Novels Books
Father Goriot
Honore de BalzacFather Goriot is an 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac, included in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. Said to have been an i..
McTeague - A Story of San Francisco
Frank NorrisMcTeague is a novel by Frank Norris, first published in 1899. It tells the story of a couple's courtship and marriage, and their subsequent descent into poverty, violence and finally murder as the res..
Uncle Abner, Master of Mysteries
Melville Davisson PostFourteen mysteries from the pages of the Saturday Evening Post, the Metropolitan, Red Book, and Pictorial Review magazines featuring Uncle Abner, who solves crimes in the pre-Civil War West Virginia h..
Germinie Lacerteux
Edmond de GoncourtWe must ask pardon of the public for offering it this book, and give it due warning of what it will find therein. The public loves fictitious novels! this is a true novel. It loves books which make a ..
The Devil's Own - A Romance of the Black Hawk War
Randall ParrishRandall Parrish was an American author of dime novels, including Contraband, Wolves of the Sea, When Wilderness Was King, and Beyond The Frontier.It was the early springtime, and my history ..
The Missing Ship - The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley
William Giles KingstonThe Missing Ship: The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley is a sea story written by an English writer of boys' adventure novels. Excerpts from the book:“No sign of a breeze yet, Owen?” asked Captain Tracy,..
The Mayor of Troy
Arthur Quiller-CouchThe Mayor of Troy is a fiction novel written by Arthur Quiller-Couch, a Cornish writer who published using the pseudonym Q. Although a prolific novelist, he is remembered mainly for the monu..
The Betrothed
Alessandro ManzoniThe Betrothed is an Italian historical novel by Alessandro Manzoni, first published in 1827, in three volumes. It has been called the most famous and widely read novel in the Italian language. ..