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The Salamander was the fourth in top ten best selling fiction in 1914.

BOOK I FRENCHWOMEN IN WAR TIME IF this little book reads more like a memoir than a systematic study of conditions, my excuse is that I remained too long in France and was too much with the people whose work most interested me, to be capa- b… more

An indictment of American morale.For the most part this is a conventional and melodramatic war novel told in diary form with chunks of sociological debate …

“Discover an Abundant Life in your Present Condition– Are you tired of living in your past? Are you sick and tired of your past coming up every time you try to go up? Are you just tired of your past messing with your blessings?  It may se… more

Owen Johnson’s day was progressing just as it did for most other teenagers. By lunchtime he had climbed a tall building using abilities usually reserved for superheroes; he’d flirted with the girl he had secretly adored for years; he’d come… more

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Novel of World War I and what later became known as the Lost Generation. An indictment of American morale.A serious-minded novel by the author of the Dink Stover stories and the “Lawrenceville stories” trilogy, the title of which refers to … more

Hurricane is a rural, Utah town dominated by Mormon culture … which makes Henry Rotheau, an agnostic, and Diane Walker, a fundamentalist polygamist fresh out of the desert, a mismatched pair of outsiders who find comfort only in one anoth… more

The day was Thursday; the month, October, rushing to its close; and the battered alarm-clock on the red mantel stood at precisely one o’clock. The room was enormous, high and generally dim, the third floor front of Miss Pim’s boarding-house… more

An indictment of American morale.’The Wasted Generation’ is decidedly Mr. Johnson’s best novel. It has the unusual merit that it is a book that will attract men without losing the interest of women.

An excerpt:DINK STOVER, freshman, chose his seat in the afternoon express that would soon be rushing him to New Haven and his first glimpse of Yale University. He leisurely divested himself of his trim overcoat, folding it in exact creases … more

Until the first great disillusions of his youth, the Bedelle Foot Regulator and the Mosquito-Proof Socks, had brought a new sentimental need of consolation and understanding, Skippy Bedelle’s opinion of the feminine sex had been decidedly m… more

His development from enthusiastic inventor of foot-regulators for bathtubs and mosquito-proof socks, to blasé woman-hater of sixteen who confides to his diary, “If any loving is going to be done, they can do the loving.” We meet some of the… more