The Social Secretary is another exiting novel by David Graham Phillips.Phillips was born in Madison, Indiana. After graduating from high school, Phillips entered Asbury College...

The world takes people very willingly at the estimate in which they hold themselves. With a fashionable bias for expression in a foreign tongue it calls modesty mauvaise honte;...

Lucy Snowe travels to the fictional city of Villette to teach at an all-girls school where she is unwillingly pulled into both adventure and romance.

No. 44 The Misteryous Stranger was published posthumously, in 1916. The stranger in Twain's novel is none other than Satan himself. A Satan, in fact, very different from how...

Henry Shakspeare Knight is an innocuous shorthand clerk who becomes a highly successful novelist, despite living a sedentary life with his adoring mother and having no real...

Mississippi lawyer and Civil War veteran, Basil Ransom, visits his cousin Olive Chancellor in Boston. She takes him to a political meeting where Verena Tarrant delivers a feminist...

We were three quiet, lonely old men, and she was a lively, handsome young woman, and we were at our wits’ end what to do with her.

A lifelong rivalry between two young noblemen – John Burnet, heir to the ancient house of Barns, and his cousin, Captain Gilbert Burnet, a dashing, ruthless soldier, ...

Polly Milton, a young country girl, is overwhelmed by the splendour during the visit to her cousin Fanny Shaw and her wealthy family in the city. The urbanized, fashionable...

The summer moon shone brightly down upon the sleeping earth, while far away from mortal eyes danced the Fairy folk. Fire-flies hung in bright clusters on the dewy leaves, that...