Fiction books

The Monctons: A Novel. Volume 1 (of 2)

Susanna Moodie

The Monctons is a multigenerational family saga that opens with a detailed, almost forensic recounting of the…

A London Life, and Other Tales

Henry James

The work is a Victorian‑era domestic narrative that opens with a rain‑soaked walk to the dower‑house of…

In Apple-Blossom Time: A Fairy-Tale to Date

Clara Louise Burnham

The work is a late‑Victorian romance that opens in a bustling eatery, where the plump Miss Upton, exhausted…

The Tyranny of Weakness

Charles Neville Buck

The work is a sprawling piece of nineteenth‑century fiction that opens with a vivid tableau of a boy and a…

King Midas: a Romance

Upton Sinclair

King Midas: a Romance is a lyrical work of fiction by Upton Sinclair that opens with a scholarly aside on…

On the Stairs

Henry Blake Fuller

The novel is a work of fiction that frames its narrative around two contrasting lives, linked by the…

Le rive della Bormida nel 1794

Giuseppe Cesare Abba

Il volume di Giuseppe Cesare Abba è un racconto ambientato nella Valle della Bormida nel 1794, che si apre…

The Seven Secrets

William Le Queux

The Seven Secrets is a turn‑of‑the‑century detective novel by William Le Queux, a writer whose name was…

The Vision of Desire

Margaret Pedler

The Vision of Desire is a melodramatic romance that plunges the reader straight into a crisis of love and…

Montezuma's Castle, and Other Weird Tales

Charles B. Cory

Montezuma’s Castle, and Other Weird Tales is a short‑story collection by Charles B.

Die Nacht der Erfüllung: Erzählungen

Rabindranath Tagore

Das Werk ist eine Sammlung von Kurzgeschichten des indischen Nobelpreisträgers Rabindranath Tagore, übersetzt…

The Choice of Life

Georgette Leblanc

The Choice of Life is a lyrical work of fiction that opens with a meditative narrator perched in a garden,…

A Love Story

William Harvey Christie

The work opens with an elaborate portrait of the Delmé mansion, its fluted ledges and heraldic eagles,…

The Book of All-Power

Edgar Wallace

The Book of All‑Power is a sprawling work of fiction that opens with a sharply comic exchange between the…

Helen and Arthur; or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel

Caroline Lee Hentz

Helen and Arthur; or, Miss Thusa’s Spinning Wheel is a mid‑nineteenth‑century work of fiction by Caroline Lee…

The Lilac Sunbonnet: A Love Story

S. R. Crockett

The Lilac Sunbonnet is a nineteenth‑century romance that opens amid the rugged scenery of Galloway, where the…

Flora Lyndsay; or, Passages in an Eventful Life, Vol. I.

Susanna Moodie

Flora Lyndsay; or, Passages in an Eventful Life, Vol. I is a domestic novel that opens with a tense…

Sketches

Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

The work is a romantic narrative that unfolds as a series of episodic sketches, each chapter presenting a…

Die Liebe der Erika Ewald: Novellen

Stefan Zweig

Der Band ist eine Sammlung von Novellen, die unter dem Titel „Die Liebe der Erika Ewald“ von Stefan Zweig…

De Geschiedenis van Woutertje Pieterse, Deel 1 Uit de 'ideen' verzameld

Multatuli

Dit werk is een mengeling van sprookje, essay en polemiek, samengevoegd onder de titel De Geschiedenis van…

Liesje van den Lompenmolen

W. Heimburg

Dit werk is een weelderig gedetailleerde familiedrama dat zich afspeelt in een ouderwetse, bijna theatrale…

Aunt Rachel A Rustic Sentimental Comedy

David Christie Murray

David Christie Murray’s “Aunt Rachel” is billed as a rustic sentimental comedy, and the opening chapter…

VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea

David Christie Murray

David Christie Murray’s “VC, A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea” opens with a vivid portrait of…

Scenas Contemporaneas

Camilo Castelo Branco

Scenas Contemporâneas apresenta‑se como um romance de ficção narrado por um caçador‑poeta que, entre tiros e…