Fiction Books

Mary Barton

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Mary Barton is the first novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell, published in 1848. The story is set in the English city of Manchester between 1839 and 1842, and deals with the difficulties faced b..

Swann's Way

Marcel Proust

Swann’s Way is one of seven books that comprise In Search of Lost Time, unique in fiction for its sustained fullness of thought and richness of characterization. Though In Search of Lost Time is satur..

A Black Adonis

Linn Boyd Porter

A Black Adonis is a novel by Linn Boyd Porter. Excerpts from the preface of the book:I do not know how better to use the space that the printer always leaves me in this part of the book than to r..

A Lost Hero

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

A Lost Hero is a fiction work by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward. Excerpts from the book.HE materials of heroism are everywhere; each day and all situations are full of them. The power to recognize ..

Life's Progress Through the Passions

Eliza Fowler Haywood

Life's Progress Through the Passions is a work of fiction by Eliza Fowler Haywood. ‘The great Encomiums bestowed on this Work by some of the most distinguished Judges, have been so frequently inserted..

The Quest of the Silver Fleece

W.E.B. Du Bois

"The Quest of the Silver Fleece: A Novel" by W.E.B. Du Bois is a novel that examines American's prejudices during the 20th Century. Zora is a child of the Southern swamp and she falls in love with an ..

Under the Greenwood Tree

Thomas Hardy

Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School is a novel by Thomas Hardy, published anonymously in 1872. It was Hardy's second published novel, the last to be printed without his name..

Little Men

Louisa May Alcott

Little Men, or Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys, is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott, first published in 1871. The novel reprises characters from Little Women and is considered by some the..