Classic Fiction

Raised by a single Swedish philosopher, Axel Heyst inherits his father''s pessimistic view of society. As a child, he is taught about all the dark ...

A compilation of Sarah Orne Jewetts essential works including Deephaven, a novel about two young women who spend a summer visiting a small coastal ...

Born into the first generation of an immigrant family from Norway, Carl Ericson was always bound to have differing philosophies than his parents. H...

A Page of Love (1878) is a novel by French author Émile Zola. The eighth of twenty volumes of Zolas monumental Les Rougon-Macquart series is an epi...

Oswald Cray is so often praised for his strong values and nobility, that it is easy for him to forget that he still has flaws. After a nosy servant...

Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1796) is a novel by English writer and feminist Mary Hays. Inspired by events from her own life, as well as by her acquai...

Ramona (1884) is a novel by Helen Hunt Jackson. Inspired by her activism for the rights of Native Americans, Ramona is a story of racial discrimina...

Oldtown Fireside Stories (1872) is a collection of childrens stories by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Although her career peaked with the publication of a...

Beckas Buckra Baby (1904) is a novel by Thomas MacDermot. Published under his pseudonym Tom Redcam by the All Jamaica Library, Beckas Buckra Baby i...

Eight Cousins (1875) is a novel by American author, feminist, and abolitionist Louisa May Alcott. Based on her experience of being raised by a fath...

Featuring eleven short works of fiction, Sarah Orne Jewetts Strangers and Wayfarers invokes sentiment and nostalgia. The opening story, A Winter Co...

The Heavenly Twins (1893) is a novel by Sarah Grand. Written the same year Grand moved to London, divorced her husband, and created a new identity ...

The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories (1899) is a short story collection by Alice Dunbar Nelson. Dedicated to her husband at the time, the p...

Stolen Souls (1895) is a short story collection by Anglo-French writer William Le Queux. Published at the beginning of Le Queuxs career as a leadin...

The greatest writer of his time.-Edmund Wilson One of the great poets of the novel, a genius of his art-Edgar Johnson In Oliver Twist Dickens atta...

The Black Robe (1881) is a novel by Wilkie Collins. Written toward the end of Collins career, The Black Robe shows brilliant flashes of the authors...

An American Tragedy (1925) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser. Written and rewritten over a number of years, An American Tragedy is a weighty epic with...

Oldtown Folks (1869) is a historical novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Although her career peaked with the publication of abolitionist novel Uncle To...

Young and aristocratic Newland Archer is engaged to the sheltered and beautiful May Welland. But when May's disgraced cousin Ellen arrives from Eur...

The first poetess of romantic fiction.-Sir Walter Scott Mrs. Radcliffe is a mistress of hints, suggestions, minute details, breathless pauses, an...

Originally published in 1917, Waifs and Strays is a premier selection of short stories released seven years after the authors untimely death at age...

Vice Versa (1882) is a comic novel by Thomas Anstey Guthrie. Guthries debut novel was a popular success, earning him a reputation as a leading humo...

Hell (1908) is a novel by Henri Barbusse. Immensely popular upon its publication in France, Hell earned Barbusse a reputation as a leading realist ...

As the youngest son of a noble family, Val has always been sheltered. Though he is friendly and good-hearted, Val rarely takes initiative, as most ...