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Jackson Gregory

August Nemo

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Jackson Gregory which are The Short Cut and Daughter of the Sun. 

Jackson Gregory was a prolific writer of western and detective stories. He authored more than 40 fiction novels and a number of short stories. Several of his tales were used as the basis of films released between 1916 and 1944, including The Man from Painted Post. Novels selected for this book: The Short Cut. Daughter of the Sun. This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.

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Essential Novelists - Jackson Gregory: authentic western heroes

Andy Adams

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Andy Adams which are The Log of a Cowboy and Wells Brothers. Andy Adams was an American writer of western fiction. Although the book is fiction, it is based on Adams's own experiences, and it is considered by many to be literature's best account of cowboy life. 

Adams was disgusted by the unrealistic cowboy fiction being published in his time; The Log of a Cowboy was his response. It is still in print, and even modern reviewers consider it compelling. The Chicago Herald said: "As a narrative of cowboy life, Andy Adams' book is clearly the real thing. 

It carries its own certificate of authentic first-hand experience on every page. "Novels selected for this book: The Log of a Cowboy. Wells Brothers. This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.

Essential Novelists - Andy Adams: literature's best account of cowboy life

Alice Duer Miller

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Alice Duer Miller which are Come Out of the Kitchen! and The Beauty and the Bolshevist. Alice Duer Miller was a writer from the U.S. whose poetry actively influenced political opinion. 

She became known as a campaigner for women's suffrage and published a brilliant series of satirical poems in the New York Tribune. These were published subsequently as Are Women People?. These words became a catchphrase of the suffrage movement. Novels selected for this book: Come Out of the Kitchen! The Beauty and the Bolshevist. This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.

Essential Novelists - Alice Duer Miller: Are women people?

Booth Tarkington

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Booth Tarkington which are The Magnificent Ambersons and The Turmoil. He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner, John Updike, and Colson Whitehead. 

In the 1910s and 1920s he was considered America's greatest living author. Several of his stories were adapted to film. During the first quarter of the 20th century, Tarkington, along with Meredith Nicholson, George Ade, and James Whitcomb Riley helped to create a Golden Age of literature in Indiana. Booth Tarkington was an American novelist and dramatist. Novels selected for this book: The Magnificent Ambersons. The Turmoil. This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.

Essential Novelists - Booth Tarkington

James Oliver Curwood

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of James Oliver Curwood which are Kazan and The Grizzly King. James Oliver Curwood was an American action-adventure writer and conservationist. 

His books were often based on adventures set in the Hudson Bay area, the Yukon or Alaska and ranked among the top-ten best sellers in the United States in the early and mid 1920s, according to Publishers Weekly. At the time of his death, Curwood was the highest paid (per word) author in the world. Novels selected for this book: Kazan. The Grizzly King. This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.

Essential Novelists - James Oliver Curwood

John Fox Jr.

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of John Fox Jr. which are The Trail of the Lonesome Pine and A Cumberland Vendetta. John Fox Jr. was an American journalist, novelist, and short story writer. 

Many of his works reflected the naturalist style, his childhood in Kentucky's Bluegrass region, and his life among the coal miners of Big Stone Gap, Virginia. Many of his novels were historical romances or period dramas set in that region. Novels selected for this book: The Trail of the Lonesome Pine. A Cumberland Vendetta. This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.

Essential Novelists - John Fox Jr.

Charles Alden Seltzer

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Charles Alden Seltzer which are The Trail Horde and The Boss of the Lazy Y. Charles Alden Seltzer was an American writer. 

He was a prolific author of western novels, had writing credits for more than a dozen film titles, and authored numerous stories published in magazines, most prominently in Argosy. Novels selected for this book: The Trail Horde. The Boss of the Lazy Y. This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.

Essential Novelists - Charles Alden Seltzer

William MacLeod Raine

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors.

For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of William MacLeod Raine which are A Texas Ranger and The Sheriff's Son.

William MacLeod Raine was a British-born American novelist who wrote fictional adventure stories about the American Old West. Raine's novel Men in the Raw appeared in The Argosy in 1915. In 1959, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.

Novels selected for this book:

A Texas Ranger.

The Sheriff's Son.

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Essential Novelists - William MacLeod Raine: A Texas Ranger

Owen Wister

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors.

For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Owen Wister which are The Virginian and Lady Baltimore.

Owen Wister was an American writer and historian, considered the "father" of western fiction. His most famous work remains the 1902 novel The Virginian, a complex mixture of persons, places and events dramatized from experience, word of mouth, and his own imagination – ultimately creating the archetypal cowboy. This is widely regarded as being the first cowboy novel.

Novels selected for this book:

The Virginian.

Lady Baltimore.

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Essential Novelists - Owen Wister: Inventor of the Good-guy Cowboy

Rex Beach

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors.

For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Rex Beach which are Heart of the Sunset and The Iron Trail. Rex Beach was an American novelist, playwright, and Olympic water polo player. His adventure novels, influenced by Jack London, were immensely popular throughout the early 1900s.

Novels selected for this book:

Heart of the Sunset;

The Iron Trail.

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Essential Novelists - Rex Beach: heart of the sunset

Hamlin Garland

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Hamlin Garland which are A Son of the Middle Border and A Daughter of the Middle Border. Hamlin Garland was an American novelist, poet, essayist, short story writer and psychical researcher. A prolific writer, Garland continued to publish novels, short fiction, and essays. In 1917, he published his autobiography, A Son of the Middle Border. 

