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My Lady Ludlow - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
My Lady Ludlow - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
This novella by the acclaimed Elizabeth Gaskell follows the reminiscences and life of aristocratic Lady Ludlow, told through the eyes of one of her charges, the young Margaret Dawson. Lady Ludlow epitomizes the unwillingness of the old English...
The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft - George Gissing
The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft - George Gissing
- Author: George Gissing
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Literary Fiction / Published 1900 onward
This novel consists of selections from the diary of an author, starting soon after his retirement and continuing until just before his death. There is very little in the way of plot, but a great deal of quiet musing about art, nature, society, and...
Mr. Harrison's Confessions - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Mr. Harrison's Confessions - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Memoirs
It is asserted that the inspiration for Elizabeth Gaskell's marvellous stories of Cranford was her childhood home of Knutsford, a small town in Cheshire and to where she returned for a while as a young woman. This assertion is born out by an essay...
Satan's Diary - Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev
Satan's Diary - Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev
- Author: Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / General Fiction
"Satan's Diary", Andreyev's last work, was completed by the great Russian a few days before he died in Finland, in September, 1919. But a few years ago the most popular and successful of Russian writers, Andreyev died almost penniless, a sad, tragic...
Elizabeth and her German Garden - Elizabeth von Arnim
Elizabeth and her German Garden - Elizabeth von Arnim
- Author: Elizabeth von Arnim
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Nature & Animal Fiction
Elizabeth and Her German Garden is a novel by Elizabeth von Arnim, first published in 1898; it was very popular and frequently reprinted during the early years of the 20th century. The story is a year's diary written by the protagonist Elizabeth...
The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. - William Makepeace Thackeray
The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. - William Makepeace Thackeray
- Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
First published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in 1844 as The Luck of Barry Lyndon, The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq is a picaresque novel, narrated (occasionally charmingly, always unreliably) by a member of the 18th-century Irish gentry. Redmond...
Jeremy And Hamlet: A Chronicle Of Certain Incidents In The Lives Of A Boy, A Dog, And A Country Town - Hugh Walpole
Jeremy And Hamlet: A Chronicle Of Certain Incidents In The Lives Of A Boy, A Dog, And A Country Town - Hugh Walpole
- Author: Hugh Walpole
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Family Life / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
Hamlet is Jeremyβs dog. This 1923 book is Hugh Walpoleβs second volume in his Jeremy semi-autobiographical trilogy (Jeremy (1919 available at librivox.org), Jeremy at Crale (1927, available at fadedpage.org)), about a ten-year-old English boy. One...
Irish Idylls - Jane BARLOW
Irish Idylls - Jane BARLOW
- Author: Jane BARLOW
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
Irish Idylls is a collection of short stories about Irish peasantry during the 19th Century. Ms Jane Barlow, an Irish lass, having, unbelievably, an uncertain date of birth, has a turn of phrase that delights and simultaneously enmeshes the...
Jacob Faithful - Frederick MARRYAT
Jacob Faithful - Frederick MARRYAT
- Author: Frederick MARRYAT
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Rebelling against the career chosen for him by his wealthy family, Frederic Marryat joined the Royal Navy in 1806 at the age of 14. He first served as a midshipman in the 38-gun frigate "HMS Imperieuse" commanded by Lord Cochran, 10th Earl of...
Marge Askinforit - Barry Pain
Marge Askinforit - Barry Pain
- Author: Barry Pain
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
A rollicking parody of the Margot Asquith memoirs, in which Pain's character, Marge, beguiles us with the most personal details of her dysfunctional family, and delights in relating every cringing, if not wholly accurate, minutiae of her exciting...
Isaac Bickerstaff, Physician and Astrologer - Richard STEELE
Isaac Bickerstaff, Physician and Astrologer - Richard STEELE
- Author: Richard STEELE
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Humorous Fiction
Isaac Bickerstaff Esq. was a pseudonym used by Jonathan Swift as part of a hoax to predict the death of then famous Almanac-maker and astrologer John Partridge. In 1709, Richard Steele bolstered the release of his new satirical paper The Tatler by...
The Vicar of Wakefield (version 2) - Oliver GOLDSMITH
The Vicar of Wakefield (version 2) - Oliver GOLDSMITH
- Author: Oliver GOLDSMITH
- Genre: Family Life / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
First published in 1766, the loveable and innocent Dr Primrose and his family have given pleasure to all that have read it.The story opens with the vicar losing his fortune and moving to another parish. What follows is a tale of love, deceit,...
The Adventures of an Ugly Girl - Elizabeth Burgoyne CORBETT
The Adventures of an Ugly Girl - Elizabeth Burgoyne CORBETT
- Author: Elizabeth Burgoyne CORBETT
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
βCome, Dora! I shall never be ready, if you donβt make haste. They will be here in ten minutes, and my hair is not half so nice as it ought to be, thanks to your carelessness.ββYou are very good to ignore my own claims to attention so utterly. I...
