Fiction Books

Fantasy: A Novel

Matilde Serao

The naturalism of Matilde Serao deserves to be distinguished from that of the French contemporaries with whom she is commonly classed. She has a finer passion, more of the true ardour of the South, th..

The Crime of Henry Vane: A Study with a Moral

Frederic Jesup Stimson

Vane was a flippant young fellow, with a French education; fond of the world, of which, as he then thought, he knew much. Yet the Figaro and the Bois de Boulogne and the Palais-Royal, or even the Fran..

The Gates of Morning

H. De Vere Stacpoole

Some day they would come. The vision of Palm Tree seemed to repeat what instinct told him. They would build canoes and seeing the lagoon mirror-light in the sky, they would come. They had no women, th..

The Conscript Mother

Robert Herrick

The politician came to Rome and delivered his prudent advice, and the quiescent people began to growl. The ministers resigned: the public growled more loudly.... During the turbulent week that followe..

The King's Own Borderers: A Military Romance, Volume 2 (of 3)

James Grant

Breakfast was hurried over in silence and constraint, then Cosmo, kissing the brow of his mother, who was already in tears,—for the only real emotion that lingered in the Master's heart was a regard f..

The King's Own Borderers: A Military Romance, Volume 3 (of 3)

James Grant

Young though he was, Quentin could not forget Flora Warrender, and that sweet evening by the Kelpie's Pool, and the first thrill of boyish love, with all the anxious moments, the feverish hopes that s..

Southern Soldier Stories

George Cary Eggleston

Joe was there, but Joe wasn’t talking that night. Joe was surly and sullen. He had had to kill his horse at Pocotaligo the day before, and all the honors he had harvested from that action had not reco..

The Virgins of the Rocks

Gabriele D'Annunzio

Bending and breaking as they were beneath the weight of their own maturity, like autumn trees overladen with bounteous fruit, they were unable either to sound the depth of their misery or to give voic..