Fiction Books

Jude the Obscure

Thomas Hardy

Jude the Obscure is a novel by Thomas Hardy, which began as a magazine serial in December 1894 and was first published in book form in 1895. It is Hardy's last completed novel. Its protagonist, Jude F..

An Arkansas Planter

Opie Percival Read

An Arkansas Planter is a plantation life fiction work written by Opie Percival Read,  an American journalist and humorist. His bibliography lists 60 published books. He is also the author of..

Brewster's Millions

George Barr McCutcheon

Brewster's Millions is a humorous fiction story written by George Barr McCutcheon, an American popular novelist and playwright.  He is also the author of Graustark, Beverly of Graustark..

Fostina Woodman, the Wonderful Adventurer

Avis A. Burnham Stanwood

Fostina Woodman, the Wonderful Adventurer is a California's gold discoveries fiction written by Avis A. Burnham Stanwood. Excerpts from the book:Reader, are you a lover of Nature? And do you behold wi..

Half a Life-Time Ago

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Half a Life-Time Ago is a tender tale of romance and lost love that touches the heart. With ups and downs and trivialities of life, the work elucidates serious relationships and romance...

Herodias

Gustave Flaubert

Herodias is a biblical fiction written by Gustave Flaubert,  French novelist. Highly influential, he has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country...

Before the Dawn - A Story of the Fall of Richmond

Joseph A. Altsheler

Before the Dawn: A Story of the Fall of Richmond is a civil war fiction written by Joseph Alexander Altsheler, an American newspaper reporter, editor and author of popular juvenile historical fiction...

Little Wars; a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty

H. G. Wells

A Game for Boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books. With an Appendix on Kriegspiel.Miniature wargaming got its..