Category Archives: Literary Fiction

Limanora, The Island Of Progress

Author(s): Godfrey Sweven Our ethereal man with wings, whom we met in Riallaro, continues his...

Lolly Willowes: or, the Loving Huntsman (Version 2)

Author(s): Sylvia Townsend Warner Laura Willowes, forced to move from her family home due to...

Steppenwolf

Author(s): Hermann Hesse This controversial literary classic paints the portrait of a man who perceives...

Der Schatz

Author(s): Eduard Mörike Eine märchenhafte Geisternovelle.Zur Konfirmation hat Franz Arbogast, an einem Ostersonntag geboren, ein...

Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus (1818)

Author(s): Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by the...

Een Kerstlied in Proza

Author(s): Charles Dickens ‘A Christmas Carol’ is een Victoriaanse allegorie over een oude en verbitterde...

Le Fauteuil hante

Author(s): Gaston Leroux L’intrigue se déroule sous la coupole de l’Académie française. À la suite...

La Vampire

Author(s): Féval, Paul Henry Corentin Trois jeunes et riches Allemands ont disparu sans laisser de...

Under the Shadow of Etna: Sicilian Stories

Author(s): Giovanni Verga The short stories of Giovanni Verga, one of the leading authors of...

Youth (Version 2)

Author(s): Joseph Conrad This short tale was first published in book form alongside ‘Heart of...

‘Twixt Land and Sea

Author(s): Joseph Conrad While the central figures in each of the three stories in this...

Typhoon and Other Stories

Author(s): Joseph Conrad An impossibly imperturbable old sea captain, with two hundred Chinese labourers aboard...

Under Western Eyes (version 2)

Author(s): Joseph Conrad “But it is a vain enterprise for sophisticated Europe to try and...

Waverley, Volume 1

Author(s): Sir Walter Scott Waverley is set during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, which sought...

Vignettes of San Francisco

Author(s): Almira Bailey A collection of observations and stories about San Franciscan life – the...

Within The Tides

Author(s): Joseph Conrad A self-important English philosopher and his haughty, beautiful daughter sail to the...

Woman of Genius

Author(s): Mary Hunter Austin In this 1912 novel, Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934) draws inspiration from...

Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages

Author(s): Various A delightful collection of short stories by some of the luminary authors of...

Within a Budding Grove

Author(s): Marcel Proust “In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower” (bowdlerized by Scottish translator...

Waverley

Author(s): Sir Walter Scott Waverley is set during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, which sought...

Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship Volume 1

Author(s): Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The novel is in eight books. The eponymous hero undergoes...

Waverley, Volume 2

Author(s): Sir Walter Scott Waverley is set during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, which sought...

The Zeit-Geist

Author(s): Lily Dougall “When travelling in Canada, in the region north of Lake Ontario, I...

The Sun Also Rises, Version 2

Author(s): Ernest Hemingway This first novel by Ernest Hemingway follows a group of American and...

The Wings of the Dove

Author(s): Henry James “The Wings of the Dove,” published in 1902, represents to my memory...

The Steel Flea

Author(s): Nikolai Leskov An 1881 comic story by Nikolai Leskov, presented in the form of...

The Way We Live Now

Author(s): Anthony Trollope The Way We Live Now is a scathing satirical novel published in...

The Woman in White – version 2

Author(s): Wilkie Collins Possibly Wilkie Collins’ most famous novel, The Woman In White remade the...

Three Years

Author(s): Anton Chekhov Laptev, the rich but unattractive scion of a merchant, renounces his independent-minded,...

To the Lighthouse (Version 3)

Author(s): Virginia Woolf In three parts, this modern classic explores the life of an English...