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Carefully curated learning materials by LingoPear.
Summary
A man struggles to makes sense of his experiences in his hard-pressed London life.
Written by
Mark Rutherford
Language
English
Category
Fiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
A medically-qualified detective tackles mysteries ranging from a failed assassination to incidents at an all-girls school.
Written by
H. C. Bailey
Language
English
Category
Fiction · Mystery · Shorts
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
The police are out of their depth as counterfeit bills circulate through the city, but two amateur sleuths are on the case.
Written by
Franklin W. Dixon
Language
English
Category
Adventure · Children's · Fiction · Mystery
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
An invalid and his family reflect on recent events in the years after the close of the Great War.
Written by
Ford Madox Ford
Language
English
Category
Fiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
A Story of American Life
Summary
An aimless young man leaves the city for a small village to work for a horse-trading country banker.
Written by
Edward Noyes Westcott
Language
English
Category
Comedy · Fiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
A group of recently-pardoned former vigilantes aids Scotland Yard in bringing a gang of thugs and murderers to justice.
Written by
Edgar Wallace
Language
English
Category
Adventure · Fiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
A group of wealthy vigilantes continue their quest to bring justice to those criminals beyond the reach of conventional law.
Written by
Edgar Wallace
Language
English
Category
Adventure · Fiction · Shorts
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
A collection of ghost stories by E. F. Benson.
Written by
E. F. Benson
Language
English
Category
Fiction · Horror · Shorts
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
A set of overlapping tales tell the story of a mysterious, malevolent, ageless stranger.
Written by
Charles Robert Maturin
Language
English
Category
Fiction · Horror
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
Philo Vance investigates a series of apparently-senseless shootings in the home of a wealthy New York family.
Written by
S. S. Van Dine
Language
English
Category
Fiction · Mystery
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
A student tries to restore his honor among his schoolmates by learning to box.
Written by
P. G. Wodehouse
Language
English
Category
Fiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
A young writer’s ruinous affair leads him down a path of suffering, obsession, and finally redemption.
Written by
Octave Mirbeau
Translated by
Louis Rich
Language
English
Category
Fiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
A middle-aged spinster rents a country home for the summer and finds herself in the middle of a murder mystery.
Written by
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Language
English
Category
Fiction · Mystery
Source
Standard Ebooks
A Biography
Summary
A young Elizabethan poet for whom success is elusive becomes a woman and embraces the spirit of the age.
Written by
Virginia Woolf
Language
English
Category
Fiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
A young dissenting minister searches for love and meaning amidst loneliness and doubt.
Written by
Mark Rutherford
Language
English
Category
Fiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
Or, a Woman’s Power
Summary
A deceitful governess schemes to control the love and wealth of a Victorian-era family.
Written by
Louisa May Alcott
Language
English
Category
Fiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
A Comedy of Shirking
Summary
An arrogant young author makes his way through a series of love affairs, avoiding every situation that may cause unpleasantness.
Written by
James Branch Cabell
Language
English
Category
Comedy · Fiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
Dizain des Reines
Summary
A collection of loosely connected stories of courtly love in medieval France and England.
Written by
James Branch Cabell
Language
English
Category
Fiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
The Four Just Men travel to Spain to bring justice to criminals operating in aristocratic high finance.
Written by
Edgar Wallace
Language
English
Category
Adventure · Fiction
Source
Standard Ebooks
Summary
When the creator of the great city of Stirmingham dies, claimants vie to inherit control of his vast wealth, ensnaring two young lovers in a deadly plot.
Written by
Richard Jefferies
Language
English
Category
Fiction
Source
Standard Ebooks