Title | Author | Publication Date | Activity | Start Date | End Date |
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Arthurian Chronicles | Wace; Layamon | - | Borrow | Feb 24, 1940 | Mar 8, 1940 |
Africa Dances | Geoffrey Gorer | 1935 | Borrow | Mar 8, 1940 | Mar 19, 1940 |
Joseph in Egypt
Vol. 1
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Thomas Mann | 1938 | Borrow | Mar 19, 1940 | Apr 2, 1940 |
Joseph in Egypt
Vol. 2
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Thomas Mann | 1938 | Borrow | Apr 2, 1940 | Apr 16, 1940 |
Juan in America | Eric Linklater | 1931 | Borrow | Apr 16, 1940 | Apr 23, 1940 |
Ripeness Is All | Eric Linklater | 1935 | Borrow | Apr 23, 1940 | Apr 30, 1940 |
The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett | Compton Mackenzie | 1918 | Borrow | Apr 30, 1940 | May 14, 1940 |
Gaudy Night | Dorothy L. Sayers | 1935 | Borrow | May 14, 1940 | May 21, 1940 |
Man in a Black Hat | E. Temple Thurston | 1930 | Borrow | May 21, 1940 | May 28, 1940 |
Judith Paris | Hugh Walpole | 1931 | Borrow | May 28, 1940 | Jun 21, 1940 |
Jasmine Farm | Elizabeth von Arnim | 1934 | Borrow | Aug 30, 1940 | Sep 5, 1940 |
The Water Gipsies | A. P. Herbert | 1930 | Borrow | Sep 5, 1940 | Sep 11, 1940 |
With Malice toward Some | Margaret Halsey | 1938 | Borrow | Sep 11, 1940 | Sep 16, 1940 |
Shakespeare | John Middleton Murry | 1936 | Borrow | Sep 16, 1940 | Sep 27, 1940 |
The Road to Xanadu | John Livingston Lowes | 1927 | Borrow | Sep 27, 1940 | Oct 7, 1940 |
The Merchant of Venice | William Shakespeare | - | Borrow | Oct 7, 1940 | Oct 11, 1940 |
Lectures and Essays on Shakespeare | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | - | Borrow | Oct 11, 1940 | Oct 18, 1940 |
The Light That Failed | Rudyard Kipling | 1891 | Borrow | Oct 18, 1940 | Oct 21, 1940 |
Plain Tales from the Hills
2 vols.
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Rudyard Kipling | 1899 | Borrow | Oct 21, 1940 | Oct 25, 1940 |
Just So Stories | Rudyard Kipling | 1902 | Borrow | Oct 25, 1940 | Oct 28, 1940 |
The Second Jungle Book | Rudyard Kipling | 1895 | Borrow | Oct 28, 1940 | Nov 4, 1940 |
Something of Myself: For My Friends Known and Unknown | Rudyard Kipling | 1937 | Borrow | Nov 4, 1940 | Nov 8, 1940 |
A Short History of the English People | John Richard Green | 1874 | Borrow | Nov 8, 1940 | Dec 2, 1940 |
The Growth of the British Commonwealth | P. H. Kerr; A. C. Kerr | 1937 | Borrow | Nov 8, 1940 | Nov 12, 1940 |
History of the English People | John Richard Green | 1889 | Borrow | Nov 8, 1940 | Nov 12, 1940 |
Biographia Literaria | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 1817 | Borrow | Dec 2, 1940 | Jan 17, 1941 |
Selected Homilies of Aelfric | Ælfric of Eynsham | 1885 | Borrow | Jan 3, 1941 | Jul 9, 1941 |
Saint Joan: A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue | George Bernard Shaw | 1924 | Borrow | Jan 17, 1941 | Jan 27, 1941 |
A Passage to India | E. M. Forster | 1924 | Borrow | Jan 27, 1941 | Jan 28, 1941 |
Hindoo Holiday | J. R. Ackerley | 1932 | Borrow | Jan 28, 1941 | Jan 31, 1941 |
Mother India | Katherine Mayo | 1927 | Borrow | Jan 28, 1941 | Jan 31, 1941 |
