Fiction Books

Honey-Sweet

Edna Henry Lee Turpin

Edna Henry Lee Turpin was an American author. She was born on July 26, 1867, at Echo Hill, Mecklenburg County, Virginia. She was the daughter of Edward Henry Turpin and Petronella Lee Turpin, but her ..

The Princess De Montpensier

Madame de La Fayette

The Princess of Montpensier is a short novel by Madame de La Fayette which came out anonymously in 1662 as her first published work. It is regarded not only as one of the first modern novels in French..

La maison de Claudine

Colette

Claudine’s House, the first of Colette’s best-selling Claudine novels, is a tender and heartfelt portrayal of childhood and memory. On its first publication, its popularity was such that the Claudine ..

Emilia Galotti

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Emilia Galotti is a play in five acts by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, which premiered on 8 March 1772 in Brunswick. The work is a classic example of German bürgerliches Trauerspiel. Other works in this c..

Si Tandang Basio Macunat

Lucio Bustamante

Si Tandang Bacio Macunat, alternatively spelled as Si Tandang Basio Macunat, is a work written by Spanish friar, Miguel Lucio Bustamante published in Tagalog in the Spanish Philippines...

The Unknown Masterpiece

Honore de Balzac

The Unknown Masterpiece is a short story by Honoré de Balzac. It was first published in the newspaper L'Artiste with the title "Maître Frenhofer" in August 1831. It appeared again later in the same ye..

Le Grand Meaulnes

Alain-Fournier

Le Grand Meaulnes is the only novel by French author Alain-Fournier, who was killed in the first month of World War I. The novel, published in 1913, a year before the author's death, is somewhat biogr..

The Dominant Dollar

Will Lillibridge

The Dominant Dollar is a novel written by Will Lillibridge. It was already late of a rainy May evening, the room was getting dim, and silently Armstrong turned on the electric light. Followi..