Ficción

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch was a Cornish writer who published using the pseudonym Q. Although a prolific novelist, he is remembered mainly for the monumental publication The Oxford Book Of English...

Herein you will find 17 tales and short stories by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley author of the acclaimed “Frankenstein”. It was during a summer spent with Lord Byron and friends near Geneva in 1816, that...

Liz and Vince follow the trail of clues left by Tim in their search to solve the reason for his murder. The trail turns cold as death, but that’s a good thing for them when the person they want to speak...

Can he lose the disguise... and find himself? St. John Fotheringay-Phipps has nearly forgotten who he truly is. As the dashing, amusing dandy known to all in society as Fungy, he has hidden behind a...

The Urbane T.X. is back in this locked-room mystery by British master storyteller Edgar Wallace. The renown mystery writer John Lexman is charged with murder and sent to prison. His friend T.X. Meredith,...

A wealthy man named Ashton is found murdered in an alley, apparently robbed for his jewelry and pocketbook. The police believe they have the killer, a young man who the next morning tries to pawn one...

Monsieur Lecoq is the creation of Emile Gaboriau, just like Sherlock Holmes is for Conan Doyle and Hercule Poirot for Agatha Christie. Lecoq was created well before anyone had heard of Sherlock, in fact...

Marcia tells her friend Janet that the nearby house that always looks shuttered, dark and vacant is not so. There are people living in there. They learn that a young girl their age, Cicely Marlowe, lives...

An Original Belle written by an American novelist Edward Payson Roe (E. P. Roe). First published in 1885. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original...

A young woman is killed by an arrow in the middle of the museum. An older woman seems to be in shock and huddles next to the girl. Mr. Gryce is an old man now, but he is still sharp of mind. He and his...

The Leavenworth Case (1878), subtitled A Lawyer's Story, is an American detective novel and the first novel by Anna Katharine Green. Set in New York City, it concerns the murder of a retired merchant,...

Herein are 11 of the most popular children’s stories taken from the world of Fairydom retold by master storyteller, Charles Perrault.  The first nine are well known with the last two perhaps less well-known....

This is a volume of 59 Scandinavian folk tales collected over time by Asbjörnsen and Moe and translated into English by Sir George Webbe-Dasent. This is not a volume of Norse mythology per se; so if you...

Jonesing for a drive-in theater and a hotrod El Camino? It’s the dawn of the 1970s and everything is changing. The war in Vietnam is winding down. So is the Apollo Space Program. The tiny northwestern...

Black Tomorrow is a newly formed terrorist cell that has infiltrated the Australian Defence Intelligence Organisation in Canberra. The crippled Captain Marcus Steadman, head of the Psychic Intelligence...

Even Wakefield, the cryptic and restless lead character of the web-series The Wakefield Variation, has been a teenage boy. Who was he before his self-inflicted exile? Where does his voyeuristic attitude...

The group of five unlikely companions successfully pull off a daring heist and make off with millions of dollars in cash. However, they soon discover that one of their own has betrayed them to the police....

"When the student of medicine, Richard Bracquemont, decided to move into room #7 of the small Hotel Stevens, Rue Alfred Stevens (Paris 6), three persons had already hanged themselves from the cross-bar...

Therese Raquin is one of the most famous realistic novels of Zola, and is a tale of adultery and murder among the lower classes of Parisian society of the nineteenth century. Located in the claustrophobic...

The Head of the House of Coombe follows the relationships between a group of pre–World War One English nobles and commoners. It also offers both some interesting editorial commentary on the political...

The Village Champion written by William Osborn Stoddard who an American author, inventor. This book was published in 1903. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important...

This is a story that stars as a girl who is out of ordinary fiction. It is more dramatic, containing some tremendous images of the courage of men seeking to reach the North Pole but is essentially a woman’s...

Turner's Golden Visions written by Charles Lewis Hind who was a British journalist, writer, editor, art critic, and art historian. This book was published in 1907. And now republish in ebook format. We...

The Rover is the last complete novel by Joseph Conrad, written between 1921 and 1922. It was first published in 1923, and adapted into the 1967 film of the same name. The story takes place in the south...

The Midnight Guest is a detective story written by Fred M. White. This book was published in 1907. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival...

The Pupil is a short, emotional story of a precocious young boy growing up in a mendacious and dishonorable family. He befriends his tutor, who is the only adult in his life that he can trust. James presents...

Aeneas appears in The Illiad in vague snatches and starts as a traveling warrior of great piety who was loosely connected to the foundation of Rome. Virgil weaves these fragments into a powerful myth...

The insistent theme of Mr. Dreiser’s work is desire, perennial, unquenchable. No matter how badly Mr. Dreiser might do his work, he would be significant as the American novelist who has most felt this...

Metamorphosis is the title of an epic-mythological poem by the poet Publio Ovidio Nasone and includes fifteen books and over 250 myths. Through this work, Ovid has made famous and sent to the posters...

An Autumn Sowing written by E. F. Benson who was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer. This book was published in 1917. And now republish in ebook format. We...