Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
- Humorous Lives: Fictional Memoirs
- Fictional Lives Through History
- Dramatic Lives: Fictional Biographies
- Classics of Personal Journeys
A Dweller on Two Planets
A channeled autobiography of a spirit calling himself Phylos the Thibetan. The setting is Atlantis with a first person account of Atlantean…
A Superfluous Woman
Published anonymously in 1894, “A Superfluous Woman” quickly became one of the most widely read of the “New Woman” novels that appeared at t…
Peggy Raymond's School Days
Published in 1916, this third installment with The Friendly Terrace girls places them in The Girl’s High School, with an array of new charac…
Gloriana, or The Revolution of 1900
At the age of twelve, Gloriana de Lara dreams of the day that women are no longer second-class citizens, be able to vote, can aspire to any …
Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches
Best described as a fictional autobiography, Clark Johnson authored the following adventure to promote the sale of his brand of Homeopathic …
In Texas with Davy Crockett
A fictionalized biography of the famous frontiersman aimed at a juvenile audience.
Arabella Stuart
Lady Arabella Stuart was an English noblewoman at the beginning of the seventeenth century. At one time considered to be a possible successo…
Mark Twain's Autobiography and First Romance
Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance, a short volume, published by Sheldon & Co., NY in 1871, is Mark Twain's third …
The Genius
"The only figure of literary repute who ever rated The "Genius" as first among the novels of Theodore Dreiser was Theodore Dr…
The Doctor's Red Lamp
A fictional series of short stories from various authors, each containing stories of doctors. The compiled set of stories has various ranges…
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
The author calls this a religious parable and it is called an allegory in the book itself. A young, 18th century Scottish boy is converted t…
The Custom of the Country
Edith Wharton was a novelist of manners of late 19th Century New York "Society", who spent much of her life in France. In this nov…
Money For Nothing
In this incisively insightful novel P. G. Wodehouse, as is his invariable custom, delves deep into the souls of his characters to lay bare m…
Brewster's Millions
Montgomery Brewster inherits a large sum of money. Then he learns he's to inherit 7 times as much! But there's a catch: he has to spend ever…
Jeremy And Hamlet
Hamlet is Jeremy’s dog. This 1923 book is Hugh Walpole’s second volume in his Jeremy semi-autobiographical trilogy (Jeremy (1919 available a…
Molly Make-Believe
Carl Stanton is an invalid suffering from an unusual bout of rheumatism. His fiancee is gone for the winter and though he begs her to write …
The Friendly Road
My grandmother Gertrude received a copy of The Friendly Road for Christmas in 1919. It must have been a special gift book--green leather bin…
The Manchester Man
Jabez Clegg, the Manchester man, floats into this historical novel in 1799, carried downstream by the River Irk in flood. Jabez's rise to co…
Swann's Way
"Swann's Way" is the first of the seven parts of Marcel Proust's great autobiographical novel "In Search of Lost Time." …
The Newcomes
The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family was written in serial form in 1854- 1855 by the author of such works as Vanity Fair, The …