Fiction Books

Un Roi Tout Nu

  [french | 1922]  

Albert Ades

Summary: [Is It Just Me or Is Everything Shit?: The Encyclopedia of Modern Life is a book by Steve Lowe and Alan McArthur. It was published in Britain in 2005. The authors give satirical criticisms of people places institutions and phenomena seen in modern British life. Subjects include Live 8 50 Cent Chris Martin Philip Green and The Daily Mail. The jacket copy describes the book as a broadside against ...]
Genres: [fiction] Downloads: 191

Texas Week

  [english | 1954]  

Albert Hernhuter

Summary: [One of the chief purposes of psychiatry is to separate fantasy from reality. It is reasonable to expect that future psychiatrists will know more about this borderline than the most learned doctors of today. Yet now and again even the best of them may encounter situations that defy all logic.]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 294

Sweet Their Blood And Sticky

  [english | 1961]  

Albert Teichner

Summary: [They werent human--werent even related to humanity through ties of blood--but they were our heirs!]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 154

Fairy Tales Of The Slav Peasants And Herdsmen

  [english | 1896]  

Aleksander Chodzko

Summary: [Fairy Tales Of The Slav Peasants And Herdsmen by Aleksander B Chodzko. Very few of the twenty fairy tales included in this volume have been presented before in an English dress this will doubtless enhance their value in the eyes of the young folk for whom principally they are intended. It is hoped that older readers will find some additional interest in tracing throughout the many evidences of ...]
Genres: [fiction | fantasy | fairy tales folk tales mythology] Downloads: 162

Yama The Pit

  [english | 1915]  

Aleksandr Kuprin

Summary: [A novel about prostitution in Moscow.From the introduction:It must not be thought despite its locale that Kuprins Yama is a picture of Russian prostitution solely it is intrinsically universal. All that is necessary is to change the kopecks into cents pennies sous or pfennings compute the versts into miles or metres Jennka may be Eugenie or Jeannette and for Yama simply read Whitechapel ...]
Genres: [fiction] Downloads: 224

La Dame De Pique

  [french | 1834]  

Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin

Excerpts: [... au pharaon. Un soir, au jeu de la cour, elle perdit sur parole, contre le duc d???Orl??ans, une somme tr??s consid??rable. Rentr??e chez elle, ...... Tomski. ??? Comment?! s?????cria Naroumof, tu as une grand-m??re qui sait trois cartes gagnantes, et tu n???as pas encore su te les faire indiquer?? ...... ans, et mettait ?? sa toilette tout le temps et toute la pompe d???une petite ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 344

La Fille Du Capitaine

  [french | 1836]  

Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin

Excerpts: [... m'invita `a d^iner avec lui, `a la soldat, et, comme on dit, de ce que Dieu nous envoie. J'acceptai avec plaisir nous nous m^imes `a table Zourine ...... fouet le c^ot'e de l'orient.) - Je ne vois rien de plus que la steppe blanche et le ciel serein. - L`a, l`a, regarde... ce petit nuage. >> J'apercus, ...... Donne-lui ta b'en'ediction. >> Je me mets `a genoux et j'attache mes ...]
Genres: [fiction | romance | short stories] Downloads: 471

Mon Portrait

  [french | 1814]  

Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin

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Genres: [fiction | poetry] Downloads: 419

Recits De Feu Ivan Petrovitch Bielkine

  [french | 1830]  

Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin

Excerpts: [... P'elagu'eya Gavrilovna, n'ee Trafilina. C''etait un homme peu fortun'e, mais de besoins mod'er'es, et fort habile dans la g'erance de ses terres. Leur ...... gens excusent le moins, car ils voient d'ordinaire dans le courage le m'erite supr^eme et l'excuse de tous les vices. Cependant peu `a peu tout fut ...... de la Fortune. Imaginez la jeunesse, l'esprit, la beaut'e, la gaiet'e ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 328

The Daughter Of The Commandant

  [english | 1836]  

Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin

Summary: [Pyotr Andreyich Grinyov is the only surviving child of a retired army officer. When Pyotr turns 17 his father sends him into military service in Orenburg. En route Pyotr gets lost in a blizzard but is rescued by a mysterious man. As a token of his gratitude Pyotr gives the guide his hareskin jacket.Arriving in Orenburg Pyotr reports to his commanding officer and is assigned to serve at Belogorsky ...]
Genres: [fiction | romance | war military] Downloads: 65

The Queen Of Spades

  [english | 1834]  

Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin

Summary: [Pushkins story tells of the Russianized German card player Hermann--an engineer in the army in Russia--who becomes obsessed with the secret of three consecutive winning cards after hearing a story about an old countess winnings years prior. His obsession drives him to manipulate the countess ward Lizaveta Ivanovna into letting him into their home.]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 295

The Shot

  [english | 1830]  

Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin

Excerpts: [... His dinners, it is true, never consisted of more than two or three dishes, prepared by a retired soldier, but the champagne flowed like water. Nobody ...... had ever fought, he drily replied he had but he entered into no particulars, and it was evident that such questions were not to his liking. We came to the ...... and the laughter of his comrades, considered himself grossly ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 487

Dry Frugal With Death Rays

  [english | 2008]  

Alex Wilson

Summary: [Dry Frugal With Death Rays is a dark satire of office politics corporate bureaucracy thwarted ambition and revenge gone awry - enjoy!]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 244

Zero Hour

  [english | 1956]  

Alexander Blade

Summary: [The Hour of the Gate is a fantasy novel written by Alan Dean Foster. The book follows the continuing adventures of Jonathan Thomas Meriweather who is transported from our world into a land of talking animals and magic. It is the second book in the Spellsinger series.]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 244

Acte

  [french | 1839]  

Alexandre Dumas

Summary: [crit en 1839 ce roman peu connu est lune des rares fictions de Dumas se situant dans lantiquit (avec bien entendu Isaac Laquedem son grand roman inachev). Act est une jeune Corinthienne qui devient la matresse de lempereur Nron. Son histoire permet lcrivain dvoquer le rgne du cruel empereur en une fresque impressionnante.]
Genres: [fiction | historical] Downloads: 400

Ange Pitou Tome I Les Memoires Dun Medecin

  [french | 1851]  

Alexandre Dumas

Summary: [Suite du cycle Les mmoires dun mdecin. Gilbert llve de Jean-Jacques Rousseau et lami de Balsamo que lon croyait mort (voir Joseph Balsamo) revient en France aprs un sjour en Amrique o il a mis au service de la libert ses talents de philosophe et de mdecin. peine arriv au Havreil se fait arrter alors que dans le mme temps on vole un coffret lui appartenant et quil avait confi au fermier Billot de ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | historical] Downloads: 67

Ange Pitou Tome Ii Les Memoires Dun Medecin

  [french | 1851]  

Alexandre Dumas

Summary: [Suite du cycle Les mmoires dun mdecin. Gilbert llve de Jean-Jacques Rousseau et lami de Balsamo que lon croyait mort (voir Joseph Balsamo) revient en France aprs un sjour en Amrique o il a mis au service de la libert ses talents de philosophe et de mdecin. peine arriv au Havreil se fait arrter alors que dans le mme temps on vole un coffret lui appartenant et quil avait confi au fermier Billot de ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure | historical] Downloads: 324

Aventures De Lyderic

  [french | 1839]  

Alexandre Dumas

Summary: [La lgende de Lyderic premier comte de Flandre au VIIe sicle.En 628le prince de Dijon Salwart succombe sous les coups du gigantesque prince Phinard de Buck dans une fort des Flandres. Sa femme Ermengarde a juste le temps de cacher leur fils Lyderic dans un buisson avant dtre faite prisonnire. Le bb est sauv de la mort par une biche qui le nourrit et un vieil ermite qui llve. Il devient vite dune ...]
Genres: [fiction | action adventure] Downloads: 349

Catherine Blum

  [french | 1854]  

Alexandre Dumas

Summary: [Fort de Villers-Cotterts mai 1829. Les poux Watrin dont le mari est garde-chasse du duc dOrlans ont lev trois enfants : Bernard leur fils maintenant garde-chasse lui aussi Catherine leur nice dont le pre tait un prisonnier allemand bless recueilli par la famille et Mathieu un enfant abandonn quils ont recueilli. Catherine et Bernard ont peu peu appris saimer dabord comme frre et soeur puis ...]
Genres: [fiction] Downloads: 222

Divers Contes

  [french | 1870]  

Alexandre Dumas

Summary: [La chemise de la Sainte Vierge - La Tarasque - Les onze mille vierges - Le rocher du Dragon - Comment saint loi fut guri de la vanit - Lexpiation du roi Rodrigue - Roland de retour de Roncevaux - Saint Goar le batelier - La sirne du Rhin - La maison de lAnge - Histoire du dmon familier du sire de Corasse - Les chasses du comte de Foix - Le diable et la cathdrale de Cologne - Le pre Clment - Les ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 408