Fiction Books
The Mayor of Troy
Arthur Quiller-CouchThe Mayor of Troy is a fiction novel written by Arthur Quiller-Couch, a Cornish writer who published using the pseudonym Q. Although a prolific novelist, he is remembered mainly for the monu..
The Goodness of St. Rocque, and Other Stories
Alice Moore Dunbar-NelsonThe Goodness of St. Rocque, and Other Stories is a collection of short stories written by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson, an American poet, journalist, and political activist. Among the fir..
Pearl and Periwinkle
Anna GraetzPearl and Periwinkle is a novel for children written by Anna Graetz. Excerpts from the book:But even he would have felt sorry for Miss Hetty this morning. To adopt two children when you know noth..
Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
Samuel JohnsonIn this enchanting fable (subtitled The Choice of Life), Rasselas and his retinue burrow their way out of the totalitarian paradise of the Happy Valley in search of that triad of eighteenth-century as..
Les affinités électives
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheElective Affinities, also translated under the title Kindred by Choice, is the third novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, published in 1809. The title is taken from a scientific term once used to desc..
The Boy Allies at Liège; Or, Through Lines of Steel
Clair W. HayesThe Boy Allies at Liège; Or, Through Lines of Steel is a juvenile fiction story written by Clair W. Hayes whose other writing include The Boy Allies On the Firing Line, The Boy Allies With t..
Great Catherine (Whom Glory Still Adores)
George Bernard ShawGreat Catherine: Whom Glory Still Adores is a 1913 one-act play by Irish dramatist George Bernard Shaw. It was written between two of his other 1913 plays, Pygmalion and The Music Cure. It tells the s..
Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk — Complete
Gilbert ParkerThese stories made the collection published eventually under the title of Cumner’s Son, in 1910. They were thus kept for nearly twenty years without being given to the public in book form. In 1910 I d..