Category Archives: Culture & Heritage Fiction
True Love: A Story of English Domestic Life
Author(s): Sarah Farro The author is aware that she is entering a field which has...
The Seven Poor Travellers
Author(s): Charles Dickens One of Dickens’ Christmas stories, this was first published as part of...
The Story of Gisli the Outlaw
Author(s): Unknown The Story of Gisli the Outlaw is a translation of the medieval Icelandic...
The Imperialist
Author(s): Sara Jeannette Duncan “The Imperialist,” a novel by Sara Jeannette Duncan, published in 1904,...
The Magic Mountain (Volume One)
Author(s): Thomas Mann Thomas Mann’s epic novel depicts a decaying, corrupted European society on the...
The Outcry
Author(s): Henry James The story concerns the contemplated sale of a famous painting by a...
The Mother (Version 2)
Author(s): Pearl Buck As with Pearl Buck’s most famous 1st novel, The Good Earth, this...
The Crossing
Author(s): Winston Churchill This is an historical fiction novel. Many real characters of history are...
Savage Holiday
Author(s): Richard Wright Savage Holiday is an unforgettable story–a high tension drama that throbs with...
Siddhartha (Version 2)
Author(s): Hermann Hesse A major preoccupation of Hesse in writing Siddhartha was to cure his...
Stories From Wagner
Author(s): J. Walker McSpadden Eleven stories of eleven operas by Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold. Die...
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Weston Translation)
Author(s): The Gawain Poet King Arthur lies at Camelot upon a Christmas-tide and will not...
Our Little Russian Cousin
Author(s): Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade This delightful little book is one of many titles in...
Man of Feeling
Author(s): Henry Mackenzie A man of refined taste, who caught the tone of the French...
Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906
Author(s): Friedrich NietzschePeter KropotkinEmma GoldmanAlexander BerkmanSadakichi HartmannMax Baginski “Mother Earth was an American anarchist journal...
Porgy
Author(s): DuBose Heyward Story about Southern African American man with disabilities and the life he...
Moving the Mountain
Author(s): Charlotte Perkins Gilman Moving the Mountain is a feminist utopian novel written by Charlotte...
Improvement of Human Reason
Author(s): Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Malik Ibn Tufail The story revolves around Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān, a...
Japanese Fairy World: Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan
Author(s): William Elliot Griffis William Elliot Griffis born in Philadelphia in 1843, was an educator,...
Forest Days: A Romance of Old Times
Author(s): George Payne Rainsford James Picture a tranquil English village, with an inn on the...
Elissa
Author(s): H. Rider Haggard Anthropologists have studied the ruins of a great city and temple...
Folk-Tales From Tibet
Author(s): William Frederick Travers O’Connor The author accumulated these short stories of Tibetan folklore during...
Dark Princess
Author(s): W. E. B. Du Bois This story begins as Matthew Towns, a brilliant young...
Bracebridge Hall
Author(s): Washington Irving Famed American humorist and essayist Washington Irving published a series of short...
Christmas Carol (Version 09)
Author(s): Charles Dickens “A Christmas Carol” has been credited with relaunching the celebration of Christmas...
Blackfoot Lodge Tales: The Story of a Prairie People
Author(s): George Bird Grinnell This work is a collection of tales told by Elders in...
Children of the Ghetto
Author(s): Israel Zangwill In this 1892 novel of London’s Jewish East End, Israel Zangwill sets...
By Beach and Bog-Land: Some Irish Stories
Author(s): Jane Barlow “”By Beach and Bog-Land: Some Irish Stories”” is a collection of short...