Frank Richard Stockton 
What Might Have Been Expected 

The Illustrious Prince is an interesting and mysterious novel written by E. Phillips Oppenheim. The novel was written more than 30 years before Pearl Harbor and four years before World War I began. …

Rafael Sabatini penned the historical novel Bellarion the Fortunate. The story opens with Bellarion, a young man who was abandoned as a child and educated in an abbey, leaving with a letter of …

The Scarlet Pimpernel series by Baroness Orczy includes the novel The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel. The story begins in Paris in April 1794, when Theresia Cabarrus is betrothed to Citizen …

"The Cricket on the Hearth" is a novella written by Charles Dickens. The Peerybingle family and their lovely home, where a joyful cricket dwells on the hearth, are the focus of this …

"Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" by Kate Douglas Wiggin is a classic novel that follows the heartwarming story of Rebecca Rowena Randall, an imaginative and spirited young girl. Rebecca’s trip …

”The Virgin and the Gipsy”, written as a brief fiction titled by English novelist D.H. Lawrence, was posthumously released in 1930. Due to the spelling of "Gipsy" in the original and …

St. Martin’s Summer is a fictional novel written by an Italian-British writer Rafael Sabatini. An heiress’s life is in jeopardy, and her only chance of survival is to put her faith in the wits of a …

Chesterton wrote several writings for the London Daily News, which are collected in the book All Things Considered. While some of the issues are entertaining, some seem to be a bit serious. The book …

Cappy Ricks Retires is a fictional novel written by Peter B. Kyne. It is an interesting story of Cappy, who quits but keeps being drawn back by the romance of the sea and business. He comes back …

Although "Dave Porter and His Rivals" is a complete narrative in itself, it is the seventh book in the series known as the "Dave Porter Series." It is a fictional book written by …