Fiction Books

The Man Who Lost Himself

H. De Vere Stacpoole

Written by Irish Author Henry De Vere Stacpoole,  this romance novel "The Man Who Lost Himself" tells the story of a luckless American visiting London on yet another of his failed business v..

The Pool in the Desert

Sara Jeannette Duncan

The Pool in the Desert is a fiction of British india written by Canadian journalist Sara Jeannette Duncan who used Mrs. Everard Cotes as her pen name.Excerpts:There were times when we had to go withou..

Nature and Human Nature

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Nature and Human Nature is a fiction novel with fictitious character Sam Slick as protagonist, written by Nova Scotian novelist Thomas Chandler Haliburton, whose works were best selling even in c..

The Astonishing History of Troy Town

Arthur Quiller-Couch

Written by Cornish novelist Arthur Quiller-Couch, The Astonishing History of Troy Town is a literary fiction work.Author's Preface:It is told of a distinguished pedagogue that one day a heat..

His Sombre Rivals

Edward Payson Roe

His Sombre Rivals is a ficiton story based on US Civil War written by the American novelist Edward Payson Roe, whose other works are He Fell in Love with His Wife, A Young Girl's Wooing, Barriers Burn..

Mother

Maksim Gorky

Mother is a novel written by Maxim Gorky in 1906 about revolutionary factory workers. It was first published, in English, in Appleton's Magazine in 1906, then in Russian in 1907. The work was translat..

Northern Lights

Gilbert Parker

This book, Northern Lights, belongs to an epoch which is a generation later than that in which Pierre and His People moved. The conditions under which Pierre and Shon McGann lived practically ended wi..

Men of Affairs

Roland Pertwee

Men of Affairs is a general fiction novel written by Roland Pertwee, an English playwright best known for his contribution to the work The Best British Short Stories of 1922.Excerpts:At a pawnsho..