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The Beautiful and Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Genre: Literary Fiction
This 1922 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald chronicles the life of Anthony Patch, the only heir of millionaire Adam Patch, his grandfather. Anthony is young, handsome and well-educated. He marries the ravishingly beautiful Gloria, and together they plan...
Notes From The Underground (version 2) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Notes From The Underground (version 2) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Notes from Underground is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Notes is considered by many to be the first existentialist novel. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred...
Sanctuary (version 2) - Edith Wharton
Sanctuary (version 2) - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Edith Wharton's early novella focuses on Kate Orme, who begins the story happily in love with her fiance, only to discover that he hides a terrible secret. - Summary by Elizabeth Klett...
Waverley, Volume 1 - Sir Walter Scott
Waverley, Volume 1 - Sir Walter Scott
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
Waverley is set during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, which sought to restore the Stuart dynasty in the person of Charles Edward Stuart (or 'Bonnie Prince Charlie'). It relates the story of a young dreamer and English soldier, Edward Waverley, who...
The Dream of the Red Chamber Book I - Xueqin Cao
The Dream of the Red Chamber Book I - Xueqin Cao
- Author: Xueqin Cao
- Genre: Literary Fiction
The Dream of the Red Chamber (also known as The Story of the Stone) is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of China, and considered the greatest of them all. Almost 40 main characters and some 500 minor characters tell the fortunes of the Chia...
The Aspern Papers - Henry James
The Aspern Papers - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Literary Fiction
One of James’s favorite short novels, the Aspern Papers tells of the efforts of the nameless narrator to procure the papers of a famous, but now dead, American poet. His attempts to secure them from the poet’s former lover and her niece, now...
Mr. Britling Sees It Through - H. G. Wells
Mr. Britling Sees It Through - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Literary Fiction / War & Military Fiction / Published 1900 onward
"Mr. Britling Sees It Through" is H. G. Wells' attempt to make sense of World War I. It begins with a lighthearted account of an American visiting England for the first time, but the outbreak of war changes everything. Day by day and month by month,...
Lost Illusions: A Distinguished Provincial at Paris - Honoré de Balzac
Lost Illusions: A Distinguished Provincial at Paris - Honoré de Balzac
- Author: Honoré de Balzac
- Genre: Literary Fiction
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (Un grand homme de province à Paris, 1839) is the second book in Balzac’s Lost Illusions trilogy, which is part of his sweeping set of novels collectively titled La Comédie Humaine. The story is set in...
The Awkward Age - Henry James
The Awkward Age - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Nanda Brookenham is coming of age, and thus 'coming out' in London society - which leads to complications in her family's social set in London's fin de siècle life. James presents the novel almost entirely in dialogue, an experiment that adds to the...
Don Quixote, Vol. 1 (Ormsby Translation) - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Don Quixote, Vol. 1 (Ormsby Translation) - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Literary Fiction
Don Quixote is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. As a...
Out of Bohemia: A Story of Paris Student-Life - Gertrude Christian Fosdick
Out of Bohemia: A Story of Paris Student-Life - Gertrude Christian Fosdick
- Author: Gertrude Christian Fosdick
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Beryl Carrington is a naïve young American artist following her ideals to Paris, where she meets three young men, all also artists and all in love with her. Georges is French-American and a bit wild, with a French mistress on the side. Clayton is a...
Bunner Sisters - Edith Wharton
Bunner Sisters - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: Literary Fiction
“Bunner Sisters,” like “The Age of Innocence” is set in 1870s New York, however the lives of Ann Eliza and Evelina Bunner reflect impoverished New York. The sisters run a "very small shop, in a shabby basement, in a sidestreet already doomed to...
The Hound of the Baskervilles (version 4) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles (version 4) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Detective Fiction
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor...
The Girl From Hollywood - Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Girl From Hollywood - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1900 onward
The countryside outside of Los Angeles is a paradise on Earth: nature gives bounty on the land, the animals are majestic, the oaks breathe and the natural pools and ponds are all you would want on a summer's day. And if you are a Pennington or an...
Nicholas Nickleby (Version 4) - Charles Dickens
Nicholas Nickleby (Version 4) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Literary Fiction
After the death of his father, Nicholas must provide for his mother and sister. His wealthy uncle provides him with employment at a boys' school, run by the villainous Mr. Squeers. But when Nicholas has seen enough of the brutal manner in which...