Untouchable | Mulk Raj Anand | 1933 | Borrow | Jan 31, 1941 | Feb 4, 1941 |
A Son of Mother India Answers | Dhan Gopal Mukerji | 1928 | Borrow | Jan 31, 1941 | Feb 4, 1941 |
The Poetical Works of James Thomson | James Thomson | - | Borrow | Feb 4, 1941 | Feb 6, 1941 |
My Sister Eileen | Ruth McKenney | 1938 | Borrow | Feb 6, 1941 | Feb 7, 1941 |
Confessions of an English Opium Eater | Thomas de Quincey | 1821 | Borrow | Feb 7, 1941 | Feb 10, 1941 |
The Mysteries of Udolpho | Ann Radcliffe | 1794 | Borrow | Feb 10, 1941 | Feb 11, 1941 |
The Diary of John Evelyn | John Evelyn | 1818 | Borrow | Feb 11, 1941 | Feb 13, 1941 |
Minor Elizabethan Drama
Vol. 1
Pre-Shakespearean Tragedies |
Thomas Norton; Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset; George Peele; Thomas Kyd; Nicholas Udall; John Lyly; Robert Greene | 1910 | Borrow | Feb 13, 1941 | Feb 18, 1941 |
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit | John Lyly | 1578 | Borrow | Feb 17, 1941 | Feb 18, 1941 |
Discoveries: Essays in Literary Criticism | John Middleton Murry | 1924 | Borrow | Feb 17, 1941 | Feb 18, 1941 |
Ben Jonson and King James: Biography and Portrait | Eric Linklater | 1931 | Borrow | Feb 17, 1941 | Feb 18, 1941 |
A Short History of English Literature | George Saintsbury | 1898 | Borrow | Feb 17, 1941 | Feb 18, 1941 |
Tales of Mystery and Imagination | Edgar Allan Poe | - | Borrow | Feb 18, 1941 | Feb 25, 1941 |
Enchanter's Nightshade | Mary Ann Dolling (Sanders), Lady O'Malley / Ann Bridge (pseudonym) | 1937 | Borrow | Feb 25, 1941 | Feb 26, 1941 |
The Mercy of Allah | Hilaire Belloc | 1922 | Borrow | Feb 26, 1941 | Feb 28, 1941 |
The First Wife and Other Stories | Pearl S. Buck / Pearl Sydenstricker | 1933 | Borrow | Feb 28, 1941 | Mar 3, 1941 |
Welsh Short Stories: An Anthology | - | 1937 | Borrow | Mar 3, 1941 | Mar 6, 1941 |
Tobit Transplanted | Stella Benson / Nicolas Tolouse Lautrec de Savine (pseudonym) | 1931 | Borrow | Mar 6, 1941 | Mar 11, 1941 |
Point Counter Point | Aldous Huxley | 1928 | Borrow | Mar 11, 1941 | Mar 19, 1941 |
Crome Yellow | Aldous Huxley | 1921 | Borrow | Mar 19, 1941 | Mar 21, 1941 |
Portraits in Miniature and Other Essays | Lytton Strachey | 1931 | Borrow | Mar 21, 1941 | Mar 26, 1941 |
Let Your Mind Alone! | James Thurber | 1937 | Borrow | Mar 25, 1941 | Mar 28, 1941 |
The Inquisitor: A Novel | Hugh Walpole | 1935 | Borrow | Mar 28, 1941 | Apr 1, 1941 |
All Souls' Night | Hugh Walpole | 1933 | Borrow | Apr 1, 1941 | Apr 2, 1941 |
The Old Ladies | Hugh Walpole | 1924 | Borrow | Apr 2, 1941 | Apr 3, 1941 |
Vile Bodies | Evelyn Waugh | 1930 | Borrow | Apr 3, 1941 | Apr 7, 1941 |
The House of Exile | Nora Waln | 1933 | Borrow | Apr 7, 1941 | Apr 8, 1941 |
Straws in Amber | Naomi Jacob | 1938 | Borrow | Apr 8, 1941 | Apr 10, 1941 |
The Good Earth | Pearl S. Buck / Pearl Sydenstricker | 1931 | Borrow | Apr 10, 1941 | Apr 15, 1941 |
Best Mystery Stories Work data is uncertain or incomplete. | - | - | Borrow | Apr 10, 1941 | Apr 15, 1941 |
The Rains Came | Louis Bromfield / Lewis Bromfield | 1937 | Borrow | Apr 15, 1941 | Apr 21, 1941 |
