Fiction books

Vecchie storie d'amore

Adolfo Albertazzi

Il volume è una raccolta di racconti brevi in lingua italiana, tutti incentrati su vicende amorose e sul…

The Red Seal

Natalie Sumner Lincoln

The Red Seal opens in a bustling Washington courtroom in the winter of 1918, where a tangled web of…

Embarrassments

Henry James

The work is a self‑conscious piece of fiction that opens with a narrator recalling a recent commission to…

Irene Iddesleigh

Amanda McKittrick Ros

The work is a sprawling Victorian romance that opens with a lyrical meditation on sympathy, immediately…

In Direst Peril

David Christie Murray

In Direst Peril is a first‑person memoir that blends adventure, romance, and a touch of self‑deprecating…

Desert Dust

Edwin L. Sabin

Desert Dust is a Western tale that begins with a self‑conscious narrator from Albany, New York, who decides…

Faithful Margaret: A Novel

Mrs. J. M. Simpson

Faithful Margaret is a Victorian‑era romance of duty and redemption, introduced through a dense, almost…

The Rustle of Silk

Cosmo Hamilton

The opening of The Rustle of Silk drops the reader into a bustling London street, where a nameless dramatist…

The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure

Rex Beach

The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure is a collection of short, adventure‑oriented stories by Rex…

Debts of Honor

Mór Jókai

Debts of Honor is a sprawling nineteenth‑century Hungarian novel by Mór Jókai, presented here in an English…

The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories

The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories is a single‑volume anthology assembled for scoutmasters and other…

Despair's Last Journey

David Christie Murray

Despair’s Last Journey is a stark, first‑person adventure that begins with a lone traveler stepping off a…

Old Ebenezer

Opie Percival Read

Old Ebenezer is a turn‑of‑the‑century American novel that follows Sam Lyman, a restless New Englander who…

Officer 666

Currie, Barton Wood; McHugh, Augustin

Officer 666 is a comic romp set in the glittering confines of a luxury hotel, where a cascade of absurd…

Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898

Levi Jackson Hamilton

Levi Jackson Hamilton’s “Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier” unfolds as a sprawling, episodic romance…

Love and Lucy

Maurice Hewlett

Love and Lucy is a Victorian‑era romance that opens with a philosophic meditation on the hidden “winged…

The Opal Serpent

Fergus Hume

The Opal Serpent is a late‑Victorian detective‑mystery that begins with a domestic clash in the modest Essex…

The Man Next Door

Emerson Hough

The novel opens with a rambling, first‑person narration that introduces Bonnie Bell Wright, a girl whose name…

Der kleine Herr Friedemann: Novellen

Thomas Mann

Der Band enthält Thomas Manns Novelle „Der kleine Herr Friedemann“ sowie weitere Kurzgeschichten von…

Molly Bawn

Duchess

Molly Bawn is a light‑hearted domestic comedy set in a country house where a group of relatives and servants…

The Dew of Their Youth

S. R. Crockett

The Dew of Their Youth is a school‑yard tale set in a Scottish academy that opens with a bustling rounders…

Simon

J. Storer Clouston

The novel opens with a lone, furtive traveller navigating a night‑time railway through bleak moorland,…

The Beloved Woman

Kathleen Thompson Norris

The Beloved Woman is a 1921 novel by Kathleen Norris that opens amid a fierce New York snowstorm, using the…

Bird of Paradise

Ada Leverson

The novel opens with an intimate portrait of Bertha, Mrs.