Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
- Humorous Lives: Fictional Memoirs
- Fictional Lives Through History
- Dramatic Lives: Fictional Biographies
- Classics of Personal Journeys
With Her in Ourland
Third in the trilogy of the feminist classics, after Moving the Mountain and Herland. It was published serially in Perkins Gilman's periodic…
Rulers of Kings
When a child is born, its temperament and character are unknown. The effects of nature versus nurture, of heredity and of circumstance are a…
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…
Christina
"Christina is a story of two people: Christina, a strong young and poor woman who searches for work and finds more than she bargained f…
David Copperfield
David Copperfield, like all of Dickens' novels, is filled with many memorable characters (because they are hyperbolic representations of cha…
The Mill on the Floss
The novel details the lives of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, a brother and sister growing up on the river Floss near the village of St. Oggs, evi…
The Secret Places of the Heart
Richard Hardy, a member of the British gentry, tries to resolve problems in his marriage as he travels with a psychiatrist. The book is to a…
Kibun Daizin
This is the story of a brave, skillful and ambitious boy who sets out to become the wealthiest man of Japan. He succeeds in doing just that …
The Giant's Robe
Mark Ashburn is a young teacher at St. Peter's Public School for boys, although he isn't particularly fond of boys. His dream is to make his…
Where the Blue Begins
In his collection Plum Pudding, Christopher Morley included two pieces about an unprepossessing mutt named “Haphazard Gissing I” with a gift…
Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal
Life in the Grey Nunnery was first published in Boston, in 1857 by Edward P. Hood, who was credited as the book's editor. It is likely that …
The Heavenly Twins
First published in 1893, this novel came to question many subjects which were considered taboo. Through a few interconnected plots and sub p…
Movies and Hollywood Short Story Collection
Fiction about (or involving) motion pictures started appearing in the late nineteenth-century, when writers first became aware of early kine…
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
The story of a biracial man living in the deep south after the reconstruction era. He is young and talented. Yet, in order for him to avoid …
Sentimental Tommy
"J. M. Barrie is most noted for being the author of Peter Pan, the beloved book about a child who does not want to grow up. The two Tom…
Down The Line with John Henry
A humorous comedy of errors and light-hearted wit in the life of the likeable John Henry. When it comes to betting at the races, booze, his …
Mary: A Fiction
Mary: A Fiction, published in 1788, is a tragic story that decries marriages not based on love. It can be considered an example of feminist …
The Story of a Modern Woman
“The Story of a Modern Woman” (1894) is a work of feminist social realism. In its time it was one of the most famous and influential novels …
Tattlings of a Retired Politician
"The letters (non-partisan) of Hon. William Bradley, Ex-Governor and former veteran of practical politics, written to his friend and pr…
Isaac Bickerstaff, Physician and Astrologer
Isaac Bickerstaff Esq. was a pseudonym used by Jonathan Swift as part of a hoax to predict the death of then famous Almanac-maker and astrol…