18 books like The uncommercial traveller

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Arcadia Sir Philip Sidney · 1598 · ★ 3.7 · 561p · ≈ 18h · Demanding Basilus, a foolish old duke, consults an oracle as he imperiously wishes to know the future, but he is less than pleased with what he learns. To escape the oracle's horrific prophecies about his family and kingdom he withdraws into pastoral retreat with his wife and two daughters. When a pair of wandering princes fall in love with the princesses and adopt disguises to gain access to them, all… Shares: British and irish fiction, English literature, Classic Literature

The Guilty River Wilkie Collins · 1886 · 124p · ≈ 4h · Challenging During his lifetime, British fiction writer Wilkie Collins came to rival Charles Dickens in popularity and critical acclaim. Like Dickens, Collins often gravitated toward characters who overcame significant obstacles to learn important life lessons. The novella The Guilty River continues in this vein, recounting an against-all-odds love affair that blossoms between a couple that each… Shares: British and irish fiction, Classic Literature

The Black Robe Wilkie Collins · 1881 · ★ 3.7 · 318p · ≈ 10h · Challenging The Black Robe is an 1881 partially-epistolary novel by famed English writer, Wilkie Collins. The book, which relates the misadventures of one "Lewis Romayne", is noted for its anti-Catholic lens. Shares: British and irish fiction, English literature, Classic Literature

The dynamiter Robert Louis Stevenson · 1885 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Challenging All fourteen-year-old Robbie Hendrick ever wanted was a family. Yet as another Mississippi summer begins, his wayward mother has run off again fearing a breakdown and he's left to burn the days caring for his half brother, Fess. As the deep days and nights pass without her return and with older brother Lucas dangerously in their lives again, Robbie must face the fact that his dream of a family… Shares: British and irish fiction, Classic Literature

Rodney Stone Arthur Conan Doyle · 1896 · 349p · ≈ 11h · Challenging From the book:On this, the first of January of the year 1851, the nineteenth century has reached its midway term, and many of us who shared its youth have already warn-ings which tell us that it has outworn us. We put our grizzled heads together, we older ones, and we talk of the great days that we have known; but we find that when it is with our children that we talk it is a hard matter to make… Shares: British and irish fiction, Classic Literature, History

Within the tides Joseph Conrad · 1915 · ★ 3.6 · 172p · ≈ 5h · Challenging In the private editorial office of the principal newspaper in a great colonial city two men were talking. They were both young. The stouter of the two, fair, and with more of an urban look about him, was the editor and part-owner of the important newspaper. Shares: British and irish fiction, Classic Literature

Little Novels Wilkie Collins · 1887 · 318p · ≈ 10h · Challenging This is novel book. Having bowed with a happy mingling of dignity and politeness, the conventional side of this gentleman's character suddenly vanished; and a crazy side, to all appearance, took its place. He dropped on his knees in front of the footstool. Had he forgotten to say his prayers that morning, and was he in such a hurry to remedy the fault that he had no time to spare for consulting… Shares: British and irish fiction, English literature, Social life and customs

Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo William Le Queux · 1921 · 243p · ≈ 8h · Challenging "Yes! I'm not mistaken at all! It's the same woman!" whispered the tall, good-looking young enman in a well-cut navy suit as he stood with his friend, a man some ten years older than himself, at one of the roulette tables at Monte Carlo, the first on the right on entering the room - that one known to habitual gamblers as "The Suicide's Table." Shares: English literature, Classic Literature

Pelham Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton · 1828 · 375p · ≈ 12h · Challenging This is the tale of Henry Pelham. He falls in love with his best friend’s sister, and then learns that his friend is accused of murder. He must find the real killer in order to marry his love. The book really illustrates the manners, habits and lifestyles of the rich and famous in the first half of the 19th century. This is a very entertaining read!Please Note: This book is easy to read in true… Shares: British and irish fiction, Classic Literature

No name Wilkie Collins · 1862 · ★ 4.1 · 561p · ≈ 18h · Challenging No Name is a 19th-century novel by the master of sensation fiction, Wilkie Collins. A country gentleman is killed in an accident and his wife dies shortly after him. The blow is double for their daughters, who discover that they were born before their parents were married. Their sudden illegitimacy robs them of their inheritance and their accustomed place in society. Shares: British and irish fiction, Social life and customs, Classic Literature

Mr. Scarborough's Family Anthony Trollope · 1883 · 643p · ≈ 21h · Demanding It will be necessary, for the purpose of my story, that I shall go back more than once from the point at which it begins, so that I may explain with the least amount of awkwardness the things as they occurred, which led up to the incidents that I am about to tell; and I may as well say that these first four chapters of the book - though they may be thought to be the most interesting of them all… Shares: British and irish fiction, Social life and customs, Classic Literature

The Warden Anthony Trollope · 1809 · ★ 3.9 · 250p · ≈ 8h · Challenging The Chronicles of Barsetshire, Book 1: The Warden The tranquil atmosphere of the cathedral town of Barchester is shattered when a scandal breaks concerning the financial affairs of a Church-run almshouse for elderly men. In the ensuing furore, Septimus Harding, the almshouse's well-meaning warden, finds himself pitted against his daughter's suitor Dr John Bold, a zealous local reformer. Matters… Shares: British and irish fiction, English literature, Social life and customs, Classic Literature

The Haunted House Charles Dickens · 1859 · ★ 3.1 The drama begins with a Yuletide gathering in an eerie country retreat that's rumored to be haunted. There, Dickens and his friends, including acclaimed authors Elizabeth Gaskell and Wilkie Collins, take on the task of finding evidence of a supernatural presence in the house. When they reconvene at a Twelfth Night feast to review their findings, what will their stories reveal? Shares: British and irish fiction, English literature

To be a pilgrim Joyce Cary · 1942 · 342p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Tom Wilcher, a rich Englishman who is treated as a foolish old man by his young relatives, looks back on his life and his unfulfilled spiritual yearnings even as he faces death. Shares: British and irish fiction, English literature, Social life and customs

The Poison Belt Arthur Conan Doyle · 1913 · ★ 3.9 · 83p · ≈ 2h · Challenging Being an account of another adventure of Prof. George E. Challenger, Lord John Roxton, Prof. Summerlee and Mr E. D. M alone, the discoverers of "The Lost World". Shares: British and irish fiction, Classic Literature

Tales of Terror and Mystery Arthur Conan Doyle · 1963 · ★ 3.8 · 186p · ≈ 6h · Moderate From the book:The idea that the extraordinary narrative which has been called the Joyce-Armstrong Fragment is an elaborate practical joke evolved by some unknown person, cursed by a perverted and sinister sense of humour, has now been abandoned by all who have examined the matter. The most macabre and imagi-native of plotters would hesitate before linking his morbid fancies with the unquestioned… Shares: British and irish fiction, English literature, Classic Literature

The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents H. G. Wells · 1895 · 156p · ≈ 5h · Challenging The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents was H. G. Wells' first collection of short stories, published in 1895. These fantasy and science fiction tales were all written between 1893 and 1895 and published in various periodicals. Shares: British and irish fiction, Classic Literature

Plain tales from the hills Rudyard Kipling · 1888 · 194p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Originally written for the Lahore Civil and Military Gazette, the stories were intended for a provincial readership familiar with the pleasures and miseries of colonial life. For the subsequent English edition, Kipling revised the tales so as to recreate as vividly as possible the sights and smells of India for those at home. Yet far from being a celebration of Empire, Kipling's stories tell of… Shares: British and irish fiction, Social life and customs, Classic Literature, History

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