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Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man is a 1914 novel by Sinclair Lewis. "At thirty-four Mr. Wrenn was the sales-entry clerk of the Souvenir Company. He was always ...

The Innocents, A Story for Lovers by Sinclair Lewis was first published in 1917. “Mr. and Mrs. Seth Appleby were almost old. They called each other 'Father' and 'Mother.' But frequ ...

Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis was first published in 1922. Sinclair Lewis’ George F. Babbitt is a complicated and conflicted character. When you think you have his next move figured ou ...

The Safety Match is a short story by Anton Chekhov first published in English in 1922 as part of the collection The Cook’s Wedding and Other Stories. The Safety Match is a true loc ...

Ariadne is a short story by Anton Chekhov first published in English in 1916 as part of the collection The Darling and Other Stories. The story begins on a steamer bound for Sebast ...

Kashtanka is a short story by Anton Chekhov, first published in English 1922, as part of the collection The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories. Kashtanka, a shaggy-dog story penned b ...

The Lady with the Dog is a novella by Anton Chekhov first published in 1899. Written while in Yalta, it is considered one of his most famous stories, (also called Lady with Lapdog) ...

Ward No. 6 by Anton Chekhov is a novella first published in 1892. The line between sanity and insanity is blurred in this classic novella by Anton Chekhov. The disillusioned ideali ...

Three Years is a novella by Anton Chekhov and was first published in English in the collection The Darling and Other Stories from 1916. Laptev, the rich but unattractive scion of a ...

The Steppe is a novella by Anton Chekhov first published in 1888. This translation in English was first published in 1919 in the collection The Bishop and Other Stories.  In a narr ...

The Schoolmaster and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by Anton Chekhov and was first published in English in 1921. Anton Chekhov, perhaps better known as a world famo ...

My Life: The Story of a Provincial . by Anton Chekhov, was first published in 1896. This English translation was first published as part of the collection The Chorus Girl and Other ...

The Duel by Anton Chekhov was first published in 1891. This English translation was first published in 1916 as part of the collection The Duel and Other Stories. The plot centres a ...

An Anonymous Story by Anton Chekhov was first published in 1893. This English translation was published in 1917 in the collection The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories. In An Ano ...

Around the World in Seventy-Two Days is a book by journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochrane, writing under her pseudonym, Nellie Bly. The chronicle details her 72-day trip around the worl ...

Ten Days in a Mad-house is an extended investigative essay by Nellie Bly that was published in 1887. In 1887 Nellie Bly, one of the first female newspaper writers, and a young repo ...

The Elixir of Life is a short story by Honoré de Balzac, first published 1830, about eternal life. However, this is an eternal life story with a horrific twist. The Elixir of Life ...

The Girl with the Golden Eyes is a novel by Honoré de Balzac first published in 1834. In this novel, Balzac the virtuoso satirist depicts the levels of Parisian society as a versio ...

The Firm of Nucingen is a novel by Honoré de Balzac first published in 1837. The novel is part of the Comedie Humane and a "supplementary" tale to go with Father Goriot and Gobseck ...

The Magic Skin is a novel by Honoré de Balzac first published in 1831. Set in early 19th-century Paris, it tells the story of a young man who finds a magic piece of shagreen that f ...

Sarrasine is a novella by Honoré de Balzac first published in 1830. The tale follows the undulating pathways of Sarrasine the sculptor’s shocking journey to his coming of age. As o ...

Love in a Mask, or Imprudence and Happiness, is an entertaining short novel by Honoré de Balzac, unpublished in his lifetime. This English edition was first published in 1911. Begi ...

Louis Lambert is an 1832 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac, included in the Études philosophiques section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. Set mostl ...

Gobseck is a novella by Honoré de Balzac, first published in 1830. Part of the La Comedie Humane and something of a sequence to Balzac's Father Goriot, the short book's title is th ...

Farewell (“Adieu”) is a novella by Honoré de Balzac, first published in 1832 and part of the La Comédie Humaine. In his startling and tragic novella, Balzac adds to the 19th centur ...