Novels Books

Venus in Furs

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Venus in Furs is a novella by the Austrian author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, and the best known of his works. The novel was to be part of an epic series that Sacher-Masoch envisioned called Legacy of ..

Chéri

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Chéri is a novel by Colette published in French in 1920. The title character's true name is Fred Peloux, but he is known as Chéri to almost everyone, except, usually, to his wife. This novel was follo..

Otto of the Silver Hand

Howard Pyle

Otto of the Silver Hand is a children's novel about the Dark Ages written and illustrated by Howard Pyle. It was first published in 1888 by Charles Scribner's Sons. The story of little Otto, a ge..

Ourika

Claire Duras

Ourika is an 1823 novel by Claire de Duras, originally published anonymously. Ourika is a story based on the life of a woman who was purchased as a child (in or around 1786) by the Chevalier de Bouffl..

Stalky & Co

Rudyard Kipling

Stalky & Co. is a novel by Rudyard Kipling about adolescent boys at a British boarding school. It is a collection of school stories whose juvenile protagonists display a know-it-all, cynical outlo..

Anne of the Island

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Despite the series being a century old, readers can't get enough of Lucy Maud Montgomery's celebrated Anne series. Anne of the Island (1915) is the third in the series, which also includes Anne of Gre..

Personality Plus - Some Experiences of Emma McChesney and Her Son, Jock

Edna Ferber

Personality Plus: Some Experiences of Emma McChesney and Her Son, Jock is a fiction novel written by Edna Ferber...

The Railway Children

Edith Nesbit

The Railway Children is a children's book by Edith Nesbit, originally serialised in The London Magazine during 1905 and first published in book form in 1906. It has been adapted for the screen several..