Literary Fiction
The Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre
THE HEPTAMERON (here Volume 4 of 5), first published posthumously in 1558, is divided into seven complete days containing 10 stories each, a…
The Portrait of Mr. W. H.
Wilde's short story about an attempt to uncover the identity of Mr. W. H., the dedicatee of Shakespeare's sonnets, was first published in Bl…
Uther and Igraine
This beautifully written book imagines the lives of Igraine and Uther Pendragon before the legend of Arthur began. (Summary by A. Gramour)
After the Divorce
Giovanna and Costantino Ledda are a happily married couple living with their young child in a Sardinian country village close to their exten…
The Rainbow
The Rainbow is the story of three generations of the Brangwen family, a sexual and religious collection of incidents that eventually shows t…
A Daughter of Today
The Canadian author Sara Jeannette Duncan (aka Mrs. Everard Cotes) is today best known for her 1904 novel of Ontario life, “The Imperialist”…
The Chouans
“The Chouans” (1829) was the first novel published under Balzac’s own name (rather than a pen-name). It became the first book in the great w…
Bliss
"(N)ot to say that they are cheerful stories; they are anything but that; they have not, however, that element of trivial discomfort so…
Martin Schüler
Romer Wilson's first novel is a study in the life of Genius, a theme that would preoccupy her throughout her life. The eponymous Martin Sch…
At a Winter's Fire
This is a book of stories by Bernard Capes to entertain you if you should find yourself in a cozy chair by the fireplace during the short da…
Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life
Catherine Vernon has a firm hand on her family and on the family business. Her plans for her young protege Edward, whom she loves like a son…
Half-Past Bedtime
The wonderful adventures of Marian after she meets the strange Mr. Jugg. "And who are you, Mr Jugg?" she inquired. "I'm the K…
The Guermantes Way
Vols. 3 and 4 of Remembrance of Things Past.The hero, Marcel, meets the duchess of Guermantes in the role of his parent's landlady. The hero…
Chance
"You are the expert in the psychological wilderness," the nominal narrator of this engaging tale says at one point to Marlow, who …
The Forgery
Humphrey Scriven is a fine, genial, mercantile man, left widowed to raise three daughters and a son. Two of the daughters marry well althoug…
Youth
This short tale was first published in book form alongside 'Heart of Darkness' and 'The End of the Tether', the three tales representing you…
Ursula
“Ursula,” first published in French in 1841 as “Ursule Mirouët,” is part of Balzac’s great suite of novels, collectively titled “The Hu…
Tasker Jevons
In this May Sinclair wartime masterpiece, dashing newsman Walter Furnival is an absurdly good catch: handsome, successful, athletic, intelli…
Limanora, The Island Of Progress
Our ethereal man with wings, whom we met in Riallaro, continues his tale about Limanora which is a Utopian Island created as an experiment i…
Limbo
This is Aldous Huxley's first collection of short stories, which consists of 6 stories and a play.Characters in the play, "Happy Famili…