Diana Tempest by Mary Cholmondeley follows Colonel Tempest and his son Archie as they journey to Overleigh to visit the Colonel’s dying brother. Haunted by past estrangements...

Afoot in England chronicles William Henry Hudson’s wandering journeys through the English countryside, celebrating travel guided by curiosity rather than guidebooks. Walking and...

In The Bungalow Boys on the Great Lakes by John Henry Goldfrap, the Dacre brothers Tom and Jack, with friends Sandy and Professor Podsnap, embark on a motorboat cruise aboard the...

All Roads Lead to Calvary by Jerome K. Jerome follows Joan Allway, an ambitious young woman determined to build a career in journalism while questioning faith, morality, and...

An Old Captivity - about a young airman, an Oxford don, and his beautiful daughter who, on an expedition to the Arctic, are transported by explorers of another age - the Norsemen...

These two linked novels have flying as a shared theme. In Stephen Morris we see the eponymous hero leaving Oxford University unable to marry his girl because of a lack of...

What happens when American ambition collides with Old World aristocracy?In The American Claimant, Mark Twain delivers one of his most delightful and underrated satires. When a...

The Cannibal Islands: Captain Cook's Adventure in the South Sea by R.M. Ballantyne recounts the daring voyages of Captain James Cook through the Pacific, focusing on his...

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street is a short story by American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853....

In The Border Boys with the Texas Rangers by John Henry Goldfrap, Jack Merrill, Walt Phelps, and Ralph Stetson arrive in San Mercedes eager to join the Texas Rangers. After a bold...