Fiction Books

La Dame Aux Camelias

  [french | 1844]  

Alexandre Dumas Fils

Summary: [La Dame aux camlias a pour thme une histoire damour entre une courtisane atteinte de phtisie Marguerite Gautier et un jeune bourgeois Armand Duval. La narration de cette histoire damour constitue un rcit dans le rcit puisquArmand Duval raconte son aventure au narrateur initial du roman.]
Genres: [fiction | romance] Downloads: 344

La Vie Ambigue

  [french | 1892]  

Alexis Nikolaievitch Apoukhtine

Summary: [Apoukhtine tait un grand pote russe. Nous publions ici ses trois seuls rcits en prose: Les Archives de la comtesse D (1891). Pavlik Dolsky (1892). Entre la mort et la vie (1893). Lauteur y dcrit la vie et les proccupations de la noblesse russe au temps des Tsars.]
Genres: [fiction | occult supernatural | short stories] Downloads: 412

Turning Point

  [english | 1953]  

Alfred Coppel

Summary: [Een keerpunt in de vaderlandse geschiedenis is a 2005 Dutch book by Amsterdam University professor Karel van Wolferen and NRC Handelsblad reporter Jan Sampiemon. Its secondary title is A manifesto to the Dutch people. Despite the fatherland in the title referring to the Netherlands the book is mostly about the changes in the foreign policies of the USA since the presidency of George W. Bush and ...]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 258

Turnover Point

  [english | 1953]  

Alfred Coppel

Summary: [Every era in history has had its Pop Ganlons. Along in years and not successful and not caring much anyway. A matter of living out their years following an obscure path to oblivion. It was that way in ancient Egypt just as it will be when the Solar System shrinks to our size. And once in a while such men are given an opportunity to contribute to the society that has forgotten them....]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 115

Gamiani Ou Deux Nuits Dexces

  [french | 1833]  

Alfred De Musset

Summary: [Alfred de Musset relate les bats trioliques de la comtesse Gamiani avec Fanny et Alcide. Deux nuits au cours desquelles chacun des personnages fait le rcit de son initiation et de ses plus singuliers exploits dalcve lensemble des scnes constituant une sorte dencyclopdie des dbauches.Mme si Alfred de Musset va assez loin dans ce texte au point que nombreux sont ceux qui refusaient de croire quil ...]
Genres: [fiction | erotica] Downloads: 393

Cinq Mars Une Conjuration Sous Louis Xiii

  [french | 1826]  

Alfred De Vigny

Summary: [En1639 au chteau de Chaumont en Touraine le jeune marquis Henri dEffiat prend cong de sa mre et de la princesse Marie de Gonzague duchesse de Mantoue quil aime et dont il est aim. Impressionn par les propos du marchal de Bassompierre sur les qualits et la fidlit des nobles il sinsurge contre larrestation du mme marchal par les sbires de Richelieu. En allant au sige de Perpignan pour tre prsent au ...]
Genres: [fiction | historical | romance] Downloads: 449

Ubu Roi

  [french | 1896]  

Alfred Jarry

Summary: [Alfred Jarry (8 September 1873 - 1 November 1907) was a French writer born in Laval Mayenne France not far from the border of Brittany he was of Breton descent on his mothers side. Best known for his play Ubu Roi (1896) which is often cited as a forerunner to the surrealist theatre of the 1920s and 1930s Jarry wrote in a variety of genres and styles. He wrote plays novels poetry essays and ...]
Genres: [fiction | drama] Downloads: 180

Born Again

  [english | 1904]  

Alfred William Lawson

Summary: [Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal Japanese-Americans is a book by Ansel Adams containing photographs from his 1943-4 visit to the internment camp then named Manzanar War Relocation Center in Owens Valley Inyo County California. The book was published in 1944 by U.S. Camera in New York. In the summer of 1943 Adams was invited by his friend newly-appointed camp director Ralph Merritt to ...]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction] Downloads: 148

Sand

  [english | 1912]  

