Best of
Fiction

1921

The Complete Anne of Green Gables 8-Book Box Set


L.M. Montgomery - 1921
    Each book includes: The original, unabridged text; a specially commissioned biography of L.M. Montgomery; a map of Prince Edward Island.

Collected Stories


W. Somerset Maugham - 1921
    31 stories:In a strange land --Rain --The Fall of Edward Bernard --The Pool --Mackintosh --The Happy couple --Unconquered --Before the party --Yellow streak --Vessel of wrath --Force of circumstances --Alien corn --Virtue --Bum --Treasure --The Colonel's lady --The Human Element --Footprints in the jungle --Book-bag --The Back of beyond --Mayhew --Mirage --The Letter --The Outstation --Red --Miss King --The Hairless Mexican --Giulia Lazzari --The Traitor --His Excellency --Sanatorium --

The Good Soldier Švejk


Jaroslav Hašek - 1921
    Playing cards and getting drunk, he uses all his cunning and genial subterfuge to deal with the police, clergy, and officers who chivy him toward battle.Cecil Parrott's vibrant translation conveys the brilliant irreverence of this classic about a hapless Everyman caught in a vast bureaucratic machine.

Scaramouche


Rafael Sabatini - 1921
    Speaking out against the unjust French government, he takes refuge with a nomadic band of actors and assumes the role of the clown Scaramouche—a comic figure with a very serious message...Set during the French Revolution, this novel of swashbuckling romance is also a thought-provoking commentary on class, inequality, and the individual’s role in society—a story that has become Rafael Sabatini’s enduring legacy.With an Introduction by Gary Hoppenstand

Rain and Other South Sea Stories


W. Somerset Maugham - 1921
    Somerset Maugham led many lives, including that of a doctor in London's slums, a successful playwright and novelist, an agent for British Intelligence during World War I, and a world traveler. In 1917, he took the first of many voyages to the Pacific Islands and the Far East, where his keen sense of observation found inspiration for some of his finest writing.Rain and Other South Sea Stories features one of Maugham's most famous tales, concerning the clash between a missionary and a prostitute. "Rain" was adapted for the stage and filmed on three separate occasions, its leading character portrayed by Gloria Swanson, Joan Crawford, and Rita Hayworth. This collection also includes "Macintosh," a psychological study of the competition between two officials; "The Fall of Edward Barnard," a tale of social rebellion that foreshadows The Razor's Edge; "The Pool," a portrait of a marriage between people from different cultures; and other compelling stories of life in the tropics.

Far Eastern Tales


W. Somerset Maugham - 1921
    Whether portraying a ship-borne flight from a lover's curse, murder in the jungle or the remembered East of a repatriate's suburban home, they reveal Maugham as a shrewd and human judge of character and soul.Footprints in the JungleMabelP. & O.The Door of OpportunityThe Buried TalentBefore the PartyMr. Know-AllNeil MacAdamThe End of the FlightThe Force of Circumstance

The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham: East and West (Vol. 1 of 2))


W. Somerset Maugham - 1921
    Harrington's washing --Footprints in the jungle --Human element --virtue --Alien corn --Book-bag --Vessel of wrath --Door of opportunity --Back of beyond --Neil MacAdam.

The Last of the Vikings


Johan Bojer - 1921
    Its action centers upon a single fishing season, when the Norwegian peasantry, descendants of the Vikings, make their annual voyage to the islands.

The Works of Edna St. Vincent Millay (6 Books With Active Table of Contents)


Edna St. Vincent Millay - 1921
    Vincent Millay in a single, convenient, high quality, and extremely low priced Kindle volume!Poems:Renascence and other poems, A Few Figs from Thistles: Poems and Sonnetts, Second April, The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems Drama:Aria da Capo: A Play in One Act, The Lamp and the Bell: A Drama In Five Acts; Written on the occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding of the Vassar College Alumnae Association

The Enchanted Canyon


Honoré Willsie Morrow - 1921
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The Man Who Was Born Again


Paul Busson - 1921
    This grim account begins with its hero losing his head during the French Revolution, and really picks up from there, with the good Baron through swashbuckling and amorous activities finally becoming the master of death itself.

Heloise and Abelard


George Moore - 1921
    Heloise was the niece of the canon of Notre Dame, Fulbert, who entrusted her to Peter Abelard, a peripatetic teacher, for instruction. They were married secretly, and after the revelation of this marriage by Fulbert, he sent his men to castrate Abelard. Consequently, Heloise entered the convent of Argenteuil. Abelard was a French philosopher and theologian. This work tells their tale.

American Indian Stories and Old Indian Legends


Zitkála-Šá - 1921
    Pick up a copy today and be thrilled." — The Reading RoomThis accessible and affordable volume combines two essential collections by Sioux author Zitkala-Sa. American Indian Stories assembles short stories, autobiographical reflections, and political essays that offer poignant reflections on the author's sense of being stranded between the white and Native American worlds. Old Indian Legends features tales from the oral tradition — legends passed down through the generations that form a genre known as the "retold tale." Born on South Dakota's Yankton Reservation in 1876, Zitkala-Sa felt "as free as the wind that blew my hair, and no less spirited than a bounding deer." At the age of eight, she traded her freedom for the iron discipline of a Quaker boarding school. Disillusioned by American society as well as her own tribe, Zitkala-Sa attended college, became a teacher, and wrote about her experiences in a variety of books and magazines. A prominent advocate for Native American rights throughout her life, she was a key figure in the legislation that granted Native Americans citizenship in 1924.

The Beautiful Years


Henry Williamson - 1921
    

Scattergood Baines


Clarence Budington Kelland - 1921
    You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

The Early Hours


Marmaduke William Pickthall - 1921
    

Cow-Country


B.M. Bower - 1921
    "Call your master, Ezra," directed a quiet woman-voice gone weary and toneless with the heat and two restless children. "Don't beat the poor brute. He can't go any farther and carry the yoke, much less pull the wagon." Ezra dropped the gad and stepped upon the wagon tongue where he might squint into the dust cloud and decide which gray, plodding horseman alongside the herd was Robert Birnie. Far across the sluggish river of grimy backs, a horse threw up its head with a peculiar sidelong motion, and Ezra's eyes lightened with recognition. That was the colt, Rattler, chafing against the slow pace he must keep.

Once Upon A Time: A Book Of Old Time Fairy Tales


Katharine Lee Bates - 1921
    

The Cruise of the Kawa: Wanderings in the South Seas


Walter E. Traprock - 1921
    Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

The Black Diamond


Francis Brett Young - 1921
    Abner Fellows, a miner and semi-professional footballer, is found a surface job to ensure that industrial injury does not impede his football. Abner's stepmother is only a little older than himself and when his hard-drinking miner father is hospitalised he becomes the breadwinner. Just as his father returns home Abner is sacked for refusing to 'throw' a cup match for his boss. Fellows senior unjustly accuses his son of impropriety with his stepmother, a fight ensues and Abner leaves home. He tramps west and after several skirmishes finds lodgings with a casual acquaintance. Again he finds himself the breadwinner of a small family. His landlady keeps him at arm's length but just before the release of her husband from gaol, succumbs. After another fight Abner leaves and in Shrewsbury while intoxicated accepts an offered panacea.