Didactic Fiction Books

The Go-Getter - A Story That Tells You How to be One

Peter B. Kyne

A disabled veteran succeeds as a civilian with persistence and military focus. Peter B. Kyne was an American novelist who published between 1904 and 1940. He was born and died in San Francisco, C..

Almayer's Folly - A Story of an Eastern River

Joseph Conrad

Almayer's Folly, published in 1895 by T. Fisher Unwin, is Joseph Conrad's first novel. Set in the late 19th century, it centres on the life of the Dutch trader Kaspar Almayer in the Borneo jungle and ..

Sartor Resartus - The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh

Thomas Carlyle

Sartor Resartus (meaning 'The tailor re-tailored') is an 1836 novel by Thomas Carlyle, first published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in November 1833–August 1834. The novel purports to be a comment..

Two on a Tower

Thomas Hardy

Two on a Tower is a novel by English author Thomas Hardy, classified by him as a romance and fantasy and now regarded as one of his minor works. The book is one of Hardy's Wessex novels, set in a para..

Morphine

Jean-Louis Dubut de Laforest

Morphine is a French didactic fiction work written by Jean-Louis Dubut de Laforest, who was a French author. He was a prolific writer, and published many novels on topics that were considered dar..

The Plum Tree

David Graham Phillips

In the shelf one book stood higher than the others—tall and thin and ragged, its covers torn, its pages scribbled, stained and dog-eared. Looking through that old physical geography was like a first t..

Home Scenes and Home Influence

T. S. Arthur

Home Scenes, and Home Influence is a series of Tales and Sketches by T. S. Arthur. Many of the scenes presented in this volume are such as show the mother's influence with her children; a few include ..

The Home Mission

T. S. Arthur

IF it were possible to trace back to their beginnings, in each individual, those good or evil impulses that have become ruling affections, in most cases the origin would not be found until we had reac..