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'Twixt Land and Sea - Joseph Conrad
'Twixt Land and Sea - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Literary Fiction
While the central figures in each of the three stories in this collection are sailing captains, the main action in two of them takes place on land, albeit in sight of the sea. In "A Smile of Fortune", a naive young sea captain falls into grave moral...
1891 Collection - Various
1891 Collection - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Essays & Short Works
A look at the year 1891 through literature and non-fiction essays first published that year, including works by Mary E Wilkins, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sara Orne Jewett, and Oscar Wilde. (Summary by BellonaTimes)...
The Trembling of a Leaf - W. Somerset Maugham
The Trembling of a Leaf - W. Somerset Maugham
- Author: W. Somerset Maugham
- Genre: Literary Fiction
A collection of short stories on the South Sea Islands, among which are the famous "Red," "Rain," and "The Fall of Edward Barnard," the last of which contains the basic story of what came to be one of the most well-known among W. Somerset Maugham's...
The Hero - W. Somerset Maugham
The Hero - W. Somerset Maugham
- Author: W. Somerset Maugham
- Genre: Literary Fiction
James Parsons comes home to Little Primpton after serving in the Boer War. The whole town is proud of their new hero, who was awarded the Victoria Cross for risking his life to save a fellow soldier. However, for Jamie, nothing is the same anymore....
The Flaw in the Crystal - May Sinclair
The Flaw in the Crystal - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Literary Fiction
One of May Sinclair’s “uncanny” stories, this novella explores many of Sinclair’s most treasured themes: the bounds of marriage, the conflict between flesh and spirit, the complexity of human emotions in relation to other humans, the practical...
A Christmas Carol (Version 11) - Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol (Version 11) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Literary Fiction
The classic Christmas story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. The result of their visit shows that redemption is...
Jacob's Room (version 2) - Virginia Woolf
Jacob's Room (version 2) - Virginia Woolf
- Author: Virginia Woolf
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Virginia Woolf’s third novel lacks a conventional narrative style and some say even a plot. It follows Jacob from his childhood, through his education at Cambridge and finally to his death in World War I. The prose repeatedly shifts its point of...
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Literary Fiction
One of the greatest English tragic novels, TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES (1891) is the story of a “pure woman” who is victimized both by conventional morality and its antithesis. Born near Dorchester, Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) set most of his stories in...
Island Nights' Entertainments - Robert Louis Stevenson
Island Nights' Entertainments - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Literary Fiction
A marvelous depiction of two sides of South Sea Islands' life through three separate tales. One, the experience of the incoming British keen to live free and exploit the innocent; the other the supernatural as perceived by Stevenson working in the...
A Christmas Carol (version 08 dramatic reading) - Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol (version 08 dramatic reading) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Literary Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens first published by Chapman & Hall on 17 December 1843. The story tells of sour and stingy Ebenezer Scrooge's ideological, ethical, and emotional transformation after the...
Crime and Punishment (version 2) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment (version 2) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Genre: Literary Fiction
"Crime and Punishment" is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published in the literary journal "The Russian Messenger" in twelve monthly installments during 1866. It was later published in a single volume. It is the...
Lost Diaries - Maurice Baring
Lost Diaries - Maurice Baring
- Author: Maurice Baring
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Literary Fiction
Within these pages find passages from the "lost diaries" of a wide range of people: royal, regular, famous, infamous, historical, and fictional. - Summary by A. Gramour...
Lady Barbarina - Henry James
Lady Barbarina - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Rich and beautiful American girls heading to England to find themselves noble titles through marriage, and using their New World wealth to prop up the waning strength of the aristocracy, was almost a staple of late Victorian literature. "The...
Agnes Grey (Version 3) - Anne Brontë
Agnes Grey (Version 3) - Anne Brontë
- Author: Anne Brontë
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Anne Bronte's semi-autobiographic novel about Agnes Grey, a young woman who becomes a governess to support her family, but finds her new career more difficult than she expected. - Summary by Libby Gohn...