Bindle - Herbert George Jenkins
Bindle - Herbert George Jenkins
- Author: Herbert George Jenkins
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
Herbert Jenkins' most popular fictional creation was Mr. Joseph Bindle, who first appeared in a humorous novel in 1916 and in a number of sequels. In the preface to the books, T. P. O'Connor said that "Bindle is the greatest Cockney that has come...
Dialogues of the Dead - George LYTTELTON
Dialogues of the Dead - George LYTTELTON
- Author: George LYTTELTON
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
Can the dead of different ages and spaces meet in the afterlife? This is a thought that has occupied a number of writers throughout literature, George Lyttleton being one of them. He allows Plato to discourse with Fenelon, allows a native American...
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (version 2) - James Weldon Johnson
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (version 2) - James Weldon Johnson
- Author: James Weldon Johnson
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
The story of a biracial man living in the deep south after the reconstruction era. He is young and talented. Yet, in order for him to avoid stigma, he has to pass as white. But would his sense of belonging and solidarity to the black community of...
Stalky & Co. - Rudyard Kipling
Stalky & Co. - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
Rudyard Kipling published Stalky & Co. in 1899. Set at an English boarding school in a seaside town on the North Devon coast. (The town, Westward Ho!, is not only unusual in having an exclamation mark, but also in being itself named after a...
Oblomov - Ivan Goncharov
Oblomov - Ivan Goncharov
- Author: Ivan Goncharov
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / General Fiction / Satire
Oblomov is the best known novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, first published in 1859. Oblomov is also the central character of the novel, often seen as the ultimate incarnation of the superfluous man, a symbolic character in 19th-century...
The Diary of a Superfluous Man - Ivan Turgenev
The Diary of a Superfluous Man - Ivan Turgenev
- Author: Ivan Turgenev
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
Turgenev's shy hero, Tchulkaturin, is a representative example of a Russian archetype - the "superfluous man", a sort of Hamlet not necessarily dignified with the title Prince: an individual of comfortable means leading a dreary existence, without...
The Vicar's Daughter - George MacDonald
The Vicar's Daughter - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Romance / Christian Fiction
This is the third book of the 'Marshmallow' trilogy. It is a fictional autobiography written by Ethelwyn Percivale, or 'Wynnie'. Her father is a clergyman, Mr. Walton, whose history has already been told in "A Quiet Neighborhood", the first of the...
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man - James Weldon Johnson
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man - James Weldon Johnson
- Author: James Weldon Johnson
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
Johnson's only novel, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, was originally published anonymously in 1912. It is a fictional novel written as a memoir of an unnamed biracial narrator who grew up in the South during the Reconstruction and...
Our Nig, or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, In A Two-Story White House - Harriet E. Wilson
Our Nig, or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, In A Two-Story White House - Harriet E. Wilson
- Author: Harriet E. Wilson
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
Frado is a colored girl, living in the USA a few years before the Civil War. She is abandoned by her own white mother in the house of the Bellmont's- where she is treated badly. This is a sad book, but Frado's cheerfulness and dignity will make you...
Childhood (version 2) - Leo Tolstoy
Childhood (version 2) - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Literary Fiction
Childhood is the first published novel by Leo Tolstoy, released under the initials L. N. in the November 1852 issue of the popular Russian literary journal The Contemporary. It is the first in a series of three novels and is followed by Boyhood and...
Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji, Version 2) - Murasaki SHIKIBU
Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji, Version 2) - Murasaki SHIKIBU
- Author: Murasaki SHIKIBU
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Romance
Genji Monogatari, or The Tale of Genji, is a Japanese classic novel from the eleventh century. Supposedly commissioned by members of the Imperial Family, it tells the story of the son of the Emperor's favorite concubine and his role as a privileged...
Leave it to PSmith - P. G. Wodehouse
Leave it to PSmith - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
Freddie Threepwood and his uncle are in difficulties. Freddie wants a thousand pounds to start a bookmakerβs business and to marry Eve, while his uncle wants to raise three thousand pounds, unbeknown to his wife, to help a runaway daughter. Freddie...
Lay Down Your Arms: The Autobiography of Martha von Tilling - Bertha von Suttner
Lay Down Your Arms: The Autobiography of Martha von Tilling - Bertha von Suttner
- Author: Bertha von Suttner
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / War & Military Fiction
Die Waffen Nieder, in English: Lay Down Your Arms is a fictional biography, which describes four wars from the perspective of a soldier's wife. The response to the book was worldwide; it became popular, and it can be described as the beginning of...
