Classic Fiction: 284 books

* Illustrated * Author Biography * Interactive Table of Contents Mrs Dalloway Mrs Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in post-World War I England. Mrs Dalloway continues to be one of Woolf's best-known novels. Created from two short...

A clever and captivating story of the California motion picture world.

* Illustrated * Author Biography * Interactive Table of Contents The Negro Problem Here are six historic essays on the state of race relations during the Reconstruction and early twentieth century, written from the African American point of view. These essays show us how far...

An outstanding collection of romance tales by Fannie Hurst. A great companion volume to Just Around the Corner by the same author.

A long saga telling the tale of a Scottish family. Note: MacDonald attempted to truly bring forth the old Scottish dialect, and succeeds quite well.

Cappy retires but the romance of the sea and business keep calling him back -- and he comes back strong.

Illustrated Biographie de l'auteur Table des matières interactive Lettres de mon moulin Lettres de mon moulin est un recueil de nouvelles d'Alphonse Daudet. La première édition est celle de Hetzel en 1869. Elle avait pour sous-titre : Impressions et...

Le classique original de Jules Verne.

Strange book about a wanderer. Quite a little thriller, this tale contains a lot of observations and little tales within tales. Very interesting, entertaining book.

1984 ( Nineteen Eighty-Four ) by George Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four is a dystopian novel by George Orwell published in 1949. The Oceanian province of Airstrip One (formerly known as Great Britain) is a world of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, and public mind control, dictated...

22 short stories written by American writers: THE PROPHETIC PICTURES By Nathaniel Hawthorne THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW By Washington Irving THE GOLD-BUG By Edgar Allan Poe CORPORAL FLINT'S MURDER (From "The Oak Openings") By J. Fenimore Cooper UNCLE JIM AND UNCLE BILLY By Bret Harte THE...

The author writes: "The kind reception given to "The Japanese Fairy Book" has encouraged me to venture on a second volume of stories from Japan. I have invented none of these stories. They are taken from many different sources, and in clothing them with an English dress my work has...

A magnificent piece of literary work! The language is exquisite: beautiful metaphors, excellent sentences and brilliant dialogues. The characters are built with very realistic and deep psychological understanding.What happens in this book? Dorian has a painting made of him. His psyche spirals downward but is manifest by the deterioration of the painting, apparently not him.

L'Abîme By: Charles et Wilkie Dickens Collins Après avoir abandonné son enfant à sa naissance à l'Hospice des Enfants Trouvés, une jeune mère prise de remords le récupère à l'âge de douze ans. Walter Wilding connaît...