William Makepeace Thackeray 
The Fatal Boots 

Cappy Ricks Retires is a fictional novel written by Peter B. Kyne. It is an interesting story of Cappy, who quits but keeps being drawn back by the romance of the sea and business. He comes back …

The Rover Boys Out West is one of the best-selling novels from the Rover Boys series written before 1900. This collection of stories by Arthur M. Winfield attempts to compile many of his classic …

E. Phillips Oppenheim’s World War I-set novel "The Devil’s Paw", written in 1920, is rife with international espionage and intrigue. After being given access to extremely private documents, …

Although "Dave Porter and His Rivals" is a complete narrative in itself, it is the seventh book in the series known as the "Dave Porter Series." It is a fictional book written by …

The Scarlet Pimpernel series by Baroness Orczy includes the novel The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel. The story begins in Paris in April 1794, when Theresia Cabarrus is betrothed to Citizen …

”They can say what they bloody well like, but we”re a fuckin” fine mob.” Deep in the mud, stench of the Somme, Bourne is trying his best to stay alive. There he finds the intense fraternity of wa …

The Trampling Of The Lilies is a historical fiction novel written by Rafael Sabatini. The novel starts four years prior to the French Revolution and moves quickly to the Revolution. The protagonist …

Rafael Sabatini penned the historical novel Bellarion the Fortunate. The story opens with Bellarion, a young man who was abandoned as a child and educated in an abbey, leaving with a letter of …

"The Cricket on the Hearth" is a novella written by Charles Dickens. The Peerybingle family and their lovely home, where a joyful cricket dwells on the hearth, are the focus of this …

"Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" by Kate Douglas Wiggin is a classic novel that follows the heartwarming story of Rebecca Rowena Randall, an imaginative and spirited young girl. Rebecca’s trip …