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Version 2) - James HOGG
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Version 2) - James HOGG
- Author: James HOGG
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Gothic Fiction
An early example of a psychological mystery and modern crime fiction, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner details the experience of its criminal anti-hero. It is set in Scotland within a world where angels, devils, and demonic...
Tales of Daring and Danger - G. A. Henty
Tales of Daring and Danger - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Culture & Heritage Fiction / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
G A Henty takes us on a variety of adventures in this collection: A daring rescue on rough seas, a military action against Chinese pirates, hunting down a tiger in India, and even a calamity in a camp of gold miners in California! With each new...
Reveries of a Bachelor - Ik Marvel
Reveries of a Bachelor - Ik Marvel
- Author: Ik Marvel
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
Reveries of a Bachelor, or A Book of the Heart, is a novel by American author Donald Grant Mitchell published under the pseudonym Ik Marvel. Paul, the protagonist, vividly and emotionally recalls his life and loves as he sits by his fireplace...
The American Diary of a Japanese Girl - Yone Noguchi
The American Diary of a Japanese Girl - Yone Noguchi
- Author: Yone Noguchi
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
This is the fictional diary of a young Japanese woman, first published in installments before being published in a single volume. The book describes Morning Glory's preparations, activities and observations as she undertakes her transcontinental...
The d'Artagnan Romances, Vol 3, Part 3: The Man in the Iron Mask (version 2) - Alexandre Dumas
The d'Artagnan Romances, Vol 3, Part 3: The Man in the Iron Mask (version 2) - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Historical Fiction
Volume 3 of The d'Artagnan Romances is divided into three parts. In this, the final part, dβArtagnanβs fortune is near its height; having become the illustrious Captain of the Musketeers, he is now the chief defender of King Louis XIV. Fortune has...
The History of Pendennis - William Makepeace Thackeray
The History of Pendennis - William Makepeace Thackeray
- Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
In Pendennis, William Makepeace Thackeray skillfully shows the coming of age of Arthur Pendennis, a young gentleman trying to make his way in the world. Pen's difficulties in finding his place in the difficult maze of social obstacles are created to...
Tattlings of a Retired Politician - Forrest Crissey
Tattlings of a Retired Politician - Forrest Crissey
- Author: Forrest Crissey
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Historical Fiction
"The letters (non-partisan) of Hon. William Bradley, Ex-Governor and former veteran of practical politics, written to his friend and protege Ned who is still busy 'carving a career back in the old state.'" ( F. Crissey) This is a novel filled with...
David Copperfield (version 3) - Charles Dickens
David Copperfield (version 3) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
David Copperfield, like all of Dickens' novels, is filled with many memorable characters (because they are hyperbolic representations of character types) from all members of society. Here we have, for example, the virtuous, but relatively poor, Mr....
Susan - Ernest Oldmeadow
Susan - Ernest Oldmeadow
- Author: Ernest Oldmeadow
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / General Fiction
Susan is a perfect gem of a maid until suddenly she begins to mess things ups and is so distracted that her mistress Gertrude is determined to find out what is bothering her. After much prodding Susan confesses that she has had a marriage proposal...
Arabella Stuart - George Payne Rainsford JAMES
Arabella Stuart - George Payne Rainsford JAMES
- Author: George Payne Rainsford JAMES
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Historical Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Lady Arabella Stuart was an English noblewoman at the beginning of the seventeenth century. At one time considered to be a possible successor to Elizabeth I, the crown eventually went to her cousin, the tyrannical James I. Our story begins in 1603,...
The Newcomes - William Makepeace Thackeray
The Newcomes - William Makepeace Thackeray
- Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family was written in serial form in 1854- 1855 by the author of such works as Vanity Fair, The Book Of Snobs. It tells the story of a few generations of the Newcome family: their rise to respectability,...
The Secret City - Hugh Walpole
The Secret City - Hugh Walpole
- Author: Hugh Walpole
- Genre: Travel Fiction / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
Written in the first person, The Secret City is a novel in three parts of a journey through post World War I Russia and the Revolution, during a period of Civil War and economic collapse. Our hero sets sail in 1916 and is swept up into the...
Jean-Christophe, Volume I - Romain ROLLAND
Jean-Christophe, Volume I - Romain ROLLAND
- Author: Romain ROLLAND
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
The central character, Jean-Christophe Krafft, is a German musician of Belgian extraction, a composer of genius whose life is depicted from cradle to grave. He undergoes great hardships and spiritual struggles, balancing his pride in his own talents...
Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches: An Autobiography - Edwin Eastman
Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches: An Autobiography - Edwin Eastman
- Author: Edwin Eastman
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Published 1800 -1900
Best described as a fictional autobiography, Clark Johnson authored the following adventure to promote the sale of his brand of Homeopathic elixir or commonly known as "Snake Oil". Using the fictitious hero's, Edwin Eastman and his wife, Mr. Johnson...