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• L'Après-midi d'un faune - Stéphane Mallarmé
• Beauchamp's Career - George Meredith
• Cobwebs from an Empty Skull - Ambrose Bierce
• Les Diaboliques - Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly
• Le drageoir aux epices - Joris-Karl Huysmans
• The Frozen Deep and Other Stories - Wilkie Collins
• Harry Heathcote of Gangoil: A Tale of Australian Bush Life - Anthony Trollope
• The Impending Sword - Edmund Yates
• Johnny Ludlow - Mrs. Henry Wood
• Lady Anna - Anthony Trollope
• Lost For Love - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• The Mysterious Island - Jules VerneJules Verne ( February 8, 1828 March 24, 1905) was a French writer and a pioneer of the science fiction ( scientific romance) genre. Early years Verne was born in Nantes to attorney Pierre Verne and his wife Sophie. The oldest of the family's five childre
• A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest - Amelia EdwardsAmelia Ann Blandford Edwards ( 7 June, 1831 15 April, 1892) was an English novelist, journalist, lady traveller and Egyptologist. Born in London to an Irish mother and a father who had been a British army officer before becoming a banker, Amelia was educa
• Other People's Money - Emile Gaboriaumile Gaboriau ( November 9, 1832 September 28, 1873), a French mystery writer, novelist, and journalist, one of the pioneers of modern detective fiction. Gaboriau's first book of the genre, L'Affaire Lerouge (1866) introduced an amateur detective, who wor
• The Pirate City - RM BallantyneRM Ballantyne ( April 24, 1825 February 8, 1894), Scottish fiction writer, Born Robert Michael Ballantyne in Edinburgh, Scotland he was part of a famous family of printers and publishers. At the age of sixteen, he went to Canada and was for six years in t
• Prudence Palfrey - Thomas Bailey AldrichThomas Bailey Aldrich (born 11th November 1836, died 19th March 1907) was a author born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA. His works include: The Bells The Ballad of Babie Bell Daisy's Necklace The Course of True Love Never did Run Smooth Marjorie Daw Pru
• The Rising Sun - William Wells Brown
• A Rose in June - Margaret Oliphant
• The Temptation of Saint Anthony - Gustave FlaubertGustave Flaubert ( December 12, 1821 Croisset, May 8, 1880) is counted among the greatest Western novelists. He was born in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, in the Haute-Normandie Region of France. Note: the French pronunciation of his name is roughly goo-STAHVE fl