Fiction Books
Swann's Way
Marcel ProustSwann’s Way is one of seven books that comprise In Search of Lost Time, unique in fiction for its sustained fullness of thought and richness of characterization. Though In Search of Lost Time is satur..
A Black Adonis
Linn Boyd PorterA Black Adonis is a novel by Linn Boyd Porter. Excerpts from the preface of the book:I do not know how better to use the space that the printer always leaves me in this part of the book than to r..
A Lost Hero
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps WardA Lost Hero is a fiction work by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward. Excerpts from the book.HE materials of heroism are everywhere; each day and all situations are full of them. The power to recognize ..
Life's Progress Through the Passions
Eliza Fowler HaywoodLife's Progress Through the Passions is a work of fiction by Eliza Fowler Haywood. ‘The great Encomiums bestowed on this Work by some of the most distinguished Judges, have been so frequently inserted..
The Quest of the Silver Fleece
W.E.B. Du Bois"The Quest of the Silver Fleece: A Novel" by W.E.B. Du Bois is a novel that examines American's prejudices during the 20th Century. Zora is a child of the Southern swamp and she falls in love with an ..
Under the Greenwood Tree
Thomas HardyUnder the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School is a novel by Thomas Hardy, published anonymously in 1872. It was Hardy's second published novel, the last to be printed without his name..
Little Men
Louisa May AlcottLittle Men, or Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys, is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott, first published in 1871. The novel reprises characters from Little Women and is considered by some the..
Maha-bharata
AnonymousMaha-bharata The Epic of AncieThe Mahābhārata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being the Rāmāyaṇa. It narrates the struggle between two groups of cousins in the ..