Fiction Books

The Magician

W. Somerset Maugham

The Magician is a novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham, an English playwright, novelist, and short story writer. In this tale, the magician Oliver Haddo, a caricature of Aleister Crowley, ..

Cousin Phillis

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Cousin Phillis is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell about Paul Manning, a youth of seventeen who moves to the country and befriends his mother's family and his second cousin Phillis Holman, who is confused..

Le château des Désertes

George Sand

Le château des Désertes is a French fiction by George Sand,  a French novelist, memoirist, and socialist. ..

The Eye of Zeitoon

Talbot Mundy

The Eye of Zeitoon is an Armenian adventure fiction story written by Talbot Mundy, an English-born American writer of adventure fiction. Based for most of his life in the United States, he also w..

Una notte fatal

R. A. Porati

Una notte fatale is an Italian fiction work written by R. A. Porati...

Pollyanna Grows Up

Eleanor H. Porter

Pollyanna Grows Up is a 1915 children's novel by Eleanor H. Porter. It is the first of many sequels to Porter's best-selling Pollyanna, but is the only one written by Porter herself; the numerous late..

The Alkahest

Honore de Balzac

The Alkahest is a French fiction novel translated to English as The Quest of the Absolute is a novel by Honoré de Balzac. The novel first appeared in 1834, with seven chapter-divisions, as a Scèn..

They and I

Jerome K. Jerome

They and I is a country life fiction story written by Jerome K. Jerome,  an English writer and humorist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat, The Idle Thoughts Of An Idle Fell..