Conduct of life -- Fiction books

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

The novel opens with a sprawling preface in which Oscar Wilde lays out his aesthetic creed, insisting that…

The Chautauqua Girls At Home

Pansy

The work is a domestic drama set among a circle of young women whose conversations revolve around faith,…

Rufus and Rose; Or, The Fortunes of Rough and Ready

Horatio Alger, Jr.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

Chester Rand; or, The New Path to Fortune

Horatio Alger, Jr.

From Farm to Fortune; or, Nat Nason's Strange Experience

Horatio Alger, Jr.

Fame and Fortune; or, The Progress of Richard Hunter

Horatio Alger, Jr.

The Silver Lining: A Guernsey Story

John Roussel

Five Hundred Dollars; or, Jacob Marlowe's Secret

Horatio Alger, Jr.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

The Young Acrobat of the Great North American Circus

Horatio Alger, Jr.

The Young Adventurer; or, Tom's Trip Across the Plains

Horatio Alger, Jr.

Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh

Thomas Carlyle

Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History

Thomas Carlyle

The Young Miner; Or, Tom Nelson in California

Horatio Alger, Jr.

The Beast in the Jungle

Henry James

Beryl and Pearl

Agnes Giberne

Bel Ami; Or, The History of a Scoundrel: A Novel

Guy de Maupassant

The Riverman

Stewart Edward White

Friends and Neighbors; Or, Two Ways of Living in the World

Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

Paul Prescott's Charge

Horatio Alger, Jr.

The Research Magnificent

H. G. Wells

Joe the Hotel Boy; Or, Winning out by Pluck

Horatio Alger, Jr.