an exploration of why we believe what we believe, and how our deepest instincts—not our intellects—shape our understanding of the divine.
This Finer Shadow
Harlan Cozad McIntosh
A young man’s search for identity unfolds against the backdrop of the Depression-era Bowery and the maritime world, navigating the friction between desperate love, social artifice, and the desire for freedom.
By Wit of Woman
Arthur W. Marchmont
A young woman of indomitable spirit travels to Hungary to restore her disgraced father’s name, only to find herself ensnared in a web of political intrigue and a volatile, forbidden romance. Armed with little more than her wits and a sharp American sensibility, she must outmaneuver the nobility to save the innocent.
Marguerite Verne
Rebecca Agatha Armour
The story follows the lives of the genteel Verne family in St. John, New Brunswick, amidst a backdrop of social ambition and personal sacrifice. It is a Victorian-era narrative that explores the tension between duty to one’s family and the pursuit of individual happiness.
The Invaders
Murray Leinster
A man discovers that strangers among us are not merely spies, but visitors from another world. He must navigate a dangerous game of shadows to protect the future of Earth.