Fiction Books

The Avenger

E. Phillips Oppenheim

Herbert Wrayson, a bachelor returns to his flat one night to find a young lady rifling his desk. He questions her and finds she thought she was in the apartment of his neighbor, Morris Barnes, who liv..

The Lost Girl

D. H. Lawrence

The Lost Girl is a novel by D. H. Lawrence, first published in 1920. It was awarded the 1920 James Tait Black Memorial Prize in the fiction category. Lawrence started it shortly after writing Women in..

Serapis

Georg Ebers

Serapis is historical fiction novel written by Georg Ebers, an Egyptologist and novelist, discovered the Egyptian medical papyrus, of ca. 1550 BCE, named for him at Luxor in the winter of 18..

The Moon and Sixpence

W. Somerset Maugham

This Maugham novel is based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin. The story is told by the narrator as he gradually comes to know the main character Charles Strickland, a middle aged stock broker. ..

Ang Mestisa

Engracio L. Valmonte

Ang Mestisa is a well-known Tagalog-language novel written by Filipino novelist Engracio L. Valmonte in 1920. Published in two parts, the novel was divided into two books entitled Ang Mestisa Unang Ba..

The Book of Wonder

Lord Dunsany

The Book of Wonder is the seventh book and fifth original short story collection of Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ur..

The Secret Rose

William Butler Yeats

The Secret Rose is fantasy work written by William Butler Yeats, an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of the Irish literary establishment, he he..

Mr. Britling Sees It Through

H. G. Wells

Mr. Britling Sees It Through is H.G. Wells's "masterpiece of the wartime experience in England." The novel was published in September 1916. Mr. Britling Sees It Through tells the story of a renowned w..