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Johann Hottinger
The Life and Times of Ulrich Zwingli
Zwingli was a Swiss leader of the Reformation. His legacy lives on in the confessions, liturgy, and church orders of the Reformed tradition.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur gives us a guided tour through his library; passing some with but a comment, stopping at others for an extended quote and discussion.
L(yman) Frank Baum
Before the idea of Grendel Hall Press was even a seedling in the mind of Your Publisher, as a Christmas present for a number of friends who had children, he produced the Baum canon of the Oz books in PDF format. Recently (January 2010), an old, dear friend expressed surprise that there was a series of Oz books. In honor of our friendship, these old PDFs are here reprised, in the order as they were written by The Master Himself.
W.D. Adams
This collection of short, good-natured essays provides a guide through the author's wide reading. His topics range from Parson Poets, Heredity in Song, and Bedside Books, of which this is a most admirable example.
H.B. Wheatley
Looking for a good book? How about a bibliography of bibliographies? This slim volume contains instructions on what to look for when you're setting up the library in your country house.
Jerome K. Jerome
Here, our essayist examines such questions as "Do We Lie A-Bed Too Late?", "How to be Happy Though Little","When is the Best Time to be Merry?", and the always popular "Should Married Men Play Golf?"
Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
In this work, we are invited to consider such topics as "the time wasted in looking before we leap", "the inadvisability of following advice", and "the playing of marches at the funerals of marionettes".
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
The Master's first work. Although it is in the style of the Three Men books, it has not attained the fame of those. Perhaps the essay style puts people off. Don't be among them.
John Kendrick Bangs
To those who have been clamouring, "More Bangs! More Raffles!" Be at peace. Here is the charming adventures of the Widow (?) Raffles on the west side of the pond. Events which are dutifully transcribed by the honourable Bunny.
John Kendrick Bangs
Everyone knows who Sherlock Holmes is, but Raffles in another story. Check out the Hornung stories here for his complete exploits as a high-class break-in man, or "cracksman." Bangs has brought together the two traditions admirably.
Marie Corelli
Marie Corelli was perhaps the first best-selling author. Her works were collected by Queen Victoria, and by King Edward VII. Indeed, she was the only author invited to the king's coronation. Excoriated by critics, she was beloved by readers from all classes. Ardath has been called "her weirdest and most baroque novel" and is credited by some as a major influence on Lord Dunsany's imaginary-world vignettes.
Richard Harris
The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit
For fans of English courtroom humour. Think Rumpole.
Charles W. Colby
A chronicle of Samuel de Champlain.
E. Nesbit
Royal Children of English History
A short little book of tales of boys who became kings. Profusely and wonderfully illustrated.
Charles Raymond Barrett
A practical treatise on the Art of the Short Story, with a taxonomy of the kinds of short stories.
Ellis Parker Butler
Philo Gubb, Correspondence School Detective
A delightful series of deteckativin' stories in the spirit of Anderson Crow.
Once again, Butler provides a light and delightful treat. If you're a Sartre fan, move on, because there's nothing here for you. Sorry.
Our Young Folks
Volume 1, Number 1 of a magazine for children.
Algernon Blackwood
No less an expert than H.P. Lovecraft referred to Blackwood's work as "some of the finest spectral literature of this or any other age." While this is not one of his celebrated ghost stories, it is a delightful tale.
It is the sequel to The Education of Uncle Paul, which I am trying to locate.
Priscilla Aubin
This is one of the earliest novels in the English language.
Paul Creswick
Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth
Finley Peter Dunne
Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War
Jacob Abbott
Chester K. Steele
A "somewhat different mystery" the subheading says. And it is.
A delightful little mystery.
Charles Perrault
A.A. Milne
Harold MacGrath
A tale of adventure.
George Barr McCutcheon
One of the books in the Graustark series.
A standalone tale built around A Christmas Carol.
G.A. Henty
A series of historical fiction, designed to interest early teen boys in their studies.
Howard R. Garis
As promised earlier, the last of the currently available Uncle Wiggley books. I'll keep looking, though.
Percy J. Billinghurst
Primarily a children's book. Chosen for inclusion in the Grendel Hall collection because of his delightful and humourous illustrations.
P.G. Wodehouse
Wyrkyn is known to most P.G. Wodehouse readers at the school at which the character Psmith is introduced in Mike and Psmith. Its literary origins go back further than that, as this collection of short stories from the beginning decade of the 20th century shows.
George MacDonald
The History of Photogen and Nicteris
A novella originally published in Harper's Young People in December 1879-January 1880. A "fairy story" about a boy who's never seen the moon, a girl who's never seen the sun, and how they have to work together to escape an evil witch. Levels within levels, however.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Brigadier Gerard
Not among Doyle's best-known works, this set of tales give another view of the Napoleonic Wars, from the French side, as told by an old man who was an up-and-coming officer then.
