Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
- Humorous Lives: Fictional Memoirs
- Fictional Lives Through History
- Dramatic Lives: Fictional Biographies
- Classics of Personal Journeys
Marge Askinforit
A rollicking parody of the Margot Asquith memoirs, in which Pain's character, Marge, beguiles us with the most personal details of her dysfu…
The Black-Bearded Barbarian
The Black-Bearded Barbarian offers a vivid portrayal of George Mackay, a Presbyterian missionary whose life and work left a lasting impact o…
Tono-Bungay
Tono-Bungay is a realist semi-autobiographical novel. It is narrated by George Ponderevo, a science student who is drafted in to help with t…
Outa Karel’s Stories
Sanni Metelerkamp was a South African playwright and author born in 1867. She is well known for her biography of her great-grandfather, Geor…
People Like That
A single woman from a family that is well-off, buys a house at a place that is looked down upon and disapproved by her family and friends al…
The Story of Ahikar
The Story of Ahikar is a fictional work. It is a colorful story but considered to be a work containing great wisdom. The story of Ahikar …
Little Eve Edgarton
Little Eve Edgarton introduces listeners to a young woman whose outward appearance belies her true nature. Set against the backdrop of early…
Unvarnished Tales
This book is a short selection of varied fictional tales. They must have been what the author wished for them to be and certainly perfect fo…
Benigna Machiavelli
In between "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892) and Herland (1915), feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) wrote and published thi…
Within a Budding Grove
In Search of Lost Time or Remembrance of Things Past (French: À la recherche du temps perdu) is a semi-autobiographical novel in seve…
Celibates
The author is considered the first great Irish writer of realist fiction and is said to have been an inspiration for James Joyce. Celibates …
Metamorphosis
The Metamorphosis, also known as The Golden Ass, is one of the very few novels of the Ancient World that survived to our days; one of the tw…
Three Lives
Three Lives tells the stories of three women from the same fictitious town of Bridgeport. The first story is of Anna, a servant to the wealt…
Lolly Willowes
Laura Willowes, forced to move from her family home due to the death of her father, endures her role as Aunt Lolly in her new home with her …
The Idiot at home
The Idiot returns along with Ms Idiot and their two children, Mollie and Tommy, move into their first house in suburbia. What follows are en…
Marion, the Story of an Artist's Model
In this Asian/Canadian perspective on "foreignness," Marion (the protagonist) eventually leaves the cruelty of racial discriminati…
John Halifax, Gentleman
This novel, published in 1856, was one of the popular and beloved novels in the Victorian era. It is told in the first person by Phineas Fle…
Shakspere
A fictitious account of a "friend" of William Shakespeare, who accompanies him from his birth to his death and beyond, chronicling…
Lost Diaries
Within these pages find passages from the "lost diaries" of a wide range of people: royal, regular, famous, infamous, historical…
Orlando, A Biography
Virginia Woolf's most successful novel recounts the extraordinary biography of Orlando from his youth in the reign of Elizabeth I to her lif…