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Jacob Abbott
Better known as Richard the Lion-Hearted, or The "Good Guy" in Robin Hood
A popular (i.e., not scholarly) history of the man and his times.
John S.C. Abbott
The brother of Jacob; the difference in their writing is evident.
The last Dutch governor of New Amsterdam
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.
Elizabeth von Arnim
The New York Review of Books quotes Punch as saying "...extraordinarily well written...it is witty, human, often very beautiful."
Penelope Aubin
This is one of the earliest novels in the English language.
John Kendrick Bangs
Bangs's stories take place primarily in the afterlife. He may have been an inspiration for Philip Jose Farmer's Riverboat series.
Wikipedia article on A House-Boat on the Styx.
These are the foundational works of Bangsian fantasy.In this set of stories, the shade of Boswell returns to tell stories on the Enchanted Typewriter. When Boswell's shade is unavailable, Xanthippe, wife of Socrates, fills in.
This is not part of the Bangsian Fantasy canon. This is straight-out metropolitan political satire.
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.
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.
Charles Raymond Barrett
A practical treatise on the Art of the Short Story, with a taxonomy of the kinds of short stories.
Sara Ware Bassett
A Series of Books on Early 20th Century Technologies
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.
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.
E. R. Benson
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.
Earl Derr Biggers
Biggers is the author of the Charlie Chan mysteries. This is not one of them. Wikipedia article on Earl Derr Biggers.
Percy J. Billinghurst
Primarily a children's book, selected for Billinghurst's delightful and humorous illustrations.
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.
G. H. Blore
16 short biographies of such people as Lister, William Morris, Cecil Rhodes, and Charles Dickens.
Ernest Bramah
In honor of the Olympic Games opening in Beijing on Oct Oct Aught-Oct, this most diverse and deleterious of publishing houses brings to your most illustrious attention this oft-neglected work by Mr. Bramah. Your unworthy publisher commends it to your highly selective regard.
J. Ross Browne
Humorous travelogue through Russia, Finland, Norway, Iceland, and the Faro Islands — as they were before the U.S. Civil War.
Wallace Bruce
Book written in commemoration of the 300th anniversary of the discovery of the Hudson. Reproduced in commemoration of the 400th anniversary. Could a non-Mac author's name be any more Scottish? I mean, really.
Ellis Parker Butler
Philo Gubb, Correspondence School Detective
A delightful series of "deteckativin'" stories in the spirit of the great 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.
George Randolph Chester
Just a "nice" book. If you're a Dostoevsky fan, keep on walkin', there's nothing happening here.
G.K. Chesterton
Short but good.
Irvin S. Cobb
A biography of a curate from a great, but nearly forgotten American humorist. There will be more Cobb.
Charles W. Colby
A chronicle of Samuel de Champlain.
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.
Paul Creswick
Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth.
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.
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.
Finley Peter Dunne
Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War
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).
Howard R. Garis
Uncle Wiggily and Old Mother Hubbard
If you don't remember Uncle Wiggily — well, that is just sad. Try one. There will be more.
Henry Gilbert
It's not Monty Python, but Gilbert does a good job with some rather old material.
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.
Joel Chandler Harris
Brer Rabbit and company tell their stories. The language of the time in which it was written may be offensive to those of us who came of age during and after the Civil Rights Movement.
Richard Harris
The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit
For fans of English courtroom humour. Think Rumpole.
G.A. Henty
A series of historical fiction, designed to interest early teen boys in their studies.
William Hope Hodgson
By special request. A fantasy classic. Wikipedia article on Hodgson.
E.W. Hornung
The Adventures of A.J. Raffles, Amateur Cracksman
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.
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.
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.
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".
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?"
Maurice Leblanc
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: 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'.
One of the Graustark books.
A standalone tale built around "A Christmas Carol".
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.
John Edgar McFadyen
Introduction to the Old Testament
An insightful, though somewhat dry, study.
Harold MacGrath
A tale of adventure.
A.A. Milne
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, although the two were not friends.
Talbot Mundy
A novel in Mundy's Jimgrim Saga.
E. Nesbit
Royal Children of English History
A short little book of tales of boys who became kings. Profusely and wonderfully illustrated.
Our Young Folks
Volume 1, Number 1 of a magazine for children.
Charles Perrault
The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault
Before there was Hans Christian Anderson, there was Charles Perrault.
Chester K. Steele
A "somewhat different mystery" the subheading says. And it is.
A delightful little mystery.
Robert Louis Stevenson
One of the earlier examples of Graustarkian literature. See the Wikipedia article here.
Hendrik van Loon
The Life and Times of Peter Stuyvesant
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.
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.
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.
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.
N.C. Wyeth
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