Fiction Classics Books

The heroic adventures continue when d'Artagnan resigns as lieutenant of the Three Musketeers.

In the novel The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, young soldier Henry Fleming entered the American Civil War as a nervous, unready boy. By convincing himself that others were more cowardly than he, however, Henry succeeded in making himself feel like a hero.

Lacking common sense, Barnaby winds up taking part in the Gordon Riots of 1780 in which protestors march on Parliament and torch Catholic churches and homes.

The story of how the convict Jean-Valjean struggled to escape his past and reaffirm his humanity, in a world brutalized by poverty and ignorance, became the gospel of the poor and the oppressed.

In early colonial Massachusetts, a young woman experiences the results of adultery and must spend the remainder of her life atoning for her sins.

John and his wife Athene raise their daughter, Camille, properly in the provincial town of Breconridge in this three act play.

It is lively, witty and amusing, as well as strikingly modern in displaying the vicissitudes of fortune in the character, Roderick.

Wolf Larsen, the captain of The Ghost, is considered a cruel and repelling man, but he also possesses a certain magnetism that draws one near.

The debonair and patriotic Sir Oliver is a pirate who invades Spanish ships for England when he is led into a conspiracy.

Bardelys is sentenced to death by the evil Judge Chatellerault who fears that his beloved Roxanne will chose Bardelys over him.