Henry Gilbert
It's not Monty Python, but Gilbert does a good job with some rather old material.
J. Ross Browne
Humorous travelogue through Russia, Finland, Norway, Iceland, and the Faro Islands — as
they were before the U.S. Civil War.
John Edgar McFadyen
Introduction to the Old Testament
Insightful, though somewhat dry, study.
Robert Louis Stevenson
One of the earlier examples of Graustarkian literature. See the Wikipedia article here.
George Barr McCutcheon
McCutcheon is one of my favorite authors from the early 20th century. He wrote Brewster's Millions (yes, the movie), the Graustark books (marvelous; I hope to re-publish them again: the originals were lost in the Great Hard Drive Crash of Aught-Seven), and other wonderful works of wit.
Further adventures of this western New Englander doin' his detectivin'.
Samuel R. Gardner
From the earliest times until the death of King Edward VII (if you don't know when that is, perhaps this book will prove useful).
John Kendrick Bangs
Joel Chandler Harris
Nights with Uncle Remus
Howard R. Garis
If you don't remember Uncle Wiggily — well, that is just sad. Try one. There will be more.
Irvin S. Cobb
Fibble, D.D., a biography of a curate from a great, but nearly forgotten American humorist. There will be more Cobb.
G.K. Chesterton
A Short History of England, short but good.
George Randolph Chester
The Early Bird, just a "nice" book. If you're a Dostoevsky fan, keep on walkin', there's nothing happening here.
E.R. Benson
Trouble for Lucia, yet another Lucia book.
John S.C. Abbott
The brother of Jacob; the difference in their writing is evident.
Peter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch governor of New Amsterdam
Jacob Abbott
Richard I, better known as Richard the Lion-Hearted, or The "Good Guy" in Robin Hood
The Arsene Lupin series
The Adventures of A.J. Raffles, Amateur Cracksman, by E.W. Hornung
A Series of Books on Early 20th Century Technologies by Sara Ware Bassett
Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith
The diary is that of Mr Charles Pooter, a city clerk of lower middle-class status but significant social aspirations, living in Upper Holloway. Other characters include his wife Carrie (Caroline), his son Lupin, his friends Mr Cummings and Mr Gowing, and Lupin's unsuitable fiancée, Daisy Mutlar.
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
The first of the humourous traveloges, which not only revitalized Victorian travel fiction, but also was crucial to the success of To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis. An excellent book, highly recommended by your publisher.
A popular (i.e., not scholarly) history of the man and his times. One of a series, which will be forthcoming, as time allows.
A Collection of Lucia Books by E.F. Benson
Trent's Last Case by E.C. Bentley
Dorothy L. Sayers (of Lord Peter Wimsey fame) identified this book as the first modern detective novel. With its labyrinthine and mystifying plotting, it is at once a send-off and a send-up of the genre.
The Mirror of Kung Ho by Ernest Bramah
In honor of the Olympic Games opening in Bei-jing on Oct Oct Aught-Oct, this most diverse and deleterious of publishing houses brings to your most illustratious attention an oft-neglected work by Mr. Bramah. Your unworthy publisher commends it to your highly selective regard.
The Life and Times of Peter Stuyvesant by Hendrik Van Loon
One of my favorite historians: a man with an attitude. Additionally, the 400th anniversary of the discovery of the Hudson is coming soon, and — as you might expect — this has a bit about the history of the river in it.
Yes, it's an A.A. Milne book, but it's NOT Pooh; it's a collection of his writings from Punch. Very reminiscent of Wodehouse.
The Hundred Days by Talbot Mundy
One of the novels in Mundy's Jimgrim Saga.
Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
The New York Review of Books quotes Punch as saying "...extraordinarily well written...it is witty, human, often very beautiful."
Victorian Worthies by G.H. Blore
16 short biographies of such people as Lister, William Morris, Cecil Rhodes, and Charles Dickens.
Love Among the Chickens by P. G. Wodehouse
An early book by a master of British humour. Link to a P.G. Wodehouse appreciation page and to the Hub Page of the Wodehouse webring.
The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson
By special request. A fantasy classic. Wikipedia article on Hodgson.
Book written in commemoration of the 300th anniversary of the discovery of the Hudson. Reproduced in commemoration of the 400th anniversary.
House-Boat on the Styx and The Pursuit of the House-Boat by John Kendrick Bangs
Wikipedia article on A House-Boat on the Styx.
The Agony Column by Earl Derr Biggers
Biggers is the author of the Charlie Chan mysteries. This is not one of them. Wikipedia article on Earl Derr Biggers.
Love Conquers All by Robert C. Benchley
If you are a short humor fan (think Thurber) and haven't yet had a Benchley laugh, get this one. It's a great introduction to one of the premier humorists of the 20th century.
