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The Pit-Prop Syndicate Freeman Wills Crofts The Pit- Prop Syndicate is a story from the beginning of the golden age of crime fiction. Seymour Merriman , a British wine merchant on business in France, ...

August Strindberg 's novel The Red Room centers on the civil servant Arvid Falk as he tries to find meaning in his life through the pursuit of writing. He's accompanied by a crew of painters, sculptor...

The Sea-Wolf Jack London After a ferry accident on San Francisco Bay, literary critic Humphrey Van Weyden is swept out to sea only to be rescued by the seal-hunting schooner Ghost. Wolf Larsen , the c...

The Secret City is Walpole's sequel to his earlier book about Russian life, The Dark Forest. John Durward , the English protagonist from that book and a semi-autobiographical stand-in for Walpole, is ...

The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy Grace Melbury , daughter of a rich local wood-trader, has been raised beyond her family through years of expensive education. Coming home, she finds herself pulled between...

Tono - Bungay, published in 1909 , is a semi - autobiographical novel by H . G. Wells . Though it has some fantastical and absurdist elements, it is a realist novel rather than one of Well 's "scienti...

Twenty Years at Hull House Jane Addams was a famous social activist living in Chicago at the turn of the 20th century. She's perhaps most famous for introducing the Settlement movement to the United S...

Barchester Towers Barchester Towers , published in 1857 , is the sequel to Trollope's The Warden and continues the story of the clerical doings in the fictional cathedral town of Barchester.As this no...