Classic Fiction: 284 books

* Illustrated * Author Biography * Interactive Table of Contents Last And First Men [ Illustrated ] Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future is a "future history" science fiction novel written in 1930 by the British author Olaf Stapledon. A work of unprecedented...

It is to testify to a future existence for animals and to create a wider interest in it that I have undertaken to compile this book; and my object, I think, can best be achieved in my own way, the way of the investigator of haunted places. The mere fact that there are manifestations of "dead"...

A compilation of three Celtic stories, short and sweet. "Deirdre the Star-Eyed" is somewhat reminiscent of Sleeping Beauty, while "The Four White Swans" seems to be an allegory to the spread of Christianity in Ireland. "Dermat and Grania", is a sweet, sad story.

Originally written for teens, this tale of a scholarship contest gone awry is a mystery detailing fraud and honesty surrounding one young man's struggle with false accusations.

Strange collection of small tales for children.

A hot-headed adventurer is thrown overboard from a ship and enters a new world. This is a fantasy adventure and coming of age tale.

Eine klassische Geschichte von Heidi und ihre Abenteuer.

Bindle is one of the immortals of humorous fiction. His mirth-provoking comments on life, his never-failing cheerfulness under the worst of hardships, his ingenious evasions of Mrs. Bindle's cold, sharp eye, his many laughable adventures, his much loved "little jokes", all these things have...

Tale of racism and ghosts at the turn of the last century by the creator of Conan the Barbarian.

Un classique de la littérature française par Ann Radcliffe.

“No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own.” Thus begins one of the most terrifying and morally prescient science fiction novels ever penned. Beginning...

This book is a wonderful work of fiction by H.G. Wells, the author of "The Time Machine." It is the tale of a fallen angel who simply cannot adapt to society in a small English village. The angel's reactions to the villagers, his pureness and wholesomeness make him an enemy of the people....

Long, exhaustive work of the myths of the Cherokee.  The original page and paragraph numbers, and the appendix and index, have been preserved.  This is a scholarly work, reflecting years of study and work.  It is NOT a simple telling of folklore.

Among New York City's upper class of the 1870s, before the advent of electric lights, telephones or motor vehicles, there was a small cluster of aristocratic families that ruled New York's social life. To those at the apex of the social world one's occupation or abilities were secondary to heredity...