Fiction Books
Cyrano de Bergerac (French Text)
Edmond RostandCyrano de Bergerac is a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand. There was a real Cyrano de Bergerac, and the play is a fictionalisation following the broad outlines of his life. The entire play is wri..
The Man Of Property (The Forsyte Saga, Volume I)
John GalsworthyThe Forsyte Saga is the story of a wealthy London family stretching from the eighteen-eighties until the nineteen-twenties. The Man of Property is the first book in the saga. The 'man of propert..
The Story of Doctor Dolittle
Hugh LoftingThe Story of Doctor Dolittle, Being the History of His Peculiar Life at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts (1920), written and illustrated by the British author Hugh Lofting, is the firs..
Trilby
George Du MaurierTrilby is a novel by George du Maurier and one of the most popular novels of its time. Trilby O'Ferrall, the novel's heroine, is a half-Irish girl working in Paris as an artists' model and laundress; ..
A Charmed Life
Richard Harding DavisA Charmed Life is a fictional short story written by Richard Harding Davis. The main room of the house was now in darkness, but a smaller room adjoining it was lit by candles, and by a tiny ..
What's Mine's Mine
George MacDonaldWhat's Mine's Mine is a Christian fiction novel written by George MacDonald, a Scottish author, poet and Christian minister. He was a pioneering figure in the field of fantasy literature and..
Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus
Hans Jakob ChristoffelDer abenteuerliche Simplicissimus erschien 1669 in zweiter Auflage, die erste ging verloren. Der Volksverband der Bücherfreunde bringt durch seine Neuausgabe, die 1919 veranstaltet wurde, in Erinnerun..
In His Steps
Charles M. SheldonIn His Steps takes place in the railroad town of Raymond, probably located in the eastern U.S.A. , and Chicago Illinois. The main character is the Rev. Henry Maxwell, pastor of the First Church of Ray..