Domestic Fiction Books

The Small House at Allington

Anthony Trollope

The squires of Allington had been squires of Allington since squires, such as squires are now, were first known in England. From father to son, and from uncle to nephew, and, in one instance, from sec..

Home Lights and Shadows

T. S. Arthur

HOME! How at the word, a crowd of pleasant thoughts awaken. What sun-bright images are pictured to the imagination. Yet, there is no home without its shadows as well as sunshine. Love makes the home-l..

A Simple Story

Mrs. Inchbald

The story could really have been simple: Miss Milner, who is admired for her beauty and charm, could have been a socialite, marry a respectable and good looking man and be happy in the standards of he..

St. Elmo

Augusta J. Evans

St. Elmo is a novel by American author Augusta Jane Evans published in 1866. Featuring the sexual tension between the protagonist St. Elmo, a cynical man, and the heroine Edna Earl, a beautiful and de..

Ethan Frome

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton's 1911 novel Ethan Frome tells the story of a tragic love triangle. Set in the highly symbolic wintry landscape of Starkfield, Massachusetts, the narrative centers on the title character..

The Tides of Barnegat

Francis Hopkinson Smith

One lovely spring morning—and this story begins on a spring morning some fifty years or more ago—a joy of a morning that made one glad to be alive, when the radiant sunshine had turned the ribbon of a..

The Woman Who Did

Grant Allen

Most times, especially in the time when this book was written (1895), it is just as nature and society would wish: a man and woman "fall in love" and get married. But it is not so for Herminia Barton ..

The Pit - A Story of Chicago

Frank Norris

The Trilogy of The Epic of the Wheat includes the following novels:THE OCTOPUS,, a Story of California.THE PIT, a Story of Chicago.THE WOLF, a Story of Europe.These novels, while forming a series, wil..