Literary Fiction
90 books
Literary Fiction
435
Charles Waddell Chesnutt - House Behind the Cedars
In this, Chesnutt's first novel, he tells the tragic story of love set against a backdrop of racism, miscegenation and “passing” during the period spanning the antebellum and reconstruction eras in American history....
7 hours 29 minutes
Literary Fiction
479
George Bernard Shaw - Love Among the Artists
Love Among the Artists was published in the United States in 1900 and in England in 1914, but it was written in 1881. In the ambience of chit-chat and frivolity among members of Victorian polite society a youthful...
11 hours 23 minutes
Literary Fiction
450
May Sinclair - Life and Death of Harriett Frean
Harriett Frean is a well-to-do, unmarried woman living a life of meaningless dependency, boredom, and unproductivity as she patiently cares for her aging parents, waiting for a man to marry. When her opportunity...
2 hours 9 minutes
Literary Fiction
437
José de Alencar - Iracema, the Honey-Lips: a Legend of Brazil
Iracema (translated as Iracema, the Honey Lips: a legend of Brazil) is considered one of the most important books of Brazilian romanticism, but also of Brazilian literature as a whole. It's been called a poem in...
3 hours 24 minutes
Literary Fiction
569
Henry James - Portrait of a Lady (version 2)
The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880–81 and then as a book in 1881. It is one of James's most popular long novels, and...
23 hours 6 minutes
