Novels Books
A Hero of Our Time
M.Y. LermontovA Hero of Our Time is a novel by Mikhail Lermontov, written in 1839, published in 1840, and revised in 1841. It is an example of the superfluous man novel, noted for its compelling Byronic hero Pechor..
Elbow-Room - A Novel Without a Plot
Charles Heber ClarkIf every book that contains nothing but nonsense confessed that fact in its preface, the world would have been saved a vast amount of dreary reading. Most of such volumes, however, are believed by the..
The Iron Woman
Margaret DelandThe Iron Woman is a novel of manners by the American writer Margaret Deland (1857–1945) set in the 19th century fictional locale of Mercer, an Ohio River community that represents Pittsburgh, Pennsylv..
The Blue Lagoon - A Romance
H. De Vere StacpooleThe Blue Lagoon: A Romance is a romantic adventure novel written by H. De Vere Stacpoole.He was a Celt, and all the salt seas that had flowed between him and Connaught these forty years and more ..
The Wanderers
KingstonThe Wanderers; Or, Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco is a juvenile fiction novel written by Kingston...
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Frances Hodgson BurnettLittle Lord Fauntleroy is a novel by the English-American writer Frances Hodgson Burnett, her first children's novel. It was published as a serial in St. Nicholas Magazine from November 1885 to Octobe..
King Coal
Upton SinclairKing Coal is a 1917 novel by Upton Sinclair that describes the poor working conditions in the coal mining industry in the western United States during the 1910s, from the perspective of a single prota..