Fiction books

Michael Howe (1787 - 21 October 1818) was a British convict who became a notorious bushranger and gang leader in...  Read More >>

Big Foot is a 1927 crime novel by Edgar Wallace. This is one of the most significant of his works because of the...  Read More >>

A true adventure story of rescuing a 60 year old yacht from the forgotten slips tucked in the California Delta....  Read More >>

Alexandre Dumas was a French writer. His works have been translated into many languages, and he is one of the most...  Read More >>

Jay Gatsby is dead. Years have passed, and young Pammy Buchanan has vague memories of the man in pink, but she doesn't...  Read More >>

Alexander Raban Waugh was a British novelist, the elder brother of the better-known Evelyn Waugh and son of Arthur...  Read More >>

Mr. Dooley (or Martin J. Dooley) is a fictional Irish immigrant bartender created by American journalist Finley...  Read More >>

""THERE once reigned in a town called Alba in Italy a king whose name was Numitor. He had a brother called Amulius,...  Read More >>

Giovanni Carmelo Verga (2 September 1840 - 27 January 1922) was an Italian realist (verista) writer, best known...  Read More >>

Rosa Campbell Praed (1851-1935), often credited as Mrs Campbell Praed (and also known as Rosa Caroline Praed), was...  Read More >>

George Lewis Becke (or Louis Becke; 18 June 1855 - 18 February 1913) was an Australian Pacific trader, short story...  Read More >>

Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 - 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly fifty...  Read More >>

Stories from Bourbon Penn have been reprinted in multiple Year's Best anthologies as well as World Fantasy Award,...  Read More >>

Cymbeline also known as The Tragedie of Cymbeline or Cymbeline, King of Britain, is a play by William Shakespeare...  Read More >>

George MacDonald (1824 - 1905) was a Scottish author, poet and Christian minister. He was a pioneering figure in...  Read More >>

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare...  Read More >>

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 - 21 January 1950), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist,...  Read More >>

George MacDonald (1824 - 1905) was a Scottish author, poet and Christian minister. He was a pioneering figure in...  Read More >>

Stephen Crane (November 1, 1871 - June 5, 1900) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Prolific...  Read More >>

Gustave Flaubert (12 December 1821 - 8 May 1880) was a French novelist. Highly influential, he has been considered...  Read More >>

A bold new translation of Hesse's most beloved work by an award-winning translator.  Read More >>

Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 - November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser...  Read More >>

George Sylvester Viereck (December 31, 1884 - March 18, 1962) was a German-American poet, writer, and pro-German...  Read More >>

The Picture of Dorian Gray is a Gothic and philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July...  Read More >>

""All morning the King had been restless, unappeasable, captious, with little relapses unto the immobility of deep...  Read More >>