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Cover of The Treasure
by Kathleen Norris
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Kathleen Thompson Norris (July 16, 1880, San Francisco, California January 18, 1966, Palo Alto, California) was an American novelist and wife of fellow writer Charles Norris, whom she wed in 1909. She was educated in a special course at the University of California and wrote...
Cover of The Illustrious Gaudissart and Gaudissart II, both long stories in a single file, in English translation
by Honore de Balzac
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Classic long stories, one a sequel to the other. According to Wikipedia: "Honore de Balzac (May 20, 1799 - August 18, 1850) was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comedie humaine, which presents...
Cover of Lost Illusions: Two Poets, A Distinguished Provincial at Paris, and Eve and David; all three novels in a single file, in English translation
by Honore de Balzac
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Classic novels. According to Wikipedia: "Honore de Balzac (May 20, 1799 - August 18, 1850) was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comedie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the...
Cover of Pamela Giraud, five-act play in English translation
by Honore de Balzac
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Five-act play. According to Wikipedia: "Honore de Balzac (May 20, 1799 - August 18, 1850) was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comedie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the...
Cover of Off-Hand Sketches, a Little Dashed with Humour
by T. S. Arthur
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Timothy Shay (T.S.) Arthur (6 June 1809 6 March 1885) was a popular nineteenth-century American author. He is most famous for his temperance novel Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There (1854), which helped demonize alcohol in the eyes of the American public. He was also...
Cover of Penny Plain
by O. Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "O. Douglas was the pen name of Anna Masterton Buchan (18771948), a Scottish novelist.[1] She was born in Pathhead, Scotland, the daughter of the Reverend John Buchan and Helen Masterton. She was the younger sister of John Buchan, the renowned statesman and author. She attended...
Cover of The Fete at Coqueville, short story in English translation
by Emile Zola
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Classic naturalist short story, in English translation. According to Wikipedia: "Emile Zola (2 April 1840 - 29 September 1902) was an influential French writer, the most important example of the literary school of naturalism, and a major figure in the political liberalization of France...After his first...
Cover of His Masterpiece, from the Rougon-Macquart series of novels, in English translation
by Emile Zola
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Classic naturalist novel, in English translation. First published in 1886. According to Wikipedia: "Emile Zola (2 April 1840 - 29 September 1902) was an influential French writer, the most important example of the literary school of naturalism, and a major figure in the political liberalization of France...After...
Cover of Fruitfulness
by Emile Zola
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Classic naturalist novel, in English translation. According to Wikipedia: "Emile Zola (2 April 1840 - 29 September 1902) was an influential French writer, the most important example of the literary school of naturalism, and a major figure in the political liberalization of France...After his first major...
Cover of Abbe Mouret's Transgression, from the Rougon-Macquart series of novels, in English translation
by Emile Zola
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Classic naturalist novel, first published in 1875. According to Wikipedia: "Emile Zola (2 April 1840 - 29 September 1902) was an influential French writer, the most important example of the literary school of naturalism, and a major figure in the political liberalization of France...After his first major...
Cover of The Immortal or One of the Forty
by Alphonse Daudet
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Alphonse Daudet (13 May 1840 16 December 1897) was a French novelist... In 1866, Daudet's Lettres de mon moulin, written in Clamart, near Paris, and alluding to a windmill in Fontvieille, Provence, won the attention of many readers. The first of his longer books, Le petit chose...
Cover of Found in the Philippines, The Story of a Woman's Letters
by Charles King
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Classic historical novel set in the Philippines at the time of the Spanish-American War. According to Wikipedia: "Charles King (October 12, 1844 in Albany, New York 17 March 1933 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) was a United States soldier and a distinguished writer. King was the son of Civil War general Rufus...
Cover of The Leopard Woman
by Stewart Edward White
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Classic western. According to Wikipedia: "Stewart Edward White (12 March 1873 September 18, 1946) was an American author. Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan he earned degrees from University of Michigan (Ph.D., 1895; M.A., 1903). From about 1900 until about 1922, he wrote adventure travel books."
Cover of Padre Ignacio, Or the song of Temptation
by Owen Wister
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Classic western. According to Wikipedia: "Owen Wister (July 14, 1860 July 21, 1938) was an American writer of western fiction... Wister had spent several summers out in the American West, making his first trip to Wyoming in 1885. Like his friend Teddy Roosevelt, Wister was fascinated with the culture,...
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