“Hope Springs Eternal” March 3rd, 2009 So, I want to first off apologize that I was nowhere to be found for last week’s episode of Project Runway Canada - I wasn’t able to watch the episode live, had a heck of a time getting it to stream on Global’s website, and then on...

Ellen Glasgow , 1873-1945, American novelist, b. Richmond, Va. In revolt against the romantic treatment of Southern life, Glasgow presented in fiction a social history of Virginia since 1850, stressing the changing social order and the emergence of a dominant middle class and rejecting the outworn c...

Harold MacGrath (September 4, 1871 - October 30, 1932) was a bestselling American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. Also known occasionally as Harold McGrath, he was born in Syracuse, New York. As a young man, he worked as a reporter and columnist on the Syracuse Herald newspaper until...

This is more an adventure tale than a Western, really. Raine was fond of placing his stories in the West of the States, though, as he felt at home there. Oh and I fell in love with one of the characters. She is a small girl called Moya. Here's a litte excerpt to show you why: Quote: A young idealist...

A startling new detective story by the author of Shadowed by Three.(1882) Quote: So, The Diamond Coterie was kind of awesome, and shall henceforth be enshrined in my heart, but itÂ’s hard to know what to say about it, because there was a lot going on. There were a lot of characters, any of whom migh...

An 1898 short story from the author of The Devil's Dictionary and An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. Attached Files Bierce_The Damned Thing.prc (58.2 KB)...

Completely separate from the pulp sf tradition, yet a tremendous influence upon it, the five novels of the philosopher Olaf Stapledon were a fictional popularisation of his ideas about the unimportance of the individual except through fulfilment in community life. Two of them First and Last Men and ...

This is my title. These are newly-added stories from Gutenburg, added last month. This compliments my almost 4,000 page omnibus of practically all of Howard's stort stories, novellas, and novelettes (with the exception of the Conan stories, which another assembler has made available here on MobileRe...

G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) The Ball and the Cross (1909) “A novel that acts out the debate between Christianity and atheism, as embodied by two characters who propose to fight a duel but can never manage carry it out. Filled with humor, rich dialogue and striking allegorical imagery.” http://ch...

William Harrison Ainsworth (4 February 1805 – 3 January 1882) was an English historical novelist. He was born in Manchester, the son of a solicitor. He went to the Manchester Grammar School before becoming trained in the law. However the legal profession had no attraction for him, and going to Lond...