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......

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...

"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......

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......

In this novel Willa Cather presents Thea Kronberg, a minister's daughter, living with her family in Moonstone, Colorado. After enrolling Thea for piano lesso......

LeBlanc's creation, gentleman thief Arsene Lupin, is everything you would expect from a French aristocrat -- witty, charming, brilliant, sly . . . and possib......

In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men, men tending for the most part to become...

In undertaking to describe the recent and strange incidents in our town, till lately wrapped in uneventful obscurity, I find' myself forced in absence of lit......

"The Mysterious Stranger" is a glimpse beyond the normal buoyant and light hearted humor normally involved in a Mark Twain work. He expresses his pain to rev......

"The age of Chivalry - alas! - is dead. The days of miracles are past and gone! What future is there for hapless France? She lies in the dust. How...

An American Robinson Crusoe is the outcome of many years of experience with the story in the early grades of elementary schools. It was written to be used as a...

Shell Scott. He's a guy with a pistol in his pocket and murder on his mind. The crime world's public enemy number one, this Casanova is a sucker for...

The skilled bodyguard John Locke has a different type of job this time he must guard more like baby-sit the rebellious Herbie, whose dismayed grandmother de......

Thompson's classic novel describes the underworld of desperate men that inhabited the part of Texas known as "South of Heaven" in the 1920's. Laying a gas p......

Any one about to read this work of fiction might properly be apprised beforehand that it is not a novel: it has neither the structure nor the purpose of The...

A man of curiously varied and comprehensive knowledge, and with the most charming personality; a writer who, treating of a wide variety of subjects, touched ......

In this romance of real life, in which the truth is stranger than the fiction, I have lifted only in part the veil that hides the victims of intemperance and...

Mystery: Dr. Joe Toricelli finds himself caught in a web of illusion and deception--much of it of his own making --from which he can escape only if he person......

The man in the corner pushed aside his glass, and leant across the table. "Mysteries!" he commented. "There is no such thing as a mystery in connection with......