Gertrude Atherton

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  • Bibliography:
    41 Books
  • First Book:
    September 2006
  • Latest Book:
    July 2023
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Book List in Order: 41 titles

  • The Conqueror

  • Julia France And Her Times

    The book gives, perhaps, the most vivid and coherent account in literature of the Suffragette Movement in England, written with an insight and sympathy that render the story luminous and powerful. It is a great book, but is neither nice, pretty, dain...

  • Rulers Of Kings

    Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (1857-1948) was an American writer. She was born in San Francisco and lived in California all her life. She eloped with George H.B. Atherton when she was only 19 and had two children. Her husband discouraged her writin...

  • The Sisters-In-Law

    The tale might be termed an adventure in snobbery. There are snobs by divine right of birth within the Charmed Circle. Marriage affords entrance for the cultivated snobs of another sort, but they never become spiritually at one with the oldest reside...

  • Black Oxen

    This tale of scientific rejuvenation was the number one best seller of 1923. The story centers on the relationship between thirty-four year old columnist Lee Clavering, and Mary Zattiany, a 58 year old woman who, through modern science, has regained ...

  • Hermia Suydam

  • The Avalanche

    If you like your mysteries served up with a tall order of intrigue, romance, fascinating characters, and engrossing local color, try The Avalanche from author Gertrude Atherton. Set among the affluent upper classes in turn-of-the-century San Francisc...

  • Patience Sparhawk And Her Times

    Atherton wrote Patience Sparhawk and Her Times, A Novel in 1897, but it proved too controversial. In 1898, and John Lane of The Bodley Head agreed to publish it.William Robertson Nicoll gave a review of it in the April 12, 1897 edition of The Bookman...

  • The Doomswoman: A Romance Of Old California

    Title: The Doomswoman. A romance of old California.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million it...



  • Ancestors

    Although author Gertrude Atherton was born and died in her beloved home state of California, she spent a significant amount of time touring and living in Europe. In Ancestors, she puts her experience as a world traveler to good use, spinning an enter...

  • Mrs. Balfame

    What happens when a quiet, reserved woman bound by strict social codes of decorum grows restless and decides she wants a new life? Sometimes, the result is more horrific than you can imagine. If you're in the mood for a classic psychological thriller...

  • THE DOOMSWOMAN

    Gertrude Atherton was a well known American novelist in the early 20th century, and many of her novels depict life in California during the time period. Her best known work, "Black Oxen," is still widely read today....

  • Short Horror Stories by Gertrude Atherton

  • The Bell in the Fog

    The Bell in the Fog is a horror short story written by Gertrude Atherton and first published in 1905. Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (October 30, 1857 - June 14, 1948) was a prominent and prolific American author, many of whose novels are based in h...

  • Death and the Woman

    Death and the Woman is a horror short story written by Gertrude Atherton and first published in 1892. Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (October 30, 1857 - June 14, 1948) was a prominent and prolific American author, many of whose novels are based in h...

  • The Striding Place

    The Striding Place is a horror short story written by Gertrude Atherton and first published in 1896. Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (October 30, 1857 " June 14, 1948) was a prominent and prolific American author, many of whose novels are based in ...

  • A Daughter of the Vine

    Two horses were laboriously pulling a carriage through the dense thickets and over the sandhills which in the early Sixties still made an ugly breach between San Francisco and its Presidio. The difficulties of the course were not abridged by the temp...

  • Life in the War Zone

    This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....

  • A Question of Time

    Gertrude Franklin Atherton has certainly chosen an unusual subject for a novel when she makes her hero of twenty-two fall in love with a woman twenty-four years his senior, and marry her. Miss Atherton's story abounds in absurdities of which one woul...



  • Transplanted

    Mrs. Gertrude Atherton's treatise, in the form of a novel, on international marriages has been widely and favorably reviewed. The "Saturday Review"'s critic prefaces his praise by recalling the "crude vulgarity of "Patience Sparhawk,"" a work which, ...

  • Mrs. Pendleton's Four-In-Hand

    "This is a most amusing little story of what we may call the “genteel farce” kind. Mrs. Pendleton, who has been a pronounced flirt in her married life, becomes a widow at twenty-four, and receives simultaneous offers of marriage from four admirer...

  • Ancestors a Novel

    This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....

  • His Fortunate Grace

    Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (October 30, 1857 - June 14, 1948) was an American author. Many of her novels are set in her home state of California. Her bestseller Black Oxen (1923) was made into a silent movie of the same name. In addition to nove...

  • The Tower of Ivory

    The Tower of Ivory follows Margaret Hill, a singer whose talent attracts Al Levering. He rescues her from the notorious dive in which she is performing and pays for her musical education. Just as she is about to join an opera company, Levering is arr...

  • Collected Stories

    American author Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton achieved significant literary acclaim during her career, garnering comparisons to luminaries like Henry James and Ambrose Bierce. This collection of spine-tingling gothic tales will please fans of the g...

  • The Crystal Cup

    Inhibitions and a neurosis against sex fight a losing battle with endocrines and glands In a romance of atavism, which Gertrude Atherton calls "The Crystal Cup.” Taking her title from George Sterling's "Into a crystal cup the dusky wine I pour, and...

  • The Dead and the Countess

    World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2022. The dead sleep peacefully—until a railway is built near their cemetery. While the old priest works to keep them at rest, the count’s dying wife begs to be ...

  • Perch of the Devil

    In this novel, which gives the romance mining in Montana, appears a new figure in American fiction, Ida Compton, so real, so true to America, as to make her almost a national figure. The story her growth from a crude, beautiful girl to a woman fire a...

  • Before The Gringo Came

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    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo...



  • The Bell In The Fog And Other Stories

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    Gertrude Atherton was an early American writer who was known for writing historical novels set in California. However, she is also associated with the gothic and supernatural genres, in which "Bell in the Fog" is considered a classic. The "Bell in th...

  • Black Oxen [Annotated]

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  • The Californians

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    Renowned for her realistic, intricate portraits of human relationships, Gertrude Atherton's The Californians unfolds against the backdrop of the author's native state as it entered a period of rapid change and diversification. The novel incorporates ...

  • The Living Present

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    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 capable, for a long while, at any rate, of writi...

  • Rezanov

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    Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.A long list of works Gertrude Atherton has to her credit as a writer. She is indisputably a woman of genius. Not that her genius is distinctively feminine, though she is in matters historical a pas- sionat...

  • The Sacrificial Altar

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    Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (1857-1948) was an American writer. Her husband discouraged her writing; and the serial publication of her first novel, The Randolphs of Redwoods (1882), though unsigned, scandalized her family. After her husband’s d...

  • Senator North

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    This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ...

  • What Dreams May Come

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    This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ...

  • The White Morning

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    This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ...

  • Sleeping Fires

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    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...



  • The Splendid Idle Forties

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    This volume of short stories forms a very complete picture, or collection of pictures, of the social life of California under the Spanish and Mexican rule, true to the traditions and customs of those fine old days, when the whole fabric of the life w...

  • The Valiant Runaways

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    Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Roldan Castanada walked excitedly up and down the verandah of his father's house, his ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Gertrude Atherton has published 41 books.

Gertrude Atherton does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Perch of the Devil, was published in July 2023.

The first book by Gertrude Atherton, The Conqueror, was published in September 2006.

No. Gertrude Atherton does not write books in series.
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