The Argosy
249 issues in the collection · 95 readable cover-to-cover. Public domain, digitally restored.
The Argosy serialized adventure and domestic fiction from the 1890s through 1920s, mixing railroad dramas, school mysteries, mining sagas, and society intrigues across installments by authors like Seward W. Hopkins and Albert Payson Terhune. Each issue bundled multiple continuing narratives—protagonists discovering hidden parentage, mysterious arrivals at academies, prospectors managing declining mines, and couples navigating suspicious newcomers.
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Read · 3 pages1868This magazine issue features the serialized novel Anne Hereford by the author of East Lynne, presenting chapters XIII through XXVI.
Read · 82 pages1869This issue of The Argosy (January 1, 1869) contains the opening installment of Roland Yorke, a sequel to The Channings by the author of East Lynne.
Read · 82 pages1869This February 1, 1869 issue of The Argosy opens with chapters from Roland Yorke, a sequel to The Channings by the author of East Lynne.
Read · 82 pages1869This issue of The Argosy features the seventh chapter of "Roland Yorke: A Sequel to 'The Channings,'" serialized by the author of East Lynne.
Read · 82 pages1869This serialized novel by the author of East Lynne continues the story of Reverend Henry William Ollivera, a clergyman in poor London, four years after his brother's mysterious deat
Read · 82 pages1869This serialized chapter from Mrs.
Read · 79 pages1869This installment of Mrs. Henry Wood's serial features the investigation of a stolen forty-four-pound cheque taken from clerk Bede Greatorex's desk at his father's office.
Read · 80 pages1869This issue of The Argosy (July 1, 1869) contains the serial Roland Yorke: A Sequel to "The Channings," by the author of East Lynne.
Read · 82 pages1869Roland Yorke, a novel serialized in The Argosy for August 2, 1869, is identified as a sequel to "The Channings" by the author of East Lynne and George Canterbury's Will.
Read · 82 pages1869This chapter from Roland Yorke: A Sequel to "The Channings" by the author of East Lynne follows the protagonist's return to Helstonleigh Cathedral on All Saints' Day.
Read · 77 pages1876This installment of Edina by Mrs.
Read · 82 pages1876This chapter from Wood's serial novel continues the romantic and social complications in Trennach.
Read · 82 pages1876This serialized novel chapter concerns the romantic scheming of Frank Raynor and Margaret St.
Read · 82 pages1876This September 1876 issue of The Argos features Chapter XXV of "Edina" by Mrs.
Read · 82 pages1876This issue of The Argos (May 1876) contains a continuing serial by Mrs.
Read · 82 pages1876This serialized novel installment from July 1876 centers on the Raynor family at their estate, Eagles' Nest, during Christmas.
Read · 82 pages1876This August 1876 issue of The Argos features Chapter XXII of "Edina" by Mrs.
Read · 82 pages1876October 1876 issue of The Argos, containing Chapter XXVIII of "Edina" by Mrs.
Read · 82 pages1876This serialized novel by Mrs. Henry Wood (author of East Lynne) continues in Chapter XXXI, "Humiliation," in the November 1876 Argosy.
Read · 119 pages1876This issue of Argosy (December 1876, Vol.
Read · 3 pages1876This Victorian periodical features the serialized novel Edina by the author of East Lynne, illustrated by M.
Read · 82 pages1879The Argosy, September 1879. Chapter XXV of this serialized narrative concerns Mrs.
Read · 84 pages1879This issue of The Argos (October 1879) continues "Called to the Rescue," Chapter XXVIII: "A New Appointment." Miss Joseph, recovering from illness at Ostend under Dr.
Read · 84 pages1879This is Chapter XXXI of the serial novel "Called to the Rescue," which concerns itself with financial secrets, romantic entanglements, and personal honor among English gentry and middle-class professionals.
Read · 117 pages1879Called to the Rescue
This December 1879 serial installment by an unnamed author continues the story begun in earlier chapters.
Read · 3 pages1879This Victorian periodical contains the serialized novel "Called to the Rescue," illustrated by M.
Read · 82 pages1880This serialized mystery novel opens in post-Waterloo England with Gilbert Denison, a sixty-year-old gentleman, dying in his Bloomsbury lodgings following a riding accident.
Read · 82 pages1880Chapter IV of this serialized mystery-romance establishes the Denison family history and estate.
Read · 82 pages1880This serialized Victorian novel (Chapter VII, titled "Coming to Dinner") concerns Ella Winter, grand-niece to Squire Denison of Heron Dyke, who finds herself distracted by thoughts of Edward Conroy, a visiting artist.
