Forgotten Books

Forgotten Treasures

in the Public Domain


Eccentric Novels

1. Pamela (1740) by Samuel Richardson (Text | Review)
2. Evelina (1778) by Frances Burney (Text | Review)
3. A Journey Around My Room (1794) by Xavier De Maistre (Text | Review)
4. Die Marquise von O.... (The Marquise of O..., 1808) by Heinrich von Kleist (Text in German | Review)
5. Basil (1852) by Wilkie Collins (Text | Review)
6. The Semi-Attached Couple (1860) by Emily Eden (Text | Review)
7. Venus in Furs (1870) by Ritter von Leopold Sacher-Masoch (Text | Review)
8. Mademoiselle Giraud, My Wife (1870) by Adolphe Belot (Text | Review)
9. Fanny (1870) by Ernest Feydeau (Text | Review)
10. The Usurper (1875) by Judith Gautier (Text | Review)
11. Herodias (1877) by Gustave Flaubert (Text | Review)
12. Confidence (1879) by Henry James (Text | Review)
13. Madame Chrysanthème (1887) by Pierre Loti (Text | Review)
14. Bruges-la-Morte (1892) by Jacques Rodenbach (Text in French| Review)
15. The Green Carnation (1894) by Robert Hichens (Text | Review)
16. Chita: A Memory of Last Island (1889) by Lafcadio Hearn (Text | Review)
17. The Cardinal's Snuff-box (1898) by Henry Harland (Text | Review)
18. Anna Lombard (1901) by Victoria Cross [Annie Sophie Cory] (Text | Review)
19. Belchamber (1904) by Howard Sturgis (Text | Review)
20. Old People and the Things That Pass (1906) by Louis Couperus (Text | Review)
21. A Woman at Bay (1906) by Sibilla Aleramo (Text | Review)
22. The Custom of the Country (1913) by Edith Wharton (Text | Review)
23. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise (1917) by David Graham Phillips (Text | Review)
24. Fräulein Else (1924) by Arthur Schnitzler (Text | Review)
25. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1925) by Anita Loos (Text | Review)
26. The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1939) by Joseph Roth (Text in German | Review)

Crime and Detection

1. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) by James Hogg (Text | Review)
2. East Lynne (1861) by Ellen Wood (Text | Review)
3. Lady Audley's Secret (1862) by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (Text | Review)
4. The Lerouge Case (1866) by Émile Gaboriau (Text | Review)
5. Griffith Gaunt, or Jealousy (1866) by Charles Reade (Text | Review)
6. Man and Wife (1870) by Wilkie Collins (Text | Review)
7. The Leavenworth Case (1878) by Anna Katherine Green (Text | Review)
8. The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886) by Fergus Hume (Text | Review)
9. The Grand Babylon Hotel (1902) by Arnold Bennett (Text | Review)
10. Trent's Last Case (1913) by E. C. Bentley (Text | Review)
11. The Cask (1920) by Freeman Wills Crofts (Text | Review)
12. The Red Redmaynes (1922) by Eden Philpott (Text | Review)
13. The Red House Mystery (1922) by A.A. Milne (Text | Review)
14. The Benson Murder Case (1926) by S.S. van Dine (Text | Review)
15. Unexpected Night (1940) by Elizabeth Daly (Text | Review) 
16. Accident by Design (1950) by E.C.R. Lorac (Text | Review)


Horror & SF

1. The Sandman (1816) by E.T.A. Hoffmann (Text | Review)
2. The Mummy's Foot (1840) by Théophile Gautier (Text | Review)
3. Die schwarze Spinne (The Black Spider, 1842) by Jeremias Gotthelf (Text in German | Review)
4. Clara Militch (1883) by Ivan Turgenev (Text | Review)
5. She (1887) by H. Rider Haggard (Text | Review)
6. The Rider on the White Horse (1888) by Theodor Storm (Text | Review)
7. The Lost Stradivarius (1895) by John Meade Falkner (Text | Review)
8. Lilith (1895) by George Macdonald (Text | Review)
9. Iras: A Mystery (1896) by Theo Douglas [H.D. Everett] (Text | Review)
10. The Beetle: A Mystery (1897) by Richard Marsh (Text | Review)
11. Pharos, the Egyptian (1899) by Guy Boothby (Text | Review)
12. The Purple Cloud (1901) by M.P. Shiel (Text | Review)
13. The Jewel of the Seven Stars (1903) by Bram Stoker (Text | Review)
14. Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904) by Lafcadio Hearn (Text | Review)
15. The House on the Borderland (1908) by William Hope Hodgson (Text | Review)
16. Der Golem (The Golem, 1915) by Gustav Meyrink (Text in German | Review)
17. A Voyage to Arcturus (1920) by David Lindsay (Text | Review)



Miss Brown (1884) by Vernon Lee
Khaled by F. Marion Crawford
Combined Maze by May Sinclair
Unleavened Bread by Robert Grant
One, None and a Hundred-Thousand by Pirandello
Desperate Remedies by Thomas Hardy