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A Child of the Jago37

Category: Author:Arthur Morrison 

First published in 1896, It earned Arthur Morrison considerable fame and commercial success. Quickly becoming a bestseller, this 19th century drama is now considered to be Arthur Morrison’s best work.


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The Half-Hearted

Category: Author:John Buchan 

For the convenience of the reader it may be stated that the period of this tale is the closing years of the 19th Century.


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Bracebridge Hall

Category: Author:Irving Washington华盛顿·欧文 

 Bracebridge Hall is a series of intimate character sketches that complete an idealized portrait of rural life in the 19th century. Set in the countryside of Yorkshire, Washington Irving’s Bracebridge Hall follows the events leading to the marriage of a young couple, detouring to explore the personalities of the residents in the histor...


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The Cloister and the Hearth

Category: Author:Charles Reade 

  It's a long and winding picaresque novel set in 15th century Europe, telling the story of the love between Gerard Eliason, an artist turned priest, and Margaret Brandt, the daughter of a poor scholar, and reflects the conflict between family and church which overshadowed the lives of so many in medieval times.


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Tom Grogan17

Category: Author:Francis Hopkinson Smith 

Tom Grogan is a novel published in 1896 by Francis Hopkinson Smith that was the best selling book in the United States in 1896. The novel also ran in the The Century Magazine starting in December 1895.Tom Grogan was a stevedore, who died from the effects of an injury. With a family to support, his widow conceals the fact of her husband...


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Dr. Jolliffe's Boys

Category: Author:novel 

This a very enjoyable book about life in a boy's boarding school in the. late nineteenth century. Despite school-rules, the boys get out of. 


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The World I Live In

Category: Author:Helen Keller海伦凯勒 

THE essays and the poem in this book appeared originally in the "Century Magazine," the essays under the titles "A Chat About the Hand," "Sense and Sensibility," and "My Dreams." 


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The Valley of the Moon

Category: Author:Jack London杰克·伦敦 

The Valley of the Moon is a story of a working-class couple, Billy and Saxon Roberts, struggling laborers in Oakland at the Turn-of-the-Century, who left city life behind and searched Central and Northern California for suitable farmland to own. 


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THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII

Category: Author:Edward George Bulwer-Lytton 

 The Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by the baron Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. It culminates in the cataclysmic destruction of the city of Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. The novel uses its characters to contrast the decadent culture of 1st-century Rome with both older cultures and coming trends. The protag...


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The Pearl

Category: Author:Sophie Jewett 

 Among the treasures of the British Museum is a manuscript which contains four anonymous poems, apparently of common authorship: "The Pearl," "Cleanness," "Patience," "Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight." From the language of the writer, it seems clear that he was a native of some Northwestern district of England, and that he lived in th...


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