3 Books to Know

  • 3 Books to Know: Ghost Stories
    By O. Henry, Rudyard Kipling, August Nemo

    'Twas Sprowls and Mooney, as I said. Miss B'retta Sprowls it was in the theatres, but Missis Mooney she was. My house is well known for respectability. The marriage certificate hung, framed, on a nail over—" "What kind of a lady was ...

  • 3 Books to Know: Romantic Era
    By August Nemo, Mary Shelley, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    This, indeed, was the chief reason for my coming here with the prince, as he is a general in the service. I communicated my design to him during one of our walks together. He disapproved of it, and it would have been actual madness not ...

  • 3 Books to Know: Western
    By Zane Grey, Owen Wister, Andy Adams

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  • 3 Books to Know: Pulp Magazines
    By Robert E. Howard, Edgar Rice Burroughs, H.P. Lovecraft

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  • 3 Books to Know: Pirates
    By Robert Louis Stevenson, Daniel Defoe, R. M. Ballantyne

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  • 3 Books to Know: Abolitionist Novel
    By Frederick Douglass, August Nemo, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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  • 3 Books to Know: Gothic Fiction
    By Edgar Allan Poe, August Nemo, Ann Radcliffe

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  • 3 Books To Know: Victorian Women
    By Elizabeth Gaskell, Emily Brontë, George Elliot

    He wolden sowen some diffcultee."—Canterbury Tales. Dorothea had been safe at Freshitt Hall nearly a week before she had asked any dangerous questions. Every morning now she sat with Celia in the prettiest of up-stairs sitting-rooms, ...

  • 3 Books to Know: Boxing
    By Robert E. Howard, Jack London, Arthur Conan Doyle

    There's Jaheel Brenton, with the whiskers. It was he who attacked twelve Spanish gunboats in his one little brig, and made four of them strike to him. There's Walker, of the Rose cutter, who, with thirteen men, engaged three French ...

  • 3 Books to Know: Literary Modernism
    By F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, August Nemo

    —Quite right, Martin Cunningham said, taking the list. And put down the five shillings too. —Without a second word either, Mr Power said. —Strange but true, Martin Cunningham added. John Wyse Nolan opened wide eyes.

  • 3 Books to Know: Good Girls
    By Eleanor H. Porter, L. M. Montgomery, Johanna Spyri

    I wouldn't want to be one like Mr. Superintendent Bell.” “It's very naughty of you to speak so about Mr. Bell,” said Marilla severely. “Mr. Bell is a real good man.” “Oh, of course he's good,” agreed Anne, “but he doesn't seem to get ...

  • 3 Books To Know: Nobel Prize in Literature
    By Rudyard Kipling, Anatole France, Paul Heyse

    world, I bethought me of the te-rain to Benares, where I knew one abode in the Tirthankars' Temple who was a Seeker, even as I.' 'Ah! Thy River,' said Kim. 'I had forgotten the River.' 'So soon, my chela? I have never forgotten it.

  • 3 Books to Know: Dublin
    By Robert E. Howard, James Joyce, August Nemo

    'Your very obedient, humble servant, GILES DANGERFIELD. The Brass Castle, Chapelizod, '2nd October, 1767.' Then poor little Mrs. Sturk was breaking out into a delirium of gratitude. But he put his hand upon her arm kindly, ...

  • 3 Books to Know: King Arthur
    By Mark Twain, Alfred Tennyson, Thomas Malory

    A walk of lilies crost it to the bower: And down that range of roses the great Queen Came with slow steps, the morning on her face; And all in shadow from the counter door Sir Lancelot as to meet her, then at once, As if he saw not, ...

  • 3 Books to Know: Horatian Satire
    By Nikolai Gogol, Daniel Defoe, Anthony Trollope

    Champagne and ginger-beer are all the same when you stand to win or lose thousands — with this only difference, that champagne may have deteriorating results which the more innocent beverage will not produce.

  • 3 Books to Know: Occult Detective Fiction
    By William Hope Hodgson, Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard, J. Sheridan Le Fanu

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  • 3 Books to Know: French Revolution
    By Charles Dickens, Victor Hugo, Emma Orczy

    He played in the Tuileries garden with his little shovel and his little chair, and in order that the inspectors might not grumble, I stopped up the holes that he made in the earth with his shovel, with my cane. One day he exclaimed: ...

  • 3 Books to Know: Social Novel
    By Victor Hugo, Emile Zola, Benjamin Disraeli

    All at once a captain passed, shouting: "They are cutting the cables! they are cutting the cables!" Then the panic increased. It was a furious gallop through the gloomy passages. Their heads were confused. Why cut the cables?

  • 3 Books To Know: Victorian Literature
    By Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy, William Makepeace Thackeray

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  • 3 Books to Know: Viking Age
    By August Nemo, William Morris, R. M. Ballantyne

    Leaving behind them the two men who were to return to the huts with the deer, they proceeded down the banks of Little River, until they came to the pool where Hake and his brother had seen the salmon leap. On the way down, however, ...