Fiction Books

Captivity

M. Leonora Eyles

Captivity is a fiction novel written by Margaret Leonora Eyles, an English novelist, feminist and memoirist. Captivity has been described as "her strongest fictional expression of the chains that bind..

I nuovi tartufi

Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi

I nuovi tartufi is a fiction work written by Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi was an Italian writer and politician involved in the Italian risorgimento...

Eline Vere - Een Haagsche roman

Louis Couperus

Eline Vere is an 1889 novel by the Dutch writer Louis Couperus. It was adapted into the 1991 film Eline Vere, directed by Harry Kümel. Couperus wrote Eline Vere in the house at Surinamestraat 20, The ..

The Children of the King - A Tale of Southern Italy

F. Marion Crawford

Then the men forward will bestir themselves and presently a red glow rises and flickers and paints what it touches, with its own colours. The dry wood crackles and flares on the brick and mortar heart..

Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book II

Cao Xueqin

Cao Xueqin was a Chinese writer during the Qing dynasty. He is best known as the author of Dream of the Red Chamber, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. His given name was Cá..

Not George Washington

P. G. Wodehouse

Not George Washington is a semi-autobiographical novel by P. G. Wodehouse, written in collaboration with Herbert Westbrook. The United Kingdom is the country of first publication on 18 October 1907 by..

Indian Boyhood

Charles Alexander Eastman

Eastman tells the story of his early life, which he describes as "fragmentary recollections of my thrilling wild life." First published in 1902, the book is a classic in literature about Native Americ..

Boule de Suif

Guy de Maupassant

Boule de Suif is a famous short story by the late 19th-century French writer Guy de Maupassant first published on 15/16 April 1880. It is arguably his most famous short story and is the title story fo..