Fiction Books
Cora
George SandThe 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 LawrenceWe 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 YongeRechauffes 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. McClungIt 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..
Sketches New and Old
Mark TwainSketches New and Old is a collection of short stories by Mark Twain. It was published in 1875. All the stories are fictional except for "The Case of George Fisher." It includes the short story "A Ghos..