Fiction books

The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 2

Edith Wharton

The volume gathers a selection of Edith Wharton’s early short stories, and it opens with a conversation among…

入れかわった男

E. Phillips Oppenheim

Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

Steven David Justin Sills

The novel opens in a bustling, imagined Seoul where Sang Huin, known in the United States as Shawn, wanders…

The Jolly Corner

Henry James

The Jolly Corner is a ghost‑story framed as a reflective, first‑person narrative about Spencer Brydon, an…

A Simple Soul

Gustave Flaubert

The work is a sprawling domestic novel set in early‑nineteenth‑century Normandy, introduced through a…

The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I.

E. T. A. Hoffmann

The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I assembles the first half of E. T. A.

The Moonlit Way: A Novel

Robert W. Chambers

The Moonlit Way is a sprawling adventure that mixes romance, intrigue and espionage against a backdrop of…

El Capitán Veneno The Hispanic Series

Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

El Capitán Veneno es una novela histórica de Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, escrita en 1881 y ambientada en la…

The Younger Set

Robert W. Chambers

The Younger Set is a work of fiction by Robert W. Chambers that opens with a dense, dialogue‑driven scene in…

Queed: A Novel

Henry Sydnor Harrison

Queed is a turn‑of‑the‑century American novel that opens on a crisp November afternoon, introducing Sharlee…

Tales and Novels — Volume 04

Maria Edgeworth

The work is a self‑styled memoir that presents the history of the Rackrent family through the eyes of Thady…

A Day's Ride: A Life's Romance

Charles Lever

The work is a first‑person narrative that situates itself as a reflective memoir of a young Irish…

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 04 — Fiction

The work opens with a sweeping historical tableau, introducing the Egyptian princess Nitetis as she journeys…

Reprinted Pieces

Charles Dickens

The volume is a miscellany of short narratives and essays assembled under the heading “Reprinted Pieces,” all…

Hesperus; or, Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography. Vol. II.

Jean Paul

The work is a sprawling, episodic novel by the German Romantic author Jean Paul, presented here as the second…

The Prussian Officer

D. H. Lawrence

The story opens on a sweltering march through a sun‑baked valley, the regiment threading a narrow road…

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction

The volume presents Sir Walter Scott’s historical romance set in the reign of Louis XI, opening with a…

Materials and Methods of Fiction With an Introduction by Brander Matthews

Clayton Meeker Hamilton

Clayton Meeker Hamilton’s Materials and Methods of Fiction is a scholarly guide to the art of storytelling,…

The Doves' Nest, and Other Stories

Katherine Mansfield

The volume gathers every complete story and a selection of fragments that Katherine Mansfield wrote after the…

Gerald Fitzgerald, the Chevalier: A Novel

Charles Lever

The novel, written by Charles Lever and first serialized in the Dublin University Magazine, is presented here…

Great short stories, Volume 3 (of 3): Romance & Adventure

Great short stories, Volume 3 gathers a selection of nineteenth‑century French tales that blend romance with…

The Secret of the Sands; Or, The "Water Lily" and her Crew

Harry Collingwood

The work is a nineteenth‑century sea adventure that opens with a practical pre‑face in which the author,…

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 05 — Fiction

The novel opens with a brisk, autumnal scene on the Isle of Wight in the 1860s, introducing Alma Lee, a…

Tales and Fantasies

Robert Louis Stevenson

The work opens with a brisk, almost satirical portrait of John Varey Nicholson, a self‑described “stupid”…