Category Archives: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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...

Mary of Burgundy; or, The Revolt of Ghent

Author(s): George Payne Rainsford James Fifteenth century Europe was a time of political upheaval and...

Moon and Sixpence (version 2)

Author(s): W. Somerset Maugham The Moon and Sixpence is a 1919 short novel by William...

My Lady Ludlow

Author(s): Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell This novella by the acclaimed Elizabeth Gaskell follows the reminiscences and...

Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal

Author(s): Sarah J. Richardson Life in the Grey Nunnery was first published in Boston, in...

Idomen, or The Vale of Yumuri

Author(s): Maria Gowen Brooks Idomen (1843) is the creative-nonfiction memoir of the beautiful and brilliant...

Helping Himself, or Grant Thornton’s Ambition

Author(s): Horatio Alger, Jr. Helping Himself, or Grant Thornton’s Ambition deals with the grit and...

Leave it to PSmith

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse Freddie Threepwood and his uncle are in difficulties. Freddie wants a...

Kibun Daizin; or, From Shark-Boy to Merchant Prince

Author(s): Gensai Murai This is the story of a brave, skillful and ambitious boy who...

In the Bishop’s Carriage

Author(s): Miriam Michelson Nancy ‘Nance’ Olden, a young and very pretty woman, is an accomplished...

Jean-Christophe, Volume I

Author(s): Romain Rolland The central character, Jean-Christophe Krafft, is a German musician of Belgian extraction,...

Irish Idylls

Author(s): Jane Barlow Irish Idylls is a collection of short stories about Irish peasantry during...

Days With Sir Roger de Coverley

Author(s): Joseph AddisonRichard Steele The author Sir Richard Steele, who was one of the writers...

Dialogues of the Dead

Author(s): George Lyttelton Can the dead of different ages and spaces meet in the afterlife?...

Elizabeth and her German Garden

Author(s): Elizabeth von Arnim Elizabeth and Her German Garden is a novel by Elizabeth von...

David Copperfield (version 3)

Author(s): Charles Dickens David Copperfield, like all of Dickens’ novels, is filled with many memorable...

Demian, The Story of Emil Sinclair’s Youth

Author(s): Hermann Hesse Somewhat autobiographical, this “coming of age” novel unfolds an introspective boy’s formative...

Boyhood

Author(s): Leo Tolstoy Boyhood is the second in Tolstoy’s trilogy of three autobiographical novels, including...

Big Sur

Author(s): Jack Kerouac This classic of the beatnik era from famous bohemian traveller Jack Kerouac...

Captain Fracasse

Author(s): Théophile Gautier The story, set in the 17th Century during the reign of Louis...

Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief

Author(s): James Fenimore Cooper Take a fascinating journey from France to America through the “eyes”...

Benigna Machiavelli

Author(s): Charlotte Perkins Gilman In between “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1892) and Herland (1915), feminist Charlotte...

Childhood

Author(s): Leo Tolstoy Childhood, published in 1852, is the first novel in Leo Tolstoy’s autobiographical...

Agnes Sorel

Author(s): George Payne Rainsford James The Hundred Years’ War: a series of conflicts waged from...

Bindle

Author(s): Herbert George Jenkins Herbert Jenkins’ most popular fictional creation was Mr. Joseph Bindle, who...