Fiction Books

Evan Harrington

George Meredith

Evan Harrington is an 1861 novel by George Meredith, a glowing comedy of Victorian presumptions. The second of Meredith's 'mainstream' novels, the work is loosely autobiographical in inspiration; and ..

Hira Singh - When India came to fight in Flanders

Talbot Mundy

I take leave to dedicate this book to Mr. Elmer Davis, through whose friendly offices I was led to track down the hero of these adventures and to find the true account of them even better than the dai..

The Fortunate Youth

William John Locke

Paul is a poor boy who grew up in London, in the household of his mother and stepfather. His journey to greatness is the subject of our story. But his desired success comes at a very high price. (Summ..

Under Fire - The Story of a Squad

Henri Barbusse

An English translation of the French World War I novel "Le Feu", written by a French soldier and dedicated to "the memory of the comrades who fell by my side at Crony and on Hill 119." Barbusse was in..

Marie; a story of Russian love

Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

Alexander Pushkin, the most distinguished poet of Russia, was born at Saint Petersburg, 1799. When only twenty-one years of age he entered the civil service in the department of foreign affairs. Lord ..

Sparrows - The Story of an Unprotected Girl

Horace W. C. Newte

Everyone at Melkbridge knew the Devitts: they lived in the new, pretentious-looking house, standing on the right, a few minutes after one left the town by the Bathminster road. It was a blustering, st..

The Valley of Decision

Edith Wharton

Odo Valsecca, a promising nobleman, inherits a dukedom at a young age and, over the course of his young life, must quickly learn the politics of royalty as he deals with other nobles, the church, the ..

The Town Traveller

George Gissing

Mrs. Bubb, the landlady, was frying some sausages for her first-floor lodgers; as usual at this hour she wore (presumably over some invisible clothing) a large shawl and a petticoat, her thin hair, bl..