Literary Fiction
90 books
Literary Fiction
462
William Dean Howells - Indian Summer (version 2)
Set in Florence's Anglo-American colony in the late 19th century, this is a romantic story of a middle-aged man, returning to the scene of his first but disappointed love twenty years earlier. The doings of Americans...
9 hours 47 minutes
Literary Fiction
531
D. H. Lawrence - Sons and Lovers (Version 2)
Lawrence summarised the plot of Sons and Lovers in a letter to Edward Garnett in 1912: “It follows this idea: a woman of character and refinement goes into the lower class, and has no satisfaction in her own life....
16 hours 21 minutes
Literary Fiction
526
Anton Chekhov - My Life: The Story of a Provincial
A provincial youth of wealth and noble status refuses to employ himself in the typical occupations of the higher classes, thus acquiring a reputation as a lazy good-for-nothing. In reality, he is intensely sensitive...
3 hours 41 minutes
Literary Fiction
447
Nathaniel Hawthorne - Scarlet Letter (version 2)
This book tells the story of Hester Prynne, a young woman who conceives a child while her husband is missing at sea. The Puritan Elders of the New England settlement of Boston, where she lives, condemn her to wear a...
9 hours 26 minutes
