Fiction Classics Books

A collection of some of Twain's best essays. "What is Man?" is a dialogue between a young man and an older man jaded to the world. It involves ideas of destiny and free will.

The technique of "close reading" was created by critics such as F.R. Leavis and Cleanth Brooks, and it's not a coincidence that it came to the fore in the wake of High Modernism. If one didn't engage in "close reading" of authors such as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, or William Faulkner, one...

In Search of Lost Time or Remembrance of Things Past (French: À la recherche du temps perdu) is a novel in seven volumes by Marcel Proust. His most prominent work, it is popularly known for its considerable length and the notion of involuntary memory, the most famous example being the "episode of...

Perhaps Joyce's most personal work, A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man depicts the intellectual awakening of one of literature's most memorable young heroes, Stephen Dedalus. Through a series of brilliant epiphanies that parallel the development of his own aesthetic consciousness, Joyce...

Details the disappointments of Ivan Voitski ("Uncle Vanya"), who comes to see that he has wasted his life managing the business affairs of his brother-in-law, Serebrakoff--who has squandered his entire career in a futile attempt to succeed as an academic and scholar.

Emma McChesney and Company is the final volume of three chronicling the travels and trials of Emma McChesney.

End of the Tether is a book by Joseph Conrad. 

A romantic adventure tale about the daughter of a fishing schooner captain who, after her father dies, takes command of the boat, assisted by a shanghaied sailor who falls in love with her.

Anne and Gilbert marry and live in a quaint house near the seashore where their lives become intertwined with the many unique members of the community.

Joan of Naples is written by A. Dumas Pere