Revenant: 35 books

"Catherine Owen, whose writings are standard authority in all departments of household economy, has published another volume which will be gladly added to the library of her housekeeping books. It is entitled "Choice Cookery," and is made up from chapters first published in Harper's Bazar." Good Housekeeping, 1889

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River and filled with colorful adventures and characters, notably Huckleberry Finn, son of the town drunk. Others include Tom's early love Becky, Injun Joe, Muff Potter, and the kindly Widow Douglas....

The title story here is a confrontation between a chorus girl and her lover's wife. But the other stories wander far and wide, showing various sides of late 19th century Russian life. Chekhov's stories "are very short, almost miniatures. For the most part, they are elegant trifles,...

At the beginning of the novel Peregrine is a young country gentleman, rejected by his cruel mother, ignored by his indifferent father, hated by his degenerate brother, and raised by Commodore Hawser Trunnion who is greatly attached to the boy. Peregrine's upbringing, education at Oxford, journey...

Published in 1869, The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims' Progress is a travel book which humorously chronicles what Twain called his "Great Pleasure Excursion" on board the chartered vessel Quaker City through Europe and the Holy Land with a group of American travelers in 1867. It...

The 1889 novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court was originally titled A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Some early editions are titled A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur. The novel is a satirical comedy that looks at 6th-Century England and its medieval culture through the eyes...

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was first published in England in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. It is among the first in major American literature to be written in the vernacular, characterized by local color regionalism. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck"...