The book's success prompted a sequel, A Daughter of the Middle Border, for which Garland won the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Garland naturally became quite well known during his lifetime and had many friends in literary circles. He was made a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1918. Novels selected for this book: A Son of the Middle Border. A Daughter of the Middle Border. This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.

Essential Novelists - Hamlin Garland: Hard-working Midwestern farmers

Agatha Christie

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors.

For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Agatha Christie which are The Mysterious Affair at Styles and The Murder on the Links.

Agatha Christie, was a British writer who acted as a novelist, short story writer, dramaturge and poet. She stood out in the subgenre of detective novels, having popularly won the nicknames "Queen of Crime", "Duchess of Death" and "Mistress of Mystery". According to the Guinness Book, Christie is the most successful novelist in the history of world popular literature in total number of books sold, whose total numbers are only behind the works sold by William Shakespeare and the Bible.

Novels selected for this book:
The Mysterious Affair at Styles;
The Murder on the Links.

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Essential Novelists - Agatha Christie: The Mistress of Mystery

Ernest Bramah

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors.

For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Ernest Bramah which are The Secret of the League and Kai Lung's Golden Hours.

Ernest Bramah humorous works were ranked with Jerome K. Jerome and W. W. Jacobs, his detective stories with Conan Doyle, his politico-science fiction with H. G. Wells and his supernatural stories with Algernon Blackwood. George Orwell acknowledged that Bramah's book, What Might Have Been, influenced his Nineteen Eighty-Four. Bramah created the characters Kai Lung and Max Carrados.

Novels selected for this book:

- The Secret of the League.

- Kai Lung's Golden Hours.

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Essential Novelists - Ernest Bramah: The Secret of the League

Helen Hunt Jackson

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors.

For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Helen Hunt Jackson which are Ramona and Nelly's Silver Mine.

Helen Hunt Jackson was an American poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the United States government. Her novel Ramona dramatized the federal government's mistreatment of Native Americans in Southern California after the Mexican–American War and attracted considerable attention to her cause. The novel was so popular that it attracted many tourists to Southern California who wanted to see places from the book.

Novels selected for this book:

- Ramona;

- Nelly's Silver Mine.

This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.

Essential Novelists - Helen Hunt Jackson: Romantic and Picturesque

L. M. Montgomery

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of L. M. Montgomery which are Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea. Lucy Maud Montgomery was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. The book was an immediate success. Anne Shirley, an orphaned girl, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following. The first novel was followed by a series of sequels with Anne as the central character. Montgomery went on to publish 20 novels as well as 530 short stories, 500 poems, and 30 essays. Most of the novels were set in Prince Edward Island, and locations within Canada's smallest province became a literary landmark and popular tourist site namely Green Gables farm, the genesis of Prince Edward Island National Park. Novels selected for this book: - Anne of Green Gables; - Anne of Avonlea. - And bonus content: The Alpine Path, the autobiography of L. M. Montgomery!This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.

Essential Novelists - L. M. Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables

Mary Hunter Austin

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors.

For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Mary Austin which are A Woman of Genius and The Lovely Lady.

Mary Austin was an American writer. One of the early nature writers of the American Southwest, describing the fauna, flora and people – as well as evoking the mysticism and spirituality – of the region between the High Sierra and the Mojave Desert of southern California.

Novels selected for this book:
- A Woman of Genius;
- The Lovely Lady.

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Essential Novelists - Mary Hunter Austin: A Woman of Genius

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors.

For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Mary Roberts Rinehart which are The Circular Staircase and The Bat.

Rinehart wrote hundreds of short stories, poems, travelogues and articles. While many of her books were best sellers, critics were most appreciative of her murder mysteries. Many of her books and plays were adapted for movies, such as The Bat and The Circular Staircase - both published in this book.

Novels selected for this book:

- The Circular Staircase;

- The Bat.

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Essential Novelists - Mary Roberts Rinehart: The American Agatha Christie

George Orwell

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of George Orwell which are Animal Farm and Nineteen eighty-four.

Eric Arthur Blair, better known by the pseudonym George Orwell, was an English writer, journalist, and political essayist. His work is marked by a perceptive and humorous intelligence, a deep awareness of social injustices, and an intense opposition to totalitarianism.
Regarded as a sympathizer of anarchism, the writer makes a case for self-management or autonomism. He is best known for the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four and the satirical novel Animal Farm. Together, these works have sold more copies than the two best-selling books of any other 20th century writer

Novels selected for this book:
- Animal Farm;
- Nineteen eighty-four.

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Essential Novelists - George Orwell: A voice gainst totalitarianism

Aldous Huxley

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Aldous Huxley which are Crome Yellow and Antic Hay. Aldous Huxley was an English writer and philosopher, widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time. 

He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times and was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 1962. Novels selected for this book: - Crome Yellow; - Antic Hay. This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.

Essential Novelists - Aldous Huxley: the strangeness of things

Olaf Stapledon

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Olaf Stapledon which are Last And First Men and Star MakerOlaf Stapledon was a British philosopher and author of science fiction. In 2014, he was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. Stapledon's writings directly influenced Arthur C. Clarke, Stanisaw Lem, C. S. Lewis and indirectly influenced many others, contributing many ideas to the world of science fiction. Star Maker contains the first known description of what are now called Dyson spheres. Last and First Men features early descriptions of genetic engineering and terraforming. Novels selected for this book: - Last And First Men; - Star Maker.This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.

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