Literary Fiction
90 books
Literary Fiction
459
Honoré de Balzac - Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life is one of the last great works completed by Balzac for his huge novel series entitled The Human Comedy. Sections of this book, in various groupings and with various titles, were...
22 hours 52 minutes
Literary Fiction
462
Henry James - Beast in the Jungle (version 2)
One of James's last great stories, it is not actually a ghost story but has every claim to be considered such with its mysterious spectral essences surviving death and summoning the central character towards — well,...
2 hours 19 minutes
Humorous Fiction
481
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Don Quixote, Vol. 1 (Ormsby Translation)
Don Quixote is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire...
18 hours 58 minutes
Literary Fiction
554
Honoré de Balzac - Lost Illusions: Ève and David
Ève and David (1843) is the final book in Balzac’s Lost Illusions trilogy, which is part of his sweeping set of novels collectively titled La Comédie Humaine . The story is set in post-Napoleonic France. In the...
8 hours 20 minutes
Literary Fiction
482
Benjamin Disraeli - Coningsby, or The New Generation
Coningsby is the first of trilogy of political novels that Disraeli published in the 1840s, and gives an insight into his views of the political turmoil following the passage of the Great Reform Bill by the Whigs in...
17 hours 53 minutes
Literary Fiction
452
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - Noughts and Crosses: Stories, Studies and Sketches
This is a collection of well-written engaging short stories written by «Q», the pen name of the prolific and eccentric Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch. — Summary by Amy Gramour
4 hours 56 minutes