Algernon Blackwood

Summary: [Sand by Algernon Blackwood. As Felix Henriot came through the streets that January night the fog was stifling. And -- he was caught. But the adventure that lay waiting for him where the silent streets of little Helouan kiss the great Desert s lips was of a different kind to any Henriot had yet encountered. Looking back he has often asked himself How in the world can I accept it And perhaps he ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 255

The Glamour Of The Snow

  [english | 1912]  

Algernon Blackwood

Excerpts: [... in the hotels when he wanted it. The three worlds that met and mingled here seemed to his imaginative temperament very obvious, though it is doubtful ...... its head up from the instinctive region. He understood, without being able to express it fully, the meaning that betrayed itself in the choice of the ...... with him???apparently quite ordinary and sensible ones: What fools ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 396

The Insanity Of Jones

  [english | 1907]  

Algernon Blackwood

Excerpts: [... by the dirt, the noise, and the vulgar commotion of the outer world. And this was no poetic dream merely. Jones was not playing prettily with idealism ...... and illusive. So that, although this was the way his mind worked, there was clearly a very strong leaven of common sense in Jones. In a word, the ...... to his beliefs there was no Chance, and could be no ultimate shirking, ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 399

The Man Who Found Out

  [english | 1921]  

Algernon Blackwood

Summary: [A Village Lost and Found: Scenes in Our Village by T. R. Williams is the full title of a book released in 2009 by Brian May and Elena Vidal. The book is an annotated collection of stereoscopic photographs taken by the Victorian era photographer T. R. Williams. It is sold with a focussing stereoscope designed by Dr. May.]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 167

The Wendigo

  [english | 1910]  

Algernon Blackwood

Summary: [The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood. The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects Fiction Horror ]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 109

The Willows

  [english | 1907]  

Algernon Blackwood

Summary: [The Willows by Algernon Blackwood. Product Description Algernon Henry Blackwood 1869 -1951 was an English writer of supernatural fiction. Blackwood was also a journalist and a broadcasting narrator. Blackwood had a varied career farming in Canada operating a hotel a newspaper reporter in New York and essayist for various periodicals. His works included ten collections of short stories fourteen ...]
Genres: [fiction | horror | short stories] Downloads: 481

Citadel

  [english | 1955]  

Algis Budrys

Summary: [He was looking for a privacy his strange personality needed. And never quite seemed to achieve it. All his efforts were somehow great triumphs of the race and great failures for him!]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 312

The Barbarians

  [english | 1958]  

Algis Budrys

Summary: [Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco is a 1990 book about the leveraged buyout (LBO) of RJR Nabisco written by investigative journalists Bryan Burrough and John Helyar. The book is based upon a series of articles written by the authors for The Wall Street Journal. The book was later made into a made-for-TV movie by HBO also called Barbarians at the Gate. The book centers on F. Ross ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 159

The Stoker And The Stars

  [english | 1959]  

Algis Budrys

Summary: [When youve had your ears pinned back in a bowknot its sometimes hard to remember that an intelligent people has no respect for a whipped enemy... but does for a fairly beaten enemy.]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 127

The Burglar And The Blizzard

  [english | 1914]  

Alice Duer Miller

Summary: [A Christmas story.]
Genres: [fiction] Downloads: 169

The Burglars Fate And The Detectives

  [english | 1884]  

Allan Pinkerton

Summary: [In the pages which follow I have narrated a story of actual occurrence. No touch of fiction obscures the truthful recital. The crime which is here detailed was actually committed and under the circumstances which I have related. The four young men whose real names are clothed with the charitable mantle of fiction deliberately perpetrated the deed for which they suffered and to-day are inmates of ...]
Genres: [fiction | mystery detective | non-fiction] Downloads: 313

The Somnambulist And The Detective

  [english | 1875]  

Allan Pinkerton

Summary: [The mental characteristics of Allan Pinkerton were judgment as to facts knowledge of men the ability to concentrate his faculties on one subject and the persistent power of will. A mysterious problem of crime against which his life was devoted presented to his thought was solved almost in an instant and seemingly by his intuitions. With half-closed eyes he saw the scene in which the wrong was ...]
Genres: [fiction | mystery detective] Downloads: 338