Category Archives: Literary Fiction

Among Malay Pirates and Other Tales of Peril and Adventure

Author(s): George Alfred Henty G. A . Henty was a prolific writer of historical fiction...

Anonymous Story

Author(s): Anton Chekhov In “An Anonymous Story,” Chekhov continues to explore his favorite themes of...

Bridge of San Luis Rey

Author(s): Thornton Wilder The deaths of five people resulting from the collapse of a bridge...

Bunner Sisters

Author(s): Edith Wharton “Bunner Sisters,” like “The Age of Innocence” is set in 1870s New...

Agnes Grey (Version 3)

Author(s): Anne Brontë Anne Bronte’s semi-autobiographic novel about Agnes Grey, a young woman who becomes...

Barnaby Rudge (version 3)

Author(s): Charles Dickens The Protestant Sir John Chester and the Catholic Geoffrey Haredale have been...

Backwater (Pilgrimage, Vol. 2)

Author(s): Dorothy Richardson “Backwater” is the second volume of “Pilgrimage,” a series of thirteen autobiographical...

Aristipp [und einige seiner Zeitgenossen] – Zweiter Band

Author(s): Christoph Martin Wieland Dagegen führen die vier Bände „Aristipp und seine Zeitgenossen“ (1800–1802) in...

Childhood (version 2)

Author(s): Leo Tolstoy Childhood is the first published novel by Leo Tolstoy, released under the...

Chance (version 2)

Author(s): Joseph Conrad “You are the expert in the psychological wilderness,” the nominal narrator of...

Christmas Books

Author(s): Charles Dickens From 1843 to 1848, Charles Dickens wrote a series of five novellas...

Bleak House (version 4)

Author(s): Charles Dickens Bleak house is one of Dickens finest achievements. It was written for...

Annouchka: A Tale

Author(s): Ivan Turgenev When N—— met Annouchka. A graceful story of innocence, love, coming of...

Buddenbrooks

Author(s): Thomas Mann When Thomas Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (1929), the...

Bliss, and Other Stories

Author(s): Katherine Mansfield “(N)ot to say that they are cheerful stories; they are anything but...

Another Study of Woman

Author(s): Honoré de Balzac A series of tales — told by men, of course —...

Birds of Prey

Author(s): Mary Elizabeth Braddon The first part of the book builds the characters of four...

Babbitt

Author(s): Sinclair Lewis Sinclair Lewis’ George F. Babbitt is a complicated and conflicted character. When...

Christmas Carol (Version 14)

Author(s): Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser...

Aristipp [und einige seiner Zeitgenossen] – Dritter Band

Author(s): Christoph Martin Wieland Dagegen führen die vier Bände „Aristipp und seine Zeitgenossen“ (1800–1802) in...

Audrey Craven

Author(s): May Sinclair In May Sinclair’s remarkable first novel, Audrey Craven is a beautiful young...

Christmas Carol (Version 11)

Author(s): Charles Dickens The classic Christmas story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is...

Brothers Karamazov (version 3)

Author(s): Fyodor Dostoyevsky Originally published in serial form in 1879-80, “The Brothers Karamazov” is recognized...

Captain Antifer

Author(s): Jules Verne “No good deed goes Unpunished”, as the saying goes. A wealthy Egyptian...

Anne Severn and the Fieldings

Author(s): May Sinclair Written in an era of cheap, formulaic romantic fiction, the nuanced, seditious,...

Agnes Grey (Dramatic Reading)

Author(s): Anne Brontë Agnes Grey is the daughter of a minister, whose family comes to...

Abbe Mouret’s Transgression, Book Five of Rougon-Macquart Cycle

Author(s): Émile Zola This, the fifth novel in Zola’s Rougon-Macquart Cycle, serves effectively as a...

A Thief in the Night

Author(s): Ernest William Hornung Gentleman thief A.J. Raffles burgles his way through a series of...

A Little Bush Maid

Author(s): Mary Grant Bruce An Australian childrens’ classic about life on a ranch around the...

A Double Barreled Detective Story

Author(s): Mark Twain A Double Barrelled Detective Story is a novel by Mark Twain (Samuel...