Read · 84 pages1883This serial novel (Chapter VII, March 1883) follows Winifred Power, a talented painter living in Paris with her uncle Mr.
Read · 86 pages1883The Argosy, April 1883, Chapter X: "Sir John"
This domestic narrative follows Winifred Power and her mother Mrs.
Read · 86 pages1883This serial installment, Chapter XXVIII titled "Richard's Quixotry," is set during the Paris Commune's aftermath.
Read · 84 pages1883This November 1883 installment of the serial novel Winifred Power depicts Martha Freake's final days.
Read · 129 pages1883This installment of "Winifred Power" by Joyce Darrell (Chapter XXXIV: "At Elmsleigh Once More") resolves several plot threads from the serialized novel.
Read · 84 pages1886This November 1886 serial installment of "Lady Valeria" by A.
Read · 127 pages1886This installment of "Millicent's Folly" by the author of "East Lynne" begins with news arriving at the Crane household in Rockham.
Read · 82 pages1887Author: Mrs. Henry Wood (author of East Lynne)
Setting: Rural parishes of Great Whitton and Little Whitton, approximately thirty miles from London, January 1887.
Read · 90 pages1890This excerpt from Mrs. Henry Wood's serial novel presents Chapter XI, "A Wedding." Aunt Rebecca Copp arrives at the Halliwell home in widow's weeds, bringing news of her husband's
Read · 85 pages1890This serialized domestic novel, appearing in The Argosy (June 1890), concerns Dr.
Read · 90 pages1890This excerpt is Chapter XVII of "The House of Halliwell" by Mrs.
Read · 92 pages1890This serialized domestic novel, running in The Argos (August 1890), follows the Reverend Alfred Halliwell, an impoverished clergyman at St.
Read · 92 pages1890Mrs. Henry Wood, September 1890
This domestic serial, authored by the writer of East Lynne, follows the Halliwell family through time.
Read · 90 pages1890This October 1890 issue of The Argos features Chapter XXVI of "The House of Halliwell" by Mrs.
Read · 90 pages1890This issue contains Chapter XXIX, "Old Faces," from "The House of Halliwell" by Mrs.
Read · 131 pages1890This issue of The Argosy carries no lurid painted cover — it presents instead the austere typography of a literary magazine in transition.
Read · 16 pages1891Brad Mattoon: or, Life at Hosmer Hall by William D.
Read · 90 pages1891This serial opens with a domestic chronicle concerning the Monk family of Church Leet parish.
Read · 16 pages1891This issue of The Argosy features the serialized novel "Train and Station; or, The Rambles of a Young Railroader" by Edgar R.
Read · 3 pages1893This table of contents page from The Argosy — Frank Munsey's pioneering all-fiction weekly, launched in 1882 and widely considered the first true pulp magazine — reveals the eclect
Read · 3 pages1893This issue contains the serialized novel Mr.
Read · 90 pages1894The Grey Monk by the author of The Mysteries of Heron Dyke opens this January 1894 installment of Argosy.
Read · 90 pages1894This serialized story by the author of "The Mysteries of Heron Dyke" appears in Argosy, February 1894 (Chapter V).
Read · 90 pages1894This is Chapter IX of a serialized gothic novel by the author of The Mysteries of Heron Dyke.
Read · 90 pages1894This installment of T. W. Speight's serial novel "The Grey Monk" (Argos, April 1894) presents two chapters establishing a mystery plot.
Read · 90 pages1894This serialized novel (Chapter XVIII, "The False Heir") concerns a inheritance fraud scheme.
Read · 131 pages1894This issue of The Argos (June 1894) contains Chapter XXII of "The Grey Monk" by T.
Read · 4 pages1896This volume of The Argosy (July-December 1896) contains several serialized novels and short stories across multiple genres.
Read · 4 pages1896This bound volume of The Argosy (January-June 1896) contains two serialized novels: Rosa Nouchette Carey's The Mistress of Brae Farm and Sarah Doudney's Pilgrims of the Night, both illustrated and running throughout the volume.
Read · 125 pages1897"Peace with Honour," by Sydney C.
Read · 3 pages1897This issue contains a diverse mix of serialized fiction, short stories, and poetry.
Read · 129 pages1898This interior page — not a painted cover but a letterpress title opening — represents The Argosy at the precise moment Frank Munsey's weekly was transforming American publishing.