Half-Past Bedtime - Version 2 - H. H. Bashford
Half-Past Bedtime - Version 2 - H. H. Bashford
- Author: H. H. Bashford
- Genre: Literary Fiction
The wonderful adventures of Marian after she meets the strange Mr. Jugg. "And who are you, Mr Jugg?" she inquired. "I'm the King of the Bumpies," he replied. When Marian was puzzled there came a little straight line, exactly in the middle, between...
Dreams - Olive Schreiner
Dreams - Olive Schreiner
- Author: Olive Schreiner
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Single Author Collections
Olive Schreiner was a South African writer and intellectual born in 1855 to missionary parents in the Eastern Cape. She was one of the earliest campaigners for women's rights. She was also very critical of British Imperialism in her homeland and...
The Princess Casamassima - Henry James
The Princess Casamassima - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Princess Casamassima can be read on several levels: first, as a political and social novel, exploring the anarchistic and revolutionary underground of London in the 1880s; secondly as a psychological study of such a movement on a young man (the...
Lodore - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Lodore - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction / Literary Fiction
The author of Frankenstein returns with her take on an Austen novel. The mother is proud, the father has many vices, yet the aristocratic name must be kept. Even more so when lord Lodore dies. His wife and daughter find themselves without...
Mrs. Warren's Daughter - Sir Harry Johnston
Mrs. Warren's Daughter - Sir Harry Johnston
- Author: Sir Harry Johnston
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
Mrs. Warren's Daughter is a continuation, in novel form, of George Bernard Shaw's controversial play, Mrs. Warren's Profession. In the play, Vivie Warren, an emancipated young woman recently graduated from University, disavows her mother Kitty when...
The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson - Anthony Trollope
The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Literary Fiction / Satire
Billed as a satire concerning the dishonest advertising and business practices of the day, it tells the tale of an upstart clothing business doomed from the get-go to utter failure. Its senior partner (the elderly Brown, who provides the investment)...
The Shadow-Line - Joseph Conrad
The Shadow-Line - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Dedicated to the author's son who was wounded in World War 1, The Shadow-Line is a short novel based at sea by Joseph Conrad; it is one of his later works, being written from February to December 1915. It was first published in 1916 as a serial and...
Oliver Twist (version 5 Dramatic Reading) - Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist (version 5 Dramatic Reading) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Literary Fiction
When orphaned Oliver Twist asks for more food, the workhouse board are horrified and immediately pack him off to work for an undertaker, who treats him badly. Oliver runs away and finds himself in the streets of London, where he meets the Artful...
The Rider on the White Horse - Theodor Storm
The Rider on the White Horse - Theodor Storm
- Author: Theodor Storm
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Hauke Haien, a young man of 24 years, has just beome dikemaster in Northern Frisia. Against the resistance of many of the townfolk, he has a new dike built, not according to the old customs, but to his own specifications. For years, everything goes...
Benito Cereno - Herman Melville
Benito Cereno - Herman Melville
- Author: Herman Melville
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Literary Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
On an island off the coast of Chile, Captain Amaso Delano, sailing an American sealer, sees the San Dominick, a Spanish slave ship, in obvious distress. Capt. Delano boards the San Dominick, providing needed supplies, and tries to learn from her...
Northanger Abbey (version 4) - Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey (version 4) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Literary Fiction
If it is a truth universally acknowledged that a good-looking girl cannot fail of attracting a clever young man does it follow that the reverse is also true? If the man comes of a terrifyingly dysfunctional family and the girl in question likes to...
Ward No. 6 - Anton Chekhov
Ward No. 6 - Anton Chekhov
- Author: Anton Chekhov
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Satire
The line between sanity and insanity is blurred in this classic novella by Anton Chekhov. The disillusioned idealist Dr. Rabin is in charge of a provincial lunatic asylum, overseeing with weary, dubious policies a motley group of patients, a group...
The Mayor of Casterbridge (version 3) - Thomas Hardy
The Mayor of Casterbridge (version 3) - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Literary Fiction
In a fit of drunkenness, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter to the highest bidder at a country fair. He lives with regret and swears off drink, until his wife and daughter return eighteen years later, when he is now well-off and the...
The Scarlet Letter (version 2) - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter (version 2) - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Genre: Literary Fiction
This book tells the story of Hester Prynne, a young woman who conceives a child while her husband is missing at sea. The Puritan Elders of the New England settlement of Boston, where she lives, condemn her to wear a scarlet letter A to signify her...
