Classic Fiction Books: 16 books

* Illustrated * Author Biography * Interactive Table of Contents A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee Robert Edward Lee  was an American career military officer who is best known for having commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War. The son of Revolutionary...

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce * Illustrated * Author Biography * Interactive Table of Contents Finnegans Wake is a work of comic prose by Irish writer James Joyce, significant for its experimental style and resulting reputation as one of the most difficult works of fiction in the English...

* Illustrated * Author Biography * Interactive Table of Contents Last And First Men [ Illustrated ] Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future is a "future history" science fiction novel written in 1930 by the British author Olaf Stapledon. A work of unprecedented...

“No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own.” Thus begins one of the most terrifying and morally prescient science fiction novels ever penned. Beginning...

This book is a wonderful work of fiction by H.G. Wells, the author of "The Time Machine." It is the tale of a fallen angel who simply cannot adapt to society in a small English village. The angel's reactions to the villagers, his pureness and wholesomeness make him an enemy of the people....

So begins the Time Traveller’s astonishing firsthand account of his journey 800,000 years beyond his own era—and the story that launched H.G. Wells’s successful career and earned him the reputation as the father of science fiction. With a speculative leap that still fires the imagination, Wells...

* Illustrated * Author Biography * Interactive Table of Contents Mrs Dalloway Mrs Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in post-World War I England. Mrs Dalloway continues to be one of Woolf's best-known novels. Created from two short...

* Illustrated * Author Biography * Interactive Table of Contents The Negro Problem Here are six historic essays on the state of race relations during the Reconstruction and early twentieth century, written from the African American point of view. These essays show us how far...

Illustrated Biographie de l'auteur Table des matières interactive Lettres de mon moulin Lettres de mon moulin est un recueil de nouvelles d'Alphonse Daudet. La première édition est celle de Hetzel en 1869. Elle avait pour sous-titre : Impressions et...

1984 ( Nineteen Eighty-Four ) by George Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four is a dystopian novel by George Orwell published in 1949. The Oceanian province of Airstrip One (formerly known as Great Britain) is a world of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, and public mind control, dictated...

L'Abîme By: Charles et Wilkie Dickens Collins Après avoir abandonné son enfant à sa naissance à l'Hospice des Enfants Trouvés, une jeune mère prise de remords le récupère à l'âge de douze ans. Walter Wilding connaît...

Illustrated Biographie de l'auteur Table des matières interactive Emma Emma est un roman de la femme de lettres anglaise Jane Austen, publié anonymement (A Novel. By the author of Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice) en décembre 1815. C'est un roman...

* Illustrated * Author Biography * Interactive Table of Contents A Book Of Five Rings The Book of Five Rings (五輪書 Go Rin No Sho?) is a text on kenjutsu and the martial arts in general, written by the swordsman Miyamoto Musashi circa 1645. There have been various translations...

Illustrated Biographie de l'auteur Table des matières interactive La Dame aux Camelias La Dame aux camélias est un roman d’Alexandre Dumas fils publié en 1848, inspiré par son amour pour la courtisane Marie Duplessis. La Dame aux camélias a inspiré...