E-books in MBook format
This is a selection of e-books converted from the repository at Standard Ebooks into MBook format. In most cases, the differences from a Gempub book will be small: formatting like bold and underline should be preserved and, as Markdown distinguishes a line break from a paragraph break (as Gemtext does not), the layout is improved in some books.
All these books were converted from EPUB automatically: it would be a trivial job to add more titles from Standard Ebooks. Adding other EPUB books will vary in difficulty, according to how much use the title makes of technologies like CSS.
Fiction
Crime and mystery
Margery Allingham: The Crime at Black Dudley (1929)
The attendees of a party at a old mansion are threatened by a criminal kingpin.
John Buchan: The Powerhouse (1916)
A secret criminal organization is uncovered after an M.P.’s friend goes missing.
Freeman Wills Crofts: The Box Office Murders (1929)
The discovery of a drowned woman sets the police on the trail of a mysterious scam involving cinema cashiers.
Dashiell Hammett: The Maltese Falcon (1931)
A detective becomes embroiled in a series of murders and intrigues, all seemingly related to a mysterious figurine.
Catherine Louisa Pirkis: Short Fiction (~1880)
A collection of Catherine Louisa Pirkis’s short fiction.
Dorothy L. Sayers Robert Eustace: The Documents in the Case (1931)
A man’s apparently accidental death soon arouses suspicions.
General fiction
Anna Katharine Green: The Sword of Damocles (1881)
A successful New York businessman, burdened with a dark secret in his past, is threatened with exposure and ruin.
Benito Pérez Galdós: Saragossa (1874) (English translation, 1899)
A young man joins the citizens of the Spanish city of Zaragoza in defending against an attack by the French.
Charles Brockden Brown: Wieland (1798)
Unnatural horrors strike a close-knit family after a stranger insinuates himself into their circle.
Charles Dickens: Barnaby Rudge (1841)
A simple-minded young man and his pet raven are swept up in the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots of 1780.
Ivan Bunin: The Village (1910)
Two brothers pass their lives in rural Russia.
Joseph Conrad: The Rover (1923)
A rover retires to the French coast after a life of piracy, but soon finds himself caught up in historical events.
A band of beachcombers join together to live as vagrants in Marseilles.
Guy de Maupassant: Bel Ami (1885)
A former soldier seduces and manipulates women in order to rise through Parisian society.
Marmaduke Pickthall: Saïd the Fisherman (1925)
A Syrian Arab’s fortunes rise and fall as he wanders away from his home by the sea.
Humour and satire
Hilaire Belloc: The Mercy of Allah (1916)
An entrepreneurial businessman satirically relates to his nephews how he became the wealthiest man in Baghdad.
Ambrose Bierce: The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
A witty, sharp collection of sardonic word definitions from the 1800s and early 1900s that provide a snapshot into the irreverent humor of early American culture.
Ring Lardner: Gullible’s Travels (1916)
An exasperated Chicago husband and his status-hungry wife attempt to climb the social ladder in six comic misadventures.
Oscar Wilde: A Woman of No Importance (1893)
A mother’s secretive past clashes with high society when her son is offered an irresistible position with a charismatic nobleman.
P. G. Wodehouse: The Adventures of Sally (1921)
A young woman comes into an inheritance, loses it all, and finds love along the way.
A witty satire that tells of the young Candide’s attempts to stay optimistic through a series of incredible hardships.
Poetry
Anonymous: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (~14th century)
A knight accepts a supernatural challenge and faces tests of honesty, loyalty, and honor.
Robert Louis Stevenson: Poetry
A collection of poetry by Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson.
Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass (1855)
The definitive collection of Walt Whitman’s poetry.
W. B. Yeats: Poetry (1885-1928)
A collection of poems by W. B. Yeats.
Science fiction
Clark Ashton Smith: Short Fiction (1926)
A collection of short fiction by Clark Ashton Smith, ordered by date of publication.
Arthur Conan Doyle: The Maracot Deep (1929)
A scientific expedition stumbles upon the remnants of Atlantis.
S. Fowler Wright: The World Below (1924)
A time traveler travels to Earth’s distant future in search of two predecessors lost in the same era.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Moving the Mountain
A man recovers his awareness after thirty years abroad suffering from a head injury and returns home to find society utterly changed at its most fundamental levels.
George Schuyler: Black No More (1931)
A medical process that makes black people look white revolutionizes American society.
George Bernard Shaw: Back to Methuselah (1921)
Five linked plays explore human longevity and governance.
Olaf Stapledon: Last and First Men (1930)
A human from the very distant future relates the whole history of mankind to a modern-day human.
Non-fiction
Norman Angell: The Great Illusion (1909)
A philosopher and M.P. argues that the financial and commercial interdependence of modern nations renders military conquest economically futile and traditional empire-building self-defeating.
Published 2026-06-09, updated 2026-06-09
Converted from my Gemini capsule.