Fiction Classics Books

Auntie Momma! Auntie Momma! Bernice dashed through the front door of the small frame house, panting and crying hysterically. Her pale green dress was soaked in perspiration on that hot Tennessee afternoon. A thin layer of rich red dirt clung to her bare feet and parts of her legs. 

These loosely related tales of scamps and underdogs in an unstable Central American republic contain some clever images, as well as some dated, derogatory language. Lloyd James navigates this murky area admirably, de-emphasizing the crude name-calling by voicing it largely without malice. He...

The topic upon which Irish playwright, George Bernard Shaw wished to hold forth was marriage--an institution that he found seriously wanting, as he did most institutions. But since he could not help playing Devil's advocate, he also found it to be necessary, ridiculous, desirous, iniquitous...

The library of the Creeping Shadow.

In "Amy Foster", Joseph Conrad has written a great story that shows the different types of love felt between Amy and Yanko.

It is the story of an inventor, Hugh McVey, who rises from poverty on the bank of the Mississippi River. The novel shows the influence of industrialism on the rural heartland of America.

"Prester John" tells the tale of John Laputa, a celebrated Zulu minister who has taken the title of the mythical priest-king Prester John. South Africa, 1900. After his father dies, nineteen-year-old David Crawfurd is sent off to South Africa to earn his living as a storekeeper in the back of...

This play by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, dramatizes the romantic and artistic conflicts among four (4) characters: The ingenue Nina Zarietchnaya; the fading actress Irina Abkadina; her son, the symbolist playwright, Constantin Treplieff; and the famous middlebrow story writer, Boris...

Mary Stuart is written by A. Dumas Pere

The Saxons and the Normans fight for power in England during the Reign of King Richard the Lionhearted.