Fiction : General

Captain Luke Chilton counted over the five-dollar notes with a greater care than I thought was necessary, considering that there were only ten of them; and c......

This is not your typical romance novel, it is an in-depth study about people; how they can seem plain in character and then become complex as the novel progr......

Jackson kept his promise to write to Westover, but he was better than his word to his mother, and wrote to her every week that winter. Author: Howells, Will......

The tale of Tartarin de Tarascon was written by Alphonse Daudet in 1872, and was one of the many works which he produced. In it he pokes gentle fun at...

Contents Include: 1. A Changed Man, 2. The Waiting Supper, 3. Alicia's Diary, 4. The Grave by the Handpost, 5. Enter a Dragoon, 6. A Tryst at an Ancient Earth...

This book takes place in North America during the Seven Years War (1756-1763). This is the original story characterized by a series of thrilling attacks, ca......

One wintry day, a stranger enters the town of Iping. He is clad from head to foot; no one sees his face. Soon after his arrival, bizaare events occur that...

Mr. Wrenn is employed as a sales-entry clerk for the Souvenir and art novelty company. His Job demands eight or more hours each day, but he commits the rest of...

The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories in a frame story, between 1387 and 1400. It is a story of a group of travelers on their way to...

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SCROOGE IN LOVE? Here is a delightful, heart-warming book that will enthrall everyone who made Ebenezer Scrooge's acquaintance in Dickens' A Christmas Carol.......

The Agony Column is a classic mystery novel by the creator of Charlie Chan. Author: Biggers, Earl Derr Publisher: Borgo Press Illustration: N Language: ENG ......

"A fine, drizzling rain was striking against the windows of a cosy third floor sitting-room, obscuring what in pleasant weather was a fine distant view of th......

There is a house at Douai in the rue de Paris, whose aspect, interior arrangements, and details have preserved, to a greater degree than those of other domic......

James Joyce, one of the most studied and influential writers of the 20th century, submits a chronology of Dublin's poorer class in 15 intense stories paired ......

This classic book "Alice's adventures in wonderland" is about the time Alice's saw the strange White Rabbit with a waistcoat and watch. She follows the rabbi......

'His Masterpiece,' which in the original French bears the title of iL'Oeuvrei, is a strikingly accurate story of artistic life in Paris during the latter yea......

Lady Chatterley's upper-class husband has been rendered paralyzed and impotent. She crosses class and gender boundaries when she takes her gamekeeper as a lo......