Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
- Humorous Lives: Fictional Memoirs
- Fictional Lives Through History
- Dramatic Lives: Fictional Biographies
- Classics of Personal Journeys
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre is an extraordinary orphan girl who is treated horribly by her aunt Mrs. Reed and her children. She is sent away to a girl’s board…
Lost and Not Found
Lost and Not Found details one man’s journey all the way from being laid off from his mundane corporate job to becoming the author he truly …
The Adventures of Coyote Man
Part comedy. Part soap opera.
A fiction blog. A serialized sit-com.
A daily comic strip in prose.
When Rantz takes a job as Circulation Di…
L'Oeuvre
In this, the 14th volume of his Rougon-Macquart cycle, Emile Zola depicts the life struggles of an artist, Claude Lantier--the elder brother…
Tim: A Story of School Life
Young Tim, whose father is disappointed in him, forms a close friendship with an older boy, for whom his father conceives a strong dislike. …
Violet Osborne
"This book is in turns funny and sad. Violet Osborne is a very beloved child with no financial problems. She is both beautiful and good…
Idomen, or The Vale of Yumuri
Idomen (1843) is the creative-nonfiction memoir of the beautiful and brilliant American poetess Maria Gowen Brooks, who was compared in the …
My Opinions and Betsey Bobbet's
. . . a voice kept a sayin' inside of me, "Josiah Allen's wife, write a book givin' your views on the great subject of Wimmen's Rites.&…
Philip Augustus
This hisorical novel centers on the life and reign of the twelfth century king of France, Philip Augustus. He was the first monarch to call …
Jalna
Jalna is the first book in a series of 16 novels written between 1927 and 1960 by the Canadian writer Mazo de la Roche. It has been adapted …
The Desultory Man
This early novel by James is written in the first person by "James Young", and tells of his early experiences of the deaths of his…
Whiteoaks
Whiteoaks (aka Whiteoaks of Jalna) is the second book in a series of 16 novels written between 1927 and 1960 by the Canadian writer Mazo de…
The History of John Winchomb
This early novel, a collection of biographical tales about a nonfictional individual, a clothier, provides a rare glimpse of daily life in a…
The Cradle of the Deep
Sensational autobiography of Joan Lowell, in which she invented a colorful and multi-cultural family, who, apart from her father, all perish…
The Captive
The narrator lives with Albertine in his family home; the eccentric Baron de Charlus quarrels with the social-climbing Verdurins. (Summary b…