Read · 129 pages1898"Colonel Fane's Secret" by Sydney Hoopés continues in this February 1898 Argosy installment with Hugh Chetwode succumbing to romantic feelings for Vera despite his reservations about his uncertain future in Australia.
Read · 129 pages1898This serial installment depicts the death of Colonel Fane and its aftermath.
Read · 129 pages1898Colonel Fane's Secret by Sydney Hoppes, serialized in The Argosy (April 1898), continues with Chapter XIII ("Vera Accepts an Engagement") and Chapter XIV ("Grace's Secret").
Read · 129 pages1898Colonel Fane's Secret (Chapter XVI: "A Friend in Need"), by Sydney Hockes, continues a serial narrative centered on Miss Vera Fane, a woman in severe distress following troubled events in Dublin.
Read · 125 pages1898This issue of The Argosy for June 1898 contains "Colonel Fane's Secret" by Sydney Hoppes, a Victorian domestic romance/mystery serial.
Read · 3 pages1899This magazine issue contains a substantial collection of serialized novels and short stories spanning domestic, historical, and supernatural fiction.
Read · 4 pages1900This 1900 volume of The Argosy (January-April) contains a diverse mix of fiction, poetry, and essays.
Read · 3 pages1901This issue combines fiction, travel writing, poetry, and a special memorial section devoted to Queen Victoria.
Read · 224 pages1905This issue features one complete novel and six serial stories.
Read · 252 pages1905This December 1905 issue of The Argosy features one complete novel, "The Queen's Prisoner" by J.
Read · 230 pages1906This issue contains one complete novel and six serial stories alongside eleven short stories.
Read · 248 pages1906This issue of The Argosy contains one complete twelve-chapter novel and six serial stories alongside nine short stories.
Read · 228 pages1907This March 1907 issue of The Argosy contains five serials and five short stories.
Read · 220 pages1907This issue features one complete novel and six ongoing serials plus twelve short stories.
Read · 245 pages1908This November issue of The Argosy contains one complete novel, six serial story installments, and eleven short stories.
Read · 1 pages1912This issue contains two complete novels and six serial installments.
Read · 276 pages1912This Christmas issue of The Argosy (15 cents) features varied fiction across multiple genres.
Read · 238 pages1912This issue of The Argosy contains one complete novel and five serials across multiple genres.
Read · 266 pages1914Gold Grabbers by William Wallace Cook.
Read · 268 pages1914This March 1914 issue of The Argosy contains one complete novel and two novelettes.
Read · 258 pages1914This August 1914 issue of The Argosy includes a full-length novel, "Nobody Knows Saw Pose" by J.
Read · 220 pages1916Catalog Note
The April 1916 issue of The Argosy contains a full book-length novel, "A Mystery of Roscoe Conkling Park" by Seward W.
Read · 192 pages1917This June 1917 issue of Argosy contains one complete novel and ten serialized and short-story works.
Read · 200 pages1917This weekly story magazine contains five serials in progress: Carolyn Wells's "Vicky Van" (Part I), Katharine Eggleston's "Little Boss of Big Ben" (Part II), Joseph Ivers Lawrence'
Read · 160 pages1920This issue contains four serials in progress: "Naked Men of Naga" by Gordon MacCreagh (Part I, opening adventure); "The Butt of Neptune's Jest" by George Mariano (Part III); "The T
Read · 180 pages1920This issue of the weekly pulp magazine Argosy contains four continuing serials, one novelette, and seven short stories.
Read · 160 pages1920This issue of The Argosy (Volume CXIX, Number 2, March 27, 1920) contains four serialized novels: Seven Minutes After by Marguerite Curtis Felgar (Part I), The Great Discovery by Charles V.
Read · 164 pages1920This issue features serialized stories and complete fiction.
Read · 156 pages1920This issue of Argosy (Vol. CXXIII, July 10, 1920) opens with "The Progress of J.
Read · 158 pages1920This issue features four serials across six parts total.
Read · 180 pages1922This pulp weekly contains five continued serials: "Above Suspicion" by Robert Orr Chipperfield (part one of six), a detective-adventure narrative; "Crafty Rogues" by Boice Du Bois
Read · 148 pages1955This cover for Argosy advertises 'Entertaining Reading for Christmas' with stories by established fiction writers including Walter de la Mare, Paul Gallico, and W.R.
Read · 148 pages1955This September 1955 issue of Argosy contains three cricket-themed pieces, followed by the main story.
Read · 146 pages1955Argosy, October 1955. This issue contains Michael Gilbert's espionage story "Trust Little Al," in which a British intelligence operative is hastily assigned to guard an exceptional
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