The Dusty Bookcase

The second of three addendums to  the recent post about Martha Ostenso's 1925 bestselling novel . It's hard to know what to make of ...

Wild Geese Martha Ostenso New York: Dodd, Mead. 1925 358 pages The winner of the inaugural $13,500 Dodd-Mead-Famous-Players-Pictorial Review...

The Heart of the Ancient Wood Charles G.D. Roberts New York: Wessels, 1906 276 pages A bestseller in its day, a college text in mine, I read...

A Japanese Nightingale Onoto Watanna [Winnifred Eaton] New York: Harper, 1901 226 pages Onoto Watanna was her own creation. She was not a Ja...

If You Want to See Your Wife Again... John Craig London: Cassell, 1973 223 pages Struggling writer Dan Cramer once had a good gig. He spent ...

The Mystery of Cabin Island Franklin W. Dixon [Leslie McFarlane] New York: Grosset & Dunlop [c. 1960] 214 pages If you ever happen to vi...