Category Archives: Literary Fiction
The Chaperon
Author(s): Henry James What on earth is a girl to do when London society has...
The Black Monk
Author(s): Anton Chekhov Aspiring academic Andrei Kovrin, while summering in the countryside per the advice...
The Explorer
Author(s): W. Somerset Maugham An early novel by W. Somerset Maugham about conflicting feelings of...
The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter
Author(s): Henri Murger As much as any other work of literature, Henri Murger’s 1851 collection...
The Garden Party, and Other Stories version 2
Author(s): Katherine Mansfield The imagination responsible for these remarkable stories, the third and final collection...
The Good Soldier (Version 2)
Author(s): Ford Madox Ford First published in 1915, The Good Soldier might be characterised as...
The Dream of the Red Chamber Book II
Author(s): Xueqin Cao The Dream of the Red Chamber (also known as The Story of...
The House of Mirth (Version 3)
Author(s): Edith Wharton The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, a woman...
The Beautiful and Damned (Version 2)
Author(s): F. Scott Fitzgerald This 1922 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald chronicles the life of...
The Forgery
Author(s): George Payne Rainsford James Humphrey Scriven is a fine, genial, mercantile man, left widowed...
The Custom of the Country (version 2)
Author(s): Edith Wharton Edith Wharton’s 1913 novel is a devastating critique of American upward mobility,...
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Author(s): Victor Hugo One of the great literary tragedies of all time, The Hunchback of...
The Huguenot: A Tale of the French Protestants
Author(s): George Payne Rainsford James The time of French king Louis XIV was a time...
The Death of Ivan Ilyitch
Author(s): Leo Tolstoy The Death of Ivan Ilyitch is the story of a socially ambitious...
The Duel (version 2)
Author(s): Anton Chekhov Known for his plays and short stories, Anton Chekhov also wrote a...
The House of the Dead
Author(s): Fyodor Dostoyevsky The House of the Dead is a novel published in 1861 by...
The Hound of the Baskervilles (version 4)
Author(s): Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the...
The Hermit and the Wild Woman, and other Stories
Author(s): Edith Wharton Seven short stories by Edith Wharton, American author of The House of...
The Dream of the Red Chamber Book I
Author(s): Xueqin Cao The Dream of the Red Chamber (also known as The Story of...
The Girl with the Golden Eyes
Author(s): Honoré de Balzac “Give me a feast such as men give when they love,”...
The Bridge Builders
Author(s): Rudyard Kipling A tale of the revenge of the earth, in this case, specifically,...
The Fortune of the Rougons, Book One of Rougon-Macquart Cycle (Version 2)
Author(s): Émile Zola The first book in the 20-novel Rougon-Macquart Cycle. A monument of French...
The Case of the Pool of Blood in the Pastor’s Study
Author(s): Grace Isabel Colbron Joseph Muller, police detective, travels to a remote Hungarian village to...
The House of the White Shadows
Author(s): B. L. Farjeon Is a defense attorney bound to defend his client, or with...
The Combined Maze
Author(s): May Sinclair Ranny Ransome is an idealistic young man, devoted to exuberant gymnastic exercises...
The Conquest of Plassans, Book Four of Rougon-Maquart Cycle
Author(s): Émile Zola The placid Provencal lives of Francois Mouret and his wife Marthe are...
The Creators: A Comedy
Author(s): May Sinclair Jane Holland is a genius, the greatest of a group of extraordinary...
The Idiot (Part 03 and 04)
Author(s): Fyodor Dostoyevsky The extraordinary child-adult Prince Myshkin, confined for several years in a Swiss...
Seven Men
Author(s): Max Beerbohm In order to liven up the literary history of Great Britain in...
Shirley (version 2)
Author(s): Charlotte Brontë This work, Charlotte Bronte’s second, is set in the England of the...