Biographical Fiction Books

Ned Myers, or, a Life Before the Mast

James Fenimore Cooper

American writer James Fenimore Cooper's engrossing biography of Ned Myers, a sailor and Cooper's companion at sea. The authentic details shed light not only on Myer's life but also on the po..

Unknown to History - A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland

Charlotte M. Yonge

If circumstances regarding the Queen's captivity and Babington's plot have been found to be omitted, as well as many interesting personages in the suite of the captive Queen, it must be remembered tha..

Aus der Chronika eines fahrenden Schülers (Zweite Fassung)

Clemens Brentano

Vor funfzehn Jahren machte es mir Freude, die folgende einfache Geschichte niederzuschreiben. Sie sollte nur die Einfassung mehrerer schöner altdeutschen Erzählungen sein, die sie mit mancherlei Ereig..

The Trap - Pilgrimage, Volume

Dorothy M. Richardson

Though the air cleared as they mounted the stairs, it had now a new smell, meeting and mingling with the thinned odours coming up from below, the smell of long-lying London dust. A staircase window, f..

The Primrose Path - A Chapter in the Annals of the Kingdom of Fife

Mrs. Oliphant

Little Margaret cared for such lamentations. She sat softly swinging the heavy chair against the wall, which was not an easy thing to do. She had not the aspect or physiognomy adapted for a hoyden; he..