The Farm | Louis Bromfield / Lewis Bromfield | 1933 | Borrow | Apr 21, 1941 | Apr 25, 1941 |
The Innocence of Father Brown | G. K. Chesterton | 1911 | Borrow | Apr 25, 1941 | May 2, 1941 |
The Scandal of Father Brown | G. K. Chesterton | 1935 | Borrow | Apr 29, 1941 | May 2, 1941 |
The Mirror of the Sea | Joseph Conrad | 1906 | Borrow | May 2, 1941 | May 12, 1941 |
Plays
Vol. 6, 1934
The Unknown; For Services Rendered; Sheppey |
W. Somerset Maugham | - | Borrow | May 2, 1941 | May 6, 1941 |
It Takes All Kinds | Louis Bromfield / Lewis Bromfield | 1938 | Borrow | May 6, 1941 | May 12, 1941 |
Royal Flush: The Story of Minette | Margaret Irwin | 1932 | Borrow | May 12, 1941 | May 21, 1941 |
A Century of Spy Stories | - | 1938 | Borrow | May 12, 1941 | May 21, 1941 |
The Best Short Stories of 1938: English and American | - | 1938 | Borrow | May 21, 1941 | May 23, 1941 |
British Agriculture Work data is uncertain or incomplete. | - | - | Borrow | May 21, 1941 | Jul 9, 1941 |
The Forsyte Saga | John Galsworthy | 1922 | Borrow | May 23, 1941 | May 29, 1941 |
The Ladybird | D. H. Lawrence | 1923 | Borrow | May 29, 1941 | May 30, 1941 |
Bohemian Literary and Social Life in Paris | Sisley Huddleston | 1928 | Borrow | May 29, 1941 | Jun 3, 1941 |
Youth and the Bright Medusa | Willa Cather | 1920 | Borrow | May 30, 1941 | Jun 3, 1941 |
Greengates: A Novel | R. C. Sherriff | 1936 | Borrow | May 30, 1941 | Jun 3, 1941 |
Journey's End Work data is uncertain or incomplete. | - | - | Borrow | Jun 3, 1941 | Jun 4, 1941 |
Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe | 1719 | Borrow | Jun 4, 1941 | Jun 12, 1941 |
Oil for the Lamps of China | Alice Tisdale Hobart | 1933 | Borrow | Jun 12, 1941 | Jun 16, 1941 |
South Riding: An English Landscape | Winifred Holtby | 1936 | Borrow | Jun 16, 1941 | Jun 18, 1941 |
The Magic Island | William Seabrook | 1929 | Borrow | Jun 18, 1941 | Jun 24, 1941 |
The Way of All Flesh | Samuel Butler | 1903 | Borrow | Jun 24, 1941 | Jul 9, 1941 |
The Romany Rye | George Henry Borrow | 1857 | Borrow | Jul 9, 1941 | Jul 21, 1941 |
Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest | George Henry Borrow | 1851 | Borrow | Jul 21, 1941 | Jul 29, 1941 |
Celebrated Cases of Charlie Chan | Earl Derr Biggers | 1930 | Borrow | Jul 29, 1941 | Jul 31, 1941 |
Winged Pharaoh | Joan Grant | 1937 | Borrow | Jul 31, 1941 | Sep 22, 1941 |
The Student's Chaucer: Being a Complete Edition of His Works Edited from Numerous Manuscripts | Geoffrey Chaucer | 1900 | Borrow | Jul 31, 1941 | Sep 5, 1941 |
Edmund Spenser's Works | Edmund Spenser | - | Borrow | Jul 31, 1941 | Sep 5, 1941 |
Describe a Circle | Zoë (Girling) Zajdlerowa / Martin Hare (pseudonym) | 1933 | Borrow | Jul 31, 1941 | Sep 5, 1941 |
Selected Homilies of Aelfric | Ælfric of Eynsham | 1885 | Borrow | Jul 31, 1941 | Sep 9, 1941 |
Phoenix: The Posthumous Papers of D.H. Lawrence | D. H. Lawrence | 1936 | Borrow | Sep 5, 1941 | Sep 22, 1941 |
Esquire
Vol. 13, no. 2, Feb 1940
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- | - | Borrow | Sep 5, 1941 | Sep 13, 1941 |
The Best Short Stories of 1937: English and American | - | 1937 | Borrow | Sep 13, 1941 | Sep 22, 1941 |
