Books on Sketches

Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches

Reginald in Russia is the title story in a collection of fifteen witty and satirical stories, sketches and one "playlet" by that master of the short s...

Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches

Saki

Remarkable Rogues: The Careers of Some Notable Criminals of Europe and America

Crime Biography

Twenty biographical sketches of people you would not want your son or daughter to marry. An insight into crimes committed before modern technology.

Remarkable Rogues: The Careers of Some Notable Criminals of Europe and America

Charles Kingston

Religion and Science from Galileo to Bergson

History Philosophy

"The chapters which follow are not intended as even a slight sketch of the history of Thought since the Renaissance. Their object is more modest, i.e....

Religion and Science from Galileo to Bergson

John Charlton Hardwick

Historic Boyhoods

Biography

Most boys grow up to be honest, maybe even good, men, but do not stand out from the crowd. Occasionally, along comes a boy who is destined, either by...

Historic Boyhoods

Rupert S. Holland

On a Chinese Screen

Non-Fiction Travel

It is a series of short sketches Maugham made during a trip along the Yangtze River in 1919–1920, and although ostensibly about China the book is equa...

On a Chinese Screen

W. Somerset Maugham

Literary Lapses

Humour

Leacock was a humorist genius loved by Groucho Marx and many others for his comic chops, great emotional detail of humor. Using the fictional English...

Literary Lapses

Stephen Leacock

Selected Works: Letters, Sketches and Stories

Reference work

Voltairine de Cleyre was an American anarchist. She was skilled in many subjects and wrote essays, poems, letters, sketches, stories and speeches. The...

Selected Works: Letters, Sketches and Stories

Voltairine de Cleyre

Selected Works: Poems

Poetry

Voltairine de Cleyre was an activist, anarchist, feminist, and protagonist of woman's liberation, her works here highlight varying issues related to s...

Selected Works: Poems

Voltairine de Cleyre

Sketches New and Old

Fiction Humour

This collection of 63 writings by Mark Twain was published in 1875. Among other sketches, it contains "The Jumping Frog" in the original English, foll...

Sketches New and Old

Mark Twain

The White People

Horror Fiction

A discussion between two men on the nature of evil leads one of them to reveal a mysterious Green Book he possesses. It is a young girl's diary, in wh...

The White People

Arthur Machen

Summer Days in Shakespeare Land

Biography

"Some delights of the ancient town of Stratford-upon-Avon and the country round about, together with a sketch of the life of Mr. William Shakespeare,...

Summer Days in Shakespeare Land

Charles George Harper

Allan's Wife

Adventure Action Fiction

We begin with young (age 9-ish) Allan at home in England meeting young Stella; then, Stella's mother abandons her husband (more than a whiff of scanda...

Allan's Wife

H. Rider Haggard

Beethoven and His Nine Symphonies

Fantasy

George Grove, whose name now stands atop music scholarship’s most important resource (the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians), takes readers thro...

Beethoven and His Nine Symphonies

Pitts Sanborn

Noted Speeches of Abraham Lincoln

Reference work

A few of Lincoln's most famous speeches and the Lincoln-Douglas debate make for historic reading.

Noted Speeches of Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Historic Girlhoods, Volume 1

Biography

Biographical sketches of ten girls who became famous before becoming women - some not even making it to womanhood. From Joan of Arc to Catherine d'Med...

Historic Girlhoods, Volume 1

Rupert S. Holland

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Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches

Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches

Remarkable Rogues: The Careers of Some Notable Criminals of Europe and America

Remarkable Rogues: The Careers of Some Notable Criminals of Europe and America

Religion and Science from Galileo to Bergson

Religion and Science from Galileo to Bergson

Historic Boyhoods

Historic Boyhoods

On a Chinese Screen

On a Chinese Screen

Literary Lapses

Literary Lapses

Selected Works: Letters, Sketches and Stories

Selected Works: Letters, Sketches and Stories

Selected Works: Poems

Selected Works: Poems

Sketches New and Old

Sketches New and Old

The White People

The White People

Summer Days in Shakespeare Land

Summer Days in Shakespeare Land

Allan's Wife

Allan's Wife

Beethoven and His Nine Symphonies

Beethoven and His Nine Symphonies

Noted Speeches of Abraham Lincoln

Noted Speeches of Abraham Lincoln

Historic Girlhoods, Volume 1

Historic Girlhoods, Volume 1

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