Literary Fiction
An Ideal Husband
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Oscar Wilde
The "Ideal Husband" of the title is Sir Robert Chiltern, with his equally upright wife Lady Chiltern. He has never committed a cri…
The Town Traveller
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George Gissing
The town traveller is himself a British salesman, living in a lower class part of London in the Victorian era. The story depicts his interac…
Coningsby, or The New Generation
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Benjamin Disraeli
Coningsby is the first of trilogy of political novels that Disraeli published in the 1840s, and gives an insight into his views of the polit…
The Mermaid of Druid Lake
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Charles Weathers Bump
A collection of offbeat stories. Some are a bit out of the ordinary as suggested by the title story about a freshwater mermaid; some are not…
The Coast of Bohemia
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William Dean Howells
William Dean Howells is at his iconoclastic best in this exploration of bourgeois values, particularly in the clash between respectable soci…
Prodigal Daughters
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Joseph Hocking
A frank look at the revolt of the younger generation following World War I, the book follows the Trelawney family. The father looks eagerly …
El Filibusterismo
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José Rizal
The Philippines, still a Spanish colony, are more or less run by the Catholic friars, and with an iron fist.. However, here and there are po…
The Steel Flea
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Nikolai Leskov
An 1881 comic story by Nikolai Leskov, presented in the form of a traditional skaz or folk-tale, but entirely of Leskov's invention. It tell…
The Sacred Fount
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Henry James
Published in 1901, The Sacred Fount delves into the interior observations and obsessions of one Englishman during a weekend gathering in the…
Lodore
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Mary Shelley
The author of Frankenstein returns with her take on an Austen novel. The mother is proud, the father has many vices, yet the aristocratic na…
Lord Jim
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Joseph Conrad
While it's not often described as such, "Lord Jim" can be viewed as a kind of love story whose real theme is the close bond which …
Seven Men
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Max Beerbohm
In order to liven up the literary history of Great Britain in the 1890s (as if Oscar Wilde, Stevenson, Kipling, Hardy, etc., were not lively…
Two Sides of a Question
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May Sinclair
Here are two gemlike novellas in one volume, written in May Sinclair’s clearest and cleverest prose and exploring the many ways in which a w…
Just As I Am
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The murder has finally been solved. After 20 years, Humphrey Vargas came with his dog, seemingly from no where, and informed the magistrate …
Elsie Venner
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Bernard Langdon is close to earning his degree in medicine when his family finds itself in financial difficulties, forcing Langdon to interr…
Asphodel
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Like the Asphodel, a plant which grows far away from England, Daphne grows far away from home. In her first chance of freedom, at the age of…
So Big
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Edna Ferber
The story of Selina DeJong and her son Dirk, whom she affectionately calls So Big. After the death of her husband, Selina raises So Big on h…
Barnaby Rudge
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Charles Dickens
The Protestant Sir John Chester and the Catholic Geoffrey Haredale have been feuding for years. In "Romeo and Juliet" fashion, Che…
The Double: A Petersburg Poem
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
In this classic novella, the life of a drab office clerk named Golyadkin begins to be haunted by his "doppelgänger," a man id…
Martin Chuzzlewit
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Charles Dickens
Dickens portrayal of selfishness, in this case in the Chuzzlewit family. Old Martin has a great fortune, and everyone wants in on it, espec…