Literary Fiction
90 books
Literary Fiction
403
Gertrude Christian Fosdick - Out of Bohemia: A Story of Paris Student-Life
Beryl Carrington is a naïve young American artist following her ideals to Paris, where she meets three young men, all also artists and all in love with her. Georges is French-American and a bit wild, with a French...
3 hours 38 minutes
Literary Fiction
492
Honoré de Balzac - Lost Illusions: A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (Un grand homme de province à Paris, 1839) is the second book in Balzac’s Lost Illusions trilogy, which is part of his sweeping set of novels collectively titled La Comédie Humaine....
13 hours 45 minutes
Literary Fiction
495
Charles Dickens - Bleak House (version 4)
Bleak house is one of Dickens finest achievements. It was written for serialisation in 1853 when Dickens was at the peak of his career. Monthly sales substantially exceeded his previous bestseller David Copperfield....
34 hours 4 minutes
Literary Fiction
502
Anne Brontë - Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Original 1848 Edition)
When Helen Graham moves into old Wildfell Hall with her little son Arthur, the rustic neighborhood comes alive with gossip and speculation, particularly when saturnine Mr. Lawrence (who bears an uncanny resemblance...
17 hours 4 minutes
Family Life
548
Samuel Gordon - Sons of the Covenant: A Tale of London Jewry
Born in London's poverty-stricken and heavily Jewish East End, the Lipcott boys create their own successes in life and love. The brothers' commitment to improving the lives of working class people leads them to...
16 hours 5 minutes
Literary Fiction
576
May Sinclair - Tasker Jevons: The Real Story
In this May Sinclair wartime masterpiece, dashing newsman Walter Furnival is an absurdly good catch: handsome, successful, athletic, intelligent, an upstanding epitome of manhood and rectitude. Tasker Jevons is a...
9 hours 14 minutes
Literary Fiction
445
Honoré de Balzac - Father Goriot (version 2)
Father Goriot (Le Père Goriot), published in 1835, is widely considered to be Balzac's finest and most popular novel. It is set in Paris in 1819, after Napoleon's defeat and the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy....
11 hours 27 minutes