Bleak House (version 4) - Charles Dickens
Bleak House (version 4) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Bleak house is one of Dickens finest achievements. It was written for serialisation in 1853 when Dickens was at the peak of his career. Monthly sales substantially exceeded his previous bestseller David Copperfield. Dickens' mastery of the English...
The Lost Girl - D. H. Lawrence
The Lost Girl - D. H. Lawrence
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- Genre: Literary Fiction
"There is no mistake about it, Alvina was a lost girl. She was cut off from everything she belonged to." In this most under-valued of his novels, Lawrence once again presents us with a young woman hemmed in by her middle-class upbringing and (like...
The Outcast - (William) Winwood Reade
The Outcast - (William) Winwood Reade
- Author: (William) Winwood Reade
- Genre: Literary Fiction
For many nineteenth-century Christians, the new biological and geological discoveries of that era brought on severe crises of faith. Winwood Reade’s small epistolary novel “The Outcast” tells the story of a young man who sacrifices love and family...
Vignettes of San Francisco - Almira Bailey
Vignettes of San Francisco - Almira Bailey
- Author: Almira Bailey
- Genre: Literary Fiction
A collection of observations and stories about San Franciscan life - the people, the buildings, the parks, the food, the street-cars, the bay, Alcatraz, the sounds and the smells and the characteristics and idiosyncrasies of this fascinating city....
The Bridge Builders - Rudyard Kipling
The Bridge Builders - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: Literary Fiction
A tale of the revenge of the earth, in this case, specifically, Mother Gunga, Goddess of the River Ganga, against the men who confine her power, The Bridge Builders is also a tale of the death of the Gods as their place in the earth is taken by the...
Crome Yellow, Version 2 - Aldous Huxley
Crome Yellow, Version 2 - Aldous Huxley
- Author: Aldous Huxley
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Literary Fiction / Satire
Fascinating and brilliant at many levels, Huxley's spoof of Lady Ottoline Morrell's famous bohemian gatherings is difficult to categorize. The ironic tone and caricaturish rendering of some characters makes it partly entertaining satire, but...
The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories - Charles Weathers Bump
The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories - Charles Weathers Bump
- Author: Charles Weathers Bump
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Short Stories / Published 1900 onward
A collection of offbeat stories. Some are a bit out of the ordinary as suggested by the title story about a freshwater mermaid; some are not. - Summary by Amy Gramour...
Montezuma's Daughter - H. Rider Haggard
Montezuma's Daughter - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Literary Fiction / Romance
A moving adventure story narrated by Thomas Wingfield, an Englishman, for Queen Elizabeth 1 of England about the murder of his mother, his trail of vengeance against the murderer which leads him to the Spanish Inquisition, slavery, romance and...
The House Behind the Cedars - Charles Waddell Chesnutt
The House Behind the Cedars - Charles Waddell Chesnutt
- Author: Charles Waddell Chesnutt
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1900 onward
In this, Chesnutt's first novel, he tells the tragic story of love set against a backdrop of racism, miscegenation and “passing” during the period spanning the antebellum and reconstruction eras in American history. And through his use of the...
Silas Marner (version 2) - George Eliot
Silas Marner (version 2) - George Eliot
- Author: George Eliot
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Reputed as Eliot’s favourite novel Silas Marner is set in the early years of the 19th century. Marner, a weaver, is a member of a small congregation in Lantern Yard. Falsely accused of a crime he didn’t commit, he leaves his home and lives a...
The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes (Markham translation) - Unknown
The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes (Markham translation) - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Literary Fiction
A whimsical collection of stories about a wandering street urchin, Lazarillo de Tormes is a classic of the Spanish Golden Age, even paid homage in Cervantes’ Don Quixote. Rendered homeless by the arrest of his father and poverty of his mother, the...
A London Life - Henry James
A London Life - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Literary Fiction
A devoted sister attempts to check her sibling's scandalous behavior in the world of British high society. A delightful comedy of Anglo-American manners and a fascinating glimpse of late Victorian London. Summary by Deborah Percy...
