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The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (commonly known as Martin Chuzzlewit) is a novel by English author Charles Dickens, considered the last of his picaresque novels. It was originally serialised between January 1843 and July 1844.
Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby is a book by Charles Dickens. Its subjects include Boarding schools; England, Social life and customs, 19th century; England.
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus is a 1902 children's book, written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by Mary Cowles Clark.
Life in a Thousand Worlds is a book by William Shuler Harris. Its subjects include Utopias.
Light Princess is a book by George MacDonald. Its subjects include Fairy tales; Children's stories, English; Fairy tales, Great Britain.
Lilith: A Romance is a fantasy novel by Scottish writer George MacDonald, first published in 1895. It was reprinted in paperback by Ballantine Books as the fifth volume of the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in September 1969.
Little Duke is a book by Charlotte Mary Yonge. Its subjects include Richard I, Duke of Normandy, approximately 932-996, Juvenile fiction.
Little Eve Edgarton is a book by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott. Its subjects include Young women; First loves; Fathers and daughters.
Little Lame Prince is a book by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik. Its subjects include Children's literature; Fairy tales; Princes, Juvenile fiction.
Little Lord Fauntleroy is a children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was published as a serial in St. Nicholas Magazine from November 1885 to October 1886, then as a book by Scribner's (the publisher of St. Nicholas) on October 7, 1886 in New York.
Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys, is a children's novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888). First published in 1871 by Roberts Brothers, the book reprises characters from Alcott's 1868–69 two-volume novel Little Women, and acts as a sequel in the unofficial Little Women trilogy.
Little Princess is a book by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Its subjects include Orphans, Juvenile fiction; Schools, Juvenile fiction; Boarding schools, Juvenile fiction.
Little Women is a coming-of-age novel written by American novelist Louisa May Alcott, originally published in two volumes, in 1868 and 1869. The story follows the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—and details their passage from childhood to womanhood.
Lodger is a book by Marie Belloc Lowndes. Its subjects include Detective and mystery stories; Serial murders; Whitechapel (London, England).
Lone Star Ranger is a 1942 American Western film directed by James Tinling and written by William Conselman Jr., Irving Cummings Jr. and George Kane. The film stars John Kimbrough, Sheila Ryan, Jonathan Hale, William Farnum, Truman Bradley and George E. Stone.
Lord Jim is a novel by Joseph Conrad originally published as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine from October 1899 to November 1900. He is publicly censured for this action and the novel follows his later attempts at coming to terms with himself and his past and seeking redemption and acceptance.
Lord of Chaos is a fantasy novel by American author Robert Jordan, the sixth book of his series The Wheel of Time. It was published by Tor Books and released on October 15, 1994, and was nominated for the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel in 1995. Lord of Chaos consists of a prologue, 55 chapters, and an epilogue. It is the first book of the Wheel of Time to have an epilogue.
Lords and Ladies is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the fourteenth Discworld book. It was originally published in 1992. Some parts of the storyline spoof elements of Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Loss of the S. S. Titanic is a book by Lawrence Beesley. Its subjects include Titanic (Steamship); Shipwrecks, North Atlantic Ocean.
Lost Prince is a book by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Its subjects include People with disabilities; Fathers and sons; Princes.
The Lost Princess of Oz is the eleventh book in the Oz series written by L. Frank Baum. Published on June 5, 1917, it begins with the disappearance of Princess Ozma, the ruler of Oz and covers Dorothy and the Wizard's efforts to find her.
Lost World is a book by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Its subjects include Challenger, Professor (Fictitious character); Fantasy fiction; South America.
Love Among the Chickens is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published as a book in the United Kingdom in June 1906 by George Newnes, London, and in the United States by Circle Publishing, New York, on 11 May 1909. It had already appeared there as a serial in Circle magazine between September 1908 and March 1909.
Love Conquers All is a book by Robert C. Benchley. Its subjects include American wit and humor.
Love-Songs of Childhood is a book by Eugene Field. Its subjects include Children's poetry.
The Tragedy of Macbeth, often shortened to Macbeth (), is a tragedy by William Shakespeare which is estimated to have been first performed in 1606. Shakespeare's source for the story is the account of Macbeth, King of Scotland, Macduff, and Duncan in Holinshed's Chronicles (1587), a history of England, Scotland, and Ireland familiar to Shakespeare and his contemporaries, although the events in the play differ extensively from the history of the real Macbeth.
Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners (French: Madame Bovary: Mœurs de province, pronounced [madam bɔvaʁi mœʁ(s) də pʁɔvɛ̃s]), commonly known as simply Madame Bovary, is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, originally published in 1856 and 1857. The eponymous character, Emma Bovary, lives beyond her means in order to escape the ennui of provincial life.
Madman and The Pirate is a book by R. M. Ballantyne. Its subjects include Christian life, Juvenile fiction; Conduct of life, Juvenile fiction; Children, Conduct of life, Juvenile fiction.
Main Street is a novel written by Sinclair Lewis, and published in 1920. The story is set in the small town of Gopher Prairie, a fictionalized version of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Lewis's hometown, during the 1910s.
Making Money is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, part of his Discworld series, first published in the UK on 20 September 2007. It is the second novel featuring Moist von Lipwig, and involves the Ankh-Morpork mint and specifically the introduction of paper money to the city. The novel won the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel in 2008, and was nominated for the Nebula Award the same year.
Man of Property (Forsyte Saga Vol. 1) is a book by John Galsworthy. Its subjects include England, Social life and customs, 19th century; Domestic fiction; Women, England.
Man Who Knew Too Much is a book by G. K. Chesterton. Its subjects include Detective and mystery stories, English; Great Britain; Aristocracy (Social class).
Mansfield Park is the third published novel by the English author Jane Austen, first published in 1814 by Thomas Egerton. The novel tells the story of Fanny Price, starting when her overburdened family sends her at the age of ten to live in the household of her wealthy aunt and uncle and following her development into early adulthood.
The Marvelous Land of Oz: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, commonly shortened to The Land of Oz, published in July 1904, is the second book in L. Frank Baum's Oz series, and the sequel to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). This and the following 34 books in the series were illustrated by John R. Neill.
Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life was the first novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in 1848. The story is set in the English city of Manchester between 1839 and 1842, and deals with the difficulties faced by the Victorian working class.
Maskerade is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the eighteenth book in the Discworld series. The witches Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg visit the Ankh-Morpork Opera House to find Agnes Nitt, a girl from Lancre, and get caught up in a story similar to The Phantom of the Opera.
Master of Mysteries is a book by Robert Eustace, L. T. Meade. Its subjects include Detective and mystery stories.
Mathilda is a book by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Its subjects include Fathers and daughters; Guilt; Incest.
The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character is an 1886 novel by the English author Thomas Hardy. One of Hardy's Wessex novels, it is set in a fictional rural England with Casterbridge standing in for Dorchester in Dorset where the author spent his youth.
McTeague: A Story of San Francisco, otherwise known as simply McTeague, is a novel by Frank Norris, first published in 1899. It tells the story of a couple's courtship and marriage, and their subsequent descent into poverty and violence as the result of jealousy and greed. The book was the basis for the films McTeague (1916) and Erich von Stroheim's Greed (1924). It was also adapted as an opera by William Bolcom in 1992.
A Memoir of Jane Austen is a biography of the novelist Jane Austen (1775–1817) published in 1869 by her nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh. A second edition was published in 1871 which included previously unpublished Jane Austen writings.
Men at Arms is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the 15th book in the Discworld series, first published in 1993. It is the second novel about the Ankh-Morpork City Watch on the Discworld.
Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by English author George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Ann Evans. Set in Middlemarch, a fictional English Midlands town, from 1829 to 1832, it follows distinct, intersecting stories with many characters.
Mike: A Public School Story is a book by P. G. Wodehouse. Its subjects include Boarding schools; Schools; Humorous stories.
The Mill on the Floss is a novel by English author George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann Evans, first published in three volumes on 4 April 1860 by William Blackwood and Sons. The first American edition was published, in the same year, by Harper & Brothers, New York.
Mind and the Brain is a book by Alfred Binet. Its subjects include Mind and body.
Miss Civilization is a book by Richard Harding Davis. Its subjects include American drama (Comedy), 20th century.
Mistborn: The Final Empire is a fantasy novel written by American author Brandon Sanderson. The novel is set in the Final Empire, a tyrannical regime led by the seemingly immortal Lord Ruler.