Category Archives: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship Volume 2
Author(s): Johann Wolfgang von Goethe This is the second half of the novel by Goethe...
Where the Blue Begins
Author(s): Christopher Morley In his collection Plum Pudding, Christopher Morley included two pieces about an...
Victory: An Island Tale
Author(s): Joseph Conrad Recollections of the life of Axel Heyst, one-time manager of the liquidated...
The Vicar of Wakefield (version 2)
Author(s): Oliver Goldsmith First published in 1766, the loveable and innocent Dr Primrose and his...
The Newcomes
Author(s): William Makepeace Thackeray The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family was written in...
The Man Who Found the Truth
Author(s): Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev An old man, accused of having murdered his family as a...
The Pride of Jennico
Author(s): Egerton Castle “The death of a patriarch, unexpected inheritance of a second son, dark...
The History Of Sir Richard Calmady
Author(s): Lucas Malet Lucas Malet is the pen name of Mary Kingsley, daughter of Charles...
The History of Pendennis
Author(s): William Makepeace Thackeray In Pendennis, William Makepeace Thackeray skillfully shows the coming of age...
The Friendly Road, New Adventures in Contentment
Author(s): Ray Stannard Baker My grandmother Gertrude received a copy of The Friendly Road for...
The Diary of a Superfluous Man
Author(s): Ivan Turgenev Turgenev’s shy hero, Tchulkaturin, is a representative example of a Russian archetype...
The Bishop’s Apron
Author(s): W. Somerset Maugham “Canon Spratte saw himself as he thought others might see him:...
The Desultory Man
Author(s): George Payne Rainsford James This early novel by James is written in the first...
Tales of Daring and Danger
Author(s): G. A. Henty G A Henty takes us on a variety of adventures in...
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (version 2)
Author(s): James Weldon Johnson The story of a biracial man living in the deep south...
Stalky & Co.
Author(s): Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling published Stalky & Co. in 1899. Set at an English...
The Autobiography of Cockney Tom
Author(s): Thomas Bastard The Autobiography of Cockney Tom, Showing his Struggles through Life,and proving this...
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Author(s): James Weldon Johnson Johnson’s only novel, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, was originally...
Rulers of Kings: A Novel
Author(s): Gertrude Atherton When a child is born, its temperament and character are unknown. The...
The American Diary of a Japanese Girl
Author(s): Yone Noguchi This is the fictional diary of a young Japanese woman, first published...
Sentimental Tommy
Author(s): J. M. Barrie “J. M. Barrie is most noted for being the author of...
Tales of King Arthur and the Round Table (version 2)
Author(s): Andrew Lang The tales of King Arthur and his Knights are of Celtic origin....
The Adventures of an Ugly Girl
Author(s): Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett “Come, Dora! I shall never be ready, if you don’t make...
Marion, the Story of an Artist’s Model
Author(s): Onoto Watanna In this Asian/Canadian perspective on “foreignness,” Marion (the protagonist) eventually leaves the...
Rilla of Ingleside (version 3 Dramatic reading)
Author(s): Lucy Maud Montgomery Anne of Green Gables is all grown up and married, and...
Rogue’s Life
Author(s): Wilkie Collins “[T]he story offers the faithful reflection of a very happy time in...
Rezanov
Author(s): Gertrude Atherton This novel by the prolific Californian author Gertrude Horn Atherton is based...
Reveries of a Bachelor
Author(s): Ik Marvel Reveries of a Bachelor, or A Book of the Heart, is a...
Orlando, A Biography (version 3)
Author(s): Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf’s most successful novel recounts the extraordinary biography of Orlando from...
Our Nig, or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, In A Two-Story White House
Author(s): Harriet E. Wilson Frado is a colored girl, living in the USA a few...
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