Don Quixote, Vol. 2 (Ormsby Translation) - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Don Quixote, Vol. 2 (Ormsby Translation) - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Literary Fiction
Don Quixote is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. As a...
The Death of Ivan Ilyitch - Leo Tolstoy
The Death of Ivan Ilyitch - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: Literary Fiction
The Death of Ivan Ilyitch is the story of a socially ambitious middle-aged judge who contracts an unexplained and untreatable illness. As Ivan Ilyitch is forced to face the death he fears, he asks himself whether the life he thought was so correct...
I Am A Cat (excerpt) - Sōseki Natsume
I Am A Cat (excerpt) - Sōseki Natsume
- Author: Sōseki Natsume
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Nature & Animal Fiction
These are the first two chapters of Natsume Sōseki's masterpiece, "I Am A Cat" (Wagahai wa Neko de Aru). It is recognized as a landmark of modern Japanese literature, with its humorous but insightful depiction of society as seen through the eyes of...
The Dreamer of Dreams - Marie of Romania ALEXANDRA VICTORIA
The Dreamer of Dreams - Marie of Romania ALEXANDRA VICTORIA
- Author: Marie of Romania ALEXANDRA VICTORIA
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Literary Fiction / Action & Adventure
Eric, artist for the king, has created a marvelous painting of a royal wedding. It is finished except for the face of the queen, which appeared to him in a dream. When he awoke, he had forgotten the form of the features. Obsessed with recapturing...
Backwater (Pilgrimage, Vol. 2) - Dorothy Richardson
Backwater (Pilgrimage, Vol. 2) - Dorothy Richardson
- Author: Dorothy Richardson
- Genre: Literary Fiction
"Backwater" is the second volume of "Pilgrimage," a series of thirteen autobiographical novels by Dorothy Richardson considered to have pioneered the "stream of consciousness" technique of writing. In a review of the first volume in the series,...
Hide and Seek - Wilkie Collins
Hide and Seek - Wilkie Collins
- Author: Wilkie Collins
- Genre: Literary Fiction
The artist Valentine Blyth has a very generous heart. He lovingly cares for his invalid wife, rescues a deaf orphan girl from maltreatment in a traveling circus and adopts her, and mentors a young man who gets in trouble with his tyrannical father....
Èmile - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Èmile - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Literary Fiction
Emile, or On Education or Émile, or Treatise on Education (French: Émile, ou De l’éducation) was published in 1762 in French and German and in 1763 in English. The significance of Rousseau in education as well as in politics must be found in his...
Prodigal Daughters - Joseph HOCKING
Prodigal Daughters - Joseph HOCKING
- Author: Joseph HOCKING
- Genre: Literary Fiction
A frank look at the revolt of the younger generation following World War I, the book follows the Trelawney family. The father looks eagerly forward to his return home after serving an important but harrowing stint in the army. What he finds at home...
Father Goriot (version 2) - Honoré de Balzac
Father Goriot (version 2) - Honoré de Balzac
- Author: Honoré de Balzac
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Father Goriot (Le Père Goriot), published in 1835, is widely considered to be Balzac's finest and most popular novel. It is set in Paris in 1819, after Napoleon's defeat and the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy. France was undergoing massive...
The Temptation Of St. Anthony - Gustave Flaubert
The Temptation Of St. Anthony - Gustave Flaubert
- Author: Gustave Flaubert
- Genre: Literary Fiction
An extraordinary work of the aesthetic imagination, cast in the form of a psycho-drama detailing the events of one night in the life of the aged hermit, later Saint, Anthony, in the course of which his claims to sainthood are severely tested by,...
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (Edition 1831) - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (Edition 1831) - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Genre: Literary Fiction
A mentally unstable genius, Victor Frankenstein, inspired by the dreams of ancient alchemists and empowered by modern science, creates a humanoid but fails to nurture and educate it after it comes to life. It wanders alone into a hostile world,...
The Duel (version 2) - Anton Chekhov
The Duel (version 2) - Anton Chekhov
- Author: Anton Chekhov
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Known for his plays and short stories, Anton Chekhov also wrote a series of novellas, astonishing for their psychological complexity and compelling human portraiture. In The Duel, the wastrel and libertine Laevsky absconds to the Caucasus with...
