Fiction Books

Deadwood Dick's Doom; or, Calamity Jane's Last Adventure

Edward L. Wheeler

This western, published around 1899, is a dime novel that has it all: roguish gun men, hostile Indians, chivalrous gentlemen to protect the hapless females, and - in Calamity Jane - even a female who ..

My Father's Dragon

Ruth Stiles Gannett

My Father's Dragon is a animal fiction story written by Ruth Stiles Gannett, an American children's writer best known for My Father's Dragon and its two sequels—collectively sometimes called the ..

Jean-Christophe Journey's End

Romain Rolland

Jean-Christophe Journey's End is a fiction work by Romain Rolland, a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tr..

Papin rouva

Juhani Aho

Papin rouva is a fiction novel written by Juhani Aho, a Finnish author and journalist. He was nominated for the Nobel prize in literature twelve times...

The Point Of Honor - A Military Tale

Joseph Conrad

Conrad's brilliantly ironic tale about two officers in Napoleon's Grand Army who, under a futile pretext, fought an on-going series of duels throughout the Napoleanic Wars. Over decades, on every occa..

Lucrezia Floriani

George Sand

Lucrezia Floriani is a French fiction novel written by George Sand, a French novelist, memoirist, and socialist...

The Fifth Wheel - A Novel

Olive Higgins Prouty

As part of an online project on short stories, East of the Web presents the full text of "The Fifth Wheel." This short story was written by the American author William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), whose..

Three Young Pioneers

John Theodore Mueller

Three Young Pioneers is a Story of the Early Settlement of Our Country written by John Theodore Mueller...