Fiction Books

Maha-bharata

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Maha-bharata The Epic of AncieThe Mahābhārata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being the Rāmāyaṇa. It narrates the struggle between two groups of cousins in the ..

Harvard Classics, vol 32

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Harvard Classics, vol 32..

Harvard Classics, vol 38

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Harvard Classics, vol 38..

Cora

George Sand

The idle idleness of which I was a victim will sequestrate me at home for the first week. I was very young, and neglect that I had hitherto provided by nature to important considerations of setting an..

The Adventures of Elizabeth Ann

Josephine Lawrence

We first meet Elizabeth Ann on a big train, traveling all alone. Her father and mother have sailed for Japan, and she is sent back East to visit at first one relative's home, and then another. Of cour..

Abbeychurch

Charlotte Mary Yonge

Rechauffes are proverbially dangerous, but everyone runs into them sooner or later, and the world has done me the kindness so often to inquire after my first crude attempt, that after it has lain for ..

Purple Springs

Nellie L. McClung

It was the last day of February, the extra day, dead still, and biting cold, with thick, lead-colored skies shading down to inky blue at the western horizon. In the ravine below John Watson's house tr..