Dead Dodo: 194 books

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from James Henry, ‘Pandora.’   James explored consciousness and perception from the point of view of a character within a tale. Pandora begins, "The process of inquiry had already begun for him, in spite of his having as yet spoken...

Dodo Classics brings you another classic from Henry James, ‘Views and Reviews.’ “When you lay down a proposition which is forthwith controverted, it is of course optional with you to take up the cudgels in its defence. If you are deeply convinced of its truth, you will perhaps be content...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Queen Sheba's Ring.’   The discovery of a ring, given to the Queen of Sheba by King Solomon himself, launches this tale of romance and adventure from master storyteller H. Rider Haggard, the author of King Solomon's...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Arnold Bennett, ‘The Price of Love’. A story of small-town intrigue, that begins with a large sum of money being entrusted and then mysteriously disappearing. The novel was extremely popular and one of Bennett's greatest successes. Bennett...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from James Henry, ‘The Chaperon.’   “An old lady, in a high drawing-room, had had her chair moved close to the fire, where she sat knitting and warming her knees.  She was dressed in deep mourning; her face had a faded nobleness, tempered,...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Arnold Bennett, ‘"Judith, a Play in Three Acts; Founded on the Apocryphal Book of Judith."’   Enoch Arnold Bennett (always known as Arnold Bennett) was one of the most remarkable literary figures of his time, a product of...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Arnold Bennett, ‘"The Ghost: A Modern Fantasy."’   The novel opens with Carl Foster, a recently qualified doctor, coming to London to try and make his fortune. He meets a famous tenor, Signor Alresca, who suffers a dreadful...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from W.W. Jacobs, ‘Ship's Company, The Entire Collection’.   William Wymark "W. W." Jacobs (8 September 1863 – 1 September 1943) was an English author of short stories and novels. Although much of his work was humorous, he...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Walt Whitman, ‘Drum-Taps’. Drum-taps is a collection of poetry by Walt Whitman first published in 1865. The collection originally consisted of 53 poems (not including the 18 poems of Sequel to Drum-Taps added later in the year). Walter...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Irvin S. Cobb, ‘"Speaking of Operations".   Speaking of Operations is a monologue about the author's experience in having an operation in 1915 written in his typical tongue-in-cheek style.   American author,...

Dodo Classics brings you another classic from Henry James, ‘The Bostonians’.   This bittersweet tragicomedy centers on an odd triangle of characters: Basil Ransom, a political conservative from Mississippi; Olive Chancellor, Ransom's cousin and a Boston feminist; and Verena Tarrant,...

Dodo Classics brings you another classic from Henry James, ‘Four Meetings.’ My relative, as it proved, was not sufficiently restored to leave the place by the afternoon train; so that as the autumn dusk began to fall I found myself at liberty to call at the establishment named to me by...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Eric Brighteyes.’   A curious effect of Haggard's successful emulation of the terse, pithy style of saga prose is that the idiom of this novel actually seems rather less dated in the early 21st century than Haggard's...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from H. Rider Haggard, ‘Marie: An Episode in the Life of the Late Allan Quatermain.’   Allan Quatermain, the hero of King Solomon's mines, tells the story of his first wife, Marie Marais, and the adventures that led to her tragic demise.   Sir...