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The Magnificent Ambersons  |
| Booth Tarkington (1869 - 1946) |
Winner of the 1919 Pulitzer Prize. In 1942 Orson Wells directed a film version. The second book in the Growth trilogy, following The Turmoil.
"The Magnificent Ambersons is perhaps Tarkington's best novel," said Van Wyck Brooks. "[It is] a typical story of an American family and town -- the great family that locally ruled the roost and vanished virtually in a day as the town spread and darkened into a city. This novel no doubt was a permanent page in the social history of the United States, so admirably conceived and written was the tale of the Ambersons, their house, their fate and the growth of the community in which they were submerged in the end."
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| The Man in the Iron Mask |
| Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870) |
More Musketeering adventure! This time the musketeers are in conflict over the man in the iron mask who is thought to be King Louis XIV's twin brother, isolated as an infant and now held prisoner in the Bastille for the last 18 years. The throne of France is threatened as he escapes to seek revenge. Will The Three Musketeers manage to fight and save their country this time in their final saga? |
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| The Man of the Forest |
| Zane Grey (1872 - 1939) |
Publishers Weekly #1 Best Seller for 1920.
Milt Dale, the man of the forest, overhears a plot to kidnap a young woman and cannot in good conscience do nothing. He sets out to save the girl ...
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| The Man Who Would be King |
| Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936) |
Two British ex-soldiers find adventure in Kafiristan which is now part of Afghanistan
The story was inspired by real life characters who became the Rajah of Sarawak in Boreno and the Prince of Ghor.
In 1975 the story was made into a John Huston film starring Sean Connery and Michael Caine.
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| The Man-eaters of Tsavo |
| John Henry Patterson (1867 - 1947) |
The books tells the true story of attacks by man-eating lions on the Uganda railway in Tsavo Kenya in 1898.
Over one hundred people were killed in under a year. The attacks stopped only after the all the lions had been tracked down and killed by Patterson.
In the 1996 film The Ghost and the Darkness Val Kilmer played Patterson.
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| The Marriage of William Ashe |
| Mary Augusta Ward (1851 - 1920) |
Publishers Weekly #1 Best Seller for 1905.
The appearance of a new novel by Mrs. Humphrey Ward is always a literary event of the first magnitude. -- New York Times, 1905
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| The Mayor of Casterbridge |
| Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928) |
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