Category Archives: General Fiction
The Phoenix and the Carpet
Author(s): E. Nesbit The Phoenix and the Carpet is a fantasy novel for children, written...
The Pastor’s Wife
Author(s): Elizabeth von Arnim Written by an author born in Australia, grew up in England,...
The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy
Author(s): Frances Milton Trollope The industrial revolution led to the rise of manufacture and, thus,...
The New Magdalen
Author(s): Wilkie Collins Mercy Merrick is living a difficult life on the streets, but when...
The Permanent Husband
Author(s): Fyodor Dostoyevsky THE PERMANENT HUSBAND, also published as The Eternal Husband, is a psychological...
The Riddle of the Frozen Flame
Author(s): Thomas W. HanshewMary E. Hanshew Another full-length mystery story featuring Hamilton Cleek, whom we...
The Opal Serpent
Author(s): Fergus Hume An old pawnbroker is found strangled with his lips pinned together with...
The Lady from Nowhere
Author(s): Fergus Hume A mysterious woman is found murdered in a yellow boudoir. Who is...
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Author(s): Robert Tressell Clearly frustrated at the refusal of his contemporaries to recognise the iniquity...
The Mysterious Island (version 2)
Author(s): Jules Verne The book tells the adventures of five Americans on an uncharted island...
The Paying Guest
Author(s): George Gissing George Gissing was one of the most accomplished writers of realism in...
The Pit
Author(s): Frank Norris The Trilogy of The Epic of the Wheat includes the following novels:THE...
The Morgesons
Author(s): Elizabeth Stoddard Stoddard’s novel traces the education and development of a young female in...
The Loudwater Mystery
Author(s): Edgar Jepson Lord Loudwater is found murdered in his house one evening. Unfortunately for...
The Ordeal of Elizabeth
Author(s): Anonymous An unforgettable family saga which revolves around the beautiful young Elizabeth. Elizabeth is...
The Markets of Paris
Author(s): Émile Zola The Markets of Paris is a remarkable work, and is the one...
The Protector
Author(s): Harold Bindloss Harold Bindloss, while born in England, based most of his novels in...
The Metamorphosis
Author(s): Franz Kafka The Metamorphosis (in German, Die Verwandlung, “The Transformation”) is a novella by...
The Mystery of the Locks
Author(s): E. W. Howe Davy’s Bend was a dying, lonely, uncared-for river town. So when...
The Price of Love
Author(s): Arnold Bennett Rachel Louise Fleckring works for the elderly Mrs Maldon, and although with...
The Precipice
Author(s): Ivan Goncharov The Precipice is a story of the romantic rivalry among three men,...
The Painted Veil
Author(s): W. Somerset Maugham This Maugham classic is set in England and Hong Kong and...
The Old Curiosity Shop (version 2)
Author(s): Charles Dickens Written in the years 1840 to 1841, when Dickens was twenty-eight years...
The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation
Author(s): J. S. Fletcher Marshall Allerdyke is driving through the night from London to Hull...
The Riddle of the Purple Emperor
Author(s): Thomas W. HanshewMary E. Hanshew Orphan Lady Margaret Cheyne returns home on her eighteenth...
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Version 3)
Author(s): Charles Dickens Nicholas Nickleby was Dickens’s third novel following on from Pickwick Papers and...
The Illustrated London Reading Book
Author(s): Various LONDON:INTRODUCTION.To deprive Instruction of the terrors with which the young but too often...
The Quest of the Sacred Slipper
Author(s): Sax Rohmer Cavanagh becomes involved in the adventurous search for a precious relic in...
The Real Thing
Author(s): Henry James The Real Thing is, on one level, a somewhat ironic tale of...
The Mayor of Casterbridge (version 2)
Author(s): Thomas Hardy Irritated and drunken, an itinerant farm-worker sells his wife and child to...