General Fiction
974 books
General Fiction
538
Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre - Paul and Virginia
Paul and Virginia was first published in 1787. The novel's title characters are very good friends since birth who fall in love, but sadly die when the ship Le Saint-Geran is wrecked. The story is set in the island of...
5 hours 12 minutes
General Fiction
584
Francis Coventry - History of Pompey the Little
«Pompey, the son of Julio and Phyllis, was born A.D. 1735, at Bologna in Italy, a place famous for lap-dogs and sausages.» At an early age he was carried away from the boudoir of his Italian mistress by Hillario, an...
6 hours 9 minutes
General Fiction
594
Joris-Karl Huysmans - Against The Grain, or Against Nature
“THE BOOK THAT DORIAN GRAY LOVED AND THAT INSPIRED OSCAR WILDE”. Such is the enticing epigraph of one early translation of Huysmans’ cult novel of 1884, which is also routinely called the Bible of Decadence. Accurate...
9 hours 14 minutes
