Fiction Books

Great Catherine (Whom Glory Still Adores)

George Bernard Shaw

Great 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 Parker

These 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..

Bouvard and Pécuchet - A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life, part 1

Gustave Flaubert

As there were thirty-three degrees of heat the Boulevard Bourdon was absolutely deserted. Farther down, the Canal St. Martin, confined by two locks, showed in a straight line its water black as ink. I..

A Little Maid of Old Philadelphia

Alice Turner Curtis

Ruth Pennell and Winifred Merrill lived in Philadelphia. The city had been for some time in the hands of General Howe and the British army. Ruth's father was with Washington at Valley Forge, and the l..

Förvillelser

Hjalmar Söderberg

Förvillelser is a Swedish fiction novel written by Hjalmar Söderberg. He was a Swedish novelist, playwright, poet and journalist. His works often deal with melancholy and lovelorn characters, and offe..

The Abbot's Ghost

Louisa May Alcott

Written by Louisa May Alcott under her pseudonym, A. M. Barnard, this Christmas story deals with the themes of love and defending one's honor. Although he is disinherited and poor, Maurice Traherne tr..

Tom Swift and The Visitor from Planet X

Victor Appleton

A great classic for the home or classroom, an interesting old-fashioned reference book.Tom Swift Jr. and his associates at Swift Enterprises wait breathlessly for what may well be the most important s..

Captain Gardiner of the International Police

Robert Allen

It was on one of the hottest nights of that unusually hot September that Mrs. Thornton gave a dance. The moist, lifeless air enveloped the earth like a heavy cloak and even the carefully shaded lights..