And So—Victoria | William Vaughan Wilkins | 1937 | Borrow | Sep 22, 1941 | Sep 30, 1941 |
Esquire
Vol. 13, no. 6, Jun 1940
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- | - | Borrow | Sep 22, 1941 | Sep 30, 1941 |
The Call of the Wild | Jack London | 1903 | Borrow | Sep 30, 1941 | Oct 1, 1941 |
Esquire
Vol. 13, no. 5, May 1940
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- | - | Borrow | Sep 30, 1941 | Oct 3, 1941 |
Children of the Frost | Jack London | 1902 | Borrow | Oct 1, 1941 | Oct 3, 1941 |
Pavements at Anderby | Winifred Holtby | 1937 | Borrow | Oct 1, 1941 | Oct 3, 1941 |
A Century of Spy Stories | - | 1938 | Borrow | Oct 3, 1941 | Oct 6, 1941 |
Esquire
Vol. 15, no. 4, Apr 1941
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- | - | Borrow | Oct 3, 1941 | Oct 7, 1941 |
As the Earth Turns | Gladys Hasty Carroll | 1933 | Borrow | Oct 6, 1941 | Oct 7, 1941 |
The Lonely Plough | Constance Holme | 1914 | Borrow | Oct 7, 1941 | Oct 13, 1941 |
Esquire
Vol. 16, no. 2, Aug 1941
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- | - | Borrow | Oct 7, 1941 | Oct 17, 1941 |
A Shepherd's Life | W. H. Hudson | 1910 | Borrow | Oct 13, 1941 | Oct 17, 1941 |
Best Crime Stories | - | 1934 | Borrow | Oct 17, 1941 | Oct 18, 1941 |
Flush: A Biography | Virginia Woolf | 1933 | Borrow | Oct 18, 1941 | Oct 20, 1941 |
The Years | Virginia Woolf | 1937 | Borrow | Oct 20, 1941 | Oct 21, 1941 |
The Waves | Virginia Woolf | 1931 | Borrow | Oct 21, 1941 | Oct 27, 1941 |
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God | George Bernard Shaw | 1932 | Borrow | Oct 27, 1941 | Oct 30, 1941 |
Arrowsmith | Sinclair Lewis | 1925 | Borrow | Oct 27, 1941 | Oct 30, 1941 |
Babbitt | Sinclair Lewis | 1922 | Borrow | Oct 30, 1941 | Oct 31, 1941 |
The Nine Tailors | Dorothy L. Sayers | 1934 | Borrow | Oct 31, 1941 | Nov 3, 1941 |
The Lake | George Moore | 1905 | Borrow | Oct 31, 1941 | Nov 3, 1941 |
Unnatural Death | Dorothy L. Sayers | 1927 | Borrow | Nov 3, 1941 | Nov 5, 1941 |
Lord Peter Views the Body | Dorothy L. Sayers | 1928 | Borrow | Nov 5, 1941 | Nov 6, 1941 |
A City of Bells | Elizabeth Goudge | 1936 | Borrow | Nov 6, 1941 | Nov 10, 1941 |
Edmund Spenser's Works | Edmund Spenser | - | Borrow | Nov 10, 1941 | Nov 27, 1941 |
The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer | Geoffrey Chaucer | 1925 | Borrow | Nov 10, 1941 | Nov 27, 1941 |
Have His Carcase | Dorothy L. Sayers | 1932 | Borrow | Nov 27, 1941 | Dec 4, 1941 |
Uncanny Stories | Mary Amelia St. Clair / May Sinclair (pseudonym) | 1923 | Borrow | Nov 27, 1941 | Dec 4, 1941 |
A Century of Detective Stories | - | 1936 | Borrow | Dec 4, 1941 | Dec 10, 1941 |
Murder Must Advertise | Dorothy L. Sayers | 1933 | Borrow | Dec 4, 1941 | Dec 10, 1941 |
Prince Charlie Work data is uncertain or incomplete. | - | - | Borrow | Dec 10, 1941 | Dec 12, 1941 |
The Invisible Man | H. G. Wells | 1897 | Borrow | Dec 10, 1941 | Dec 12, 1941 |
The Very House | Mazo de la Roche | 1937 | Borrow | Dec 12, 1941 | Mar 14, 1942 |
The American | Henry James | 1877 | Borrow | Dec 12, 1941 | Mar 14, 1942 |