Domestic Fiction Books

Scenes and Characters, or, Eighteen Months at Beechcroft

Charlotte M. Yonge

Of those who are invited to pay a visit to Beechcroft, there are some who, honestly acknowledging that amusement is their object, will be content to feel with Lilias, conjecture with Jane, and get int..

Sisters

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Cherry Strickland came in the door of the Strickland house, and shut it behind her, and stood so, with her hands behind her on the knob, and her slender body leaning forward, and her breath rising and..

Paste Jewels

John Kendrick Bangs

It may interest the readers of this collection of tales, if there should be any such, to know that the incidents upon which the stories are based are unfortunately wholly truthful.  They have one..

The Kellys and the O'Kellys

Anthony Trollope

The whole Irish bar seemed, for the time, to have laid aside the habitual sang froid and indifference of lawyers, and to have employed their hearts as well as their heads on behalf of the different pa..

The Grim Smile of the Five Towns

Arnold Bennett

In the Five Towns the following history is related by those who know it as something side-splittingly funny—as one of the best jokes that ever occurred in a district devoted to jokes. And I, too, have..

Lady Hester; Or, Ursula's Narrative

Charlotte M. Yonge

The old times at Trevorsham seem to me so remote, that I can hardly believe that we are the same who were so happy then. Nay, Jaquetta laughs, and declares that it is not possible to be happier than w..

Home Scenes and Home Influence

T. S. Arthur

Home Scenes, and Home Influence is a series of Tales and Sketches by T. S. Arthur. Many of the scenes presented in this volume are such as show the mother's influence with her children; a few include ..

A Hazard of New Fortunes

William Dean Howells

Howell’s novel is set in New York of the late nineteenth century, a city familiar to readers of Edith Wharton and Henry James. Basil March, a businessman from Boston of a literary bent, moves with his..