Anne Severn and the Fieldings - May Sinclair
Anne Severn and the Fieldings - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Written in an era of cheap, formulaic romantic fiction, the nuanced, seditious, quietly erotic novels of May Sinclair stand out like literature from another era entirely. There is romance in “Anne Severn & the Fieldings,” but it’s romance of the...
Indian Summer (version 2) - William Dean Howells
Indian Summer (version 2) - William Dean Howells
- Author: William Dean Howells
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Set in Florence's Anglo-American colony in the late 19th century, this is a romantic story of a middle-aged man, returning to the scene of his first but disappointed love twenty years earlier. The doings of Americans abroad were staples of the...
An Anonymous Story - Anton Chekhov
An Anonymous Story - Anton Chekhov
- Author: Anton Chekhov
- Genre: Literary Fiction
In "An Anonymous Story," Chekhov continues to explore his favorite themes of superfluous men, ironic rakes, exploited women, and the dangers of social conventions to human happiness. The Anonymous Narrator is a feckless, would-be revolutionary who...
Les Misérables Vol. 1 - Victor HUGO
Les Misérables Vol. 1 - Victor HUGO
- Author: Victor HUGO
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance
This is book 1 of 5. An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the way, the ex-convict joins a revolution, adopts a daughter, and beats people up. Hooray. (Summary by...
Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages - Various
Victorian Short Stories of Troubled Marriages - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Family Life / Literary Fiction
A delightful collection of short stories by some of the luminary authors of the Victorian era. These stories explore the truth behind the victorian marriage. - Summary by Gina Belmonde...
The Master of Ballantrae - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Master of Ballantrae - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
Heir to a noble Scottish house in the mid 18th century, the Master is a charming, clever, and resourceful villain whose daring but ill-advised schemes first alienate his patrimony and at last cost him his life. His younger brother, sweet-tempered...
Barnaby Rudge (version 3) - Charles Dickens
Barnaby Rudge (version 3) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
The Protestant Sir John Chester and the Catholic Geoffrey Haredale have been feuding for years. In "Romeo and Juliet" fashion, Chester's son and Haredale's niece wish to marry, but their relatives oppose the union. A tale of love and intrigue set...
Tales From Dickens - Hallie Erminie RIVES
Tales From Dickens - Hallie Erminie RIVES
- Author: Hallie Erminie RIVES
- Genre: Literary Fiction
The Old Curiosity Shop; Hard Times; A Tale of Two Cities; Oliver Twist; The Pickwick Papers. Have you read any or all of these famous Dickens stories? The author of this marvelous book, Rives Ermine, a highly successful author in her own right,...
Life and Death of Harriett Frean - May Sinclair
Life and Death of Harriett Frean - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance
Harriett Frean is a well-to-do, unmarried woman living a life of meaningless dependency, boredom, and unproductivity as she patiently cares for her aging parents, waiting for a man to marry. When her opportunity for Love finally comes, she is...
The Siege of London - Henry James
The Siege of London - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Literary Fiction
In this work, first published in 1883, James once again writes of an American trying to settle in England. The woman at the center, however, is not a product of the Boston or New York upper classes, but of the American West, and is thus...
Lore of Proserpine - Maurice Henry HEWLETT
Lore of Proserpine - Maurice Henry HEWLETT
- Author: Maurice Henry HEWLETT
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Literary Fiction
If a thing is not sensibly true it may be morally so. If it is not phenomenally true it may be so substantially. And it is possible that one may see substance in the idiom, so to speak, of the senses. That, I take it, is how the Greeks saw...
Cousin Betty - Honoré de Balzac
Cousin Betty - Honoré de Balzac
- Author: Honoré de Balzac
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Cousin Betty (La Cousine Bette), published in serial format in 1846, was one of the last and greatest of Balzac's works. It was part of his long novel collection titled La Comédie Humaine. Set in mid-19th-century France, it tells the story of a...
Les Misérables Vol. 5 - Victor HUGO
Les Misérables Vol. 5 - Victor HUGO
- Author: Victor HUGO
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance
This is book 5 of 5. -- An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the way, the ex-convict joins a revolution, adopts a daughter, and beats people up. Hooray. (Summary by...
